Jon R. Skulberg (b. 1985) is a Norwegian artist based in Copenhagen. Skulberg is educated as a scenographer from Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, and Institute of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University and Dance Studies, Copenhagen University. He works as stage director, choreographer, musician and scenographer. In 2016 Skulberg founded Convoi Exceptionnel, a production company focusing on interdisciplinarity and spatial-somatic relationships within theatre, opera, dance and installation. He is the second half of JULI/JON, in collaboration with Juli Apponen, together they are part of the 2021 Nordwind Festival at Kampnagel Hamburg.
Skulberg has been associated artist and director at the Danish performance theatre Hotel Pro Forma on several productions, among them Parsifal, Poznan Opera (2013), Rienzi. Rise and Fall, Latvian National Opera (2014) and Rachmnainov Troika, and Madama Butterfly, La Monnaie/De Munt (2015/2017). In 2018 he staged in collaboration with Kirsten Dehlholm Björks album Vespertine as an opera at Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Jon R. Skulberg’s works have been performed and exhibited in Oslo, Copenhagen, Brussels, Brisbane, Aarhus, Malmö, Gothenburg, Poznan, Riga, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki and Hong Kong.
