Jonas Staal
Jonas Staal (Netherland/1981) lives and works between Rotterdam and Athens.
Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy, and propaganda. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing). Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing), and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook (2020-ongoing). With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021-ongoing) and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union.
Exhibition-projects include Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2018-ongoing), We Demand a Million More Years (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022) and Extinction Wars (with Radha D‘Souza, Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023). His projects have been exhibited widely at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, M_HKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale.
Publications include Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2018), Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Training for the Future Handbook (With co-editor Florian Malzacher, Sternberg Press, 2021). Staal completed his PhD research on propaganda art at the PhDArts program of Leiden University, the Netherlands.
New World Embassy: Kurdistan, 2023
Temporary embassy
Propaganda Theater, Video Study, 2023
17‘48‘‘
Redistribute Extinction #1, 2023
gouache on matt hahnemüle paper
50 × 75 cm
Redistribute Extinction #2, 2023
gouache on matt hahnemüle paper
50 × 75 cm
Redistribute Extinction #3, 2023
gouache on matt hahnemüle paper
50 × 75 cm
Redistribute Extinction #4, 2023
gouache on matt hahnemüle paper
50 × 75 cm
Redistribute Extinction #5, 2023
gouache on matt hahnemüle paper
50 × 75 cm
94 Million Years of Collectivism, 2022
video, 13‘14‘‘
13:14
94 Million Years of Collectivism Eleanor Marx (1855-1898) with Charnia, 2022
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
94 Million Years of Collectivism, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) with Charnia, and Ernietta, 2022
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
94 Million Years of Collectivism, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) with Charnia and Spriggina, 2022
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
94 Million Years of Collectivism, Thomas Sankara(1949-1987) with rock, Tribrachidium and Charnia, 2022
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
94 Million Years of Collectivism, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) with Charnia, Ernietta, and Swartpuntia, 2022
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
Comrades Against Extinction, 2022
project created with Radha D’Souza, performance
Comrades in Extinction, Spiny Dogfish (Skolt Sámi), 2022
Gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
WE DEMAND A MILLION MORE YEARS, 2022
Sculptures, two text piece, one video 4:23 min
WE DEMAND A MILLION MORE YEARS (sculpture), 2022
Ammonite fossils of approximately 100 million years old, metal rods, hardened oil, defunct car tires
WE DEMAND A MILLION MORE YEARS (small sculpture), 2022
Ammonite fossils of approximately 100 million years old, metal rods, hardened oil, 2 defunct car tires
Comrades in Extinction, North Island Piopio (Tlingit), 2021
Gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
Comrades in Extinction, Steller‘s Sea Cow (French), 2021
Gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
Comrades in Extinction, Tonga Ground Skink (Portuguese), 2021
Gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
Comrades in Deep Future, Studies, 2019
ink on paper
20,5 × 14,5 cm
Interplanetary Species Society, 2019
Archival print on Canson Infinity Fine art on Platine Fibre RAG Diasec 2 mm anti-reflex/Dibond 3 mm/prof
100 × 150 cm
Interplanetary Species Society, Studies, 2019
Gouache and ink
18 × 26 cm
Interplanetary Species Society, Studies, 2019
Gouache and ink
27 × 35 cm
Interplanetary Species Society, Studies, 2019
Gouache and ink
27 × 35 cm
Interplanetary Species Society, Studies, 2019
gouache on paper
21 × 29,7 cm
Neo-Constructivist Ammonites: Demand the Present, 2019
Wood, stone, iron
49 × 49 × 40 cm
Neo-Constructivist Ammonites: Redistribute The Future, 2019
Wood, stone, iron
49 × 49 × 40 cm
Anatomy of a Revolution: Rojava, 2015
Archival print on Canson Infinity, Fine art on Platine Fibre RAG Diasec 2 mm anti-reflex/Dibond 3 mm/prof
50 × 75 cm
New World Summit - Rojava, 2015-16
Blueback wallpaper
300 × 200 cm
New World Summit – Rojava (architectural model), 2015
Maquette, Styreen, MDF, perspex
998 × 998 × 290 cm
Untitled, 2015
Ink on paper
21 × 13 cm
Anatomy of a Revolution: Azawad, 2014
Series of 12 Archival prints on Canson Infinity, Fine art on Platine Fibre RAG Diasec 2 mm anti-reflex/Dibond 3 mm/prof
50 × 75 cm
Beyond Allegories, 2014
city hall Amsterdam manifestation between artists, politicians and activists
New World Summit - Brussels (architectural model), 2014
Maquette, plexiglass, wooden structure
135 × 90 × 133 cm
Nosso Lar, Brasília, 2014
Styreen, MDF, perspex
1000 × 1000 × 150 cm
Nosso Lar, Brasilia (map), 2014
Dibond, wooden frame
1500 × 1500 cm
Art, Property of Politics: V MONUMENT TO CAPITAL , 2013
sculpture
Freethinkers’ Space Continued, 2013
exhibition and maquette
Ideological Guide to the Venice Biennial, 2013
free phone application
Monument to Capital , 2013
Part I: Video 06‘48‘‘; Part II: Lightbox
New World Summit - Berlin (architectural model), 2012
Maquette, plexiglass, wooden structure
90,5 × 91 × 19 cm
New World Summit - Leiden (architectural model), 2012
Maquette, plexiglass, wooden structure
700 × 700 × 1170 cm
Closed Architecture (4 animations), 2011
video animations
6‘09‘‘
Closed Architecture (architectural model), 2011
Architectural model
200 × 200 cm
Closed Architecture (drawings), 2011
Copy of a drawing by Fleur Agema showing the first phase of the prison model, redrawn by artist Jonas Staal various dimensions
Closed Architecture (Map), 2011
map
130 × 110 cm
Closed Architecture (Wallprint), 2011
Wallprint, various dimensions
Closed Architecture / The Bunker–The Habituation–The Wait–The Light, 2011
HD video, colour and sound
15‘32‘‘
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 2011
police training for art students and artists
Be Free! Or else…, 2010
public intervention
Publications, 2009-2015
books series
The Geert Wilders Works, 2005-2008
installation
After Europe
Ink on paper
21 × 14,5 cm
