Portfolio of work, texts, and projects made and organized by Jonas Georg Christensen
I’m practicing as a visual artist, while also working with writing and research. I mainly focus on making images and artist’s books. I do most of my own printing and function as the publishing editor of Edition Txt Critique – also called Udgave Txt Kritik, or Udg. Txt.
I hold an MFA degree in Visual Arts, Art Theory and Communication – from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. I approach art as a conceptual activity and view the arts in general – including theory – as ways of working with the use of language. My work has thus come to revolve around questions related to power, systems, norms, rights and the question of subjectivity.
This portfolio – meaning this webpage – covers works, texts, and projects made between 2010-22. In collaboration with other artists, writers, designers, and made solo.
Short bio
I began my studies under The Free Youth Education (FUU, 1999-2002), which got me into the Design School Kolding, before I went on to go in the direction of photographic studies at Fotografisk Skole (Aarhus, 2006). I was thereafter accepted at the Funen Art Academy in 2006 – then two years later switched to the Jutland Art Academy in 2008 – finishing this first part of my education in 2011.
Later I enrolled for studies in the theories of art, aesthetics and communication at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Department of Theory and Communication (Afdelingen for Teori og Formidling, 2013-16), which again developed into 'other kinds of' research: artistic research, art history and psychoanalysis – among other themes focusing on the question of the act of writing (skriven).
Besides various study trips – to most of the European capitals – I’ve made travels in Europe to Hauterives (Le Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval), Lausanne, Basel, Zürich, Mantua – and in America to La Paz, San Francisco (and the Bay Area), New York and Los Angeles. Plus, a trip into the Nevada Desert, including California City, Las Vegas and the Mormon Mesa (to see Michael Heizer’s "Double Negative"). Residencies made in Budapest, Porto and Thessaloniki. Besides these trips, one sojourn in 2001 and a couple of visits to Barcelona.
I’m living and working in Copenhagen and maintaining a private life here, which thus have been and maintains to be private.
Written in relation to my examination for the exit-exhibition Afgang 2016; here’s a declaration by lecturer Carsten Juhl:
“... In his interventions, Gerard Byrne mentioned the influence of the pallet of Victor Vasarely for some of the pictures and stressed that the work of Christensen could not avoid interpellating the question of the role of “attitude” in art. For her part, Maria Muhle also interrogated the question of intentionality asking Christensen why he gave such credit to the viewer. – In his answers Christensen revealed quite an ability to discuss the critique presented to him. So the author [J.G.C.] was able to introduce several important dimensions in the discussion: the questions of autonomy and immanence of the image, the “materiality” as part of the signification of the image, the secondary role of the presentation of the piece and finally and most importantly the fundamental conceptual problem of how, when and if an image can be convincing. The last point implicates however, that the text in the image and perhaps even the sound of it is able to maintain a discursive impact on the visual perception of the piece.”
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Aktuelle og andre relevante aktiviteter
Landskabet og erindring
2023, d. 16. marts - 1.april · gruppeudstilling, inkl. seminar om arkiv-begrebet · Bladr, København
VÆRKSTED FOR ÆSTETIKs samtaler om praksis
2022-23 · Vester Vov Vov / Art Hub Copenhagen, København
Udvalgte udstillinger, projekter og aktiviteter
Overvejelser om kunstteoretisk og -historisk bevidsthed
2022 · FLUK, Svendborg
Spor, rum, sted
Inkl. bogreception for DOKUMENTEREDE OBSERVATIONER (2020). Byens skrift i mine øjne
2022 · gruppeudstilling · Prospekt, København
Alle kan fotografere byens kroge – KUNSTMØDER
2022 · Fotografisk projekt i det offentlige rum med skoleklassebørn, via Huskunstnerordningen · Skulpturlandsby Selde, Skive Kommune
