Cecilia Jonsson

Cecilia Jonsson lives and works in Bergen (NO)

Cecilia Jonsson is an interdisciplinary artist whose research addresses the tensions between the mineral domain and living entities. Informed by methods used in the natural sciences, her works are often site-related, artistic interpretations of empirical material. Exploring the raw materials that create our experience of the world, from their origins deep in the ground, to extraction, transformation and global exploitation. Jonsson lives and works in Bergen, Norway.

Previous solo exhibitions include Paradoxes of a Diamond, the Natural History Museum, Musei Civici, Venice, Italy; The Iron Ring, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway and the Seed of Metals, Cirkulationscentralen, Malmö, Sweden. She has been part of group exhibitions in venues such as Disseny Hub Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway; Mauriziano, Reggio Emilia, Italy; V2_ Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Jonsson received her MFA from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2012 and completed the Nordic Sound Art master program the same year. In 2014 she earned Second Prize in VIDA 16.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards for her project The Iron Ring.