Jonathan Tschaikowski

Visual Artist & Fashion Designer

I am not reinventing the world.
But I would like to show that changes within the system can have a positive effect on the way we deal with it. I think that's why all my works have a personal touch - I use them to express my emotions and how I deal with the world.
I work with different media, they expand my language. All my works are fragments, part of a whole. Each work questions the previous one - it is the constant transformation that drives me. There is often a duality that I can't always resolve. For me, it is more important to be able to feel something.

View of mountains through an airplane window with large overlapping letters.
Airline boarding pass for a flight from Split to Frankfurt with Croatia Airlines.
blue sky with clouds, contrail, and silhouette of trees
Text message in German saying every time they see a plane, they think of someone.
A bitten dark chocolate bar held by a hand with a partially unwrapped foil packaging.
Brutalist architecture building with parked cars and trees, captioned "I LOVE BRUTALISM BUT ONLY ON ARCHITECTURE."
Screenshot of German text messages discussing plans to call and arrange time to talk, with flexible options for Sunday.
Person wearing sunglasses, beanie, and scarf outdoors with buildings in the background.
Two cocktails on a floral placemat at a restaurant table, one garnished with a lemon twist and the other with a cherry, accompanied by a fork, knife, and empty glass.
View through an airplane window showing a clear blue sky and partial airplane wing.
Receipt from Auto Kolodvor Split detailing transport service charges, with QR code at the bottom.
A black U-lock lies on the ground in front of a metal fence surrounded by greenery, with the word "LOST" in yellow text at the bottom.

Excerpts of the EX zine

“I love brutalism –
but only on architecture.”

EX is the visual documentation of an attempt to revive a relationship.

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