Jonah Gebka

Jonah Gebka is a painter based in Munich, Germany. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. Drawing on everyday observations as well as found imagery, Gebka’s paintings are concerned with the sense of isolation and performativity that permeates intimate spaces and routines of Western societies. 

He has received support from various German institutions at both local and national levels, including a travel grant to the US by the State of Bavaria. Gebka‘s works are part of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany and have been exhibited at various institutions and galleries in Germany and abroad, including Strobe, New York; the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Display Gallery, London; Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig; Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg; and Kunstverein München.

ARTWORKS

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
160.0 x 190.0 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
120.0 x 140.0 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
80 x 90 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
100.0 x 120.0 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
70 x 80 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
100.0 x 120.0 cm

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Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
60 x 70 cm

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Vinyl and Acrylic on canvas
170.0 x 190.0 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
11.0 x 14.0 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 13.5 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
15.0 x 13.0 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
12.0 x 13.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
13.0 x 11.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 13.5 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
15.0 x 12.5 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 15.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
11.0 x 12.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
12.5 x 13.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
12.5 x 11.0 cm

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Untitled (Moody Layouts), 2024

Watercolour on Paper
13.0 x 15.0 cm

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Watercolour on Paper
16.5 x 14.5 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
21 x 15 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
29 x 19 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 21 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 23 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 26 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 26 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 30 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
44 x 37 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 35 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 36 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
29 x 20 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
31 x 22 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 19 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
35 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 25 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 51 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
44 x 32 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 39 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 38 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 18cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
29 x 24 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
32 x 22 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 23 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
35 x 28 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 25 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
41 x 30 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
44 x 42 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 40 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
26 x 18 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 25cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 20 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
32 x 23 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 24 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 26 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 27 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 29 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
43 x 33 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 33 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 32 cm

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Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 16 cm

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EXHIBITIONS

Jonah Gebka

Blue Light

20th October - 26th November 2022

2021 in Retrospect

Group Show

02 December 2021 - 08 January 2022

Jonah Gebka

Take your time

6th May - 12th June 2021

Paper Matters

Group Show

21. July - 1. August 2020

Group Show

Melanie Siegel and Jonah Gebka

28th November 2019 - 18th January 2020

BIOGRAPHY

Photo by Julia Milberger

Born 1989, Germany


Education

2018 – 2021 Visitor support and work on the archive, Kunstverein München, Munich

2018 Diploma as master student, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Karin Kneffel)

2016 Project class, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Justin Lieberman)

2013 – 2014 Painting studies, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, FI (James Prevett)

2010 – 2018 Painting studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Karin Kneffel)

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2023 Moody Layouts, Strobe, New York, US

2023 Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, with Marco Okamoto, Munich

2022 Blue Light, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, Munich

2022 Looking Glass, Museum der Universität Tübingen

2021 Take Your Time, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, Munich

2020 Debutant*innen: Image Runner, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

2019 Jonah Gebka, with Melanie Siegel, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2024 Hostipets, Tiffany Street, Providence, US

2024 Time And Space, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, US

2024 Sand31, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, München

2023 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich

2022 First Call, Last Call, Lohaus Sominski, Munich

2022 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich

2022 Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg

2022 re:working Archives, Plattform, Munich

2021 In Retrospect, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, Munich

2021 In a Landscape, DAS fest, Gent, BE

2021 Cling Together, Swing Together, Galerie Noah, Augsburg

2020 5 years, GiG, Munich

2020 Paper Matters, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich

2020 Peeps and Paws, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig

2019 Tacker, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

2019 Close Encounters, Galerie Cyprien Brenner, Schwäbisch-Hall

2017 Boxenstop I, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Collections/Commissions

Sammlung zeitg. Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

Artothek und Bildersaal, München

Sammlung der Fürst Fugger Privatbank, Augsburg

Grants/Residencies:

2023 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, US

2023 Residency, Peninsula School of the Art, Fish Creek, US

2023 Residency, Wiede Fabrik, Johanneskirchen

2022 US travel grant, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Munich

2022 Project grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn

2021 Studio funding, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Munich

2020 Project grant, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung, Munich

2020 Studio funding, Municipality of Munich

2019 Debütant*innen grant, Artist Association (BBK), Munich

Publications (Selected):

Browser, 2022

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Blue Light, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, Munich

Looking Glass, 2022

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Glass, Museum der Universität Tübingen

Image Runner, 2020

Published by Hammann von Mier Verlag, Munich

How To, 2019

Self-published zine