The Studio Founder

Architecture doesn't end at the facade.

jonasfrei studio was founded in 2024 by Jonas Lionel Frei—built on over two decades of work as an independent artist and a long-standing conviction that art and architecture belong together.

That conviction comes from practice. Jonas returns to the same places, the same buildings, the same tree—year after year. He observes how light shifts, how a city grows, how a space changes with the people who inhabit it. The series he creates are not produced quickly. They are built over time—and released when nothing more needs to change.

The studio was born from a simple conviction: what was missing was not more art, but a different approach—one that starts with the space, thinks in collections, and takes responsibility for the result.

That standard extends beyond the work itself. Every print leaves the studio on museum-grade fine art paper, framed with materials chosen for the work and the room.

Some works call for more than a wall. For those, jonasfrei studio has developed a collector's box—built to hold the work as carefully as it was made. The work deserves an object worthy of it. Every box leaves the studio by hand.