Jonas Höschl is a political conceptual artist and photographer.
Most recently, he received the Bavarian Art Award for Visual Arts and the Culture Award of the District of Upper Palatinate for printmaking for his artistic work, which encompasses the media of printmaking, sound, video and installation. He is part of the artist collective "Tannhäuser Kreis".

  1. 80 Portraits: 73 Männer, 7 Frauen

    2023
    Exhibition view "Gentle Reminder" @ Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2023 // Photography by Peter Oliver Wolff

    80 Portraits: 73 Männer, 7 Frauen, is a consists of a carousel slide projector, a device which recalls quaint nostalgic activities such as looking at vacation snaps. This one, however, runs through black-and-white photos, all depicting people in the same portrait format. Some of the poses are menacing, while the faces have been blurred out. The signifiers that these figures wear on their body—tattoos, shirts, logos, but also suits and folkloristic German apparel—betray their allegiance to far right groups. Höschl has sourced the images online, from anti-fascist networks where they have a clear purpose: mapping the Neonazi scene, documenting its protagonists, and potentially warning people who might fall victim to violent attacks. In the current setup, the pictures are lifted not only from their context, but also deprived of their function. They call to attention the mediated nature of photography: usually, photographer and subject are at considerable distance from each other, and only in rare cases the look is reciprocated, when the antifascists themselves are being photographed. – Philipp Hindahl

  2. Politik von Medienbildern

    2022
    Illustration by Karin Kolb
    "Politics of Media Images", published by Hatje Cantz // Photography by Maria Bayer
    "Politics of Media Images", published by Hatje Cantz // Designed by Complex Pleasures
    Photography by Maria Bayer

    "Through which framing do we perceive images? How comprehensively is our perception of global events influenced by their media processing? Which contextualization comes closest to the actual events? Can there be reporting that objectively reflects this?"

    Raising questions like these - posed by art historian and photography theorist Mira Anneli Naß - rather than presenting answers, is at the core of Jonas Höschl's artistic practice. Based on his media-reflexive work, the artist gathers in Politics of Media Images numerous theorists, artists and authors who deal with media-theoretical questions in our increasingly fragile present time. The contributions make our social inflammations and injuries painfully tangible under a burning glass.

  3. And let my cry

    2022
    And let my cry @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff

    "This criticism of journalistic reporting is repeated in his most recent work, And let my cry (2022): it is the transcript of an (internal) recording the Bavarian Broadcasting Company made during the setup and rehearsal for the memorial service for the victims of the racist attack in Munich’s Olympia shopping center in 2016. (...) False reports led to panic in the city, and despite the perpetrator’s unambiguous statements in chat forums, authorities long pointed to his psychiatric treatment as a motive for a supposed killing spree.", Mira Anneli Naß

  4. Bilderbuch X Das Wetter

    2022
    Bilderbuch Coverstory - Das Wetter Magazin Nr. 27, Mai 2022
  5. Gropiusstadt – Ist alles Kacke hier!

    2021

    On the 7th of November 1962, the then Governing Mayor Willy Brandt ceremoniously laid the foundation stone for the first construction phase of the large housing estate „Berlin-Gropiusstadt“ in the presence of Walter Gropius. Almost 30 years later, the documentary „Gropiusstadt - Ist alles Kacke hier! (1990) by Eberhard Weißbart appeared, which deals with gang wars in the satellite town. At a similar time interval, the artist Jonas Höschl is now reacting to the documentary, using the Film as the basis for his work. In collaboration with the audio film author Petra Schielke and the narrator Christian Bergmann, he created a sound piece with the use of audio description. A sound framework freed from narration, consisting of descriptions of the protagonists and locations of the short film, which interrogates the visual material itself. The producer Philipp Dittmar (Red On) reacts to this with sound documents of the 1960s from Neukölln`s museum archive, which accompanied the building process and the inauguration of Gropiusstadt. The result is a melodious radio play between German officialese, the subcultural sounds of Berlin at the time of reunification and contemporary, experimental electronics.

    https://www.hoelzldaniel.com/aushang

    Aushang (Object by Daniel Hölzl) @ 48h Neukölln Festival, 2021

    "It confronts the history and contemporary implications of Neukölln's Gropiusstadt, one of West Berlin's major urban development projects from the cold war era. Höschl's contribution is a counter-narratological soundstream consisting of two elements: audio descriptions created to represent the protagonists and locations of the documentary "Gropiusstadt - Ist alles Kacke hier!" (1990) by Eberhard Weißbarth, as well as materials retrieved from audio archives dating to the 1960s documenting the building process and the inauguration of Gropiusstadt.", Mohammad Salemy

