Jonas Lund
1984 Born in Sweden, based in Berlin and Amsterdam
2013 MA, Piet Zwar Institute, Rotterdam
2009 BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
.."you have the whole world of online art, online production methods, the community, which felt very empowering. You can start your day with the simple idea of making something and then, at the end of the day, everyone can see it. That seemed much more engaging to me, opening new possibilities."- Jonas Lund for SCHIRN MAG
Jonas Lund creates paintings, sculptures, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect contemporary networked systems and power structures of control. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.
Journal
Ohne Mitwirkung des Menschen ist es keine Kunst, Handelsblatt, 2023
Jonas Lund in a talks with Anika Meier, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Sarah Meyohas, Right Click Save, 2022
Interview with Jonas Lund, Collectors Agenda, 2019
How Jonas Lund is radicalizing NFT art, GET TO TEXT, 2021
Jonas Lund: Modern Solutions require Modern Problems, ARTIST TALK, 2019
Interview by by Aude Launay, Zérodeux interview, 2018
Selected exhibitions
In the Middle of Nowhere, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin (s)
Behind the Screen, Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
Game Art in the Age of Post NFTISM, HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, online
2022
Continuous Shift, Kristianstaad Konsthall, Kristianstad, SE
Studio Visit: How to Make Art in the Age of Algorithmns, Francisco Carolinum, OÖ Art, Linz (s)
Walk with Me, Distant Gallery, Online (s)
MVP, W1 Curates, London (s)
Unsafe At Any Speed, Morton Street Partners, New York
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Art and the Blockhain, Former SMBA, Eth Devcon, Amsterdam
I Am Not A Robot, Gallorie, Dubai
NfTNeTArT, from Net Art to Art NFT, a cooperation between panke.gallery and OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
t₀ – a new era, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
PAINTINGS: DEPROGRAMMED OBSOLESCENCE, Musée de l'Hospice Saint Roch, Issoudun, FR
BETTER OFF ONLINE | WORLD WIDE WEBB, König Digital, König Galerie, Online
OPENCOIL – The roaming Speedshow, Haus der Statistik, 10 random selected e-scooters, Berlin
AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence, curated by Jenny Chenjiaying, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, China
Year 01, Online Game, with Alexandra Prici at Paranoia TV, Steirischer Herbst 2020, Online
Enter Art Fair, with OFFICE IMPART, Copenhagen, Denmark
I just stare at my computer waiting for something to happen, HeK Net Works, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Online
Call Me Maybe, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna (s)
Neurones, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Algotaylorism, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
2019
Link In Bio, MdbK, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Cultural Matter: Jonas Lund, Lima, Amsterdam, Netherlands (s)
Smart Contracts, Reflector Gallery, Bern, Switzerland (s)
Modern Solutions Require Modern Problems, Aksioma, Ljubljana, Slovenia (s)
Operation Earnest Voice: Brexit Division, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (s)
Blocumenta, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
Behind The Screen, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2018
Jonas Lund Token (JLT), Art Düsseldorf with Unttld Contemporary (s)
N Football, Allianz Arena, Public Art Munich 2018 (s)
Operation Earnest Voice, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands (s)
Jonas Lund & Timm Ulrichs, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (s)
Proof of Work, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Ethereal Summit, The Knockdown Center, New York City, USA
Transmediale, HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2017
Timm Ulrichs / Jonas Lund, PIK, Melange, Cologne (s)
Critical Mass, Galerie Édouard-Manet, Paris, France (s)
The Internet Express, Panke Gallery, Berlin (s)
Away on Vacation, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA (s)
Mutual Display, Der Würfel, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin (s)
Stedelijk Base, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Brussels, Steve Turner Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
*(s) solo exhibition
Grants
2016 Residency at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 Residency at The Moving Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 – 2013 Residency at Eyebeam/Baltan Labs Residency, New York City / Eindhoven
Socials
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