Birth | Born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan |
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Residency | Lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany |
Education | 1995–1998 Art Academy, Hamburg, Germany |
2023 | DOCTOR-DOC-DR-“HIGH NOON” IS BACK! (WONDERLAND DE LARGE), Templon, Paris, France |
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2020 | Dr. 50/Fifty Meese (Pump Away Reality), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
2019 | Nanny Guinevere (Dr. Excalibur is back), Bernier/Eliades, Athènes, Grèce Meese Haute Couture (La Haute Couture de l'Avenir s'appelle Sommeil), Galerie Templon, Paris, France Dr. Zuhause : K.U.N.S.T. (Erzliebe)“, Günther Grass Haus, St. Petri zu Lübeck, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Overbeckstiftung, Lübeck, Allemagne |
2018 | Meese’s Odyssey, Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany Die Irrfahrten des Jonathan Meese, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Jonathan Meese, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway Die Nackteste Freiheit der Kunst, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany Dr. Space-Kingkong de Large (Love-Animalism), Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway Der Walhalla-Traum (Mein Sonnenparsifalkompass), SommerFrischeKunst, Bad Gastein, Switzerland |
2017 | Erzgrüner Totalsthügel De Large (Evolutionsparsifal's Mondraum)“, Haus Der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany Jonathan Meese, Parsifals Traum: Chefsache K.U.N.S.T., An Intervention At The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
Jonathan Meese, De Pakt Mit Richard Wagnerz (Gestattns': Die HüGeljanerz Hebens' Ab...), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria | |
Jonathan Meese : « E.T » Vs « Dr. Ideology » (Johnny Fuzzy M. Sinclair), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
2024 | Bruit Rose, curaté par C.N. Jelodanti (Clara Djian & Nicolas Leto), Topographie de l’Art, Paris, France Nibelungen : I M A G I N E S W O R L D S, Kurst Meran, Italy Collection Jean Chatelus, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Eccentric, the Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 7 Todsüden, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria |
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2023 | Hard/Soft. Textiles and ceramics in contemporary art, MAK, Vienna, Austria Freedom to Freedom, Kunsthalle TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland Conversations, museum Mayer van den Berg, Antwerp, Belgium Zustandsbericht, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Homo Ludens, Woods Art Institute, Hamburg, Germany |
2022 | Sonho Europeu II: Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea, Castelo Branco, Portugal Time for Change : Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA "DORF 5", Im Gerinne, Wullenstetten, Germany "Zusammenschau", Kunststation Kleinsassen, Hofbieber-Kleinsassen, Germany HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Let me in Ruh’), Kunstverein Aurich e.V / Kunstpavillon am Ellernfeld, Aurich, Germany Follow George Grosz, Stadtmuseum, Jena, Germany Next World, Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan Mix & Match. Rediscovering the Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany "Die Nacktheit der Zeichnung, Arbeiten in schwarz und weiß von Beckmann bis Warhol", Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst zusammen mit den Städtischen Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany |
2021 | ARTZUID Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam Zuid, The Netherlands 25 Jahre fiftyfifty, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany Perspektivwechsel, Kunsthalle St Annen, Lübeck and Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany Schwarz auf Schwarz, PR17, Berlin, Germany Festival of Cooperation – The Elephant in the Dark, Literatur Haus, Berlin, Germany Dr. M Meets, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark God Save the Records !/ Windows Project/ Acte II, Immanence, Paris, France |
2020 | "In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Szene Berlin, Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany "The Essl Collection", Albertina, Vienna, Austria "PRELUDE: Melancholy of the Future", Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium "Die Kunst zu helfen", NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany "Schlingensief 2020", Supermarkt der Ideen, Oberhausen, Germany "Das Theater der Kinos" Alexander Kluge und Gäste, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany |
2019 | Der Über-Roboter Mensch Nietzsche, Nietzsche Haus, Sils-Maria, Switzerland Ticket to the moon, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria Jonathan Meese, Albert Oehlen, Daniel Richter : Fishes On Fire, Birds On The Wire, Three Friends To Hire, Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany Jonathan Meese, Adrian Ghenie, Rinus Van de Velde, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium Nico - Wie kann die Luft so schwer sein an einem Tag an dem der Himmel so blau ist, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany Jonathan Meese, Tal R, Daniel Richter : The Man Who Fell from Earth, EMMA, Espoo, Finland Works on Paper“, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard. Copenhagen, Denmark The Last Waltz (for Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium |
2018 | 5 X Berlin. Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China Always trust the artist, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium |
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 - Doctor-Doc-Dr."High Noon' is back ! (Wonderland de large)
Laurent Boudier
Im namen der Freiheit : Alexander Kluge und Jonathan Meese im großen Interview
Jonathan Meese Haute Couture, Templon Paris
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
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
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM & WIENER FESTWOCHE, VIENNA, AUSTRIAFrom 5/12/2017 to 7/18/2017
»MONDPARSIFAL ALPHA 1-8 (ERZMUTTERZ DER ABWEHRZ)« is the title that Jonathan Meese gave to his outer-space production of an opera by Bernhard Lang, which will premiere at the 2017 Wiener Festwochen festival. As the title suggests, this is a reinterpretation of the subject matter of Richard Wagner’s last opera »Parsifal« (1882). In the Picture Gallery, he now lands a new group of works, flying in like a spaceship. Four places south of the Alps that were home to schools of painters become associative theatrical venues, in which Meese, like in »MONDPARSIFAL,« explores the significance of art for the future, interrogating the Old Masters. At the same time, he responds to them with his own pictures and a Janusface, »CHEF DER KUNST« (the boss of art).
CARRE SAINTE-ANNE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCEFrom 2/15/2017 to 4/30/2017
From February 15 to April 30, 2017, the Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier presents “Dr. Merlin de Large, Marquis Zed de Baby-excalibur”, an exhibition by the Berlin artist Jonathan Meese. Blending references to history, legends and science fiction, for the last fifteen years, Jonathan Meese has been juxtaposing different personalities from various modes of expression such as film, opera, video or live performances. The expressionist forms and colours of his paintings are characterised by bold brush strokes and spontaneous scripts on a black background, completed with objects that are glued on. The artist develops his installations out of various items that he has collected. The exhibition refers to the mythical legends of Arthur, as well as to the works of Stanley Kubrik, John Boorman and the Marquis de Sade. It consists of a series of paintings on canvas and ephemeral works created directly on the mouldings of the former church.