  6. Fade Away Medley

    2021
    Fade Away Medley @ Exhibition Hall, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, 2020

    "Time disappears and leaves behind memories - of people, moments, melodies. "Fade Away Medley" is what Jonas Höschl calls his work, which revels in the thoughts and feelings of a generation. Carried by the soundtrack of his youth, Jonas Höschl tells in the photo book of scenes of debauchery and rebellion, but also of pausing and looking up. The hedonistic urge for extravagance and exaggeration is palpable in the full-page photographs, which are juxtaposed and enter into dialogues of content and form in direct succession. The transfiguring view of days gone by is broken up by sobering images of conservative lifestyles and world views. The oppressive conformity goes hand in hand with the longing for dissolution of boundaries, which Jonas Höschl also embodies himself in his photographs. He confronts the dialectic of his pictorial milieus in order to overcome them.", Carina Essl (LEONARDO – Zentrum für Kreativität und Innovation)

    A: Fade Away Medley 1 (11:09 min)
    B: Fade Away Medley 2 (16:47 min)

    LP Fade Away Medley
    Artist: Jonas Höschl, Photography: Jonas Höschl,
    Composer: Tydings McClary, Mastering: Emanuel Geller,
    Presswerk: MATTER OF FACT,
    Design: Michael Seibert (unfun)

    The photo book Fade Away Medley can be ordered here.

    Fade Away Medley @ Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 2022 // Exhibition view Ignacio Iturriozby
  7. 09. September 2015, Röszke

    2021
    09. September 2015, Röszke @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    09. September 2015, Röszke @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    09. September 2015, Röszke @ Akademie Galerie, Nürnberg, 2021 // Exhibition view by Kira Krüger
    09. September 2015, Röszke @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff

    "He brings his own powerlessness into focus, addressing the journalistic routinization of news agencies and editorial offices in our digitalized world. The work was supported by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation and the Cultural Office of the City of Munich.", Kunstverein Baden (OE)

    09. September 2015, Röszke @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    09. September 2015, Röszke @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
  8. STELLA X The one and only Issue

    2021

    STELLA X The one and only Issue
    Concept: Simona Andrioletti
    Photography: Jonas Höschl
    Design: Felix Neumann
    Photo-Poster: Riccardo Rudi

    The newspaper is the result of several workshops on the question "What do you do with your anger?", which took place within the framework of BLAST / ArtVerona. The portraits of the young people were made in the neighborhood of their daily communities.

    STELLA @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    STELLA @ Spazio Cordis, Verona (ITA), 2021
    Photography by Riccardo Rudi
    STELLA @ Spazio Cordis, Verona (ITA), 2021
    Photography by Riccardo Rudi
  9. Tränen schützen nicht vor Mord

    2022
    "Tränen schützen nicht vor Mord" @ Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2023 // Photography by Peter Oliver Wolff
    "Tränen schützen nicht vor Mord" @ Galerie der Künstler*innen // Photography by Verena Hägler
    Bavarian Culture Award

    "Jonas Höschl nimmt auf die Olympiade 1972 Bezug. Der (...) Künstler (...) setzt sich in verschiedenen Medien mit den als "heiter" intendierten Spielen auseinander, die mit der Geiselnahme der israelischen Sportler und einem Blutbad mit elf ermordeten Geiseln, einem toten Polizisten und fünf toten Entführern endete.", aus dem Artikel "Bayerische Kunstförderpreise 2021" von Roberta De Righi in der Abendzeitung München vom 04. Februar 2022

  10. Mavi Phoenix

    2021

    "Eating sushi in a fancy restaurant
    Top floor and a rooftop bar
    Black suit and my haircut's fresh
    The waiter's jealous of my moustache",
    aus Tokyo Drift von Mavi Phoenix

  11. Big Ponder Podcast

    2021

    The German edition of BIG PONDER was edited by Jenny Marrenbach. The authors of the plays are Sylvia Cunningham, Dina Elsayed, Florenz Gilly, Leon Ginzel, Jakob Lewis, Monika Müller-Kroll, Bilal Qureshi and Jocelyn Robinson. The German voices of BIG PONDER are Peggy Bachmann, Nina Ernst, Thomas Fränzel, Isabelle Redfern, Volker Wackermann and Timo Weisschnur. The broadcast package was composed and produced by Dirk Schwibbert. The photographs were taken at the Wild West adventure park Pullman City near Passau and at the Rose Barracks in Vilseck near Nuremberg, among other places. Sascha Ehlert coordinated the photo project, Jonas Höschl took the photos.

