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.
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. I worked as videographer, light designer, and scenographer in collaboration with Rose Hallgren, who also worked on video and scenography.
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 twice due to popularity.
"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
