Jonas Maria Ried: Enjoy the Silence
23.11.2024 - 23.03.2025 ,
MEWO Kunsthalle (MEWO Art Gallery)
A man, it is the artist, swings around a tree on a rope. The rope is attached high up and wrapped tightly around the tree trunk; the artist hangs from it secured with straps and the rest is done by gravity and centrifugal forces. Jonas Maria Ried circles the tree at ever greater distances, the wood creaks and crunches under the unusual lateral load. After a few seconds, the spectacle is over and calm returns.
In Waldrandfichte (2019), Ried fells a tree, which he reattaches to the original stump with a movable construction and then lets it circle around itself. Quite simply and beyond imagination.
Jonas Maria Ried's (*1989 in Munich) interventions in nature and in the rural life of his surroundings are minimal - and yet they exude a great fascination and astonish the viewer. You don't want to stop looking at the meditative documentation of these actions.
Last edited on 24.03.2026
