Artists in Residence, Stockholm, 5 May–28 October 2025

Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg are editors, writers, artists, and researchers based in Stockholm and Paris. Since 2001, they have collaborated on a wide range of publishing projects, including books, magazines, and exhibitions. Their work often engages with themes such as archives, images, documents, montage, place, and alternative approaches to historiography. Since the early 2000s, they have also run the publishing platform OEI—a magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de[1]disciplinising moments. OEI explores experimental forms of thought and montage across art, literature, theory, and documentation; it also delves into critical investigations, editorial statements, infrastructural poetics, and material historiographies. To date, OEI has published 107 issues of the magazine. Its affiliated imprint, OEI editör, has released around one hundred books.

Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg

During their IASPIS residency, Jonas and Cecilia will focus on their artistic research project The Extended Book, specifically exploring questions around spatial reading and three-dimensional publishing; the relationship between fieldwork and editing; long temporalities; and nature-culture overlays. They are interested in the concepts of “local knowledge” and “site-specific materialities” as intersected with the systems of art and literature. Their work will involve probing Sweden’s megalithic culture and early archaeology, through “excavations” and “reconstructions.” Alongside this, they will continue to develop their practice in experimental publishing and infrastructural poetics.

Selected published books include: Jag skriver i dina ord (2000), Leviatan från Göteborg (2002), Omkopplingar (2006), Witz-bomber och foto-sken (2009), För pås-seende (2012), Händelsehorisont || Event Horizon. Distribuerad fotografi (2016), Bildaktivisterna. Aktioner i bild i svenskt 1960- och 1970-tal (2023), and Andra våglängder, andra rymder för konsten: Om Lars Fredrikson (2025).

Exhibitions and three-dimensional publishing projects include: OEI on Earth (Bergen Kunsthall, 2024), Public Knowledge: OEI (Camden Arts Centre, 2022), En utställning om Bildaktivisterna (Centrum för fotografi, 2022), Staying with Publishing and Localizing Editing (Publics, Helsinki, 2021), reading / locality (mountains, prints) [strata from an expanded book; Billingen, Kinnekulle, 2001– 2021] (GIBCA, 2021), Editorial Thinking (Index, 2021), OEI #79: edit/publish/distribute! (Moderna Museet, 2018), The Society Machine (Malmö konstmuseum, 2017), and OEI at The Artist’s Institute (New York, 2015).