Jonas Johansson (b. 1987) is a designer, artist and educator from Glommen, Halland. He studied graphic design in Norrköping, Reims, and Stockholm, and has worked at design studios in Tokyo, Montreal, London and Munich. He taught at Beckmans (2017–2025) and Hyper Island (2014–2022).
Jonas runs the artist residency Visualia and Nordic Audiovisual Artists, plans courses at Svenska Tecknare, creates events with PLX and Lumen Project, collaborates with the lighting collective Svartljus, and co-founded Dome Dreaming, the Nordics' first fulldome film festival.
He shares his studio with SMASH and Rose Hallgren.
Jag är Gud
Scenography, video, and lighting design for a sold-out autobiographical stage piece about bipolar disorder.
Jag är Gud is an autobiographical one-man show by dancer and performer Danne Dahlin about living with bipolar disorder. I got involved through a mutual friend who introduced me to Danne, and over months of conversation, he found actor and director Jakob Bladh. Rose Hallgren and I shared video and scenography; I also designed the lighting.
When Danne graduated, he had already caught the attention of leading choreographers and was headed for a career in dance. 19 years later, he was so affected by electroshock treatments and heavy medication that he could barely move. In 2018, Danne disappeared in Los Angeles. He was found surrounded by American police with drawn weapons. His bipolar disorder had taken hold again. In Jag är Gud, Danne looks back on his life: a youth as a promising dancer, his constant chase for love, parties with Russian oil billionaires and Spanish hitmen, his first manic episode in New York, and the stable years that could no longer keep the illness at bay.
The challenge was making Danne's stories visible on stage while keeping the lighting simple. The show premiered at Kilen, Kulturhuset Stockholm in November 2024. It sold out and ran a second time.
"Danne Dahlin lets us see his experience through the eye of the storm, a calm place in chaos. [...] When Danne Dahlin takes command of his self-exposing story, it is brave, human, and beautiful." — Anna Angstrom, Svenska Dagbladet
Onstage, Danne carries the whole piece alone, and the lighting stays simple so his stories can hold the room.
