Jonas Erboe (b. 1992) is a Danish visual artist based in Copenhagen graduated from Bergen Art Academy in 2024.
He works conceptually, and use his own body in a durational performative way to convey the concept. Most often through exaggeration, absurdity and humor.
For the past years his body of works has been focused around the act of running and its practical, historical, cultural and symbolic function and meaning. A body of works beginning in 2020 with the performance-series The Marathon Project.
Selected exhibitions
2024: Again Again Again, Formation Gallery, DK
2024: SPRING24, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK
2024: This Is Personal, Bergen Kunsthall, NO
2023: Running For Office, solo, Narrow Creative, DK
2023: There’s No Sincerity Like Irony, solo, Rom61, Bergen, NO
2023: Nikomen, The Panantheniac Stadium, Athens, EL
2023: Can I Help Carrying You?, Bergen Kjøtt, NO
2022: 10.000 Drawings, solo, Gallery Taxi, NO
2022: Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Kunsthal Arhus, DK
2022: Melange, BFA degree show at KMD, Bergen, NO
2022: Pop Up Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2022: Pitch Paintings, Joy Forum, Bergen, NO
2021: Marathon in a Small Space, solo, Aarhus Artspace, DK
2021: Beautiful Loser, solo, KODE 4, Bergen, NO
2021: Things work as they should when they work as they should, Kunsthal 3,14, Bergen, NO
Selected performances
2024: Running For Office, Formation Gallery, DK
2024: Marathon on Bergen Kunsthall, NO
2024: History Is Now, Bergen Kunsthall, NO
2023: Marathon in an Office, Narrow Creative, DK
2023: Marathon in Rom61, Bergen, NO
2023: Nikomen, The Panantheniac Stadium, Athens, EL
2022: 10.000 Drawings, Gallery Taxi, NO
2022: Marathon on Kunsthal Aarhus, DK
2022: Marathon on KMD, Bergen, NO
2022: Legacy Leg, Joy Forum, Bergen, NO
2021: Marathon in a Small Space, Aarhus Artspace, DK
2021: Marahon on Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, NO
2021: Kiddesvej (Walking Landscapes), Copenhagen, DK
2021: Marathon in a Gallery, KODE 4, Bergen, NO
2021: Marathon in a School, Bergen, NO
2020: Marathon with a Frozen Pizza, Bergen, NO
2020: Marathon in Room 205, Bergen, NO
Residency & grants
2024: BKH Kunststudentstipend
2024: Statens kunstnerstipend – SKS Diversestipend
2023: The Danish Institute in Athens
2022: Hans and Helga Reuschs grant to education of painters
Education
2022-2024: MFA, Bergen Art Academy, Bergen, NO
2019-2022: BFA, Bergen Art Academy, Bergen, NO
2013-2017: BA of Journalism, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DK