Jan Hakon Erichsen trabaja con performances en vídeo, que comparte diariamente a través de sus redes sociales. En sus vídeos explora los objetos que nos rodean, a menudo destruyendo elementos cotidianos de manera excesiva o utilizándolos de forma poco ortodoxa. Sus acciones suelen tener una base escultórica, en las que las máquinas de destrucción rudimentarias aparecen como un tema recurrente. Erichsen crea desde dispositivos muy simples hasta ingenios complejos, todos diseñados para destruir objetos cotidianos de escaso valor monetario.

Durante los últimos siete años, Erichsen ha utilizado internet como su principal escenario para mostrar su trabajo y, en ese tiempo, se ha convertido en uno de los artistas de performance que más público alcanza por esta vía, con una amplia comunidad de seguidores y millones de visualizaciones.

Su obra se ha presentado en numerosas galerías e instituciones de todo el mundo desde que terminó sus estudios en la Academia Nacional de las Artes de Oslo en 2004. Además, ha recibido atención mediática internacional, entre otros, en Art in America, Kunstforum International y The New York Times.

Education:

2000-2004 National Academy of Arts Oslo

1998-2000 Asker Kunstskole

Upcoming exhibitions :

2025 Trouble Shooting, Galerie Masurel (Lyon), solo

2025 Destruction Diaries, Moss Kunstforening (Moss), solo

Solo and duo exhibitions (selection):

2025 The Great Brine, Monochrom (Vienna)

2024 Destruction Diaries, Studio Halv (Oslo)

2024 Sala Equis (Madrid)

2023 It All Falls Down, L21 Gallery (Palma)

2023 Northbound, De Ruit (Rotterdam)

2022 Valuart Solos: Presenting Jan Hakon Erichsen (Lugano)

2016 Bow and Arrow, Arrow and Bow, Studio 17 (Stavanger), with Bjørn Erik Haugen

2015 Bergsdikt, Oslo Utmark, (Oslo), with Robert Johansson

2013 Swarm, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter (Svolvær), with Robert Johansson

2012 I Thought I Would be More Than This, Cirkulations Centralen (Malmö)

2012 Dirty Origami, Kunstplass 5 (Oslo)

2010 Über das farbige Licht, TSSK (Trondheim), with Robert Johansson

2010 Jagd und Räuberei, Kunstnersenteret Møre og Romsdal (Molde), with Robert Johansson

2009 Mørketidsutstillingen, Tromsø Kunstforening, with Robert Johansson

2006 Fury, Kunstbanken (Hamar)

Gruppe utstillinger (utvalg):

2024 I arrived, I laid an egg, I left, L21 Gallery (Palma)

2024 Friends + One, Kapabel Økern (Oslo)

2024 Konstbiografen, Katrineholm Konsthall

2023 Aquired Taste, Hos Arne (Oslo)

2023 Salangen Biennalen, If Paradise Is Half As Nice (Salangen)

2023 Biennale de Paname (Paris)

2022 Nybakt T-trykk, Atelie (Oslo)

2022 Kommagene Biennale (Nemrut)

2022 Electric Kingdom, Idol Wild (Los Angeles)

2021 Kunstner kuraterer kunstnere: Rykk tilbake til start (igjen), Atelie (Oslo)

2021 2121, DART (Milano)

2021 Tellings, Ler Space (Nannestad)

2021 Eating Sugar? No Papa!, L21 Gallery (Palma)

2019 Østlandsutstillingen, Kunstforeningen Verdens Ende (Tjøme)

2018 March at Sawtooth, Sawtooth Ari Gallery (Tasmania)

2017 Aukan – Erichsen – Haugen. Norske Grafikere (Oslo)

2016, 08 Visions in the Nunnery (London)

2015 Performance Voyage, Muu Galleria (Helsinki)

2012 Flat Out, AC Institute (New York),

2011 Tomorrow People, Artists of the future today, Elevator Gallery (London)

2011 Utan Titel (video), Skånes Konstforening (Malmø)

2010 Vårutstillingen, Fotogalleriet (Oslo)

2009 Stay in the Light/Vampire Dreams, Vegas Gallery (London)

2008 Lights On, Norsk Samtidskunst, Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo)

2008 Skjult Identitet, Bomuldsfabriken (Arendal),

2008 Vestlandsutstillingen, touring exhibition (Norway)

2007 Demolition!, Site Gallery (Liverpool)

2004 Fra kaos til kosmos, Bomuldsfabrikken (Arendal)

Video screeings and live performance ( selection ):

2025 Vertical Hold, Punch Gallery (Thorp, Washington)

2024 Dot Festival, Yard 44 (Sicilia)

2024 Balloon Mayhem, Deichman Bjørvika (Oslo)

2023 Hvitsten Salong (Hvitsten)

2022 The Non Fungible Body, performance festival, OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz)

2022 Les Recontre De La Photagraphie (Arles)

2022 Night of the short, Brussels Film Festival (Brussels)

2022 Videocitta (Roma)

2021 Urtegata Presenterer, Urtegata (Oslo)

2018 Performancefestival, Munchmuseet (Oslo)

2018 L’OEil d’Oodaaq Festival (Rennes)

2018 Fokus videofestival, Nikolaj Kunsthall (København)

2017 Sanfest (Madrid)

2017 IVAHM (Madrid)

2015 MEM Experimental Arts Festival (Bilbao)

2015 Cairo Video Festival, Medrar Contemporary Art (Cairo)

2015 Videomedeja, Museum of Contempary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad)

2014 Human, All Too Human, 1646 (Ostrawa)

2011 Tenderflix, Rushes Soho Shorts Festival (London)

2010 Transit Station (København) with Robert Johansson

2008, 07 Videorats Festival (Celje)

2007 20th Instants Video (Frankrike)

2007 Bandits-Mages (Frankrike)

2007 Athens Video Art Festival (Athen)

2007 Cosmic Zoom (København)

2006 Darklight (Dublin)

2006 16. Internationales Video Festival Bochum

Residency

2025 Galerie Masurel (Lyon)

2023 If Paradise Was Half As Nice #13 / Salangen Biennalen (Salangen)

2021 L21 Gallery x Fundación Camper (Palma)

Grants :

2024 Two year work grant Billed kunstnerenes Vederlagsfond,

2024 Exhibition support, Regionale kunstmidler

2024,19,15,13,11, 08 Project support, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond

2020 One year work grant, Fegerstens stiftelse for norske bildende kunstnere,

2018, 06, 05 Billedkunstnerenes Vederlagsfond

2017 Diversestipend, Norwegian Art Council

2016 Project support, Norwegian Art Council

2015 Kunst og teknologi, Norwegian Art Council

2010 Three year work grant for young artists, Norwegian Art Council

2010, 09, 06 Utstillingsstøtte, Norwegian Art Council

2009 BKH, one year work grant

2007 Etableringsstipend, Norwegian Art Council

Museum acquisitions :

2023 Seven Horses, video work acquired by OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz)

Selected press and writings :

2024 Nude descending a staircase on a skateboard: Jan Hakon Erichsen’s viral video art, Dale Berning Sawa, The Guardian, profile

2024 Die Möglichkeit einer Mango, Bernhard Heckler, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, profile

2024 Rube Goldberg’s Greatest Machine Is His Legacy, Sam Corbin, NY Times, article

2023 The Non-Fungible Body, Performance and Digitalization, catalog

2020 Playful Destruction, Larissa Kikol, Kunstforum International, essay

2020 Destruction as art: The Work of Jan Erichsen, vice.com, video

2019 Avant-Garde Populism, Sean J Patrick Carney, Art in America, article