Jonas Höschl is a political conceptual artist and photographer.
Most recently, he was awarded the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize and the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Fine Arts for his artistic work, which encompasses the media of printmaking, sound, video and installation. He is part of the artist collective "Tannhäuser Kreis".
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Why are you crying? Volume 2
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The video essay “Why are you crying?” (2024) by Jonas Höschl, which was first shown last year at the Various Others gallery festival organized by Nebulya X EIGEN+ART Lab in cooperation with the Museum Brandhorst and the NS Documentation Center, deals with the auction of 135 works from the private art collection of Gloria von Thurn und Taxis at Phillips auction house in New York in 2005. While a static camera repeatedly shows the sky above St. Emmeram Palace in Regensburg, a voice-over describes exemplary works of art that were auctioned off. He continues this exploration of the presence and absence of art in Gloria von Thurn und Taxis' collection in a new series of works in the exhibition “Why are you crying? Volume 2” at the Neuer Kunstverein Regensburg.
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The exhibition “Why are you crying? Volume 2” by Jonas Höschl uses the example of the collection policy and public figure Gloria von Thurn und Taxis to deal with disappearance, transience, and the fading of memory. In a gesture critical of institutions, the artist has flooded the exhibition rooms with 5 tons of sand. This interferes with the physical reception of the artworks by the viewers and allows them to leave traces that extend into the public urban space.
