Jonas Lund

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Jonas Lund (2018)

Jonas Lund (* 1984 in Linköping ) is a Swedish artist. He works with paintings, sculptures, photographs, websites and performances that deal critically with current system and power structures. One example is his exhibition The Fear of Missing Out (2013) in the MAMA exhibition space, Rotterdam .

Life

Lund received an MA from the Piet Zwart Institute , Rotterdam (2013) and a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy , Amsterdam (2009).

Lund collaborated with Eyebeam in 2012.

Solo exhibitions of his works were a. a. at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, at Steve Turner's in Los Angeles, at the Växjö Konsthall in Sweden and at the New Museum in New York. Jonas Lund was also involved in numerous group exhibitions, e. B. at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven or the Moving Museum in Istanbul.

job

Lund's artistic work makes use of current technologies and through them draws attention to networks and structures in today's world. His works deal with the problematic side effects of digitization.

In 2014, Lund created a series of paintings called Flip City, which were first exhibited at Steve Turner's in Los Angeles. Each of the forty paintings had a GPS tracker attached to the back, which reported its current location to the Flip City website once a day. The work aimed to explore the manipulative nature of the art market, particularly the practice of a group of collectors to sell works of art quickly and resell them for an increased profit, which is known as a "flip".

In 2018, Lund created his own cryptocurrency Jonas Lund Token, an ERC-20 token over the Ethereum blockchain that acts as a voting stake in his artistic practice, spawning a new art form called "Performance Art Capitalism".

In January 2019, Lund founded an influence agency called Operation Earnest Voice in a performance / installation at the Photographers' Gallery in London. The aim of the installation was to undo Brexit, which led to controversy and criticism from the organization Leave Means Leave over the status of the Photographers' Gallery as a charity, which was partly funded by Arts Council England and should not be funded as such participate in political campaigns. In a public statement, the gallery said it had followed Charity Commission guidelines, consulted Arts Council England, and sought legal advice "to ensure the project was in compliance with all appropriate regulations, particularly those relating to publicly funded non-profit organizations". As a result, "the project would not be adjusted or shut down".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Data-Driven Artists And Their Critics. In: Furtherfield. November 18, 2013, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Marcus Woeller: Jonas Lund analyzes the art market and paints what you like . In: THE WORLD . January 25, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Painting Pizza: From Digital Art to IRL Yum With Artist Jonas Lund. In: ANIMAL. January 30, 2013, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jonas Lund. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ KulturRegion Stuttgart: Göppingen - Jonas Lund & Constant Dullaart. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ "The ultimate goal in making art is to entertain myself". Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Review: Jonas Lund plays the art flip waiting game. June 26, 2014, Retrieved March 25, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ About the Author Courtney Malick Courtney Malick is a writer, Curator Whose Work Focuses on Video, sculpture, performance, installation: Review: Jonas Lund, “Flip City” at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. In: SFAQ / NYAQ / LXAQ. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ Marcus Woeller: Jonas Lund analyzes the art market and paints what you like . In: THE WORLD . January 25, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed March 25, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Sophie Haigney: The Artist Who guides His Art with crypto token. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ Nathan Geyer: As UK Parliament Prepares to Vote, this Artist is on a Mission to 'Reverse Brexit'. In: Frieze. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ Leave campaigners call for Photographers' Gallery to be stripped of charitable status over Jonas Lund's project to 'reverse Brexit'. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lund, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkoping