David Tobias Bonde Jensen

(He/him)
Address: Stave– FKDS atelierstipendiat, Brynsveien 1, 0667 Oslo
Floor: 1
Room number: 2.08
The studio is open Sunday 19 April from 12-17

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My work explores untold stories and theories surrounding ghosts from the past, scientific experiments, mythological motifs, unstable bodies, and their voices. Through 2D and 3D animation, cinematic special effects, video game mechanics, and song, I investigate our relationship to the unknown, the hidden, and the forgotten. I examine how optical tricks and technologies have shaped our understanding of the more-than-human, and attempt to give voice to the often silenced beings and existences at the margins of our narratives.

Installation, text, sculpture, video, animation and song.

Still from video. 3D-animated frog with an injured abdomen lying in a human hand against a white background.

Cruelty Economics (a taxidermic terrain), David Tobias Bonde Jensen, HD video and stereo sound, 2021, Still from video.

$Documentation of the video and sound installation "Dragon (silence and spit)" from the MFA degree show and group exhibition "Hold\" at Kunstnernes Hus, 2025. The installation occupies a dark room with screens and speakers. On the screen in the foreground is the head of a 3D-animated horse-like creature; on the wall to the left, a screen shows a small image of an animal in nature; and on the screen farthest away, there is text. In the background, works by the other artists in the group exhibition are visible.$

Dragon (silence and spit), David Tobias Bonde Jensen, HD video and stereo sound installation, 6 x 3.30 m., 2025, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, from the exhibition "Hold\" (MFA degree show 2025), Documentation of installation, Abrakadabra Studio.

Still from video. In a crater at the center of a mysterious 3D landscape of grass, rocks, and a cloud-filled sky lies a creature that is a hybrid between a horse and a snake.

Dragon (silence and spit), David Tobias Bonde Jensen, HD video og stereo lyd installation, 6 x 3.30 m., 2025, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, from the exhibition "Hold\" (MFA degree show 2025), still from video.

Still from video. A hand-drawn pig with a cloth and wheels as leg prostheses on a pink/salmon-colored background.

Infinity Dust, David Tobias Bonde Jensen, HD video and stereo sound, 2024, still from video.

Dragon (silence and spit), uddrag:

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Cruelty Economics (a Taxidermic Terrain), sammenklippet version:

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In my studio

Visitors are invited inside to a conversation, and to see and listen to my work.

At 3:00 PM there will be a performance and song presentation of my current work. The “concert” lasts about 30 min. and is open to everyone interested.

Planned projects and exhibitions

Residency at Notam (Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music) at the end of April, focusing on the development and production of a short animated musical.

CV

EDUCATION:
2021 – 2025 MFA Degree; Master in Fine Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO.
2023 – 2024 Diploma Programme (MFA studies), The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK
2017 – 2020 BFA Degree; Bachelor in Fine Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Dragon (silence and spit), MFA graduation project, Akademmirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
2024 MEMORY IS A REGIME, Splab, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK.
2019 I was a peasant when the earth was flat, Whitebox, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Hold\, MFA degree show, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
2024 Rundgang 2024, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK.
2023 Spriten Invitational, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien, NO.
2021 Stellar Wind, Celin, Oslo, NO.
2021 Use Your Heart as a Phone, Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo, NO.
2021 Alumni Exhibition, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, NO.
2021 YOWL2 (Duo w/ Kim Laybourn), Uncannyvalley, Online.
2020 Touching 2022, Online.
2020 Expanded Animation, The Animation Workshop, Viborg Museum, Viborg, DK.
2020 YOWL (Duo w/ Kim Laybourn), Løvens Hule, Online.
2019 STRUKTURA. Time, The Wrong Biennale 2019/2020, Online.
2019 The Sun Sets at 17:43, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
2018 In-between, Unknow.online, Online.
2018 59°54’41’’N 10°45’28’’E, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.

RESIDENCIES:
2026 Notam, Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music, Oslo, NO. (Upcoming)

SELECTED GRANTS AND STIPENDS:
2025 Studio grant, Fondet for Kunst- og Designstudenter (FKDS), Oslo, NO.
2025 Kunststudentstipend, Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond (BKH), Oslo, NO.
2022 Kunststudentstipend, Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond (BKH), Oslo, NO.
2020 Stipend for utvikling av kunstnerisk praksis, Fondet for Kunst- og Designstudenter (FKDS), Oslo, NO.