JONAS LUND | VIEWING ROOM

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SPARK 2025, VIENNA | 21 MARCH — 23 MARCH

Jonas Lund (b. 1984) is interested in the power dynamics framing the increasing digitalisation of contemporary culture. Working across painting, sculpture, photography, digital environments and performance, he builds systems that examine conditions of labor, agency, and authorship within automated collaborative processes. 

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JONAS LUND
Working 9 to 5 (Perpetual Office)
2025
Video installation, custom software
Perpetual
Edition of 3 + 1AP
(JLun034.25)
EUR 4,000
EUR 5,400 (inc. Samsung TV and Mac Mini)

“Working 9 to 5 (Perpetual Office)” captures the rhythms of contemporary office existence through a perpetual video loop that distinguishes between standard working hours and after-hours periods. During business time, the piece presents composed shots of office minutiae – typing hands, fluorescent corridors, unchanging screens – accompanied by an internal monologue rendered in floating typography.

As 5 PM approaches, the work branches into various scenarios: sometimes the office powers down, while at other times the worker remains, caught in overtime limbo. The installation employs subtle repetition and variation, where similar actions recur but never exactly repeat. An iPhone-style clock persistently marks time, highlighting the gap between measured and experienced time in corporate environments where the boundary between human and system increasingly blurs.

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JONAS LUND
Infinite Runner 1
2025
Video installation, custom software
Perpetual
Edition of 3 + 1AP
(JLun035.25)
EUR 4,000
EUR 5,400 (inc. Samsung TV and Mac Mini)

“Infinite Runner” translates the mobile endless runner genre into a gallery-situated interactive experience that maintains the core mechanics of games like Subway Surfers while extracting them from their native context. Visitors encounter a playable installation where their engagement produces a perpetual forward movement through an infinite digital landscape that never reaches resolution or conclusion.

The piece examines how gamified mechanics restructure our relationship to time and progress – creating a sensation of movement and advancement that ultimately leads nowhere. By relocating these interaction patterns from private mobile devices to the public gallery space, Lund transforms solitary consumption into collective spectacle. The work functions as both critique and embodiment of digital capitalism’s promise of endless progress, revealing the fundamental tension between temporal experience and algorithmic infinity.

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JONAS LUND
Abstract Feed (Scroll Composition N. 1)
2025
Video installation, custom software
Perpetual
Edition of 3 + 1AP
(JLun036.25)
EUR 4,000
EUR 5,400 (inc. Samsung TV and Mac Mini)

“Abstract Feed” deconstructs social media’s addictive scroll mechanism, maintaining the familiarvertical interface while populating it with an endless stream of algorithmically transformed imagery. The piece presents a continuous feed where the recognisable figures and faces of influencer culture undergo digital transmutation, dissolving the boundary between representation and abstraction.

Each “post” in the feed offers visual arrangements where human forms and consumer products disintegrate into fields of colour and texture, creating compositions that hover between glitch aesthetic and deliberate design. The work examines both the hypnotic quality of infinite scroll mechanics and the increasing abstraction of digital identity itself, where the human image becomes raw material for algorithmic manipulation. By presenting social media’s familiar interaction patterns while transforming its content into abstract visual poetry, the piece reveals the underlying psychological architecture of engagement while offering an alternative mode of consumption – one that privileges visual contemplation over identifiable content.

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JONAS LUND
Study Work Relax
2025
Video installation, custom software
Perpetual
Edition of 3 + 1AP
(JLun037.25)
EUR 4,000
EUR 5,400 (inc. Samsung TV and Mac Mini)

“Study Work Relax” subverts the familiar format of lo-fi study beats videos that have become the unofficial soundtrack of digital productivity culture. Initially presented as a conventional lo-fi environment with gentle beats and comforting visuals, the piece gradually accumulates layers of digital interference – productivity metrics, achievement notifications, and wellness reminders that transform the meditative space into an anxiety-producing performance of relaxation.

These interruptions, styled as iOS notifications, demonstrate how contemporary technology reframes relaxation as another task to optimise and quantify. Messages like “Your peace metrics are below target” and “Upgrade to Premium Zen™” expose the commodification of tranquility in late capitalism. The persistent clock display serves as a reminder of time’s marketisation, even in moments intended for escape from productivity demands. Through this gradual accumulation of digital anxiety, the work examines how the attention economy has colonised our attempts at finding peace, transforming even our moments of rest into opportunities for optimisation and consumption.

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JONAS LUND
Completed Upon Purchase
2025
Video installation, custom software
Perpetual
Edition of 3 + 1AP
(JLun038.25)
EUR 4,000
EUR 5,400 (inc. Samsung TV and Mac Mini)

“Completed Upon Purchase” functions as both catalog and conditional promise – a slideshow presenting 70 conceptual proposals awaiting activation. Created as an edition of five, the work transforms the commercial transaction into a creative decision point that implicates the collector in the work’s final realisation. Upon acquisition, each collector selects one concept from the remaining pool, which is then removed from options available to subsequent collectors. This selection triggers the concept’s manifestation, with the collector becoming an active agent in determining which ideas cross the threshold from potential to actualisation. The concepts span institutional interventions, data-driven installations, web-based works and physical sculptures – each containing its own examination of art world mechanisms, technological systems or social structures. Through this process, Lund questions where value resides in contemporary art – in the idea itself, its physical manifestation, or the decision making process that connects these states – while simultaneously exposing the market dynamics that determine which concepts materialise and which remain in the realm of speculation.

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Jonas Lund’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Paris, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, MAXXI, Rome, HeK Basel, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Vienna Biennale, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Rhizome, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 

ADDITIONAL WORKS

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JONAS LUND
Where the Wild Things Rule
2023
Tapestry
140 x 190 cm
(55 1/8 x 74 3/4 in)
Unique
(JLun001.23)
£10,400 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
Titans of the Trunks
2023
Tapestry
140 x 190 cm
(55 1/8 x 74 3/4 in)
Unique
(JLun002.23)
£10,400 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
The Lion’s Share of Business
2023
Tapestry
140 x 190 cm
(55 1/8 x 74 3/4 in)
Unique
(JLun003.23)
£10,400 (exc. VAT)

Lund engages with emergent AI models as a co-creator within his narrative worlds, provocatively blurring the line between human and machinic intelligence. Within his multilayered projects, the artist speculates on how this entwined relationship might play out within both the art market and broader social-financial systems.

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JONAS LUND
Solitude in the Secondary Market (Cathy Guggenheim)
2023
Tapestry
160 x 120 cm
(63 x 47 1/4 in)
Unique
(JLun005.23)
£7,200 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
We’re having an Alignment Problem
2023
Tapestry
160 x 120 cm
(63 x 47 1/4 in)
Unique
(JLun004.23)
£7,200 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
Green Pastures INC.
2023
Tapestry
160 x 120 cm
(63 x 47 1/4 in)
Unique
(JLun006.23)
£7,200 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
Oinking in Opulence
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun009.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun007.23)
SOLD
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JONAS LUND
Tailored Trouble
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun008.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
The Master of the Couch
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun011.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
The King Pig’s Empire
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun012.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
The Timid Talker’s Tale
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun013.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
All fun and Games
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun014.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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JONAS LUND
Fat Fingers, Big Bucks
2023
Tapestry
80 x 60 cm
(31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)
Unique
(JLun010.23)
£2,850 (exc. VAT)
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