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. 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
  2. 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

  3. Jackie. Oder: Hunde, die ich gesehen habe...

    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.

  4. 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

  5. Portrait MZ

    2020
    Video 1 (FB Videos by Joachim Wolbergs), 29:00 min
    Video 2 (with Joscha Baltha), 08:50 min
    Screen prints "Portrait MZ" @ Arno Schmidt Project, Darmstadt, 2020
    Publication "Portrait MZ", more than 1000 Pages
  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