Jonas Dahlberg is a visual artist and professor based in Stockholm. He is the founding director of Of Public Interest (OPI) is a platform operating across art, architecture, and beyond, structured around two distinct components: OPI Lab, a research environment and advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and OPI x, a studio environment dedicated to initiating, supporting, and developing projects.
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Jonas Dahlberg is known for his winning proposals for the memorials to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks in Oslo and on Utøya on July 22, 2011. He is also recognized for his ongoing series of video works, which form the foundation of his research into how to analyze sites and the politics of space.
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In his diverse practice, Dahlberg has produced the books Invisible Cities and An Imagined City, and created opera scenography for Verdi’s Macbeth at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. He continuously works with photography, film, installations, and other media.

Dahlberg has represented Sweden at the São Paulo Biennial and participated in the 50th Venice Biennale, as well as the Busan Biennale, Prospect.2 in New Orleans, Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and the Thessaloniki Biennale. His work has been shown at institutions such as Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Kunsthalle Wien, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Göteborgs Konsthall, Tramway (Glasgow), Leeum Museum (Seoul), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunsthall Trondheim, and FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon).
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He has given talks at The Cooper Union (New York), the Architectural Association (London), Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Creative Time Summit (2014), EPFL School of Architecture (Lausanne), and ETH Zürich, among others.