In his search for belonging and community, Jonas Höschl encounters isolation and segregation. In his prints and video works, he questions the identity-creating potential of political systems and social constructs. Using regional political scandals and European conflicts, he shows the alienation from unifying ideals. The powerlessness of the individual and the power of the many create a field of tension, which is also the basis of media staging. Jonas Höschl appropriates the partly historical visual languages of differently oriented ideologies in order to reveal the propagandistic manipulation. Through recontextualization, he points to the referentiality of contemporary documents. Carina Essl (LEONARDO – Center for Creativity and Innovation)
CV
Education
2024
Diploma in Fine Art & Sculpture + Master Student Title
Olaf Nicolai’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2020
Appointment as Master Student
Olaf Nicolai’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2020
Diploma in Graphic Design / Visual Communication
Friederike Girst & Holger Felten’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2018–2024
Studies in Fine Art & Sculpture
Olaf Nicolai’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2015–2019
Studies in Photography
Juergen Teller’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2015–2020
Studies in Graphic Design / Visual Communication
Friederike Girst & Holger Felten’s Class
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
Grants & Awards
2025
Cultural Education Grant, City of Munich
2024
Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize
2026
Art Association Hannover Prize
2024
Cultural Promotion Award, City of Regensburg
2024
Debut Prize, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2023
Silver Medal – German Photobook Award 23/24 (Textbook Phototheory Category)
2021
Bavarian Art Promotion Prize (Fine Arts)
2020
Debut Prize, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2020
Grant from the EU Project “culture|contact|creative” for Pilsen (CZE)
2019
Prize of the Art & Trade Association Regensburg
since 2018
Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2018
Cultural Prize of the Upper Palatinate District for Printmaking
2018
Grant from the Upper Palatinate Artists’ House for Schloss Plüschow
2017
Sparda-Bank Art Promotion Prize, Amberg
2016
Grant from the Bavarian State Government for the Salzburg Summer Academy (AT)
2015
Grant from the Homburg am Main Summer Academy
Books
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Why are you crying? Volume 2
Neuer Kunstverein
Regensburg
2025
Point of No Return
Galerie Anton Janizewski
Berlin
2025
Sensitive Content
Galerie Kandlhofer
Vienna (AT)
2024
Why are you crying?
Nebyula (Various Others Festival)
Munich
2023
Alles Kacke! (with Eric Meier)
Stern Studio Gallery
Vienna (AT)
2022
A Song for Germany
Kunstmuseum
Heidenheim
2022
TW: Europe
EIGEN + ART Lab
Berlin
2021
A Song for Germany (Intervention)
Project Space for Contemporary Art e.V.
Neu-Ulm
2021
Almost too real (with Kai Ruhland)
Stadel-Galerie
Regensburg
2020
The Word Crisis…
ck_offspace X Capital of Culture Stream N2025
Online
2019
Portrait MZ
SchauRaum
Strange Days / Arno Schmidt Project
Strange Days / Arno Schmidt Project
Darmstadt
2018
LUCK (with Christian Kölbl)
Academy Gallery, Auf AEG
Nuremberg
2017
Inshallah/Patatas
Edel Extra
Nuremberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
(In)Visibility of Violence
Kunsthalle Gießen
Gießen
2025
Interceptable Flutter
Kunstverein Augsburg
Augsburg
2025
Feelings & Photography
Photoszene Festival
Cologne
2024
Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize
Worpswede Museums
Worpswede
2024
TalentPrize
Galleria Nazionale d‘Arte Moderna
Rome (ITA)
2024
soft targets
Galerie Martinetz
Cologne
2024
one step beyond
ERES Foundation (Various Others Festival)
Munich
2023
in situ, On Contaminated Sites and a New Culture of Remembrance
Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Darmstadt
2023
German Photobook Award
Festival of Photographic Images
Regensburg
2023
We love to see you fail
Photon Gallery
Vienna (AT)
2023
Ping Pong 2023
Ping Pong
Basel (CHE)
2023
Gentle Reminder
Galerie Anton Janizewski
Berlin
2022
A Little Bit of Horrorshow
Transit Film Festival
Regensburg
2022
Stammtisch Papillon
Stadel-Galerie
Regensburg
2022
Protest! gestalten
Museum Ulm
Ulm
2022
Super BOOKS 3
Haus der Kunst
Munich
2022
Collection of the Upper Palatinate District
Upper Palatinate Artists’ House
Schwandorf
2022
We Threw A Party or The Tears Are Still Drippin'
M26
Regensburg
2022
Academy Positions
Positions Art Fair
Berlin
2022
Guilty Realism
Galerie Anton Janizewski
Berlin
2022
Photobook Exhibition
FOTO WIEN Festival
Vienna (AT)
2022
I did not see it coming
Lothringer 13 Hall
Munich
2022
Bavarian Art Promotion Prize
Gallery of Artists
Munich
2021
Benefit Auction
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Aachen
2021
BLAST
ArtVerona
Verona (ITA)
2021
Trekant
Festival
Kolding / Middelfart / Veile (DNK)
2021
Interference Serenade
Festival of Audiovisual Arts
Regensburg
2021
48h Neukölln
Festival
Berlin
2021
Home
Kunstmuseum Bochum
Bochum
2021
Genius
Art Association
Baden (AT)
2020
Drawing Restrict: A Growing Exhibition
Rosa Stern
Munich
2020
Standby Mode
Festival of Photographic Images
Regensburg
2019
Karl & Faber Prize
Karl & Faber Auction House
Munich
2019
DRUCK 19
Upper Palatinate Artists’ House
Schwandorf
2018
REAL FAKE
Frappant Gallery
Hamburg
2018
Beer Shower & Other Beautiful Pictures
Jürgen Teller’s Class
Jürgen Teller’s Class
Gallery Bühlers
Fürth
2018
Sparda-Bank Art Prize
City Museum Amberg
Amberg
2018
Pictures for Donald
WERKSCHAU Hall 12, Spinnerei Grounds
Leipzig
2017
Art Salon
Egyptian Museum
Munich
2017
With Art for Art
Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Darmstadt
2016
Cocktail d’ Amore
Bunsen Goetz Gallery
Nuremberg
2016
Babylove
Fortress Hohensalzburg
Salzburg (AT)
2015
trouble in paradise
Tafelhalle
Nuremberg
Talks and Events
2025
10 questions for...
