The eclectic practice of artist/graphic-designer Jonas Meier oscillates between sentimental self-representation and gruelling relationship with the world. He considers the mountains’ caresses as an interaction between two misunderstood sentient beings, whose vertiginous spectacle is an exhilarating experience of emptiness. His works often pay tribute to contemporary adventurers, anthropologists and documentarists who travel the world in search of images, physical and sensory experiences. He likes to conquer the useless, a Sisyphean approach in constant exploration of the internal vision of the pupils. Solitude as a search engine, the loss of position as a breach of reality. His work always maintains one foot in this reality, with the other walking towards its deformation. He uses the practice of looking for something to happen, challenging his body against unfamiliar environments, playing with the documentary practice, as a spectator of the slow evolution of the universe.
After studying visual communication at l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL), he moved to London where he collaborated with the multidisciplinary studio Åbäke for two years. This pivotal experience created a shift from his graphic design practice towards an increasingly artistic approach now present in his visual communication work. One practice feeding the other.
In 2016, he co-founded the art collective En Silence with his closest friends (Julien, Adèle, Salomé, Antoine, Capucine, Justin and Christophe) and opened the artist-run-space Brasserie Atlas in an abandoned brewery in Brussels. The collective was soon joined by other artists and collectives whose works and energies strongly contributed to build the activities of Brasserie Atlas. A space that aims to stand against the current of classical cultural institutions and revive a true romantic vision of the world.
The brewery, a listed heritage site of Brussels’ industrial era, hosts an uncompromising Programm of concerts, exhibitions, projections and artists in residency constantly striving to materialise dizzying actions and poetic gestures.
Between 2020 and 2023, Jonas Meier lived in Palermo, Sicily, exploring the facinating rural life of the italian island. He then moved to the Lot in the south of France and is looking for something to happen.
Exhibitions / Residencies
12.2019
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Residency at Alkinois art space
Athens, Greece
12.2018
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Before the moon falls
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
09.2019
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La poursuite des choses évidentes
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
05.2018
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Presentation of Pour Clara,
on the occasion of Offprint
Tate Modern, Londres, UK
09.2017
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J’ouvris ces yeux, je revis les étoiles sur ma tête,
mais je devenais fou de soleil et j’avais envie de rire...
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
08.2017
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Projection of On the Dead Pigs Road
on the occasion of LUFF in Brussels
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
06.2017
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The Greatest Piece of Advice I Can’t Give
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
11.2017
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Sobre o que voce esta sonhando cuando seu marido esta pescando a noite?
Galeria do sol, Porto, Portugal
06.2017
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Un discours, un discours!
Exhibition with La Cambre
Galerie de l’ERG, Brussels, Belgium
04 – 05.2017
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Residency Centre d’art de la Villa Arson
Nice, France
04.2017
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Et moi je ne dors plus
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
12.2016
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The true artist is an amazing and luminous fountain
Exhibition with La Cambre
ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
12.2016
Jusqu’à en oublier mon nom
Exhibition with En Silence collective
Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, Belgium
06.2016
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Out of Office
Exhibition with La Cambre
Gallerie Louise 186, Brussels, Belgium
07.2015
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Residency with Åbäke at Barbican Gallery, London, UK
on the occasion of the exhibition Station to Station by Doug Aitken