Jonatan Kummel (b. 1988)

Jonatan Kummel’s practice explores the unstable space between perception and memory, where personal experience intersects with collective consciousness. Working through painting as both material inquiry and psychological terrain, he constructs atmospheric compositions in which form, light, and surface remain in continual transformation.

His works unfold through processes of accumulation, erasure, and revision, allowing intuitive gestures and subconscious associations to coexist with structural clarity. Situated between the tangible and the ephemeral, the images resist fixed narratives, instead opening fragmented perceptual and emotional landscapes that hover between recognition and abstraction.

For Kummel, painting becomes a site of negotiation — between presence and absence, control and surrender, interiority and projection. Through layered surfaces and shifting spatial relations, his practice invites prolonged looking, where ambiguity is not resolved but sustained as a generative condition in which meaning continuously emerges.