Jonas Höschl is a conceptual artist and photographer. For his artistic work, which encompasses printmaking, sound, video, and installation, he has received the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize, the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Fine Arts, and the German Photobook Prize, among others. He has published the art books Fade Away Medley (Das Wetter), Politics of Media Images (Hatje Cantz), and most recently 80 Portraits: 73 Men, 7 Women (Verlag für moderne Kunst).
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Zum Schäfchen, Recherche Nord (POV)
2026
Exhibition View "Antifascism: Now" @ Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich // Photos by Christian Kain
Moviestill "Zum Schäfchen, Recherche Nord (POV)", 25:50 min, 2026
“Zum Schäfchen, Recherche Nord (POV)” (2026) is a multimedia installation by Jonas Höschl that reflects on the working conditions of the anti-fascist journalist collective Recherche Nord. The starting point is body cam footage of two attacks by the right-wing extremist publicist Götz Kubitschek in front of the restaurant “Zum Schäfchen” in Schnellroda, Saxony-Anhalt, a central meeting place for the New Right. The artist superimposes these and makes them spatially tangible through color-coded floor markings and wooden displays. At the center of the installation, two screens show the point-of-view video footage of the attacked photographer. The spatial situation places the viewers in a constant shib between the perspective of a victim and that of a neutral observer. This raises fundamental questions about the authenticity of documentary material and its contextualization.
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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 -
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
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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
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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