JOHANNA BILLING
Born 1973 in Jönköping, Lives and works in Stockolm
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Magical World, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
2009
I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Touring to Modern Art, Oxford and Arnolfini, Bristol
Tiny Movements, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2008
Johanna Billing: Taking Turns, Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City
This is how we walk on the moon, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
This is how we walk on the moon, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Johanna Billing: Project for a Revolution, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
You don't love me yet, Live Event, Münchner Kammerspielen, Munich
Taking Turns, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2007
Forever Changes, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Keep On Doing, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre, Dundee
One Mile, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Stages, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona
Magic and Loss (and other films), Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
Another Album, Hollybush Gardens, London
Silent Running, Raster, Warsaw
This is how we walk on the moon, film and event program, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Magical World, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006
Magical World, St. Louis Museum of Art, MO
Songs, Cities and Circles, Basis, Frankfurt
Magical World, The Box- Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Magical World, P.S.1, NEW YORK
Magic & Loss // Magical World, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
More Films About Songs, Cities and Circles, MARABOUPARKEN, Sundbyberg
Magical World, STANDARD (OSLO), Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville *
Another Album, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona
You don’t love me yet live event, Madrid Abierto, Madrid
Magical World, Galeria Posibla, Bucharest
2005
Magical World, Holly Bushgardens, London
Look Out!, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Project Room, Chicago
2004
You don’t love me yet, Kavi Gupta 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, Göteborg/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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Play, Paradise Row, London
POPISME, ÉPISODE V, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
Coral Visual, Casa de la Cultura, Buenos Aires
Fotografi: nu 2009 - Small parts of the world, Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm
Vära krossade amerikanska hjärtan/Our Broken American Hearts, Museet för glömska, Norrköping, Sweden
AS LONG AS IT LASTS, Marian Goodman Gallery, NY
Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Chrono-logik: rearticulating crisis, Whitney ISP, New York
There is no audience!, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Sound of Music, Turner Contemporary Project Space, London
Audio, video, disco curated by David Bussel, Kunsthalle Zürich
No more reality: crowd and performance, depo-istanbul, Istanbul
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Try to make a simple gesture, no matter how small!, Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Kunstverein Bolzano, Italy
stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee
The Rehersal, Hollybush Gardens, London
2008
Here We Dance, Tate Modern, London, England
Playback, Musee Moderne in Paris, Paris, France
The presence of absence, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
Pop Goes The Weasel, Badisher Kunstverein
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Obscure Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand
Italia italie italien italy wlochy, RCOS Museo D¹Arte Contemporanea Sannio Benevento
Sonic Youth, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Gravity in Art, Telic Arts Exchange, LA
Into the Music, Kunstraum, München
Tarantula, Piazza del duomo, Foundazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Ask A Banana Baby, Howard House, Seattle
Something Must Break, OFF, Myslowice, Poland
Sarah's Journey, 7th Bulgarian Biennal of Contemporary Art, Varna Varna, Bulgaria
Terminus, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Muoviti fermo! -I am to sad to tell you, Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
First Annual exhibition, SPAPORT, Banja Luka, Bosnia
The Provocation of the Real, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City
ART IN CINEMA, Kino Pod Baranami, Krakow, Poland
TINA B, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival
Art as a gift, Periferic Biennal 8, Iasi, Romania
The sun shines on you today, The Power Plant, Toronto
Protest und Widerstand im Eigensinn der Kunst, galerie 5020, Salzburg
Just Play - Music as Social Practice, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
GALERIE JADE, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2007
documenta 12, Director: Roger M. Buergel, Kassel, Germany
Love Addiction, Practices in Video Art from 67 to the present, Galleria Comunale, d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
Stutter and Twitch, CCS Bard, NY
Recent Aquisitions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Re-, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Exploded View, Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
PLAYBACK, Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de paris/ARC, Paris
Intimacy, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
The Eventual, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon
The Screen Eye or The New Image, Casino, Luxembourg
Free Electrons: Selected videos from the Lemaître collection, Tabacalera, Donostia-San Sebastian
Silence, listen to the show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Held together with Water, Art from the Verbund Collection, MAK, Vienna
Jönköpings Konstmuseum, Jönköping
2006
Performative Ontology, Secession, Vienna
Belief, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Dreamlands Burn, Kunsthalle Budapest
You Don’t Love Me Yet, performance, The Lab, San Francisco
Here and now real, not yet concrete, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Momentum, Nordic Festival for contemporary art, Moss
No More Reality, (Crowd and Performance: Re-enactment, public space and collective utopia) Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade summer Festival, Belgrade
Leap into the cold water, Shedhalle, Zürich
