Jan Svenungsson, born 1961 in Lund, is a Berlin-based visual artist whose work combines conceptual elements and an interest in language with a deep fascination for the act of making by hand. Educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1984-89) and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris (1988-89), he has been professor and head of the Department of Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2011.
