Jonathan Meese

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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

Solo Show ERZ-INKUBATOREX DE LARGE: JOHNNY, DAS KUNSTKIND “EVOLUTIONÄRRZ”!

7 June, 2024 - 29 September, 2024

Tichy Ocean Foundation

Lessingstrasse 9, 8002 Zurich

Erzraum

The two exhibitions ‘Erz-Inkubatorex de Large: Johnny, das Kunstkind “Evolutionärrz”’ and ‘Dracula's Liebe Mutterz: Böse Leiche!?!’ at the Tichy Ocean Foundation and Wasserkirche Zurich continue an extremely successful collaboration between the two institutions, which began with presentations by Stefan Vogel and Mandy El-Sayegh. At the same time, the project is only Meese's second solo exhibition in Switzerland after twenty-five years at the Kunst Halle St. Gallen.

Jonathan Meese explicitly takes into account the spatial conditions of the foundation and church as well as their current and past history. In addition to paintings and drawings, numerous sculptural structures such as doll-like creatures and action videos of the artist with his mother are shown in the consequently space-related installations. In addition to the local reference, Meese is of course also interested in developing the content-related component, the examination of the inherent theme of ‘death in life’ and vice versa. Jonathan Meese on the exhibition at the Tichy Ocean Foundation: Here ‘THE DEATH GRAVE OF THE “UNKNOWN ART SOLDIER” JOHNNY, THE ART CHILD, ALSO JONATHAN HARKERZ, IS PRESENTED.....JOHNNY HARKERZMEESE IS LASTLY JOHN SINCLAIR, ALSO THE GHOST HUNTER.... .OR LARRY BRENT, MACABROS, OR ARSAT, THE DEMON HUNTERZ.....THE GRAVE IS ALSO JUST A ‘SLEEPING INCUBATOR’ FROM WHICH THE ‘K.U.N.S.T.’, LIKE DRACULA, AWAKENS WHEN IT IS THEN USED AS AN ORE RESCUE, LIKE IN SUPERMAN....’

Photo: Massimo Bello / Text: Oliver Zybok

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Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf
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Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
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Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp/Rome
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David Nolan Gallery, New York
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Galerie Templon, Paris
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Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens/Brussels
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