  12. in situ

    2023
    Ausstellungsansicht "in situ" @ Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2023 // Fotografie von Kai Altheim

    Die internationale Gruppenausstellung ‹in situ› zeigt zeitgenössische Kunst, die sich mit den Verbrechen der NS-Diktatur auseinandersetzt. Die teilnehmenden Künstler*innen untersuchen, wie Erinnerungsarbeit heute geleistet werden kann. Sie bedienen sich dazu verschiedener Medien, die vielfältige Bezüge zwischen Vergangenheit und Jetztzeit herzustellen vermögen. Wie wichtig die Erinnerung an die Gleichschaltung, die Bücherverbrennung und die Shoa ist und bleibt, zeigte sich in jüngerer Zeit an dem Antisemitismus-Skandal um die Documenta (2022), sowie den Anschlägen in Halle (2019) und in Hanau (2020). ‹in situ› vertraut auf die Kraft der Kunst, Geschichte zu aktualisieren und damit nachwachsenden Generationen zugänglich zu machen.

    Abie Franklin "Gniza"

    Künstler*innen:

    Soso Dumbadze
    Talya Feldman
    Abie Franklin
    Bastian Gehbauer
    Jonas Höschl
    Kollektiv Schandwache
    Leon Kahane
    Maria Margolina
    Kai Altheim

    ‹in situ› wird von Miriam Schmidt, Kai Altheim und Jonas Höschl kuratiert.

    Bastian Gehbauer "Phantasma"
    Jonas Höschl "There's history all around us"
    Jonas Höschl "Tränen schützen nicht vor Mord"
    Kollektiv Schwandwache "SCHANDWACHE"
    Maria Margolina "Recall (traces of continuity IV)"
    Maria Margolina "Recall (traces of continuity IV)"
    Kai Altheim "36"
    Talya Feldman "And our Cities change" (Moviestill)
    Soso Dumbadze "A Yellow Bus"
    Soso Dumbadze "A Yellow Bus" (Moviestill)
    Begleitende Publikation, erschienen bei Windpark Books
  13. Maurin Dietrich X Adidas Originals

    2023

    Das Wetter X Adidas Originals Spezial; H&M: Parnia Sarraf

  14. Europe is lost

    2018
    Europe is lost @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    Europe is lost @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    Europe is lost @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff

    "Europe is lost (...) leaves an oppressive feeling. One photo shows a man whose face is completely masked, another wears dark sunglasses and smokes.", from the article "Nie wieder!" by Amelie Völker in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 05, 2020

    Europe is lost @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    Woodcut series of 10 parts, edition 1/10, 50 x 70 cm
    Europe is lost @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff
    Video & Soundpiece, 06:24 min
    Viewing link for video & soundpiece on request
  15. There's history all around us

    2022
    There's history all around us @ Galerie Anton Janizweski // Exhibition View by Sascha Herrmann
    Exhibition "Schuldiger Realismus" by the Collective "Tannhäuser Kreis"
    There's history all around us @ Galerie der Künstler*innen // Exhibition View by Verena Hägler

    "Nebenan nimmt Jonas Höschl auf die Olympiade 1972 Bezug. Der (...) Künstler (...) setzt sich in verschiedenen Medien mit den als "heiter" intendierten Spielen auseinander, die mit der Geiselnahme der israelischen Sportler und einem Blutbad mit elf ermordeten Geiseln, einem toten Polizisten und fünf toten Entführern endete.

    Der Künstler verweist (...) auf Leni Riefenstahl, die das "Fest der Völker" 1936 unterm Hakenkreuz in Berlin filmisch heroisierte. Höschl macht aus Versatzstücken Anti-Propaganda.", aus dem Artikel "Bayerische Kunstförderpreise 2021" von Roberta De Righi in der Abendzeitung München vom 04. Februar 2022

  16. Manfred Weber

    2019

    "Manfred Weber (2019) consists of various samples from the commercials of 41 parties that contested the European elections in Germany in May 2019. The resulting mosaic of political diversity is dramatized musically; Falco's song "Europa" can be heard and the setting is based on Bavarian brass band music. Höschl examines the suggestive imagery of advertising agencies and makes clear how uniform the parties' self-representations are. The artist deconstructs the representations by breaking through the promising narratives with recordings of resistance and police violence.", HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

    Video-Production: Max Grünauer
    Brass Music & Vocals: Philipp Lohmeier, Max Blechschmidt, Simon Kränkl
    Lyrics: Falco, Thomas Rabitsch, Thomas Lang
    Photography: Pilar Schacher

