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About
Jonas Weichsel creates minimalist paintings of uncanny precision and impalpability, which upon closer inspection translate into sensuous, lived experiences. Early on, Weichsel developed his unique analytical and systematic painting technique, which he continues to pursue often combining digital and plotting techniques with hand-painted elements to explore the possibilities and limits of painting and the boundaries between immateriality and a tangible, material presence. His paintings inherit a deceptive simplicity and unfold their full power only in the contemplation of the original.
Jonas Weichsel, born 1982 in Darmstadt, Germany, first studied in Mainz and Düsseldorf before completing his Meisterschüler with Judith Hopf at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 2016, he was awarded a residency at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy. In 2012, he won the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium after having been awarded the Dies Academicus—the Prize of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz—alongside a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include Oldenburger Kunstverein (2021), Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop (2018), Museum Wiesbaden (2016), and Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M. (2013). Important group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt (2018; 2017; 2011), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2017), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2016), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2016), Villa Romana, Florence, Italy (2016), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2015), Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (2015), Kunsthalle Mainz (2015; 2010), Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (2015), Salondergegenwart, Hamburg (2013), Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden (2012), Heidelberger Kunstverein (2011), Wilhelm Hack Museum (2010), and Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2010). Jonas Weichsel lives and works in Frankfurt a.M. -
Works
Jonas Weichsel
Interstellar Painting 13, 2022acrylic on canvas110 x 58 x 2.5 cm
43 1/4 x 22 7/8 x 1 inThe Interstellar series is the latest iteration of Weichsel’s intensive color explorations, in which he meticulously mixes, composes and arranges color to form complex relationships – here, resulting in a...The Interstellar series is the latest iteration of Weichsel’s intensive color explorations, in which he meticulously mixes, composes and arranges color to form complex relationships – here, resulting in a continuous, immersive spatial gradient. With Interstellar, Weichsel further develops his highly precise painting practice, building on formats and techniques introduced in previous series – such as his TC (Two Color) Paintings. Incorporating both analog and digital tools, techniques and aesthetics, Weichsel works to expand the potentials of the painting medium in the digital age, producing layered images that, upon close inspection, reveal a quiet complexity.
Aufbauend
auf Formaten und Techniken, die in früheren Serien eingeführt wurden –
wie beispielsweise seine "TC (Two Colour) Paintings" – entwickelt
Weichsel in den "Interstellar Paintings" seine höchst präzise Malpraxis
weiter, in der er sowohl analoge also auch digitale Werkzeuge, Techniken
und Ästhetiken miteinander kombiniert.
Die "Interstellar Paintings"
umfassen Primärfarben – also Gelb, Magenta und Cyan – die in
verschiedenen Verhältnissen gemischt werden, um unzählige Farben und
Farbbeziehungen zu produzieren. Bemerkenswert ist dabei, dass die von
Weichsel als Ausgangspunkte gewählten Primärfarben an die Farben von
Digitaldruckern erinnern, die ein riesiges Farbspektrum produzieren
können, indem sie tausende von mikroskopischen Punkten zu einem
einheitlichen Ganzen verschmelzen lassen. Auf eine ähnliche Art wirkt
jedes "Interstellar Painting" aus der Entfernung, als wäre es von einer
eindeutigen Farbe beherrscht, die in Korrespondenz zu den anderen einen
einzigen Farbverlauf bildet. Gleichzeitig ist aber jedes Bild aus
eigenen Farbverläufen komponiert: unscharfe, kontrastierende vertikale
Farbbänder, wie digitale Scanlinien. Sowohl die Andeutung von
Schattierungen und Linien, die horizontal wie diagonal über die Bilder
verlaufen, als auch die verblasste „Spiegelung“ des Farbverlaufs, die in
der unteren Hälfte jeden Bildes auftaucht, gibt den Arbeiten eine fast
papierartige, materielle Anmutung, so, als wären die Arbeiten zusammen-
und dann wieder auseinandergefaltet worden. Das Gefühl von Licht,
Spiegelung und Schatten dient auch dazu, deren retinale Eigenschaft zu
unterstreichen und öffnet gleichzeitig weitreichende Tiefen. Dies
versetzt die Oberflächen in Bewegung, während es den Farben ein gewisses
Volumen verleiht, obgleich sie sich aufzulösen scheinen.Selected WorksVideoExhibitions in the gallery-
Sekunde
Jonas Weichsel 3 May TO 14 June 2025 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEGalerie Thomas Schulte presents Sekunde , a solo exhibition featuring new works by Jonas Weichsel,...View Exhibition -
PICTORIAL RESONANCE
Group Show 27 January TO 2 March 2024 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEArtworks by 18 artists fill the gallery space. They represent a diverse range of sizes...View Exhibition -
INTERSTELLAR
JONAS WEICHSEL 19 February TO 9 April 2022 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEGalerie Thomas Schulte presents a new multi-part installation of paintings by Jonas Weichsel in the...View Exhibition -
UNIT
JONAS WEICHSEL 25 July TO 29 August 2020 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEJonas Weichsel presents in his exhibition Unit new works elaborating on his distinctive painting technique;...View Exhibition -
ECHO BOX
JONAS WEICHSEL 29 September TO 17 November 2018 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEFor this year’s Berlin Art Week Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Jonas Weichsel’s first solo show....View Exhibition -
THE MATTER IN HARMONY
GROUP SHOW 14 July TO 15 September 2018 CHARLOTTENSTRASSEOn July 13 Galerie Thomas Schulte opened the group exhibition The Matter in Harmony with...View Exhibition
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Jonas Weichsel / Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany
Group Exhibition 23 March to 22 September 2024They were born in the 1980s and are associated with this art movement in a narrower or broader sense. As part of 24! , the...Read more -
JONAS WEICHSEL / HANS PURRMANN PRIZE OF STADT SPEYER, GERMANY
AWARD NOMINATION 10 FEBRUARY 2023From 42 applications submitted at the suggestion of 50 internationally renowned artists, critics and curators and admitted to the competition, the jury invited eight artists...Read more -
Jonas Weichsel / Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Solo exhibition 14 May to 11 July 2021In his exhibition Debatte Jonas Weichsel's pictures, designed with tremendous meticulousness and produced in fixed procedures, only appear geometric and reduced on the first impression....Read more
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