About the Artist Jonas Burgert

The monumental paintings of Jonas Burgert (b. 1969 in Berlin) unfold scenes in which the grotesque, the dreamlike and the existential converge. Luminous colours laid over a dusky grey are populated by archaic figures, symbols and signs. His sometimes vast tableaux cannot be taken in at a single glance; they demand close and repeated looking. Burgert studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin as a master student of Dieter Hacker and still works today in a sprawling studio in Berlin-Weißensee. Since his breakthrough in the mid-2000s he has counted among the most sought-after figurative painters of his generation internationally.