1969, Born in Berlin, DE Lives and works in Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
1997 Student of the Master Class of Professor Dieter Hacker, Berlin, DE
1996 MFA, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, DE
AWARDS
2000 Scholarship (NaFög) UdK, Berlin, DE Scholarship, travel grant for Egypt, EG
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Schlag Luft, ARP Museum, Bahnhof am Rolandseck, Remagen, DE (forthcoming)
2019 Jonas Burgert, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, CN (forthcoming) Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE (forthcoming)
2018 Drawings, Blain|Southern, London, UK
2017 Bosch and Burgert, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT ZEITLAICH, Blain|Southern, Berlin, DE Schlier, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, IN Lotsucht, Museo D’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, IT
2016 Hälfte Schläfe, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE
2014 STÜCK HIRN BLIND, Blain|Southern, London, UK
2013 Sticht, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE Schutt und Futter, Hannover Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
2012 Gift gegen Zeit / Poison Against Time, Blain|Southern Berlin, DE
2011 Jonas Burgert: Lebendversuch, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, AT
2010 Jonas Burgert: Lebendversuch, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, DE Jonas Burgert, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2009 Jonas Burgert. Hitting every Head, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2008 Jonas Burgert: Enigmatic Narrative, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery at University of Denver, US Zweiter Tag Nichts, MCA Denver, Promenade Space, US Jonas Burgert, Arndt & Partner, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE Kopfschluss, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, AT
2006 Jonas Burgert, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Salon Hansa @ Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt, DE (forthcoming) Dämonkratie, EMMA – Kreativzentrum Pforzheim, DE Beyond The Road, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Kirchner | Richter | Burgert, me Collectors Room Berlin, Olbricht Foundation, DE Where is the Madness You Promised Me, Hudson Valley MOCA, US
2018 NGORONGORO II, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, DE Il Terzo Giorno, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, IT
2017 THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, JP No Commission, Kraftwerk Rummelsberg, Berlin, DE Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls: An Exhibition of Robert Runtak’s international Collection, Galerie výtvarného umení v Ostrave, Ostrava, CZ
2016 Day dreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK I Prefer Life, Weserburg Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE 12 Solos, Blain|Southern Berlin, DE
2015 The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor, 1955- 2015, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, US NGORONGORO – Artist Weekend, Studiobuildings, Lehderstrasse, Berlin-Weissensee, DE
2014 Dark Chambers. On Melancholia and Depression, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE Touch, Galerie Hartwich, Berlin, DE Out Of Our Heads, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK Kolibri, Ehemaliges Ballhaus Kolibri I Gartenstrasse/Hofgebäude I D Building, Berlin, DE
2013 Viewing Room, All Visual Arts, The Crypt, London, UK
2012 Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being, All Visual Arts, London, UK NO. TOWN beyond the wall – berlin artists in detroit, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University, Detroit, US ALLES WASSER, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, DE
2011 Viele Köpfe / Many Heads, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, DE Zwei Sammler, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE Memories of the Future - from the Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR Schach!!, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Ruhr, DE
2010 Lebenslust & Totentanz — Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, AT Night of the pawn, Spinnerei Leipzig, Leipzig, DE Daydreaming with James Lavelle, Haunch of Venison, London, UK Passion Fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin, DE
2008 Zweiter Tag Nichts, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Promenade Space, Denver, US Rubben - Booked for killing a policeman, Laden fuer Nichts, Leipzig, DE
2007 The Teardrop Explodes, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, AT Strange Brew, Max Lang Gallery, New York, US Weltempfänger, Galerie der Gegenwart/Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, DE The Aggression of Beauty, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, DE Rockers Island - Olbricht Collection, Folkwang Museum, Essen, DE Fullhouse – Malerei aus der Sammlung Falckenberg, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE Wonderwall, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2006 The Triumph of Painting Part VI, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2005 Rainbow – A Painting Show, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, LB FRAKTALE IV, Palast der Republik, Berlin, DE Geschichtenerzähler, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, DE Ratatouille, Galerie 20.21, Essen, DE
