Jonas Dahlberg Explained

Jonas Dahlberg
Birth Date:1970
Birth Place:Uddevalla, Sweden
Nationality:Swedish
Field:Video art, Art & Architecture
Training:Malmö Art Academy and School of Architecture, Lunds University
Movement:Video Art, Contemporary Art

Jonas Dahlberg (born 1970, Uddevalla) is a Swedish artist who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is mostly known for his video installation work.[1] [2] [3] [4] One of his more notorious works involved placing surveillance cameras in toilets.[5]

Jonas Dahlberg studied architecture at Lunds University from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000 he studied art at Malmö Art Academy where he received his M.F.A. in 2000. Since 2000 he has developed a series of videos that primarily consist of slow movements through architectural spaces. The videos are created by building miniaturized architectural sets that are filmed through experimental methods.In addition to video and video installation, his practice includes public art works, sculptures, commissions, book projects and photography.

Exhibitions include: Milch, London (2001),[6] Index Foundation Stockholm (2001), Manifesta 4 Frankfurt (2002), Italian Pavilion at 50th Biennale di Venezia (2003), National representative for Sweden at 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004), Momentum 04 Moss (2004), Modern Museum Stockholm (2005), Marian Goodman Paris (2005), FRAC Dijon (2006), Taipei Biennal (2006), Leeum Museum of Art Seoul (2007) Kunsthalle Wien (2008), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2009), Galerie Nordenhake (2010, 2008,[7] 2006, 2004[8]) The Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2010), Prospect II New Orleans Biennial (2011).[9]

Notes and References

  1. Davis J. JONAS DAHLBERG. Artus [serial online]. Summer2008 2008;(23):64. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed April 27, 2012.
  2. Web site: Jonas Dahlberg.
  3. Web site: Index - the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation . 2012-04-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131010193240/http://www.indexfoundation.se/scripts/Page.asp?id=330 . 2013-10-10 .
  4. Lockwood Smith, "Promising Fiction", Zingmagazine, 2001, http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing16/reviews/rev1_barre.html
  5. Darwin Porter, Frommer's Scandinavia, John Wiley, 2009, p23
  6. Rachel Withers, "Jonas Dahlberg", ArtForum, 06.25.01, http://artforum.com/archive/id=1183
  7. Lauren Dyer Amazeen, "Jonas Dahlberg", ArtForum, 04.29.08, http://artforum.com/archive/id=20017
  8. Eva Scharrer, "Jonas Dahlberg", ArtForum, 03.17.04, http://artforum.com/archive/id=6518
  9. Web site: Home . jonasdahlberg.com.