Jonathan Monk at Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

24 July 2025

Until 21 September, Belvedere 21 presents solo exhibition by British artist Jonathan Monk (b.1969). Monk frequently replays, manipulates, and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal Art. In his aesthetic strategy, he deliberately oscillates between paying homage and persiflage. In doing so, Monk appropriates art history and its myths while scrutinizing the rules of the exhibition industry and the aesthetic concept of originality. In his murals, paintings, sculptures, and photographs, he reflects on contemporary art's propensity to function as a mere system of reference and demystifies the idea of art as the outcome of an ingenious creative process.

In his first solo exhibition at a museum in Austria, Monk toys with ideas of repetition, of doubling and serialism in his art. The artist responds to the architecture at the Belvedere 21 with a custom-made large-format curtain consisting of fabric panels; printed with views of earlier projects, they span two sides of the room. Carefully selected works from different series by Monk relate to them, some in obvious, some in subtler ways.

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Image: Jonathan Monk: Limited Company. Belvedere 21, Vienna, Photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez