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'''Cecilia Jonsson''' (1980, Stockholm) is a visual artist whose research-based projects span installation, sculpture, sound, image and kinetic works. Her work is informed by scientific methods and often consists of site-specific, artistic interpretations of phenomena and processes of nature. The projects are developed as investigations of physical and ideological properties of the raw materials that form the basis of human existence, from origins deep down in the earth, to the extraction, transformation and global exploitation.
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'''Cecilia Jonsson''' (1980, Sweden) combines artistic observations of phenomena and the search of poetry in the factual, in order to understand the realm of nature and in what ways humans relate to the ecosystem we are part of. Her installations, sculpture, sound and video works are devised by strategies in which materiality, site-specific navigation and objective research methods are woven together through a personal, subjective experience of contemporary alchemy. Her projects develop as investigations of physical and ideological properties of the raw materials that form the basis of human existence: from origins deep in the earth, to the extraction, transformation and global exploitation.
  
Jonsson is interested in how matter and material things can participate in, influence and mobilize a variety of social processes as well as the elasticity of both materiality and agency when they take different expression in different disciplinary traditions. By coordinating objective research methods with personal subjective experience, her work fuses biology and history with a materiality that intersects arts, sciences, social-culture, environmental politics and technology in a contemporary alchemy.
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Jonsson holds a MA in Fine Arts from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and the Nordic Sound Art program and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Australia. Her artistic work has been awarded international awards and mentions such as COAL Art and Environmental Prize (nominee 2018), Prix Ars Electronica, Hybrid Art (honorary mention 2017), Bio Art & Design Awards (2016) and VIDA 16.0 Art & Artificial Life International Awards (2nd prize 2014). She has developed several large site-specific projects as permanent public artworks and her work has been part of the Berlin Art week, Artefact and commissioned for the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art and The Dark Ecology project among others. Jonsson currently lives in Badhoevedorp in The Netherlands. [https://www.ceciliajonsson.com/about (2024)]
 
 
Cecilia Jonsson holds an Master in Fine Art from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and the Nordic Sound Art program. Her artistic work has been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has received awards such as the VIDA 16.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards (2nd price 2014), Bio Art & Design Awards (2016), an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica, Hybrid Art (2017) and was nominated for the COAL Art and Environmental Prize (2018). [https://www.ceciliajonsson.com/about (2019)]
 
  
 
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* [https://we-make-money-not-art.com/cecilia_jonsson/ Interview], 2015
 
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Latest revision as of 09:36, 12 December 2024

Cecilia Jonsson (1980, Sweden) combines artistic observations of phenomena and the search of poetry in the factual, in order to understand the realm of nature and in what ways humans relate to the ecosystem we are part of. Her installations, sculpture, sound and video works are devised by strategies in which materiality, site-specific navigation and objective research methods are woven together through a personal, subjective experience of contemporary alchemy. Her projects develop as investigations of physical and ideological properties of the raw materials that form the basis of human existence: from origins deep in the earth, to the extraction, transformation and global exploitation.

Jonsson holds a MA in Fine Arts from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and the Nordic Sound Art program and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Australia. Her artistic work has been awarded international awards and mentions such as COAL Art and Environmental Prize (nominee 2018), Prix Ars Electronica, Hybrid Art (honorary mention 2017), Bio Art & Design Awards (2016) and VIDA 16.0 Art & Artificial Life International Awards (2nd prize 2014). She has developed several large site-specific projects as permanent public artworks and her work has been part of the Berlin Art week, Artefact and commissioned for the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art and The Dark Ecology project among others. Jonsson currently lives in Badhoevedorp in The Netherlands. (2024)

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