2004 1. Berliner, Kunstsalon, Arena Berlin, DE
2003 Das mystische Paradoxon in der Bildenden Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Erfurt, DE Dis-Positiv, Staatsbank Berlin, DE 2002 Rohkunstbau, Stipendiaten, Berlin, DE FRAKTALE III, Rohbau U Bahnhof Reichstag Berlin, DE IX Rohkunstbau, Wasserschloß Groß Leuthen, DE Hic et Nunc, Villa Manin, Passariano, IT
2001 FRAKTALE II, Pfefferberg Berlin, DE Nacht der Akademie, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, DE
2000 Fraktale Exzerpt, Sophienhöfe Berlin, DE Kunst am Bau, Lenze Forum, Hameln, DE FRAKTALE I, Parochialkirche Berlin, DE
1999 Junge Akademie Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, DE Founding of exhibition project FRAKTALE, Berlin, DE
1998 Junge Akademie Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, DE
OTHER PROJECTS
2019 Artists Select, curated by Jonas Burgert, Clyfford Still Museum, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, Colorado, US
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017
Jane Neal, Jan Kudrna and Mark Sanders, Exhibition Catalogue, Ostrava, Galerie výtvarného umění v Ostravě, Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls Roberto Grandi, Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa, Laura Carlini Fanfogna, and David Afnam, Exhibition Catalogue, Bologna, MAMbo, Jonas Burgert: Lotsucht Scandagliodipendenza
2015 Jess Fletcher and Christine Albrecht, Jonas Burgert, Blain|Southern and Walther König, London,UK
2014 Exhibition Catalogue, Ghent, Museum Dr. Guislain, Uitgeverij Hannibal, Dark Chambers. On Melancholia and Depression Marc Valli & Margherita Dessanay, A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London, UK
2013 Veit Görner and Dorothée Brill, Jonas Burgert: Schutt und Futter, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, DE
2012 Exhibition Catalogue, Sparkasse Essen, Jonas Burgert Tricksplitt, Dr. Dorothee Brill and Louisa Elderton, Exhibition Catalogue, London, Blain|Southern, Gift gegen Zeit
2010 Daniel J. Schreiber and Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Kunsthalle Krems, Kunsthalle Tűbingen, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Kőnig, Cologne, Jonas Burgert. Lebendversuch
2009 Claudia Stockhausen, London, Haunch of Venison, Jonas Burgert. Hitting Every Head
2008 Jonas Burgert – GIFT Von Karin Pernegger, Wolfgang Schoppman, two monsters agency, Dusseldorf, DE Dan Jacobs and Christoph Heinrich, Exhibition Catalogue, Denver, Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Jonas Burgert. Enigmatic Narrative
2007 Hartwig Fischer and Ute Eskildsen, Exhibition Catalogue, Essen, Folkwang Museum, Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection
2006 Margit Brehm and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Hamburg, Produzentengalerie, Jonas Burgert
2005 Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Tod, Palast der Republik Berlin, FRAKTALE IV Exhibition Catalogue, Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Geschichtenerzähler
2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Arena Berlin, 1.Berliner, Kunstsalon
2003 Exhibition Catalogue, Erfurt, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Das mystische Paradoxon in der Bildenden Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Exhibition Catalogue, Stockholm, Biennale of Painting
2002 Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Rohbau U Bahnhof Reichstag Berlin, FRAKTALE III Exhibition Catalogue, Wasserschloß Groß Leuthen, IX Rohkunstbau Exhibition Catalogue, Villa Manin Passariano, Hic et Nunc
1999 Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Academy of Fine Arts, Junge Akademie
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2017 L. Cavina, “Burgert, camla e tormento”, Corriere di Bologna, January 25 P. Naldi, “Negli abbissi di Burgert”, La Repubblica Bologna, January 25 C. Sughi, “Da Berlino il visionario Burgert invita a una traversata agli inferi, Il Resto del Carlino”, January 25
2014 “Beyond Belief. Jonas Burgert on Myths, Human Drama and His Massive Canvases”, ZOO Magazine, November “Stranger Than Fiction”, Vanity Fair On Art, November “Jonas Bugert | Sturm und Drang”, State.TV, October M. Gray, “Looking for meaning: a conversation with Jonas Burgert”, Apollo Magazine, October “Open Files”, Elephant Magazine, October J. De Paola, “Nature is content when we struggle. The Artist, Jonas Burgert, on Mortality, Phenomena and Applause”, Wall Street International, 13 October
2013 J.Kothe,”Jonas Burgert”, Freunde von Freunden, 31 December
2012 R. Ingeborg, “Ruhm ist nur ein Pfred ohne Reiter”, Berliner Zeitung, 7 July Anouk Meyer, “In Der Vorholle: Jonas Burgert in der Galerie Blain Southern”, Berlin-Kultur, 4 July A. Bogart, “Critics” Picks”, Art Forum E. Lindnr, “Albtraum auf Leinand”,Welt Kompakt, 20 April
2011 “Jonas Burgert”, Oh! Parasite, 26 November
2008 Welt Online Damonen halten Jonas Burgerts Kopf besetzt, 30 October ZeitmagazinLEBEN vom– Tote Harlekine, 6th March
2006 P.Kaiser, “Jonas Burgurt”, Kraftmaler – Sonntagsblick, blick.ch, 2 June Joachim Kronsbein, “Ölofen und Steuerberater”, spiegel.de, 4 December
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, CN Denver Art Museum, Denver, US Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US Rubell Family Art Collection, Miami, US Sammlung Olbricht, Berlin, DE Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, DE Sammlung Sander, Berlin, DE Taguchi Art Collection, JP