Jonas Höschl

Concept by Jonas Höschl

Music written and produced by Florida Juicy

Edited by Ruth Glas

Lyrics from the Song „Point Of No Return“ by Gene McDaniels (Scorpio Rising, 1963)

This object frame with the screen print on glass contains an LP: Desire by Bob Dylan. Gudrun Ensslin—probably—listened to this record as she committed suiced in her cell in Stuttgart Stammheim. The red silkscreen printed top right shows a portrait photo of Bob Dylan, while the boxer Rubin Carter, known as Hurricane, who was wrongly arrested for murder, can be seen at the bottom left. Inside is the page of a prison newspaper, written by inmates who came out in solidarity with the hunger strike of the RAF terrorists, folded into a paper airplane.

Jonas Höschl

18. Oktober 1977 (2025)

Record, Paper aeroplane from Prisoner newspaper,

silkscreen on glass

50 x 50 cm

"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

"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)

"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

In “July 1, 2016” you can see a photograph of a white sandy beach with a medal from the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis stuck in it. The glass above it reads: “Prince's 1988 Why Are You Crying? was acquired by art adviser Todd Levin, bidding against Gagosian, for a mid-estimate $296,000.” Richard Prince's work was part of the Phillips auction in 2005 and is the title of Jonas Höschl's video work of the same name.

"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

"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

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

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

Contribution on the pages 581, 593, 600 & 601