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Group Dynamics, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Everyday Every Other Day, Blackwood Gallery/ the University of Toronto at Mississauga
Setting the Scene, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
Outside the Livingroom, GB AGENCY, Paris
Phantom, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
NORMALISATION, Rooseum, Malmoe
Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Biennial Cuvée, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Confined Innocence, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
Stutter and Twitch, CCS BARD, New York
Love Addiction, Practices in Video Art from 67 to the present, Galleria Comunale, d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
2005
Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam
Johanna Billing and Alan Currall, Display/Tranzit, curated by Vit Havranek, Prague
46th October Salon, Belgrade
9th Interantional Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
Rock Music (dedicated to Igor Zabel) Gallery P74, Ljubljana
Civic Matters, does it?, Stockholm/LACE, LA
With or Without, cultural center, Belgrade
Blava narrow focus, Tranzit, Bratislava
Do Not Interrupt your Activities, Royal College of Art, London
Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
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, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
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
Room for a Revolution, Deluxe Projects, Chicago
Baltic Babel, Rooseum, Malmö
Paus, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea*
Vårvideo, Kalmar Konstmuseum
2001
Projects for a Revolution, Le Mois de la photo à Montréal, 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
Screenings
2007
Witte de With’s, Film Festival, Rotterdam
2006
Beyond Cinema. The Art of Projection. Films, videos and installations from 1963 to 2005, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Staring into Space, Temp d'Images Festival, Trafo, Budapest
Time-Based Art Festival, PICA, Portland, Oregon
courtisane festival voor kortfilm, video en nieuwe media, Gent
Music for people, Filmscreening, DCA Dundee Contemporary art center Dundee
The Pennisuela, Singapore
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas
You can't avoid the East, Copenhagen
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’Étoile de Belleville, Paris
N.E.W.S. Exhibition, Roxy Cimema, Visby; Bornholm Museum, Bornholm
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
2004
Slim Volume, Poster Publication 2004 Tranzit, Magazine Project, Respekt/ der Standard In collaboration with Maria Crista
2002-2004
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
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
Grants and Residencies
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
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, SanDiego
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Catalogues
9th International Istanbul Biennial, Radikal Supplement, Mika Hannula, 2005
Dialecticts of Hope, Moscow Biennale, Jan Verwoert, 2005
Delayed on Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nada Beros, 2004
Svensk Konst Nu, Sophie Allgård, SAK, 2004
Untitled As Yet, The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac 2004
Cream 3, Phaidon 2003
When Peripherie becomes the center Prague Biennale, 2003
Dreams and Conflicts 50th Venice Bienale, 2003
Lisa Panting, Helena Holmberg & Mats Stjernstedt, Johanna Billing’s Works 3, Milch 2003
Project 1, Paus, Gwangju Biennale 2002
Mats Sjernstedt, ”The artist, the individual and the community”, Moderna Museet Projekt, 2001
Jan-Erik Lundström, ”Projects for a Revolution”, The Power of the Image: Le Mois de la photo à Montréal, September 2001
Blick – New Nordic Film And Video 2001, Moderna Museet & Nifca, 2001
I’ll Never Let You Go, Panacea Festival, 2001
Eva Broberg, Lost in Space, Färgfabriken, December 2000
Corinna Coch & Christiane Mennicke, ”After work” 4. Biennale Werkleitz Bildende Kunst, 2000
Onufri ”In & Out”, National Gallery of Tirana, 2000
Swe.de, Rikstutställningar, 2000
Bibliography
John McKinnon, ”Johanna Billing, Kavi Gupta Gallery”, Flash Art, No. 249, 2006
Margaret Hawkins, ”Video takes us for brief stay in kids’ ’Magical World’, Chicago Sun-Times, 2006
Polly Staple, ”Looking Back”, Frieze, #96, 2006
Jörg Heiser, Erden Kosova and Jan Verwoert, ”Istanbul City Report”, Frieze, #95, 2005
Lisa Williamson, ”You Don’t Love Me Yet”, TENbyTEN Magazine, 2004
Fred Camper "Critic's Choice" Chicago Reader May 2004
Anders Jansson "An interview with Johanna Billing, E-CART # 4 2004
Olivia Plender, ”After the rehearsal”, Frieze, March 2004
Helena Holmberg, ”You don’t love me yet” Nifca Info, November 2003
Lisa Panting, ”The innocence has evaporated”, Untitled Magazine 2002
Mats Sjernstedt, ”The artist, the individual and the community”, Moderna Museet Projekt, 2001
Sören Grammel ”Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren” Newsletter Kunstverein Muenchen 2002
Lars Bang Larsen, ”Vi-Intentional Communities”, Frieze, #64/2002
Anne-Marie Ninacs, "Just do it: on a few ethical models proposed by the practise of art", Les Commensaux, when art becomes circumstance, SKOL Center des arts actuels 2001
Jérome Delgado, ”Pas de revolution”, La Presse, 15/10-2001
Henry Lehman, ”Videos Pushing Stills Out of Photo Fest”, The Montreal Gazette,15/9 2001
Jelena Petrovskaja, ”Med en känsla av lätt melankoli”, Out in the Cold, Valand & Institute of contemporary Art Moscow, 2001
Frida Cornell, ”Make it Happen”, Organ, #6/2001
Amdam, Peter, ”Johanna Billing”, Natt & Dag, September 2001
Gard Olav Frigstad, ”På vei mot tvilen”, Aftenposten, 6 September 2001
Åsa Nacking, ”Det kollektiva som en möjlighet”, Rooseum Provisorium, #2/2001
Per Henrik Schaffer, ”Kick för konsten”, Vi, #12, 7/6-2001
Liv Kanakura, ”Dialog och Reflektion”, B-uppsats/diss., Stockholms universitet, 2001
Joanna Sandell, ”Konsten revolterar i Tirana”, Dagens Nyheter, 8/1-2001
Millou Allerholm, ”Välhängt av nybakade curatorer”, Dagens Nyheter, 5/1-2001
Suzanna Chan, ”Belfast”, Circa, #93/2000
Ulrika K. Engström, ”Stockholm Hjältar”, Dagens Nyheter, 22/12-2000
Petter Cavallin ”Full filofax”, Nöjesguiden, October 2000
Millou Allerholm, ”Generation 00”, Dagens Nyheter, 12/8-2000
Annika Hansson, ”00-tal presenterar”, 00-tal, #2–3/2000
Mette Eriksen, ”Kjærlighet och kunst”, Moss Avisen, 5/6-2000
Education
1994–1999
Konstfack /Konstfack International College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
* denotes catalogue