Jonas Weber Herrera is an artist, filmmaker, writer and university lecturer living and working in Berlin. His work revolves around two specific themes: The construction, shaping and conditioning of bodies, and the political history of Colombia. Currently, Jonas Weber Herrera is working on historiographies of Colombia's armed conflict. The research project addresses the question of how the armed conflict is narrated and historicized, and how, in this struggle for interpretive sovereignty, alternative narratives become possible through partial perspective, situated knowledge, or through decolonial approaches to conflict studies. His practice can be described as an artistic research that applies theory to other media to interrogate and critique circumstances by tacit and dialectical means.
Jonas Weber Herrera studied media arts at Bauhaus-University, Weimar. His doctoral thesis deals with the mutual conditions of body and media history on the basis of historical representations of subjective symptoms. In his dissertation he wrote a medical history of construction of the phenomenon “Body Integrity Identity Disorder / Transability” and a media history of the processes of subjectification of the ones affected.
Jonas Weber Herrera works have been shown internationally in film festivals (KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne. Kasseler Dokumentar- and Videofest) and exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Akademie der Künste, Autocenter, Berlin, Kunstverein seit 1817, Hamburg, Flux Factory, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris or Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. He is a grant recipient of the Graduiertenstiftung des Freistaates Thüringen, the Senate of Berlin, Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Residency Unlimited, Stiftung Kunstfonds and has also been supported by the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Weimar with a mentoring by Harun Farocki. He has published articles for the weekly newspaper der Freitag, waahr.de or Kultur & Gespenster and was co-editor of the volume "z.B. – Praxisbasierte Forschung in Design und Kunst".