CORNER SPACE
HANS JÖRGEN JOHANSEN
CORNER SPACE
1 DECEMBER – 12 JANUARY 2025
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
The works can be seen through the window’s of our corner space, Karlavägen 15.
Johansen explores how human influence has transformed nature and thus changed our view of the landscape. With industrialization, agriculture became increasingly geometric, with fields organized in repetitive patterns, not unlike abstract art.
What were once vibrant landscapes now appear as calculated and monochrome surfaces, where nostalgia meets a strict, artificial aesthetic. Johansen creates a dialogue between nature and art, with clear parallels to the squares of Constructivism. His work balances between the nostalgic and the sterile, transforming wheat fields and raw materials into visual landscapes that both entice and question.
By structuring and manipulating these elements, he reflects upon the human hand’s role in transforming nature into something that almost feels constructed. The result is a world where the natural and the artificial merge and where art history and our modern reality meet.
HANS JÖRGEN JOHANSEN, born 1961 in Borgholm, currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Johansen holds a MFA from the Royal University of Fine Art in Stockholm, 1992.
Johansen’s work has been exhibited at Landskrona konsthall; Liljevalchs, Stockholm; Karlskrona Konsthall; Kristinehamns konstmuseum; Kalmar konstmuseum; Saltarvet, Fiskebäckskil; and Brändström & Stene, among others.
Johansen has received grants from The Swedish Art Grants Committee, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Helge Ax:son Johnson’s Foundation and Gerhard Bonnier’s Foundation, JCDecaux’s art prize – The Art Break 2013, among others.
Johansen’s work is in the permanent collection of the Public Art Agency Sweden; Kalmar konstmuseum; Region Uppsala; Mörbylånga kommun; Stockholm Konst; Region Stockholm; and the Swedish Parliament, among others.
Public commissions include work for Stockholm City; the Public Art Agency Sweden; Linköping City, Uppsala City and IRF – Institution for Space technique in Kiruna, Sweden.