--- type: exposition title: Jonathan Monk language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/jonathan-monk" --- # Jonathan Monk ## Limited Company ![Exhbition view of Jonathan Monk](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/2025-06/Curtain%20Belvedere%20Exhibit%20Model_14.jpg.webp?itok=i2lUFida) **Duration:** 23 May 2025 - 21 September 2025 British artist Jonathan Monk (b.1969) 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. Curated by Axel Köhne. Assistant Curator: Vasilena Stoyanova ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ##### In cooperation with - [Logo museum in progress](https://www.mip.at/home/) ## Impressions - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_Presse%202A.jpg.webp?itok=8s3mNKAt) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk_C_Presse-10.jpg.webp?itok=myFxhyUD) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_PresseA.jpg.webp?itok=Y1mGhVRD) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_Presse%205A.jpg.webp?itok=fiWjxSrG) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_Presse%204A.jpg.webp?itok=my91HK4c) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_Presse%203A.jpg.webp?itok=GiWZd80I) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21_J_Monk_PH1_Presse%201A.jpg.webp?itok=0mLes-SX) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk_C_Presse-7.jpg.webp?itok=vtfXugTm) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk_C_Presse-6.jpg.webp?itok=93Q3kK2U) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk_C_Presse-3.jpg.webp?itok=93MIZ5ny) - ![Ausstellungsansicht Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Installation view Jonathan Monk. Limited Company, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk_C_Presse-2.jpg.webp?itok=MvpvS6oT) - ![Jonathan Monk, WEST WIND, 2025, raising flags, museum in progress, Skulpturengarten, Belvedere 21 — Jonathan Monk, WEST WIND, 2025, raising flags, museum in progress, sculpture garden, Belvedere 21 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-05/B21%20J_Monk%20Flagge%20PR%2002_1.jpg.webp?itok=V2c9yurj) ## Biography ![Portrait of the artist Jonathan Monk at his studio — Portrait of Jonathan Monk — © Studio Jonathan Monk, 2020](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-03/Jonathan%20Monk_Studio%202020_web.jpg.webp?itok=5V8Dj0HX) Jonathan Monk (born 1969 in Leicester, Great Britain) studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991. For over thirty years, the artist has exhibited worldwide in institutions, galleries, and also in public space. His multifaceted work can be found in international private and public collections. He lives and works in Berlin. ## Videos **Jonathan Monk (Part 1)** **Jonathan Monk (Part 2)** **Jonathan Monk (Part 3)** **Jonathan Monk (Part 4)** **Jonathan Monk (Part 5)** **Jonathan Monk (Part 6)**