Contact
Johan Österholm lives and works Stockholm
johan.osterholm ‹at› gmail.com
» Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
» Monica De Cardenas, Milano
Selected exhibitions
2022 Radiant Clusters, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery (solo)
2022 Adjacent Hour, Olseröds Konsthall (duo with Olof Nimar)
2021 Luminous Reign, Kosminen, Helsinki (solo)
2021 Untitled Lantern Pieces, Landskrona Sculpture Park
2021 Edstrandska Scholarship Exhibition, Malmö Art Academy / KHM2, Malmö
2021 The Stars Below, Galleri Box, Gothenburg (solo)
2020 Photons (From the Sky to the Sea), Galeria e Bregdetit, Vlorë, Albania
2020 Space Works, Tampere Art Museum
2020 Vista Point: Re-Connecting Nature, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam
2020 Ethereal Dwellings, Alta Art Space, Malmö (duo with Gonçalo Sena)
2019 The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2019 Milchstrassenverkehrsordnung, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (with support by Konstnärsnämnden)
2019 OSMOSCOSMOS, Centre de la Photographie Genève
2019 The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, McCord Museum, Montreal
2019 Photo Basel, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
2019 Night Lights, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano (solo project room)
2019 Moonlight, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
2019 Back to the Future, Mai Máno Ház, Budapest
2018 Back to the Future, C/O Berlin
2018 Apparent Magnitude, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin (solo)
2018 Sculptural Landscapes, Copenhagen Photo Festival
2018 Jamais laisser les photos trainer, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano
2018 The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
2018 Haute Photographie, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Rotterdam
2018 Back to the Future, Foam, Amsterdam
2017 The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, WestLicht Museum of Photography, Vienna
2017 Under Dark Skies, fotogalleriet [format], Malmö (solo)
2017 The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
2017 Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup
2016 The Primal Shelter is The Site for Primal Fears, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Edstrandska Foundation Grant Exhibition, KHM Gallery, Malmö
2016 Flyktpunkt: New Swedish Photography, Centrum for Photography, Stockholm
2016 Screens and Mirrors, Borås Museum of Modern Art
2016 Peculiar Motions at Dusk, KHM Gallery, Malmö (solo)
2016 LA CAMERA: On the materiality of photography, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna
2015 Untitled (Family Portraits), Landskrona Photo Festival 2015 (solo)
2015 Unseen Photo, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Map of the New Art: Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2015 Annual Exhibition, Malmö Art Academy
2015 Sight. So Close. Breadfield, Malmö (duo with Jennie Rosberg)
2015 FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
2015 AIPAD at The Armory Building, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, New York
2014 Process as portrait, H. Bergdal Gallery, Malmö (duo with Gisa Pantel)
2014 Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2014 New Nordic Photography 2014, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
2014 The Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
2013 Tacita Dean Workshop Exhibition, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
2013 SET/RISE, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
Education
2014-2016 Master of Fine Art, Malmö Art Academy, MFA tutor Joachim Koester
2010-2013 Bachelor of Fine Art, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
2009-2010 Gestaltande Fotografi, Gamleby School of Photography
Workshops & Residencies
2020 IASPIS, Stockholm
2018 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016 EIB Artists’ Development Programme, Luxembourg, mentored by Darren Almond
2014 XX CSAV Artist Research Laboratory. Tacita Dean - Comoggardising - The benefit of creative indolence, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2013 Elina Brotherus: Contemporary Self-Portrait, ISSP 2013, Kuldiga, Latvia
2013 Taller Tacita Dean, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Publications
2022 Agency - Travel (essay)
2022 Antique Skies, Bored Wolves (artist book)
2021 Ad Nox, Ad Lux, Aber Press, Malmö (essay)
2020 Space Works, Backlight, Tampere
2019 Space is the Place, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2019 OSMOSCOSMOS, Centre de la Photographie Genève
2018 C/O Berlin Magazine, essay by Caroline von Courten
2018 Camera Austria "Forum", September Issue
2018 BE Magazine 25, essay by Jens Asthoff
2018 Monopol Magazine , "Watchlist", May Issue
2017 The Polaroid Project: Art & Technology, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Thames&Hudson
2017 Capture Photography Festival 2017 (Editorial essay)
2016 Malmö Art Academy Year Book 2016 with MFA thesis Objects in the Rear-View Mirror
2016 Screens and Mirrors
2016 La Camera:Sulla materialità della fotografia/On the materiality of photography
2015 Lucida Journal, Queensland Centre for Photography
2015 Archive of Visions and Actions: Contemporary Art from Sweden, Imago Mundi
2015 Unseen Photo Fair
2015 Landskrona Fotofestival
2015 Sight. So Close. fotogalleriet [format] & Breadfield, Malmö
2014 Eyelid Reports, Fondazione Antonio Ratti / Mousse Publishing
2014 New Nordic Photography 2014, Hasselbladstiftelsen
2014 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs
2013 SET RISE Bachelor of Fine Arts 2013, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
Grants & Awards
2021 The Edstrandska Foundation's Grant
2021 The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland
2021 Two Year Working Grant, The Swedish Art Council
2019 The Swedish Art Council’s International Exchange Grant
2019 Helge Ax:son Johnson Grant
2017 PLATTFORM, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2016 Anna Kockum Grant, Malmö Art Museum
2016 Nordic Culture Point’s Mobility Grant
2016 The Swedish Art Council’s International Exchange Grant
2016 Working Grant, The Swedish Art Council
2016 The Edstrandska Foundation's Grant
2015 Helge Ax:son Johnson Grant
2014 The Portfolio Review Award 2014, Landskrona Fotofestival
2014 Ester Lindahls Travel Grant
2014 The Swedish Art Council’s International Exchange Grant
2011 & 2012 The Baltic Donation International Grant