

| Birth | Born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan |
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| Residency | Lives and works in Berlin and Ahrensburg, Germany |
| Education | 1995–1998 Art Academy, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2025 | GESAMTKUNSTWERK “ERZBUCH”! (BUCH DER BÜCHER), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, Germany |
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| ERZ-M.O.Z.A.R.T.” De Gesamtkunstwerk (E.R.Z.) De Largeus! (Hat die Kunst nicht immerz Geburtstag der Totalstliebe?, Mozart-Museen, Salzburg, Austria | |
| 2024 | “Erz-Inkubatorex De Large: Johnny, Das Kunstkind‚ Evolutionärz‘!”, Tichy Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland |
| “Dracula’s Liebe Mutterz: Böse Leiche?!?”, Wasserkirche Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2023 | DOCTOR-DOC-DR-“HIGH NOON” IS BACK! (WONDERLAND DE LARGE), Templon, Paris, France |
| “ERZKUNSTLIANE DE LARGE (Gesamtkunstwerk Europa)”, Serviceplan / House of Communication, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2020 | Dr. 50/Fifty Meese (Pump Away Reality), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2025 | “Transformative Senses – EMIXAR Berlin II”, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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| Sehnsucht nach Utopia, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Rolandseck, Germany | |
| Shine Bright Like a Diamond, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany | |
| How's My Painting? Malerei aus der Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2025 | Énormément bizarre, Center Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2024 | Eccentric, the Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
| “Welten in Bewegung – 30 Jahre Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
| 2020 | Lolita (R)evolution (Rufschädigendst) – Ihr Alle seid die Lolita Eurer Selbst!, Schauspiele Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
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| 2018 | The New Infinity“, Berliner Festspiele and Planetarium Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Virtual Reality Experience/360° - Film mit Jonathan Meese und seiner Mutter Brigitte, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | MONDPARSIFAL ALPHA 1-8 (ERZMUTTERZ DER ABWEHRZ), Opera by Bernhard Lang, Directed by, Set design and Costumes Jonathan Meese, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria |
| 2016 | Discussion | 100 Years Dada, Jonathan Meese in conversation with Adrian Notz, Art Basel Talks Programm, Basel, Switzerland Press conference of Viennese festivals, Art Basel PK, Basel, Switzerland Kunst und Design. Jonathan Meese im Gespräch mit Robert Eikmeyer, Hochschule Pforzheim, Fakultät für Gestaltung, Pforzheim, Germany |
| 2015 | Talk with federal judge Andreas Mosbacher and Gigi Deppe, about « Art and Law » at the Bundesverfassungsgericht Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany "You", Living in the Erzbox: L.O.V.E. de LARGE (VISIONTELEFON), National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Reden aus dem Maschinenraum der Kunst #6. BAYREUTH: EIN MISSVERSTÄNDNIS? Harald Falckenberg under discussion with Jonathan Meese, Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin |
| 2014 | Talk with Clemens Meyer about the book „ Wege zur Diktatur der Kunst“, Literaturhaus München, Munich, Germany Mein Glück und die Diktatur der Kunst. Werner Spies trifft Jonathan Meese, lecture at Lit Cologne, Cologne, Germany |
| 2013 | Round table talk Zukunft der Oper, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany Generaltanz Den Erzschiller (Guido Quiller Ist Der Totalste Don Gin Schiller, Ballettiert Euch, Wie Schnurrl´- Nonninei, Es Bruzzelts: Dr. Schillerz (Schiller Mi On, S.V.P.), Performance, Mannheimer Nationaltheater, Mannheim, Germany Open Your Mouth Art Is No Ideology (Art Is No Political System) Art Is Total Love, Art Is Total Beauty (Art Is No Anarchy, Art Is Chief) -> Art Is Total Power, Art Is The Only Future. "Close Your Mouth", Lecture, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia Art is No Ideology (Art is No Democracy) Art is Love. Art is DR. NO, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria | |
| IKOB. Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium | |
| SMAK, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada | |
| Holstebro Museum, Holstebro, Denmark | |
| Louisiana-Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark | |
| Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese - Doctor-Doc-Dr."High Noon' is back ! (Wonderland de large)
Laurent Boudier
Im namen der Freiheit : Alexander Kluge und Jonathan Meese im großen Interview
La folie douce de Jonathan Meese
Rencontre Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese, peintre de l'excès
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese, ce héros
La Chronique d'Olivier Cena
Médée, l'amour feu
THEATER DORTMUND, DORMUNT, GERMANY
February 15, March 21, April 3, April 25, May 16, 2020
World-class visual artist Jonathan Meese will present a play in collaboration with the Theater Dortmund, Germany. On the basis of the controversial and world-famous novel “Lolita” by the Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, the « evolutionary » piece which he will direct, do the set and costume design will premiere on 15 February 2020.
PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, MUNCHEN, GERMANY From 15/11/2018 to 03/03/2019
In the Greek saga, the hero Odysseus survives dangerous adventures on his odyssey and completes mysterious tasks – returning home at the end perhaps as a different person. Like a contemporary Odysseus, in this exhibition, the artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970 in Tokyo and based in Berlin) sets off on an imaginary journey, making various stops along the way. In drawings, pictures and sculptures from over 20 years of artistic production, encounters with the most diverse, ambivalent protagonists and situations take place, which the artist approaches in his archaic role as symbolic redeemer and liberator. Visitors to the exhibition get to accompany the plucky, provocative artist on his voyage, but where will it end?
KUNSTHALLE KREMS, KREMS, GERMANYFrom 14/07/2019 to 03/11/2019
The show is dedicated to artistic comments on the moon landing and to the moon as a symbol of human dreams, desires, and speculation. Featured in it are works from the time when the race to the moon started in the 1950s, direct reactions to the moon landing after 1969, and also very recent positions of younger artists.
KUNSTHALLE ST.ANNEN & OVERBECKGELLSCHFT, LÜBECK, GERMANYfrom 31/03/2019 to 04/08/2019
Jonathan Meese carries out in the city of Lübeck , under the title Dr. Zuhause: K.U.N.S.T (Erzliebe), the largest exhibition project of his career presenting a solo exhibition in each of the city’s art institutions, including an extensive retrospective of his work at the Kunsthalle St. Annen. A massive invasion of the city by art.
ST. PETRIKIRCHE/GÜNTER GRASS HAUSS, LÜBECK, GERMANYFrom 17/02/2019 to 04/08/2019
Jonathan Meese carries out in the city of Lübeck , under the title Dr. Zuhause: K.U.N.S.T (Erzliebe), the largest exhibition project of his career presenting a solo exhibition in each of the city’s art institutions, including an extensive retrospective of his work at the Kunsthalle St. Annen. A massive invasion of the city by art.
OSTENDE, BELGIUMFrom 21/10/17 to 15/04/18
« The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will bring together 73 international artists in Oostende chosen by curators Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos and will present 52 new creations of young and experienced artists.
The exhibition discusses the artist’s quest and the duality of the creation, based on isolation and engagement.
Artists from different generations and different paths were invited to question the link between « Le radeau de la méduse » (1818) of Théodore Géricault and Jan Fabre’s work « Le Radeau est (pas) solitaire (1986) ».
The curators have the intention to stimulate the city in order to make it (re)discovered. Besides the well-known museum, they looked for more unsual places like the Peperbusse restaurant, le
Palais de Justice, the Eurpacentrum building, the stables of the Wellington track race or the crypts of the Sint-Jozef church.
« The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will be an artistic journey disseminated in 22 places of the « City by the sea » .
HOLSTEBRO KUNSTMUSEUM, DenmarkFrom 16/09/2017 to 7/01/2018
Three international heavyweights in contemporary painting will join forces when Danish Tal R and his two German colleagues and friends, Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter, hold a joint exhibition at Holstebro Kunstmuseum, under the title ‘The Men Who Fell from Earth’. In recent decades, with an almost unrestrained energy, these three artists have made a name for themselves as significant innovators of the painting tradition. Their inspiration is often drawn from the borderline of what is generally acceptable, and the result is fabulous imagery that demonstrates great colouristic and expressive strength. Although there is sometimes a lot of humour present, the subjects addressed by Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter and Tal R are both serious and urgent. Photo © Hanna Putz
GAASBEEK CASTLEFrom 7/11/17 to 11/5/17
Knights appeal to everyone’s imagination. What does this iconic symbol stand for? Do the knightly codes and values still have meaning today? Curator Joanna De Vos investigated and now creates in Gaasbeek Castle an international group exhibition of modern artistry as a ‘legacy’ of knightly ideals. With works by Marina Abramović, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Horia Damian, Robert Devriendt, Davide Dormino, Jan Fabre, Laurent Grasso, Phil Griffin, Oda Jaune, Kubra Khademi, Meiro Koizumi, Pere Llobera, Barbara Kruger, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese, Fabien Mérelle, Benjamin Moravec, Eleni Mylonas, Luigi Ontani, Antonis Pittas, Quiet Ensemble, Gabriel Roca, Rob Scholte, Adeela Suleman, Hannelore Van Dijck, Hans Van Houwelingen, Marko Velk, Antonello Viola, voorforvaast fanclub and Andy Wauman