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Född 1973/Born 1973 in Jönköping
Bor och arbetar i Stockholm/lives and works in Stockolm

>>Utbildning/Education

1994-1999 Konstfack International College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm

>>Separat utställningar/Solo Exhibitions

2008
This is how we walk on the Moon, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2007
Forever Changes, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Keep On Doing, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre
Silent Running, Raster, Warsaw
This is how we walk on the Moon, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Another Album and other films, Jönk&oumul;pings Låns Museum
Stages, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona
Another Album, Hollybush Gardens, London
Magic & Loss and other films, Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
2006
Songs, Cities & Circles, Basis, Frankfurt
Magic & Loss", Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
More films about Songs, Cities and Circles, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg
"Magical World, Standard, Oslo
Magical World", PS.1, New York
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
2005
Magical World, Hollybush Gardens, London
2004-05
Look Out!, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Project Room, Chicago
2004
You don't love me yet, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago
2003
Studio Works, Milch at Gainsborough Studios, London
You don't love me yet, Index, Stockholm
2002
Where She Is At, Bild Museet Umeå
2001
Where She Is At,Moderna Museet Projekt / Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo
Keep On Doing, Sub Bau, Gothenburg
2000
Project for a Revolution, Galleri Flach, Stockholm
1999
Coming Up, 149A, Kungl. Konstakademien/The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm
1998
Straight from the Hip, Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm
1996
Är du lik en känd person?, Galleri Service, Stockholm

>>Grupputställningar i urval/ Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Here We Dance, Tate Modern, London
Amateurs, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
Wollust, the presence of Absence, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
Video salon 3, Curatorial Rebound Project. Galerija 10m, Sarajevo
Pop goes the weasel-Badisher Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Gravity in Art, Telic Arts Exchange, LA
Obscure, Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand
Just Play ­ Music as Social Practice, Edith Russ site, Oldenburg
Gallery Jade at Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam
Italia, ARCOS Museo D¹Arte Contemporanea Sannio Benevento
2007
Documenta 12, Kassel
PLAYBACK Musée d¹art Moderne de la ville de paris
NUIT BLANCHE, First Baptist Church, Toronto
Black Is Black S.M.A.K Steelijk museum, GHENT
Last Compositions at Amagerfaelledvej, Copenhagen
Intimacy, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington
Exploded View, Studio la Città, Verona
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery
The Screen Eye or The New Image, Casino Luxembourg
Re-, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Silence, listen to the show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
The Eventual, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon
Free Electrons: Selected videos from the Lemaître collection, Tabacalera, Donostia-San Sebastian
Held together with Water, Art from the Verbund Collection, MAK, Vienna
Stutter and Twitch, CCS BARD, New York
Madrid Abierto, You don¹t love me yet live event, Madrid
The Routines of Resistance, Standard, Oslo
Magical World, Galeria Posibla, Bucharest
Dreamlands Burn, Kunsthalle Budapest
Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Confined Innocence, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
New Media Series: Magical World, Saint Louis Art Museum
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006
Belief, Singapore Biennale
Fail Now, Fail Again, Fail Better, Momentum, Moss
I (Ich) Performative Ontology, Secession, Vienna
Here and now real, not yet concrete, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Where she is at, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
NIT NIU 06 "In a Magical World", la cala Sant Vicens, Pollenca, Mallorca
Phantom, Charlottenborg Exhibition hall, Copenhage
No More Reality, Belef, Center For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Group Dynamics, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Everyday Every Other day, Blackwood Gallery/ the University of Toronto at Mississauga
Leap into the cold water, Shedhalle, Zürich
Setting the Scene, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
Outside the Livingroom, GB AGENCY, Paris
Normalisering, Rooseum, Malmoe
"Biennial Cuvée", O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2005
Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam
Johanna Billing and Alan Currall, Display/Tranzit, curated by Vit Havranek, Prague
46th October Salon, Belgrade
9th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
"Rock Music" (dedicated to Igor Zabel) Gallery P74, Ljubljana
Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
"With or Without", cultural center, Belgrade
Blava narrow focus, Tranzit, Bratislava
Do Not Interrupt your Activities, Royal College of Art, London
Dialectics of Hope, Moscow Biennale, Lenin Museum, Moscow
New Art Event, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Revolution is on hold, L'Associazione Isola dell'Arte, Milano
2004
Normalization, Nova Gallery (For What, How and for Whom), Zagreb
Delayed on Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Collect Call, H.arta, Timisoara, Romania
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac/Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro 2004
The Principle of Hope, Three Colts Gallery, London
Green Box, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Pipshow #6, Fabrikken, Oslo
2003
The Edstrandska Foundation Prize, Malmoe Konsthall, Malmoe
Socialism - A Love Letter, Fia Backstrom, New York
Peripheries become the center, Prague Biennale 1, Prague*
Delays and Revolutions, Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice
Vinyl Sky, Intro,Vilnius
Kropp Idrott Konster, Blekinge Museum, Karlskrona
Perfect Performance, kulturhuset Stockholm
2002
Baltic Babel, Rooseum, Malmö
Paus, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Vårvideo, Kalmar Konstmuseum
2001
Projects for a Revolution, Le Mois de la photo a Montreal, Montreal
Motstånd/The Path of Resistance, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Vi/Intentional Communities, Rooseum, Malmö Cac, Vilnius
I'll Never Let You Go, Panacea Festival, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2000
Onufri '00' In and Out, National Gallery of Tirana
Lost in Space, Färgfabriken, Stockholm*
My Generation, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Viva Scanland, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Swe.de, Rikstutställningar; Uppsala Konstmuseum; Sandvikens Konsthall; Jönköpings Museum; Röda Sten, Göteborg/Gothenburg
1999
Eslövs Julsaga, Eslöv
Squash, Göteborgs konstfestival, Göteborg/Gothenburg
Light Show, Signal, Malmö
Dummy, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1998
Index Edition Multiple Show, Galleri Index, Stockholm
Performance, An Art Brothel, Herkulesgatan, Stockholm

