Jonathan Meese Biography

Often known for his controversial and ambiguous political statements issued through paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances, Meese’s practice is routed in the German traditions of Dada and Fluxus, drawing inspirations from artists like Joseph Beuys. His provocateur disposition and the proclamation of ‘Dictatorship of Art’, often walk the fine line between provocation and blasphemy, catharsis and exorcism, or personal idolization and political criticism.

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Meese’s paintings, drawings, and installations, indebted to the German Neo-expressionism of the 1980s, are stylistically garish. His seemingly careless technique feigns then naivete of an enfant terrible. On his canvas, Meese applies tubes of acrylics, crayons, graphite, ink, and watercolour with complete rejection to preconceived notions of painting. His images are often collaged with found objects, original photographs of political figures (or of himself), and written as graffiti of political manifestos (or his own) in untranslatable German and English neologisms.

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WHEN I WAS NOT YOUNG, TOO, BREIPILOT MEESEPP'! by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting
Jonathan Meese "WHEN I WAS NOT YOUNG, TOO, BREIPILOT MEESEPP'!", 2024 Acrylic on canvas
120.5 x 100.3 x 3.3 cm
Galerie Krinzinger Request Price & Availability
SOMMER by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting
Jonathan Meese SOMMER, 2013 Oil and acrylic on nettle
210 x 140 x 3.3 cm
Sies + Höke Request Price & Availability
DE KOTKEINI (BIST DU DE GREATA) by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting
Jonathan Meese DE KOTKEINI (BIST DU DE GREATA), 2015–2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas
120.5 x 100.3 cm
Sies + Höke Request Price & Availability
FRAGRANCE ERZLAND! (ZEIGEFREUDIG) by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting
Jonathan Meese FRAGRANCE "ERZLAND"! (ZEIGEFREUDIG)", 2023 Oil and acrylic on coarse untreated cotton cloth
240 x 360 x 4 cm
Templon Request Price & Availability
SEA SCAPE I (EIS) by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting
Jonathan Meese SEA SCAPE I (EIS), 2014 Oil and acrylic on canvas
40.4 x 30.2 x 3.1 cm
Patricia Low Contemporary Request Price & Availability
WO BLEIBST DU, KUNST!? by Jonathan Meese contemporary artwork painting, works on paper
Jonathan Meese WO BLEIBST DU, KUNST!?, 2022 Acrylic, acrylic putty and Caparol dispersion binder on canvas
50.3 x 40 x 3 cm
Knust Kunz Gallery Editions Request Price & Availability
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