Portrait Jonas Staal. Foto: (c) Ruben Hamelink Jonas Staal
Jonas Staal (1981) is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the winner of the Prix de Rome Visual Arts Award (2023).
Staal completed his PhD research on propaganda art at the PhDArts program of Leiden University, the Netherlands. 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, and commissioned by Framer Framed, he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC).
Exhibition-projects include Art of the Stateless State (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, 2015), The Scottish-European Parliament (CCA, Glasgow, 2018), Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2018-ongoing) and We Demand a Million More Years (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022). His projects have been exhibited widely at venues such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, M_HKA in Antwerp, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, Framer Framed in Amsterdam as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.
Publications include Nosso Lar, Brasília (Jap Sam Books, 2014), Stateless Democracy (with co-editors Dilar Dirik and Renée In der Maur, BAK, 2015), 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) and The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes co-edited with Radha D’Souza (Framer Framed, 2024).
- Korean Times - Bringing climate crimes to court
- AI Murmurings - Imaginaries of the Deep Present
- Texte zur Kunst - Tobias Dias on Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
- Radio1 Kunststof - Interview with Jonas Staal
- 'Propaganda Art in the 21st Century' (2019) by Jonas Staal, out with MIT Press
- Groene Amsterdammer - 'De kunst van hedendaagse propaganda: Eis het onmogelijke' door Jonas Staal
- Personal website of Jonas Staal
Links
Exhibitions
Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial
An exhibition of the CICC in London focused on the colonial and industrial crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company.
Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars
An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.
Exhibition: CICC Seoul - The Law on Trial
A new iteration of the project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at the Oil Tank Culture Park in Seoul, South Korea.
Exhibition: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
A project by Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
Agenda
Book launch: CICC — War Crimes are Climate Crimes
Call to action and book launch for the new publication Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Symposium: (un)Common Grounds - Reflecting on documenta fifteen
A two-day hybrid symposium co-organised by Framer Framed, Akademie van Kunsten & Van Abbemuseum
Verdict Presentation: CICC vs. The Dutch State
Presentation of the verdict in the CICC vs. the Dutch State case
Public Hearings: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Comrades past, present and future vs. the Dutch State, Unilever, ING and Airbus
Opening: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
By Josien Pieterse, Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, commissioned by Framer Framed
Launch: Errant Journal #2, Slow Violence
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 1: Climate Transformations
Online panel on the climate crisis with Carola Rackete, Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal, moderator Jeff Diamanti
New World Academy: Book launch graphic novel 'Louie Jalandoni, Revolutionary'
Book launch on the Philippine revolutionair Louie Jalandoni.
The Guided View
On museum presentations, the construction of a national identity and the Dutch historical canon.
Magazine
Art and Activism / CICC / Palestine /
Politics and technology / Eastern Europe / New media /
Terror Element travels to POST – Nijmegen
CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Colonial history / Art and Activism /
Putting the Law on Trial: On the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, Serpentine Galleries
Bookshop Selection / CICC / Subversive Publishing /
From Archiving to Publishing: Framer Framed's 'New Social'
CICC / Bookshop Selection / Ecology / Subversive Publishing /
Bookshop Selection: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
CICC / Ecology / Southeast Asia /
CICC: Extinction Wars selected by Monthly Art for exhibition award
CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / East Asia /
Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The Law on Trial
CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Art and Activism /
Report: The CICC, a DIY Court for Climate Crimes
/ CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / Political Climate /
Digital Archive: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
CICC / Ecology / Colonial history / Art and Activism /
Errant Journal: A conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
CICC / Ecology / Colonial history /
The climate crisis is a colonial crisis - by Roos van der Lint
Art and Activism / Action Research / Crisis Imaginaries / Ecology / Planetary Poetics /
Climate and Environmental Activism in the Arts - #ActivismArchive
CICC / Ecology /
The Intergenerational Climate Crimes Act
Ecology / CICC / Art and Activism / Political Climate /
Announcement: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Ecology / CICC /
Irene de Craen on Errant Journal's second issue 'Slow Violence'
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