Uwe Jonas

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Uwe Jonas (born June 19, 1966 in Hanover ) is a German sculptor and painter . From 1991 to 1997 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student of Jürgen Reipka . He lives in Munich .

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Jonas works with broken and cut segments of marble, which he combines with metal grids to form geometric wall reliefs or, in larger format, with steel scaffolding to create abstract sculptures and installations . Smaller works are composed of cube-shaped stones, the middle ones from splinter-like segments, space-filling sculptures from panels, the edges of which the artist either cuts straight or irregularly carved. He also creates floor sculptures, in which he lays marble stones into geometric shapes such as circles, rings and stars or piles them up to form stereometric structures (Mural, 1999; Konus, 1999). The artist's works follow the lines of Concrete Art and the white objects of the Zero group. However, they expand their concepts and traditions to include the natural radiance of the material and its surface effect and the precise sculptural work that nevertheless takes the structures of the stone into account. Thematically, Jonas deals with the relationship between the carefully designed individual part and the mathematically strict overall form of his sculptures and installations. In wall paintings he confronts irregular color surfaces and geometric shapes.

Guest stays and grants

Guest lectures

  • 2005 Chugye University, Seoul ; Hong-Ik University, Seoul
  • 2008 National University, Andong / Korea

Artist in Residence

  • 2006 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst / USA
  • 2008 Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom / Thailand
  • 2011 Illinois State University, Normal / USA

Scholarships

  • 2001 studio funding program of the state capital Munich
  • 2004 Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation , Munich
  • 2004 Bavarian studio funding program for visual artists
  • 2009 Golart Foundation, Munich
  • 2012 Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, Munich

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Augenlicht, Apartment der Kunst, Munich

Group exhibitions

Portal, DAS Insurance, Munich
  • 1998, 2002 annual exhibition, Kunstverein Rosenheim
  • 1999 Large art exhibition, Munich
  • 1999 Witten Abbey, Innsbruck
  • 2002 New Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop (K)
  • 2004 Artists' Association, Dachau Castle (K) /
  • 2005, 2006 Art Association Aichach
  • 2006 Deggendorf City Museum
  • 2007 Art Association Plauen
  • 2009, 2010 Comparaisons, Grand Palais, (Grand Palais, Engl.), Paris
  • 2009 Kunstverein Ebersberg
  • 2010 Viaduc des Arts, Galerie 89, Paris
  • 2010 Konsthallen Fållnäs Gård, Sorunda / Sweden

Works in public collections

  • DAS Insurance, Munich
  • E.on Energie, Munich
  • Ehingen / Danube, town hall
  • Fürstenfeldbruck, Sparkasse
  • Munich, Bavarian State Painting Collections
  • Schwandorf, municipal art collections

literature

  • Susanne Breit-Keßler: Exhibition catalog “La petite église” catalog, Himmelfahrtskirche Munich Sendling, Munich 1999
  • Andrew John Martin: Form-Color-Movement-Space. Uwe Jonas in dialogue with Hans Olofsson, in: Exhibition catalog Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck 2000
  • Hanne Weskott: The living reality of the abstract, in: Exhibition catalog Uwe Jonas, Verlag Walter Storms, Munich 2001
  • Gerlinde Creutzburg: Nebelleben, in: Exhibition catalog Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Edition Hohes Ufer, Ahrenshoop 2002
  • Ingeborg Wiegand-Uhl: The visual and the imagination, in: Edition "Art in the publishing house", Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 2004
  • Cornelia Kleÿboldt, in: IN-TEAM, catalog for the Dachau Castle Exhibition 2004, ed. v. KVD eV, Dachau 2004
  • Cornelia Kleÿboldt: Exhibition catalog “Building”, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 2005
  • Preview, in: Wŏlgan-misul. The Art Magazine, Vol. 17, Issue 10 (Oct.), Seoul 2005
  • Sight and Issue, in: Wŏlgan-misul. The Art Magazine, Vol. 17, Issue 11 (Nov.), Seoul 2005
  • Patricia Drück: Exhibition catalog “Himmelsgegend”, E.ON Energie Kommunikation, Munich 2006
  • Axel Feuß: Uwe Jonas, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL), Verlag Walter de Gruyter, online edition 2012

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