JÖNKÖPING, SUECIA, 1973
LIVES AND WORKS IN STOCKHOLM
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Johanna Billing (born 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and works mainly with film, video, music and performance (through the label Make it happen) in which her hands become a medium of exchange, memory and reconstruction. Billings' films portray people in staged, concentrated situations, with emotional charge derived from internal tensions between the individual and the backdrop of society. The participants play themselves and also play a part in a multilayered interpretation of a place and a situation that oscillates between documentary and fiction. Since graduating from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Stockholm) in 1999, Billing has been the subject of numerous solo shows over the last few years in Europe and the U.S. Recent exhibitions include Magical World, PS.1, New York (2006); More films about Songs, Cities and Circles, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg (2006); Normalization, Rooseum, Malmoe (2006); the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005); If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution tour, The Netherlands (2005); 1st Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2005); the 50th Venice Biennial (2003); and the 1st Prague Biennial (2003).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS    
2006   
·    Magical World, PS.1, New York
·    Magic & Loss, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
·    More films about Songs, Cities and Circles, Marabouparken, Sundbyberg
·    Magical World, STANDARD, Oslo
·    Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville

2005   
·    Magical World, Hollybush Gardens, London

2004   
·    Look Out, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
·    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, Göteborg/Gothenburg

2000   
·    Project for a Revolution, Galleri Flach, Stockholm

1999   
·    Coming Up, 149A, The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm

1998   
·    Straight from the Hip, Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm

1996   
·    Är du lik en känd person?, Galleri Service, Stockholm

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006    
·    Belief, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
·    Fail Now, Fail Again, Fail Better, Momentum, Moss
·    NIT NIU 06 "In a Magical World", la cala Sant Vicens, Pollenca, Mallorca
·    No More Reality, Belef, Center For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
·    Phantom, Charlottenborg Exhibition hall, Copenhagen
·    Setting the Scene, Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
·    Outside the livingroom, GB-Agency, Paris
·    Leap into the cold water, Shedhalle, Zürich
·    Everyday, Every other day, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto
·    Group Dynamics, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
·    Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam
·    Normalization, Rooseum, Malmoe
·    Biennial Cuvée, OK, Linz, Austria
·    Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2005   
·    Gravity in Art, de Appel, Amsterdam
·    Johanna Billing & Alan Currall, Display, curated by Vit Havranek, Prague
·    Art that works, Catch Me, 46th October Salon, Belgrade
·    9th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
·    Rock Music (dedicated to Igor Zabel) Gallery P74, Ljubljana
·    Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
·    Becoming Minor, With or without?, Cultural Center, Belgrade
·    If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution, (Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Festival Boulevard,’S-Hertogenbosch)
·    Blava Narrow Focus, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava, Slovakia
·    Radiodays, ctp programme, De Appel, Amsterdam
·    Moscow Biennale at NCCA Nizhnij Novgorod
·    Havlandet, The west Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen
·    Do Not Interrupt your Activities, Royal College of Art, London
·    Dialectics of Hope, Lenin Museum, 1st Moscow Biennale, 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, Croatia
·    Collect Call, H.arta, Timisoara, Romania
·    The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia/ Montenegro
·    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   
·    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, Index, Stockholm
·    Performance, An Art Brothel, Herkulesgatan, Stockholm

VIDEO SCREENINGS
2006    
·    7. Werkleitz Biennale "Happy Believers", Film Program
·    Cineboards, Rotterdam, Hague, Eindhoven
·    PICA; 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, EAI, 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    
·    Parallel 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, Geneve
·    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; Nifca,
·    Future Perfect, Adam Street, London
·    Le Bonheur, L’Étoile de Belleville, Paris
·    N.E.W.S. Exhibition, Roxy Cimema, Visby; Bornholm Museum, Bornholm

EDUCATION
94–99
·    Konstfack International College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

Grants and Residencies
2005    
·    Oktober Art Salon, Award, Belgrade

2004    
·    West Balkan Air, Nifca Recidency Program, What, How and for Whom, Zagreb

2004    
·    Stockholm Stad Kulturstipendium

2003    
·    The Edstrandska Foundation Prize

2001     
·    Konstnärsnämnden Working Grant

1999   
·    IASPIS International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden

SEMINARS AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006   
·    Konstnärlig ledare för Vita Kuben, Norrlansoperan

2005   
·    Taking the Matters into Common hands, Symposium at IASPIS, put together with Maria Lind & Lars Nilsson

2003    
·    Här och Nu, Moderna Museet

2002    
·    Follow Me -Stockholm Art Fair

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

02-05    
·    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, UK, If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution, Festival a/d Werf,     Utrecht, Den Bosch, Leiden

2004   
·    Slim Volume, Poster Publication 2004
·    Tranzit, Magazine Project curated by Vit Havranek, Respekt/ der Standard in collaboration     with Maria Crista

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

98–00    
·    Make It Happen, Backstage, Stadsteatern, Stockholm

96–98     
·    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

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
·    The Verbund Collection
·    Berezdivin Collection
·    Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
·    Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
·    Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
·    Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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