Jonas Englert Germany, b. 1989

Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the works of Tammam Azzam and Jonas Englert in the duo exhibition “Fragments”. Both artists dwell on the rebuild or the re-contextualisation of political moments through history.
The exhibition challenges the way political decisions are made and the outcome of them. How these settlements, arrangements, threats, treaties and agreements take place and how they are definitive in the change of history, how they impact not only the current population but generations to come, and to question the authenticity of the diplomatic gestures that lead to defining moments in our times.
Through both artists exhibited we can sense how society deals with political agreements, disagreements and decisions being done. In Englert’s work we see this through fragments of video compositions showcasing the diplomacy of political gestures whereas in Azzam’s work we see this through large-scale paper collages that depict the broken end result of a conflict or dispute.