  17. Wa22ermann X Das Wetter

    2023

    "Das Leben dreht sich nicht um dich, / auch nicht um mich, nur sich im Kreis / Also tanz' ich aus der Reihe, / tanze Salsa ganz allein" aus Salsa von Wa22ermann

  18. TW: Europe

    2023
    TW: Europe @ Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2023 // Photography by Peter Oliver Wolff

    TW: Europe is a dirty doormat, initially presented in a show with the same name at EIGEN + ART Lab. TW is short for trigger warning, and visitors of that show had to step over that doormat emblazoned with the trigger warning pictogram one might see on Instagram, when explicit content is blurred out. Cross the threshold at your own peril. – Philipp Hindahl


  19. Jackie. Oder: Hunde, die ich gesehen habe...

    2020

    Jackie. Or: Dogs I saw…

    I saw a trailer for a movie. A women touched the bottom part of her nose with two fingers. A dog reacted by raising his right paw.

    I saw multiple covers of children's books with illustrations of a dog and a little boy. The colours were saturated and shiny.

    I saw Konrad Adenauer with a dog in a photograph. The photographer explained during an interview, that the chancellor didn't want to be portrayed like this.

    I saw an advertisement for a hoodie on Instagram. It showed a cartoon dog with a burning candle on its head.

    I saw a prank video on YouTube. It was about a dog scaring pedestrians by being dressed up like a spider.

    I saw a frozen dog in a garbage bin behind glass in an exhibition.

    I read multiple times that the dog Jackie from the movie trailer must have really existed.

  20. Erotik Toy Records X Das Wetter

    2020

    "The six young gentlemen of Erotik Toy Records have themselves photographed as if they came from another time. That of the Agfa pocket camera, approximately.", caption from the article "WM-Songs für die Krampfadern-Crowd" by Daniel Gerhardt in the Zeit of October 22, 2020

    Buy Weather #21 as a PDF here. With covers by: Wolfgang Tillmans, Brown Shootta (Martin Tamba), Nina Francesca Nagele und Jonas Höschl

  21. Der Weiße Saal X KALTBLUT

    2021

    Yusra Babekr-Ali, Instagram: @yusra.babe
    signed at Most Wanted Models, Instagram: @mostwantedmodels_official

    Siti Hajar, Instagram: @sittystyles
    signed at Talents Models Munich, Instagram: @talentsmodelsmunich

    Sophia Klebeck, Instagram: @sophia.klebeck
    signed at Louisa Models, Instagram: @louisamodels

    Styling by Linda Sakallah, www.lindasakallah.com, Instagram: #lindasakallah
    Styling Assistance by Patricia Biebrich, Instagram: @lovesaladbypb

    Hair & Make-Up by Sabrina Reuschl, www.sabrinareuschl.de, Instagram: @sabrinareuschl
    Hair & Make-Up Assistance by Devi Nägelsbach, Instagram: @dewaldt.noe

    https://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/der-weise-saal/

  22. Alexander Winkelmann X Das Wetter

    2023

    Das Wetter Nr. 032, November 2023; H&M: Parnia Sarraf, Jana Kalgejeva; Text: Max Gruber

  23. Das Wort Krise besteht im Chinesischen aus zwei Schriftzeichen

    2020

    "The word “crisis” is made up of two characters in Chinese" (This video is the B-side of Jonas Höschl's exhibition which can be seen on @ck_offspace's Instagram page).

    Das Wort Krise besteht im Chinesischen aus zwei Schriftzeichen @ EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, 2022 // Exhibition view by Peter Wolff

    The state feels like an expanding vacuum, like a journey from Earth to the planet Trillaphon. There are no points of connection to this space, which seems more airless, nutrient-poor, unsubstantial, crowded. There are planets on which nights feel like merging black holes, while one senses the collision of exoplanets 10000 light years away.

    Text by Hannah Gebauer
    Artwork by Jonas Höschl
    Curated by Christian Kölbl
    Animation Design by Felix Neumann
    Sound Production by Kalas Liebfried

  24. Verifiziert X Das Wetter

    2021

    "Alles kommt mir vor wie auf Repeat
    Die Platte hängt, wieder nur das eine Lied
    Alles kommt mir vor wie auf Repeat
    Was passiert, wenn man immer nur das Gleiche sieht?",
    Asphalt by Verifiziert

  25. Eli Preiss

    2021

    "Danke Mami
    Für die Grübchen, meine Locken und den Body
    Dank dir bin ich kein Dummy
    Falt' die Szene hier, als wär's ein Origami", 
    Danke Mami by Eli Preiss

  26. Der Arktis gegenüber

    2020
    der Arktis gegenüber @ Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, 2019