Panel-Talk with Mansoor Adayfi, Nadia Ismail, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann and Theresa Deichert
Kunsthalle Gießen
2025
Photo book talk by invitation of the German Photo Book Award
Book presentation
Frankfurt Book Fair
2025
Art and Research
Panel-Talk with Cana Bilir-Meier, Philipp Hoelzgen, Christian Thöner and Rüdiger Heinze
Kunstverein Augsburg
2025
Interceptible Flutter
Panel-Talk with Anna Witt, René Radomsky and Christian Thöner
Kunstverein Augsburg
2025
Politics of Presence – Networked Body Images and Algorithmic Visibility
Symposium with Dr. Jana Johanna Haeckel, Sheung Yiu, Marco De Mutiis, Dr. Annekathrin Kohout and Laia Abril
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2025
Feelings & Photography
Panel talk with Shirin Abedi, Hanieh Bozorgnia, Asli Özçelik, Donja Nasseri and Jan Borreck
Internationale Photoszene Cologne
2025
Politics of Media Images
Artist talk
Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
2025
Where is Europe drifting?
Panel talk with Yevgenia Belorusets, Eric Meier, Marina Naprushkina and Maria Isserlis
Academy of Arts X EMOP Festival
2025
80 Portraits: 73 Men, 7 Women
Book presentation with Felix Hoffmann (Foto Arsenal Vienna)
Softcover
2024
Politics of Media Images
Book presentation
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2023
Photography and Engagement
Panel talk with Mira Anneli Naß and Margit Neuhold
MQ, FOTO WIEN Festival
2023
Reality and Photography
Workshop for young people
Youth Photography Award, Upper Palatinate District, Regensburg
2023
If you scream, I’ll scream too
Artist talk and film program with Cana Bilir-Meier
Kebbel Villa, Schwandorf
2022
The tears are still trippin'
Readings and discussion with Duygu Ağal, Sascha Ehlert, Anna Hofmann
M26, Regensburg
2022
Politics of Media Images
Book presentation and readings with Lena Brasch and Anna Hofmann
EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin
2022
Uncivil Society – Discursive Bodies in Right-Wing Spaces
Panel discussion with Gilda Sahebi, Christine Umpfenbach and Jan Struckmeier
Radio80000 X Goethe Institute, Munich
2022
On Homeland and Right-Wing Spaces
Panel discussion with Juliane Bischoff (NS Documentation Center), Joshua Groß and Sascha Ehlert
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
2022
Politics of Media Images
Book presentation with reading by Joannie Baumgärtner
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2022
Fade Away Medley
Book presentation with Joshua Groß and Sascha Ehlert
Carhartt Showroom, Berlin
2022
Susan Sontag "Fascinating Fascism"
Text workshop
Lothringer Halle 13, Munich
2021
Untold Stories – Young Positions in Photography Today
Panel discussion with Andréa Holzherr (Magnum Photos), Daniel Schreiber and Shirin Abedi
Kunstmuseum Bochum
Project Funding
2022
Project funding from the zumikon Foundation
2022
Bavaria Innovativ Funding
2021
Impulse Funding, City of Regensburg
2021
International Project Funding, City of Munich
2021
Project funding from the Alexander Tutsek Foundation
2020
Project funding from LfA Förderbank
2020
Project funding from the zumikon Foundation
2020
Project funding from the Thorwart-Jeska Foundation
2020
Project funding from the Upper Palatinate District
2020
Project funding from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Public and Private Collections
Art Collection of the Museum Ulm
Art Collection of the Upper Palatinate District
Art Collection of the City of Regensburg
Art Collection of the Museum Heidenheim
Art Collection of Sparkasse Nuremberg
Libraries
Collection of the FOTOHOF Library Salzburg (AT)
Bavarian State Library
German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
Library of the Bavarian State Parliament
Collection of the Camera Austria Library, Graz (AT)
Bauhaus University Library
Library of the Goethe-Institut New York (US)
Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
City of Nuremberg / City Library
Collection of the Gallery OstLicht Library, Vienna (AT)
Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library
City Archive Nuremberg
Library of basis Frankfurt e.V.
Library of the Berlin University of the Arts
Regensburg University Library
Library of the Central Institute for Art History
Bremen State and University Library
University Library Weimar
Library of the Aperture Foundation (US)
Publications
2017
Numeró Berlin Magazine
2021
SZ-Magazine
2020
Wetter Magazine (Cover Story, May 2020)
2021
Cicero Magazine
2021
KURIER (15 June 2021)
2020
Das Magazin / Tagesanzeiger (N 51/52, December 2020)
2021
NEØLYD Magazine
2020
DUEL Magazine
2020
MYP Magazine
2020
AVISO Magazine
2020
OE Magazine