Johanna Billing

Last updated
Johanna Billing
Born1973
Jönköping
NationalitySwedish
Known forVideo art
Notable work"In Purple" (2019)
"Pulheim Jam Session" (2015)
"I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I die" (2012)
"I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm" (2009)
"Another Album" (2006)
"Magical World" (2005)
"You Don't Love Me Yet" (2003)

Johanna Billing (born 1973) is a Swedish artist. Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions such as Dokumenta 12, Istanbul Biennial (2005) and the 50th Venice Biennale.

Contents

Life and work

Johanna Billing was born 1973 in Jönköping, Sweden. [1] She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Billing studied at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden graduating in 1999. [2]

Recent works include: In Purple (2019), Pulheim Jam Session (2015) and I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I die (2012). Other significant works include: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm (2009), Another Album (2006), You Don't Love Me Yet (2003) and Magical World (2005). Many of the film's soundtracks exist as soundtrack records published by the German label Apparent Extent. Between 1998 and 2010 Billing ran the independent record label Make it Happen. The interest in music is also expressed through the long term and ongoing touring project You Don’t Love Me Yet (2002-2021) in which over 300 artists and groups in different cities have interpreted the song with the same title, originally written by Roky Erickson 1984.

Exhibitions

Billing has exhibited internationally. [3] Selected solo exhibitions include:

Notable works

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Bauer (illustrator)</span> Swedish painter and illustrator (1882–1918)

John Albert Bauer was a Swedish painter and illustrator. His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll, an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Purple Cow</span> 1895 poem by Gelett Burgess

"Purple Cow" is a short nonsense poem by American writer Gelett Burgess. It was first published in 1895.

Sheldon Talmy is an American record producer, songwriter and arranger, best known for his work in the UK in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks and many others.

Damian Le Bas was a British artist associated with the Outsider Art label, as well a leading exponent of the "Roma Revolution" in art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">I'm from Barcelona</span> Swedish pop group

I'm from Barcelona is a Swedish pop group from Jönköping, Sweden, best known for its 29 band members and eclectic mix of instruments such as clarinets, saxophones, flutes, trumpets, banjos, accordions, kazoos, guitars, drums, and keyboards among others. While most band members provide backing vocals on releases and during live performances, Emanuel Lundgren is founder, principal songwriter and lead singer for the group.

<i>The King of Rock n Roll: The Complete 50s Masters</i> 1992 box set by Elvis Presley

The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters is a five-disc box set compilation of the complete known studio master recordings by American singer and musician Elvis Presley during the decade of the 1950s. Issued in 1992 by RCA Records, catalog number 66050-2, it was soon followed by similar box sets covering Presley's musical output in the 1960s and 1970s. This set's initial long-box release included a set of collectible stamps duplicating the record jackets from every Presley LP on RCA Victor, every single that had a picture sleeve, and most of his EP releases. The set includes a booklet with an extensive session list and discography, and a lengthy essay by Peter Guralnick. It peaked at #159 on the album chart and was certified a gold record on August 7, 1992, by the RIAA. Further certifications were for platinum on November 20, 1992, and for double platinum on July 30, 2002.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Led Zeppelin United Kingdom Tour 1968</span> 1968 concert tour by Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin's 1968 tour of the United Kingdom was the first concert tour of the United Kingdom by the English rock band. It commenced on 4 October and concluded on 20 December 1968.

Tris Vonna-Michell is a British artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection. Vonna-Michell lives in Southend in the United Kingdom and Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2005 and then continued his studies at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main

The Deep Purple European Tour was a year-long successful concert tour by English hard rock band Deep Purple, lasting from July 1969 until June 1970. The band played mostly United Kingdom shows, also covering West Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. It was the first tour to feature the classic Deep Purple line-up: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice. It is considered to be the pre-tour for the In Rock album, as the band mostly played songs from the upcoming album.

Cornelius Green III, known professionally as Lonesome Sundown, was an American blues musician, best known for his swamp blues recordings for Excello Records in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Vision Forum is an organisation that carries out research in contemporary art and organises events that transgresses the boundaries between performance, exhibition, workshops and education. It grew from a series of events organised by Curatorial Mutiny in collaboration with KSM at Campus Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet in Sweden 2005–2007. Vision Forum took its present form in 2008. It does not have a physical location or a program, but responds to the needs of the group of artists, curators and researchers that are part of the network at any given moment. Its members are mostly based in Europe and have carried out projects all over the continent, in North America, Australia and Asia. In 2009, neuroscientist Stephen Whitmarsh joined the group, showing that the organisation can host members outside of the artistic community. A strategy that has been developed further in subsequent years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Songs That Built Rock Tour</span> 2011–12 concert tour by Deep Purple

The Songs That Built Rock Tour was a 2011–12 world concert tour by English hard rock band Deep Purple.

James Webb is a South African artist best known for his interventions and installations incorporating sound. His sound installations place special emphasis on the sourcing and presentation of the sound clips, as well as the social significance and context of these sounds. Often referred to as a "collector of sounds," Webb is interested in the role that aural events play in our everyday life. The physical presentation of the work, including the installation space and the logistics of speakers, are also deliberate choices for Webb.

Emily Sundblad is an American-based, Swedish-born painter, gallerist, and musician. She co-founded and co-directs Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Einar Jolin</span> Swedish artist (1890–1976)

Einar Jolin was a Swedish painter best known for his decorative and slightly naïve Expressionist style. After studying at Konstfack, Stockholm in 1906 and at the Konstnärsförbundets målarskola, Jolin and his friends Isaac Grünewald and Einar Nerman went to Paris for further studies at Henri Matisse's academy from 1908 to 1914.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Otto Gustaf Carlsund</span> Swedish artist and art critic

Otto Gustaf Carlsund was a Swedish avant-garde artist and art critic, connected to Cubism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, and Concrete art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Life Amplified World Tour</span> 2016–17 concert tour by Brad Paisley

The Life Amplified World Tour was the eleventh headlining concert tour by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It began on May 19, 2016, in Wheatland, California and concluded on February 18, 2017, in Verona, New York, The tour played through amphitheaters and festivals across the United States and Canada.

Nahum is an artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer and artistic director who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work combines outer space technologies, illusionism, and hypnosis to create alternative and extreme perspectives of human experience.

Anne Low is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Montreal, Canada. She uses sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to explore the relationship of historical contexts of contemporary functional objects and themes that occur, such as the domestic and the decorative. Her works highly focus on the physicality of an object and utilize her historic knowledge of weaving and various methodologies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Lind</span> Swedish art historian, art critic and curator

Maria Lind is a Swedish curator, art writer and educator. Since 2020, she has been the Counsellor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow.

References

  1. "Johanna Billing". Johanna Billing. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  2. "Johanna Billing". Johanna Billing. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  3. Gronlund, Melissa (January 2013). "Johanna Billing I'M GONNA LIVE ANYHOW TILL I DIE". Flash Art International. 46: 84–86 via Art & Architecture Source EBSCOhost.
  4. "Betty Bailey and Johanna Billing: Jam Session". Et al. / Et al. etc.