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title: 'Jonas Staal'
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date: '2026-09-07'
description: "Part of the GOGBOT x Rijksmuseum Twenthe exhibition Democracy Now?, running from September 17, 2026, through February 14, 2027. The exhibition is free to visit during GOGBOT Festival, reserve your free ticket. Propagandists don't operate within existing reality, they construct new ones. Propaganda …"
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# Propaganda Theater (2023)

## Jonas Staal

   Art   Rijksmuseum Twenthe  

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 **Part of the GOGBOT x Rijksmuseum Twenthe exhibition [Democracy Now?](https://www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl/en/see-and-do/democratie-nu), running from September 17, 2026, through February 14, 2027. The exhibition is free to visit during GOGBOT Festival, reserve [your free ticket](http://gogbot.nl/ticketshop).**

Propagandists don't operate within existing reality, they construct new ones. Propaganda Theater showcases a hybrid collection of propaganda and shows how artists, filmmakers, game designers, writers, and other cultural workers play an essential part building the scripts and stages of contemporary propaganda.

Jonas Staal is a Dutch visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy, and propaganda. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing). Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future (2018-ongoing), with writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021-ongoing), and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union (2019-ongoing).

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