Jona is a visual artist and architect with a focus on spatial and digital design. They have worked as a research associate at several universities. They are interested in reimagining educational methods and collaborative creation beyond institutional boundaries. Jona has co-organized art residencies and is part of The Palace Collective, which currently runs an urban community project in Berlin.
They have exhibited internationally for example at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, NOW Gallery London, DAAD Gallery Berlin, Berghain (Halle) Berlin, ACF Bratislava, Design Week Milan or Design Week Vienna.
They have been researching and teaching in several institutions like Leibniz University Hanover, University Kassel, University for Angewandte Kunst Vienna (die Angewandte) and University Innsbruck.
CV:
Exhibitions, Installations
Places that are Other w/ Pascale Espinosa | Neue Nationalgalerie | Berlin, DE | 2025
Gear Up! w/ Miriam Poletti, abstraqt | Artivism Futures: Reimagining Human Rights Activism| Kairos|London, UK|2025
Tender Resistance w/ ÆNGL, Who I Why | AIL | Vienna, AT | 2025
Easy To Use | Cruising Through Time | Instinct | Berlin, DE | 2025
Curse w/ Dakn, Jack Miguel | ITATI | 90mil | Berlin, DE | 2025
Eggplants | Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival - Halle, Berghain | Berlin, DE | 2024
Scales Of Vulnerability w/ abstraqt | Silent Green | Berlin, DE | 2024
Living Room II w/ abstraqt, snaeb | Tag der Clubcultur - 90mil | Berlin, DE | 2024
Transitory Sonic Bodies w/ Samuel Perea-Diaz | Concrete Dreams of Sound - DAAD | Berlin, DE | 2024
Transitory Sonic Bodies w/ Samuel Perea-Diaz | SoundsAbout - CTM Vorspiel | Berlin, DE | 2022
Memories of Gigabytes | NOW Gallery | London, UK | 2021
Re-Pose | ACF | Bratislava, SK | 2021
Touch my Glass | Designblok | Prague, CZ | 2019
Ha & Ba | Designweek | Milan, IT | 2019
Ha & Ba | Designweek | Vienna, AT | 2019
Research, Teaching, Workshops
Parallelities - Content, Cake, and Cables|Transmediale |Berlin, DE | 2026
Gear up! w/ Miriam Poletti, abstraqt | Berlin, DE | 2025
Finding Digital Me w/ Harry Silverlock | Hybrid Biennale Hellerau| Dresden, DE | 2024
Finding Digital Me w/ Harry Silverlock | 90mil Art School | 2024
Form(ing) Matter (Of) Sound w/ Samuel Perea-Diaz | Concrete Dreams of Sound - DAAD | Berlin, DE | 2024
Univ. Assistant | Leibniz University Hanover | 2020 - 2023
Lecturer| University Kassel | 2023
Lecturer| University Innsbruck | ./studio3 - Kathrin Aste | 2022
Univ. Assistant | Die Angewandte - University of Applied Arts Vienna | 2017 - 2019
Bits und Bytes w/ Daniela Kroehnert | Creative Days Vienna | 2019
Publications
Unbuilding Norms: Queer Reclamation Through Dismantling a Standardised Ceiling /w a.Monti, Tamukanashe Anthony Musengezi | TU Wien Academic Press | 2026
Finding Digital Me |BBWCXR Hellerau|siblog |2025
Beyond Square Meters: Space, Gender, and the Design of Coworking Hubs w/ Dr. Kirsten Mikkelsen| Springer Nature | 2024
Production, Programming
The Palace Collective | Creative Production | Berlin, DE + Wroclaw, PL
Schallfront | Curation and Set Design | Hannover, DE
Talks
Art in Resistance Movements w/ abstraqt| New Fears Gallery | Berlin, DE | 2025
Space Invaders - Exploring the Intersection of Digital and Physical Spaces| Hybrid Biennale Hellerau| Dresden, DE | 2024
Transformative Space - Exploring Queer Community Through Urban Grassroots Initiatives | Stummes Erbe | Technical University Vienna, AT | 2024
Artist Talk w/ Samuel Perea-Diaz | Concrete Dreams of Sound - DAAD | Berlin, DE | 2024
Artist talk | Schwules Museum | Berlin, DE | 2022
Interdisciplinary vs. collaborative | Design Future Realities | Innsbruck, AT | 2020
Fundings
Project funding | Amnesty International & Art Rights Truth | 2026
Project funding | Amnesty International & Art Rights Truth | 2025
Artist Residency | AIL | Vienna, AT | 2025
Research Stipend | Berlin Senat | 2023
Project funding | Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava | 2021
Education
Die Angewandte | University of Applied Arts Vienna | Studio Wolf D. Prix, Studio Greg Lynn | Vienna