CURATED: JONAS LUND 

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EXHIBITION

The Swedish artist Jonas Lund has been concerned with the emergence of values and the distribution of power in the art market since 2012. He creates his works with the help of algorithms and viewers, who, for example, have voting rights in decisions affecting his art and career as owners of the JONAS LUND TOKEN (2018). He talks to Anika Meier about the emergence of values, changes in the art market, and the benefits of NFTs. And why do animals play an important role in his JONAS LUND TOKEN universe?

TOKEN ECONOMY AND VALUE

JONAS LUND: WHAT DOES BEING AN ARTIST MEAN?

"It’s very difficult, probably impossible, to quantify value in any meaningful way beyond market value, which is also what makes art truly magical." – Jonas Lund

The Swedish artist Jonas Lund creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, and performances that reflect critically on contemporary networked systems and power structures. He earned an MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Lund has been concerned with the emergence of values and the distribution of power in the art market since 2012. He creates his works with the help of algorithms and the viewers, who, for example as owners of the Jonas Lund Token (2018), have voting rights like shareholders in decisions affecting his art and career.




Lund has exhibited globally, with solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Växjö Konsthall, Sweden; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; Francisco Carolinum, Linz; and at the New Museum, New York. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Schinkel Pavillon and KINDL Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Vienna Biennale 2019, Witte De With, Rotterdam; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

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<p>Click <span style="color: #ffffff;"><a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kynLXXkW7Q" target="_blank">HERE</a></span> to watch the guided tour by Jonas Lund through ON THIS DAY.</p>
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<div data-mce-fragment="1" dir="ltr">The digital solo show ON THIS DAY by Jonas Lund at KÖNIG GALERIE in Decentraland, a virtual world based on the blockchain, explores memories and influence. Jonas Lund and his animals take the digital visitors on a journey through the JONAS LUND TOKEN universe.<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">
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<div data-mce-fragment="1" dir="ltr">The visual representation of the JONAS LUND TOKEN has taken different shapes and forms since its inauguration on March 21, 2018. JONAS LUND TOKEN (JLT) is a distributed decentralized autonomous artistic practice that aims to optimize and streamline the decision-making process in art production and the strategic decisions concerning Lund’s career path. The JLT shareholders participate in the decision-making process by casting votes on proposals and through discussions on the JLT website. As the career path of Lund improves and his market value increases, so does the value of a JLT, thus allowing board members to profit through dividends and potential sales of the tokens.</div>
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<strong>HOW TO BECOME A JLT SHAREHOLDER</strong><i data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"></i>Join the shareholders and participate in the distributed control over Jonas Lund’s artistic practice by completing a JLT Bounty or by investing in a JLT wall piece or a JLT NFT.<br>
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JONAS LUND | JONAS LUND TOKEN COLLECTIBLES

<p class="p1">A JONAS LUND TOKEN (JLT) FUTURE is a forward contract that enables you to bet on the future value of Jonas Lund’s artworks and the JLT itself.</p>

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<div data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1">KÖNIG DIGITAL | DECENTRALAND | NAVE</span></div>
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<span data-mce-fragment="1">18 JULY - 09 SEPTEMBER 2021<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">Click<strong data-mce-fragment="1"> <a aria-describedby="a11y-external-message" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kynLXXkW7Q" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kynLXXkW7Q">HERE</a> </strong>to watch the guided tour by Jonas Lund through ON THIS DAY.<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"></span><span data-mce-fragment="1"></span>
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<div dir="ltr" data-mce-fragment="1">The digital solo show ON THIS DAY by Jonas Lund at KÖNIG GALERIE in Decentraland, a virtual world based on the blockchain, explores memories and influence. Jonas Lund and his animals take the digital visitors on a journey through the JONAS LUND TOKEN universe.<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">
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<div dir="ltr" data-mce-fragment="1">The visual representation of the JONAS LUND TOKEN has taken different shapes and forms since its inauguration on March 21, 2018. JONAS LUND TOKEN (JLT) is a distributed decentralized autonomous artistic practice that aims to optimize and streamline the decision-making process in art production and the strategic decisions concerning Lund’s career path. The JLT shareholders participate in the decision-making process by casting votes on proposals and through discussions on the JLT website. As the career path of Lund improves and his market value increases, so does the value of a JLT, thus allowing board members to profit through dividends and potential sales of the tokens.<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"><b data-mce-fragment="1">HOW TO BECOME A JLT SHAREHOLDER</b><br data-mce-fragment="1"><i data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">Join the shareholders and participate in the distributed control over Jonas Lund’s artistic practice by completing a JLT Bounty or by investing in a JLT wall piece or a JLT NFT.</i><br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"><b data-mce-fragment="1">THE BENEFITS OF BEING A JLT SHAREHOLDER<br data-mce-fragment="1"></b><i data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">Starting with this exhibition, the profits from every JLT NFT sale will be distributed to the shareholders based on the amount of JLTs they hold. Join them for board meetings during the duration of the exhibition ON THIS DAY, experience the special features for shareholders and get exclusive access to the VIP area on the rooftop of St. Agnes in Decentraland.</i><br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">A long table with 50 chairs stands in the center of the gallery space. The chairs are reserved for selected JLT shareholders, the Eames chair at the short end of the table is reserved for the artist: the chairs are free, the space is filled with animals like an elephant, a zebra, a camel, a penguin, a leopard, and a sheep. The animals patiently wait for something to happen and observe Lund walking around the table in circles. The artist constantly walks by memories that hang on the wall in the form of a JLT: seaside landscapes, seafood, and selfies. The photos are recommendations by one of Apple’s algorithms, trained to remind users of personal moments. Shareholders are offered a fraction of the artist Lund and are presented with his most precious moments from the past months of his private life to deepen the relationship.<br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"><b data-mce-fragment="1">THE JLT COLLECTIBLES</b> <br data-mce-fragment="1"><i data-mce-fragment="1"><span lang="EN-US" data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1">Choose your kindred spirit, the animal you relate to and become part of the JLT community by owning a representative and symbol of the JLT universe. The elephant for example stands as a</span><span lang="EN-US" data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-fragment="1"> </span>symbol of good luck, prosperity, the destroyer of evil, and the remover of obstacles. <br data-mce-fragment="1"></span></i><br data-mce-fragment="1">ON THIS DAY is an incentive and opportunity to invest in Jonas Lund’s career and an invitation to remember special moments together.</div>

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GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND aims to define a point in history where a network of artists are generating abstract works with algorithms and codes. In collaboration with Verse. 

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