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. 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

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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