Jonas Höschl: Sensitive Content

16 January - 21 February 2025

Overview

Jonas Höschl is a conceptual artist and photographer. For his artistic work, which includes the media of printmaking, sound, video, and installation, he has received several awards, including the Bavarian Art Promotion Award for Visual Arts and the Cultural Prize of the Upper Palatinate District for printmaking. His most recent publications include the art books „Fade Away Medley"(Das Wetter) and „Politik von Medienbildern" (Hatje Cantz). His new book „80 Portraits: 73 Männer, 7 Frauen" will be released soon by the Verlag für moderne Kunst. In his printmaking and video works, he questions the identity-forming potential of political systems. Using regional political scandals and European conflicts as examples, he illustrates the alienation from unifying ideals. Jonas Höschl adopts the sometimes-historical visual languages of ideologies with different orientations to expose propagandistic manipulation. Through recontextualization, he highlights the referentiality of time documents.

It is a strength of his artistic works that they raise these questions rather than trying to answer them with supposed facticity and authenticity. Höschl is not so much trying to provide a clear reading of media representations, on the one hand, and of his own installations, on the other. In the tradition of aesthetic self-will, their immanent openness of meaning and complexity makes it possible to question what is shown and hence also the necessary discourse surrounding it. It is this ambivalence that distinguishes Höschl's works from an explicit engagement that declares implicit agreement with existing conditions.

Recent solo exhibitions: „Why are you crying?“, Nebyula, Museum Brandhorst, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Various Others Festival, München, 2024; „Alles Kacke!“, Stern Studio Wien, 2023; „Ein Lied für Deutschland“, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 2022; „TW: Europe“, EIGEN+ART Lab Berlin, 2022

Letzte Gruppenausstellungen: Paula Modersohn-Becker Kunstpreis, Worpsweder Museen, 2024; TalentPrize, Galleria Nazionale d‘Arte Moderna, Rome (ITA), 2024; „soft targets“, Galerie Martinetz, Köln, 2024; „one step beyond“, ERES-Stiftung, Various Others Festival, München, 2024; „in situ“, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2023; „Ping Pong“, M45, Basel (CHE), 2023; „Gentle Reminder“, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2023; „Protest! gestalten“, Museum Ulm, 2022; „Schuldiger Realismus“ (Tannhäuser Kreis), Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2022; „I did not see it coming“, Lothringer 13 Halle, München, 2022; Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, 2022; „BLAST“, ArtVerona, Verona (ITA), 2021; „Interference Serenade“, Festival der audiovisuellen Künste, Regensburg, 2021; „Luft“, 48h Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2021; „Zuhause“, Kunstmuseum Bochum, 2021; „Standby Modus“, Festival Fotografischer Bilder Regensburg, 2020; „DRUCK 19“, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, 2019; „REAL FAKE“, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg,2018

Stipendien / Preise: Stipendium Kulturelle Bildung 2025, München; Paula Modersohn-Becker-Kunstpreis 2024; Preis des Kunstvereins Hannovers, 2026; Kulturförderpreis, Stadt Regensburg 2024; Debütantenpreis, AdBK München 2024; Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2023, Silber; Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 2021; Debütantenpreis, AdBK Nürnberg 2020; Preis des Kunstvereins Regensburg 2019; Kulturpreis des Bezirks Oberpfalz 2018; Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2018–2023; Stipendium der Bayerischen Staatsregierung, Sommerakademie Salzburg 2016