Jonathan Joosten
ISSUE (series)
ARCHIVED HERO (series)
RE:VISION (series)
CUT-FISHING FOR A VIEW
TRADING POSTmodernity
FOLGE #07 (PILOT)
DOMAIN NOIR
HC (stack-style)
1-ROOM APT.
UT (chamber)
STUFE 01 - STUFUNG 02
ARTIST STATEMENT
EXHIBITIONS
ISSUE (series)
ISSUE [0724] | UdK | Berlin | 2024
ISSUE [0924] | Lothar Wolleh Raum | Berlin | 2024
ISSUE [1024] | JohnenPrivat | Berlin | 2024
The ‘ISSUE’ series centralizes the idea of actuality and the connected
ever-changing sense of relevancy.
The shelf-construction deals with material that presupposes further versions and thus overwrites it’s own status. With the interest in that limitless urge of innovation the kayak prototype is used and hanged inside the metall system. This phenomenon is explored further by the use of magazines and their placement within metal frames. The process of pre-archiving poses the question of how to approach the cycle of production.
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ARCHIVED HERO (series)
AH 01 | UdK, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße | Berlin | 2023, 2024
AH 02 | KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße | Berlin | 2024
An ongoing series is the ARCHIVED HERO series, which depicts romanticized and commodified figures that are associated with history and pop culture.
The starting point are product images of toy figures that I have collected on various online sales platforms. They were sorted out and photographed in a way that is almost unembellished, in a private room on a table with a mobile phone camera as I imagine it. Partly I process the image material digitally first, but in the end it is transferred to canvas, by printing, drawing or painting so the image goes through several stages in the end.
A toy representing a character is just an imprint shaped by play. Figures that are charged with fantasy and a certain romanticism are losing their once shining status as changing times and new values shift their context.
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RE:VISION (series)
RE:VISION - SF [32/83] | Galerie Met | Berlin | 2024
RE:VISION - CR [67/06] | JohnenPrivat | Berlin | 2024
The RE:VISION series presents a collection of film titles and text elements from films in which the theme of modernisation - in this case the phenomenon of the remake is once again addressed. It’s about films that have been remade.
Stories are never fixed; they shift with time, reframed by new contexts and cultural sensibilities. A remake is not a mere repetition but a reinterpretation. An act of translation that transforms a narrative through its setting, language, and aesthetics. The same story, told again, becomes a reflection of its era, shaped by the values and desires of the present.
Locations reorient meaning, language alters rhythm, fashion and design embed it in the new present. Each retelling is a negotiation, showing that what endures is not the story itself but the act of revisiting it.
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CUT-FISHING FOR A VIEW
JohnenPrivat, supported by Max Goelitz | Berlin | 2024
In collaboration with Daniel Hölzl
Lines resurrect the silhouette of a window hidden behind the plaster wall. Through repetition with a chalk line, a proposal is made to turn back time and reestablish what once was. Brick borrowed from the original facade ground to dust.
The site specific work functions as a portal, activated by the residue of lived material. The faint remnants are a mention of potentiality and to the fragility of architecture, to the return to nothing. The window outlived its original purpose — now obsolete, it renegotiates the boundaries of utility.
Simultaneously the contradictory dialog only enables itself trough the current staging of space.
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TRADING POSTmodernity
KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße | Berlin | Gallery Weekend | 2024
We organize our thoughts around places and categories, giving everything a name to construct the clarity we so deeply seek. Society emerged from the realization that collaboration could achieve far more than isolated effort. The concept of shared expertise was born: a system of interconnected tasks and sections, pieced together to shape our collective reality.
‘TRADING POSTmodernity’ asks for a beginning: how did we even end up here? A ball was dropped, and broke, wasn’t it supposed to bounce. The ceiling is pressing but therefore brings movement. What once seemed like a perfect, rounded idea has already been archived: paste over the old, preserve, honor and embrace the core..
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PUBLIC REEL (strained) | Berlin | 2024
PROTO-POD 01 (bouncer) | Berlin | 2024