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
Dim Observer, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
170 x 150 cm
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Sorry, Wrong Window, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
110 x 100 cm
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Who's a Good Boy, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
180 x 150 cm
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What Was That, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
180 x 150 cm
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Back in the City, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
246 x 110 cm
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Out of the Picture, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
246 x 110 cm
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Ins and Outs (Rabbit’s Kin), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Ins and Outs (Satan’s Waitin’), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Hollow While, 2025
Acrylic & Vinyl on Canvas
140 x 120 cm
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Ins and Outs (Unknown), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Ins and Outs (Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Ins and Outs (A Pest in the House), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Ins and Outs (Cheese Chasers), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Ins and Outs (Yankee Dood It), 2024
Acrylic on Paper
22 x 19 cm
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Sierra, 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
160.0 x 190.0 cm
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Catalina Sunset, 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
120.0 x 140.0 cm
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Mojave Dusk, 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
80 x 90 cm
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Untitled (Big Sur Midnight), 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
100.0 x 120.0 cm
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Untitled (Monterey), 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
100.0 x 120.0 cm
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Untitled, 2022
Gesso and Acrylic on canvas
60 x 70 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 11), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 13.5 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 21), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
12.0 x 13.0 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 19), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
13.0 x 11.0 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 6), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 13.5 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 22), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
14.0 x 15.0 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 17), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
11.0 x 12.0 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 5), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
12.5 x 13.0 cm
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Untitled (Moody Layout 13), 2024
Watercolour on Paper
13.0 x 15.0 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
21 x 15 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
29 x 19 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 21 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 23 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 26 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 26 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 30 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 35 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 36 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
31 x 22 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 25 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 51 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 39 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
32 x 22 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 23 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
35 x 28 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 25 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
38 x 27 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
41 x 30 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
44 x 42 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 40 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
37 x 25cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 20 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
34 x 24 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 26 cm
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Untitled, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 32 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
Jonah Gebka
Must Be the Weather
04 July - 06 September 2025
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)
2025 Must Be the Weather, Boutwell Schabrowsky, Munich
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 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München
2024 Neue Stille, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
2024 VIII. Ellwanger Kunstausstellung, Kunstverein Ellwangen
2024 Kunst Aktuell, Kunstverein Rosenheim
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:
2024 8. Horst-Janssen-Grafikpreis der Claus Hüppe-Stiftung, Hamburg (Nominierung)
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