Born in Uddevalla, Sweden, in 1970, Jones Dahlberg creates installations and video works that explore our psychological and phenomenological responses to architectural space. Dahlberg first studied Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering of Lund University before transferring to Malmö Art Academy in 1995, where he eventually earned his M.F.A. in 2000. Since graduating, Dahlberg has created a series of videos that record the slow unfolding of or movement through architectural settings. In his 2008 project Three Rooms, he trains a camera on three domestic interiors that dissolve throughout the course of the film, leaving the spaces bare. To construct the environments of Three Rooms, Dahlberg used paraffin, which gradually melted from solid to liquid when placed in a heated solvent solution. As is the case with Three Rooms, Dahlberg builds all of the models and miniature sets featured in his work as they "allow you to realize fantasies and allow access to otherwise difficult environments."[1] In addition to his video and installation projects, Dahlberg's practice currently includes public art works, sculpture, and photography. In 2012, he designed the set for an opera production of Guiseppe Verdi's Macbeth at the Grand Theatre in Geneva. More recently, Dahlberg was selected to design the Sørbråten Memorial, commemorating the 2011 massacre at Utøya, where 69 people were killed by a right-wing extremist.

Dahlberg's work has been featured in Index, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt; Italian Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale; 26th Bienal de São Paulo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; Taipei Biennial; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Kunsthalle Wien; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; Prospect 2 New Orleans; Kunstmuseum Bonn; and many other venues. Dahlberg lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

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[1] Lockwood Smith, "Virginie Barre: Galerie Friche Belle de Mai • Marseille, France / Jonas Dahlberg: Milch • London, England," zingmagazine 16 (2001), accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing16/reviews/rev1_barre.html.