Galerie Anita Beckers is pleased to present ce qui nous hante, Jonas Englert’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

The opening will take place on October 31, 2025, at 7 PM, with an introduction by art historian Heike Sütter.

The exhibition brings together works created between 2015 and 2025, in which Englert explores the political, aesthetic, and media-related dimensions of memory, the body, and the image. The exhibition’s title – ce qui nous hante (“what haunts us”) – draws on Jacques Derrida’s theory of hauntology, which conceives of past and present as intertwined temporalities. For Derrida, the ghost is not a metaphor but a conceptual figure for understanding moments in which something seemingly absent continues to exert influence in the present – a trace, a remnant, an afterimage. Hauntology describes the persistent return of the past in the present: the reappearance of repressed images, gestures, and meanings that subtly shape our perception.
Englert’s work occupies precisely this liminal space. His pieces investigate how history is inscribed in images, how bodies and technological apparatuses store memory, and how the political, aesthetic, and technological intersect. His practice is marked by a delicate tension between distance and intimacy – simultaneously poetic and documentary, sensual and analytical. In ce qui nous hante, a space of afterlife emerges – a topography of ghosts in which every image is both trace and presence. Englert’s work invites viewers to discern shadows within the visible and to perceive, in each image, the echo that preceeded it.

Jonas Englert is a Frankfurt/M. based artist. Englert received his Art Diploma from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/M. in 2018. Key exhibitions of his work include: Simultaneities, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels (2025); Looking for Humanity, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg (2023); Things I Think I Want, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M. (2017); Performing Portraiture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015); Atlas 2013, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2013); and more. His works are part of the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Furthermore he created various works, amongst others at the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the Staatstheater Hannover, the Theater Bonn, the Berliner Ensemble and the Schauspiel Frankfurt. Jonas Englert is represented by Galerie Anita Beckers.