Exhibition

Joan Jonas

29 Apr 2022 – 28 May 2022

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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Heidi

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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For the 2022 edition of Berlin Gallery Weekend, Heidi will present a solo show by the American artist Joan Jonas.

About

Joan Jonas was born in 1936 in New York. Regarded as a pioneer and a key figure in the evolution of video and performance art, Jonas’ radical practice spans from installations to video, sculpture, and drawing. Both poetic and political, Jonas’ work conveys her lifelong interest in movement, music, female identity, the environment, as well as natural and urban landscapes.

At Heidi, Joan Jonas will show Draw on the wind (2018), a series of kites that will float in the gallery space. Following a formative trip to Hanoi in 2018, the kites, made of bamboo, were hand-produced in Vietnam. Jonas then painted them and collaged vividly colored paper cutouts to the different parts of the artwork. Draw on the wind can be regarded as a synthesis of numerous reoccurring themes the artist has been investigating over the years: her attraction for myths, local folklore, movements of the natural and animal world.

A series of significant drawings will also be included in the exhibition. Jonas’ drawing method has been a core element of her practice, connecting the different aspects of her work. In the artist’s own words: “from the very beginning I have invented ways of making drawings in relation to performance, video, the monitor, the camera, and the space”.

Jonas is also interested in the different ways she uses her body in relation to drawing: the fingers, the arm, the whole person. “Movement itself is part of the process of making the drawing” according to the artist.

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