    10 × b/w photographs, edition 2/5, 50 × 35 cm
    4 × 4-color silkscreen prints, edition 2/5, 50 × 35 cm
    1 × 4-color silkscreen print, unique (5 similar), 100 × 70 cm

    "The photograph still promises to be a reflection of reality. But what does that mean? Color printing, on the other hand, with its overlays and clearly visible changes, is an artistic promise of distance from the real. But it is precisely in this combination of print and print, the two different media, that a reflection finally emerges on the subjective, individual attitude that determines the interpersonal as much as the relationship to an object.", Jochen Meister

  27. Portrait MZ

    2020
    Video 1 (FB Videos by Joachim Wolbergs), 29:00 min
    Video 2 (with Joscha Baltha), 08:50 min
    Screen prints "Portrait MZ" @ Arno Schmidt Project, Darmstadt, 2020
    Publication "Portrait MZ", more than 1000 Pages
  28. Juergen Teller X Numéro Berlin

    2017

    "That's what my students think of youth",
    Juergen Teller

    Contribution on the pages 581, 593, 600 & 601

  29. Haiyti

    2020

    "Wolken sind tief gelegt
    Ich will dich wiedersehen
    Mich tröstet der Nieselregen
    Was für ein mieses Leben",
    Wolken by Haiyti

  30. Ein Lied für Deutschland

    2022
    Ein Lied für Deutschland @ Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 2022 // Exhibition view by Ignacio Iturrioz

    "Ein Lied für Deutschland - das ist der Titel einer Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Heidenheim. Der Klangteppich dazu, teils mit Rhythmen rechtsgerichteter Demonstrationen, klingt bedrohlich. Der erste Impuls ist, sich umdrehen und weggehen. Trotzdem ist es sinnvoll, dazubleiben, eine gute halbe Stunde Zeit mitzubringen und einzutauchen in die Welt derjenigen, die nicht an die mögliche Gefahr durch Corona glauben, aber an die Schädlichkeit von Atemschutz-Masken  und an einen weltweiten Plan der Politiker, die Wirtschaft zu zerstören.", aus dem Artikel "Wie Corona-Verschwörungsmythen entstehen" von Martin Miecznik in SWR Aktuell vom 25. März 2022

    Moviestill, Ein Lied für Deutschland, 37:01 min

    Audio production and arrangement by Kalas Liebfried, video by David Spatz & Lara Fritz

  31. Hannah Weiss X Adidas Originals

    2023

    Das Wetter X Adidas Originals Spezial

  32. Das Wetter Merchandise '22

    2022
    Instagram Post Format
    Instagram Story Format
  33. Gola Gianni

    2021

    "Brauch Codeine bevor ich schlafen geh, ich trink so wie Kakao
    Ich kann dich nicht mehr verstehen ja weil mein Kush is viel zu laut",
    Fledermaus by Gola Gianni

    Hair & Make-Up by Parnia Sarraf
    Thanks to Nick Romeo Reimann and the Volkstheater

  34. Glücks­ver­spre­chen

    2018
    200 x 600 cm, photographs, lithography, woodcut
    Glücksversprechen @ Academy Gallery Nuremberg, 2018
  35. Wolfgang Flatz X MucBook

    2023

    MucBook, Printausgabe Dezember 2023

  36. Schwarz Rot Geil X AVISO Magazin

    2021
    AVISO – Magazin für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Bayern (2/21)
  37. Anthea

    2021

    "FM4 calls the Hyperpop-Newcomer Anthea the “new Grimes”. That's quite an announcement. An accurate one, we think, because Anthea's explosive synthesizer epics do indeed show traces of the virtuoso Claire Boucher aka Grimes", THE POSTIE.

    Fashion Pieces by Jennifer Milleder
    Hair & Make-Up by Corazonnie

  38. Team Teller X MYP Magazine

    2019

    "In every landscape, a bell forms around us, protecting us from what keeps us up at night.", Anna Hofmann

  39. Public Possession X Das Wetter

    2021

    Das Wetter #23 can be purchased directly from the Public Possession Shop here.

  40. Kaltenkirchen

    2021

    "Sie sagen Sätze ohne Einhalt
    Und Theorien ohne Sinn
    In ihren Körpern wohnt der Teufel
    Der sie in die Hölle bringt",
    Wir sind das Volk by Kaltenkirchen

  41. Viko63 X Penglord

    2022

    "Sie findet Wein mucho gusto
    Doch er muss süß sein, also hol' ich ihr Lambrusco",
    aus Mucho Gusto von Viko63 & Penglord

  42. The Adventures of Bobby Ray

    2021
    The Adventures of Bobby Ray @ DUEL Magazine