Jonas Johansson is an anywhere-based artist, educator, and designer from Glommen, Halland. His work explores light and technology through play, community, and (un)human intervention.
Since 2024 Jonas plans courses for Svenska Tecknare, taught Visual Communication at Beckmans (2017–2025), served as Industry Leader at Hyper Island (2014–2022), and have lectured at Aalto University, Konstfack, School of Machines, Berghs, Nyckelviken, Futuregames, to name a few.
Jonas's professional experience includes KRAM/WEISSHAAR (SE/DE), FIELD (UK) and Moment Factory (CA). He interned at W+K Tokyo (JP) and UltraSuperNew (JP).
Under the moniker Scenic Route, he has performed for artists such as La Fleur, Kornel Kovacs, Gesafellstein, Yuksek and all time idol, The Field.
Today, Jonas runs the artist residency Visualia, produces the fulldome film festival Dome Dreaming, co-creates events with PLX, collaborates with the lighting collective Svartljus, and co-founded Nordic Audiovisual Artists. He shares a studio in Stockholm with SMASH and Rose Hallgren.
Heroes
Real-life statues, drone-scanned architecture, projected onto Stockholm's Great Synagogue.
Heroes was a projection mapped piece on the facade of Stockholms Stora Synagoga, commissioned by the World Jewish Congress, Raoul Wallenberg Academy and Nobel Week Lights 2022. Created with Smash Studio, with music by Joseph Wilkinson. The work honoured Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust, and Dag Hammarskjöld, 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and UN Secretary-General. Real-life statues of both men were 3D scanned and the synagogue was captured by drone, giving us precise geometry to work with. Black and white, high contrast, with tight animation set to the building's ornate architecture.
