For our first artist talk of 2024 at Soho House Berlin, Jonathan Monk dived deep into an oeuvre that has recast and re-examined seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious, and irreverent means. His work frequently questions the art world’s conventional means of controlling value and distribution, as in “Restaurant Drawings,” (2015–) a series of sketches on receipts, usually of canonical works from Western art history, that he sells to a bidder on Instagram for the price of his meal.

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Jonathan Monk (*1969 in Leicester) is an artist who work across various media centers appropriation, reflecting particularly on the tendency of contemporary art to devour its own references. In an interview with David Shrigley, Monk said: “Is it or is it not or can it or can it not be? This is something that has been dealt with within the art world for some time and I guess the unanswerable question keeps us all going …” He lives and works in Berlin.