Jonas Lund

Jonas Lund (b. 1984, Sweden) creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, and performances that critically reflect on 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 digitization 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.

Lund received an MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2013), and a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009). He has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery (2019), and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2016); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2016, 2015, 2014); Växjö Konsthall Sweden (2016); Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam (2013); New Museum, New York (2012). His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Vienna Biennale 2019; Witte De With, Rotterdam; Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and was featured in ‘Artforum,’ ‘Frieze,’ ‘Kunstforum,’ ‘The New Yorker,’ ‘The Guardian,’ ‘Metropolis M,’ ‘Artslant,’ ‘Rhizome,’ ‘Huffington Post,’ ‘Furtherfield,’ ‘Wired’ and more.