Bogreception for DOKUMENTEREDE OBSERVATIONER (2019). Åndsfortærende ubesindighed
2021 · CULT PUMP SHOP, København
In-between
2021 · s.m. Peter Olsen · Bonamatic, København
ESSENTIAL BOOKS
2020 · deltagelse i bogmesse med Udgivelsesplatform txt · Folkets Park, København
Some Work – new and older, graphic and photographic works
2020 · Bladr, København
RUBRIK(S)-KLODS_01
EFFEKT(S)-TRIPPERI_02
2020 · Antipyrine, Aarhus
PAINTWORKS
2020 · s.m. Peter Olsen · Mellanrummet i Malmö Konsthall, Sverige
Læsninger i ANA #15
2020 · mundtligt oplæg i form af en læsning af Per Højholts anti-roman 6512 · Astrid Noacks Atelier, København
Bemalinger – inkl. reception for bogen Paintworks
2019 · s.m. Peter Olsen · LETH & GORI, København · Dokument Press og forlaget Emancipa(t/ss)tionsfrugten
Mønster og arbejde (FOE 2018 4-01)
2018 · udstilling s.m. Ulrik Guldin Pedersen organiseret af Mathias Sæderup og Kristian Sæderup, på Svendborg Bibliotek
Samtaler om praksis / Talking Praxis
2018 · initiativtager, moderator og bidragsyder: dropbox.com · samtalesaloner på spisestedet Blå Congo, i Brønshøj
Heden som billede og figur (FOE 2017 3-01)
2017 · medarrangør, moderator og bidragsyder · seminar på Engelsholm Højskole
Engelsholm Højskole
2017 · lærerassistent på fotografisk linje
Askov Højskole
2017 · skriveophold, inkl. oplæg om egen kunstneriske og skriftlige praksis
Læsninger i ANA #1 (FOE 2017 2-01) noget over Heden
2017 · oplæsning til et stykke video · Astrid Noacks Atelier, København
FORM OG ERFARING (FOE 2017 1-01) lidt mere om Heden
2017 · s.m. Mathias Sæderup og Kristian Sæderup · medredaktør og bidragsyder · kunstnerredigeret publikation, distribueret i de nordiske lande via Antipyrine Distribution
Lydformer – samtalesalon m. komponisterne Jonas Olesen, Sandra Boss og Rune Glerup
2017 · FORUM space på det kgl. danske Kunstakademi, København
Much More Perfect
2016 · s.m. Gilbert Gordon, Rune Bosse & ∆Y• · medarrangør og kurator · udstillingprojekt i privat lejlighed og på opgangsarealer, med lyd, film, oplæsning samt dans og performance i gårdhave, København
Rundgang Research 2016
2016 · seminar arrangeret s.m. Katarina Stenbeck og Christina Jepsen · medarrangør og bidragsyder; i form af en dialogbaseret præsentation m. Eva la Cour · Det kgl. danske Kunstakademi på Institut for Kunst, Skrift og Forskning, København
Afgang 2016
2016 · exit-exhibition · Charlottenborg, København
Dokumenterede observationer (2005-2016). Studier i en undersøgelsesmetode
2016 · speciale indleveret ved afdelingen for teori og formidling · Det kgl. danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler, København
Delvist tribal
2015 · medarrangør, formidler og bidragsyder · gruppeudstilling på Sydhavn Station, København
Om Heden. Del 1
2015 · s.m. Kristian Sæderup og Mathias Sæderup · skribent · HCØ HUS, København
POWERSYSLER reloaded
2014 · gruppeudstilling · c4 projects, København
Kontoret for Kunst i Byen
2013 · assistent for arkitekt Gitte Juul, Ballerup
Indadgående/udadgående/stillestående information
2013 · soloudstilling · Møllegades Boghandel, København
Materialeprøver
2012-13 · s.m. Jan Danebod og Peter Olsen · workshop-baseret projekt om kunst i det offentlige rum · LOOK, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Porto, København
Afgang 11
2011 · gruppeudstilling · Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
Bang og/eller
2010 · medarrangør og bidragsyder · arrangementsrække i Splab på Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus
Værker i samlinger
Grå på hvid (affotograferet d. 15. feb.), 2011 · s.m. Peter Olsen
Statens Kunstfond: vores.kunst.dk
Legater og udmærkelser
Maleren Helge Bechs Mindelegat
· 2020
Akademiraadets Understøttelsesfond til kunstnerisk begavede, trængende danske billedhuggere og malere
· 2017
Statens Kunstfond
· fra 2012, gentagende gange: kunst.dk/for-ansoegere/tildelinger?
Medlem af
Uddannelse
Psykoanalysens Dannelser, Freuds Agora – Skole for psykoanalysen
2016-21
Afdelingen for Teori og Formidling, Det kgl. danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler
2013-16 · Kandidat i billedkunst, kunstteori og formidling / MFA in Visual Arts, Art Theory and Communication
Det Jyske Kunstakademi
2008-11
Det Fynske Kunstakademi
2006-08
Fotografisk Skole
2006
Interaktive medier, Designskolen Kolding
2004-05
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