Jonas Höschl

"Through which framing do we perceive images? How comprehensively is our perception of global events influenced by their media processing? Which contextualization comes closest to the actual events? Can there be reporting that objectively reflects this?"

Raising questions like these - posed by art historian and photography theorist Mira Anneli Naß - rather than presenting answers, is at the core of Jonas Höschl's artistic practice. Based on his media-reflexive work, the artist gathers in Politics of Media Images numerous theorists, artists and authors who deal with media-theoretical questions in our increasingly fragile present time. The contributions make our social inflammations and injuries painfully tangible under a burning glass.

"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

"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

Jackie. Or: Dogs I saw…

I saw a trailer for a movie. A women touched the bottom part of her nose with two fingers. A dog reacted by raising his right paw.

I saw multiple covers of children's books with illustrations of a dog and a little boy. The colours were saturated and shiny.

I saw Konrad Adenauer with a dog in a photograph. The photographer explained during an interview, that the chancellor didn't want to be portrayed like this.

I saw an advertisement for a hoodie on Instagram. It showed a cartoon dog with a burning candle on its head.

I saw a prank video on YouTube. It was about a dog scaring pedestrians by being dressed up like a spider.

I saw a frozen dog in a garbage bin behind glass in an exhibition.

I read multiple times that the dog Jackie from the movie trailer must have really existed.

Thanks to Sabrina Zeltner, Johannes Nussbaum, Nick Romeo Reimann, Willelm De Haan, Sabrina Reuschl, Linda Sakallah, Tannhäuser Kreis, Spring Break Art Residency and AVISO Magazine.