>>Festivaler, film och videovisningar/Festivals and Screenings

2007
Focus Programme, Biennal of Moving Images, Centre pour l¹image contemporaine, Geneva
FLIMMER, Norrköpings Film festival
Retrospective Programme, Uppsala Short Film Festival
You can't avoid the East", U-turn, Conference, Copenhag
2006
7. Werkleitz Biennale "Happy Believers", Film Program
Beyond Cinema. The Art of Projection. Films, videos and installations from 1963 to 2005, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. Berlin
NOVEMBER 10: SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe, Open Society Archives Budapest
Time Based Art Festival, PICA, Portland, Oregon
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas
Mediterraneo Video Festival, Paestum
UNCLASSIFIABLE, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
MUSIC VIDEO ART on the river & under the stars, Electronic Arts Intermix screening, New York
courtisane festival voor kortfilm, video en nieuwe media, Gent
Music for people, Filmscreening, DCA Dundee Contemporary art center Dundee
The Pennisuela, Singapore
2005
Parallell Play, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
2004
Video Zone, International Video/Art Biennial, Tel Aviv
Criss-Cross, program by Nifca Kino, Lund Andorra Cinema Helsinki
2003
The Spirit of Portraying, DAE, San Sebastian
Biennale De L'image, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva
Recontres Internationale Berlin and Paris
Courtisane Filmfestival, Ghent Belgium
Look of Love, Elverket, Stockholm
2002
Result, videocompilation, KPD, Chicago
Room for a revolution, Deluxe Projects, Chicago
Unter Uns, Kunstverein Celle, Celle
Es ist Schwer das Reale zu Berühren, Kunstverein München
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Uppsala
Coming, Swedish Embassy, Tokyo
Right About Now/Beyond Paradise, National Gallery in Bangkok
Snowflakes, Göteborg filmfestival, Göteborg/Gothenburg
2001
Snowflakes, Bangkok Experimental Filmfestival, Project 304, Bangkok
Zwischenräume der Architektur, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Blick, New Nordic Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Nifca, Helsinki
Future Perfect, Adam Street, London
Le Bonheur, L'Etoile de Belleville, Paris
N.E.W.S. Exhibition, Roxy Cimema, Visby; Bornholm Museum, Bornholm

>>Projekt/Projects

2005
Makeover, "What ever happened to Social Democracy?", Umeå Konsthögskola Project at Rooseum, Malmoe
Happy Pappy, "The exchange of the gift", Publication
GPB 2005, Pastor Bonus, Publication, Bogota/ Oslo/ Mexico
2002-2005
You don't love me yet, Tour, Film and live tour: Index Stockholm, Eskilstuna Konstuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Tingshuset Östersund, Frieze Art Fair, London, Vara Konserthus, Nifca Helsinki, Sjömanskyrkan, Gävle, Ystad Konstmuseum, Vedanta Gallery Chicago, Milton Keynes Gallery UK, If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution, Festval a/d Werf, Utrecht
2004
Slim Volume, Poster Publication 2004
Tranzit, Magazine Project, Respekt/ der Standard In collaboration with Maria Crista
2003
Här och Nu, Moderna Museet Stockholm
2002
Follow Me -Stockholm Art Fair
2001
Rotation ­ Utrydningstruet Elefant, Nifca & Morgenbladet, Oslo
Make It Happen on Tour, Superflex Studio, Copenhagen; Rooseum, Malmö
2000
Park; Park the Bus - Make It Happen on Tour, Event Weekend, Momentum, Moss
Make It Happen on Tour, Real Work, Werkleitz Biennale
Make It Happen on Tour, Model 4, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Make It Happen on Tour, Signal, Malmö

1998-2000
Make It Happen, Backstage, Stadsteatern, Stockholm
1996-1998
Musik för mig, kanske för dig, Musslan bar, Stockholm
1998
Index Lounge Special: Make It Happen, Featuring Chihuahua, Index Stockholm
1997
Big City, Bright Lights, Cool Cool People (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here), K, Stockholm
How Are You Connected to Me?, Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm

>>Stipendier/Grants and Residencies

2006
Five Year Working Grant, Konstnärsnämnden
2005
46th Oktober Salon Award, Belgrade
2004
West Balkan Air, Nifca Recidency Program, What, How and For Whom, Zagreb
Stockholm Stad Kulturstipendium
2003
The Edstrandska Foundation Prize
2001
Konstnärsnämnden Working Grant
1999
IASPIS International Artists' Studio Program in Sweden

>>Public Collections

Malmö Konstmuseum
Musee d¹Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Verbund Collection
Berezdivin Collection
The Israel Museum
Frac Bourgogne
SMAK, Ghent
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm


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