When two political figures touch, their contact becomes the stage of multiple interactions: the symbolic meeting of two parties or states; the encounter of two minds; the communion of two bodies. They intertwine in what Merleau-Ponty calls a chiasm, which is specific to touch: you can see without being seen, you can hear without being heard, but to touch is always to be touched in return. Jonas Englert searches for these focal points, moments which can be read from a variety of perspectives, from pure sensory perception to complex socio-historical narratives. In Simultaneities, he presents a decade of artistic research into human gestures, reflecting on the place of our bodies in politics, history, and aesthetics.
Jonas Englert is a Frankfurt-based artist. His work reflects social-philosophical phenomena and both political as well as historical narratives and materials through the formats of video, diagram, text, and sound. Englert received his Art Diploma from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/M. in 2018. Key exhibitions of his work include: Looking for Humanity, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg (2023); Palimpseste, Heussenstamm-Stiftung, Frankfurt/M. (2022); Things I Think I Want, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M. (2017); Performing Portraiture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015); Atlas 2013, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2013); and more. His works are part of the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Simultaneities is his first solo exhibition in Belgium.
With the kind support of Galerie Anita Beckers.
SIMULTANEITIES
18 January - 22 March 2025
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rue Isidoor Teirlinckstraat 65, 1080 Brussels, Belgium, Isidoor Teirlinckstraat 65, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, België,Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Sint-jans-molenbeek, Belgium
