Jonas Mayer (b. 1995) is a German visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice is dedicated to the phenomenon of play - as an inner attitude, research approach, and a creative method. In a constant interplay of observation, collection, transformation, and association, he creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that oscillate between seriousness and lightness.

His visual language develops from a vocabulary of everyday observations. Like an urban voyeur, he wanders through urban space with a keen eye for the curious: traces of unconscious playful acts, amateurish graffiti, or hybrid places that shift between reality and illusion. Construction sites, swimming pools, amusement parks, industrial wastelands, and flea markets turn into fields of research that are both sources of inspiration and material archives. Mayer takes physical and visual elements from these environments and uses them to form his own unique visual language.