jonas burgert
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
The Mandrake launches Artist in Residence with Jonas Burgert
To celebrate Frieze 2022
From 13th – 16th October 2022, The Mandrake, hosted Berlin-based contemporary artist Jonas Burgert, who undertook a one-of-a-kind portrait of our hotel founder and owner Rami Fustok – in front of guests within the hotel’s Greenhouse-meets-labyrinth.
Rami is an avid collector of Jonas’s acclaimed work which can be viewed in The Mandrake’s lobby and Waeska Bar.
Jonas Burgert paints a stage every time that he lifts his brush. His works depicts the inexhaustible theatre that Burgert considers to be human existence: man’s quest to make sense of his life purpose, opening doors to every sphere of reasoning, imagination and desire. Oversized canvases are crowded with fantastical figures of varying proportions.
A prolific artist in every sense, Jonas’ works exhibit an unlimited imagination of characters and colliding worlds that we can only dream of. Our nightmares, adventures and dreams all come to life with Jonas’s irrefutable talent.
It was an honour to welcome him to The Mandrake to live, work and breathe in our home.
Burgert’s work has been exhibited globally within numerous group and solo shows, including Geschichtenerzaehler, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2003; Triumph of Painting Part VI, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2006; Long Museum, Shanghai; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Denver Art Museum, US; Rubell Family Art Collection, US; and Taguchi Art Collection, Japan.