Johan Fowelin

  • 2009/The Model/Art
    The Model

    Poster; Forum No 4 /2009/

  • 2009/Svenska Kraftnät/Advertising
    Svenska Kraftnät

    15.000 kilometers of power line supplying the country with electricity. “Svenska Kraftnät” operates the energy grid covering the nation. Campaign with Sakari Paananen at Frankenstein Design Studio.

  • 2009/Sveriges Riksbank/Architecture
    Sveriges Riksbank

    Forum No.2 2009; Magazine for Scandinavian Architecture, Interiors and Design. New release with art direction by Henrik Nygren. Covering the Bank of Sweden, a masterpiece by Peter Celsing from 1976. Text by Wilfried Wang.

  • 2007/Livraison/Art
    Livraison

    # 1 / C5

    I have no secrets.

    (Aki Kaurismäki in Livraison #3)

    Clothes by Sandra Backlund.

  • 2006/Birkhäuser/Advertising
    Birkhäuser

    A trio…

    One hundred and eighty-eight pages of design by CKR. Objects lined up in New York, Milan, Stockholm, Tibro and elsewhere. Placed on a horizontal line as a superior principle of representational order. Mark Isitt writes a biography of Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.

  • 2006/Ruins/Art
    Ruins

    Tempus edax rerum, tuque, invidiosa vetustas,
    omnia destruitis vitiataque dentibus aevi
    paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte!

    (Oividius Metamorphoses XV, 234.)

  • 2005/Forum 1.06/Architecture
    Forum 1.06

    Forum Price winner 2006; VM Complex by Plot (Bjarke Ingels and Julien de Smelt) and second price, Kastrup Sea Bath by White Architects.

  • 2005/Zaha Hadid/Architecture
    Zaha Hadid

    Zaha experience at Odrupgaard art museum, Denmark. Forum magazine 4.05.

  • 2002/Shame/Art
    Shame

    Fine Art Silver Gelatin Prints. Negatives from a public archive at the Local Transport Company in Stockholm.
    Exhibited at Roger Björkholmen and Index Gallery, Stockholm.

  • 2000/Muzeion/Art
    Muzeion

    Signed “W.Germany”, “Import” or “#13” this pottery is mass-produced. Occasionally Danish hand-crafted or Swedish amateur works. In rare cases pieces by known artists. This is a homage to Cezanne, Morandi and Robert Mapplethorpe. As well as generations of art students struggling with shadows, shapes and forms of a “Nature Morte” consisting of randomly collected items, put together by a teacher in messy hair and corduroy, suggesting he is true believer of ART. Book project, text by Lars O. Ericsson.

  • 1989/Subways/Art
    Subways

    “The Metro was one of the most significant architectural manifestations during the twentieth century. The aesthetic and social pathos of modernism expressed in a transport machinery. Transit and travel charged with not only a practical meaning; a metaphysical hope of a better life.

    At the same time as the ideology of an epoch is unduly obtrusive in the pale fluorescent light of Metro underworld, I sense an end of an illusion and it´s social model”.

    Johan Fowelin, April 28 1994.

  • 1989/Defining Moment/Art
    Defining Moment

    Berlin November 1989. Exhibited at Moderna Muséet 1991, S:t Petersburg University 1992, Gothenburg Art Museum 2014 and Dunker Arthall, Helsingborg 2015 and Nationalmuseum 2019.

  • 1987/Anti nuclear erection/Art
    Anti nuclear erection

    My contribution to political activism. An attempt to get rid of a nuclear power plant built exactly on the spot for childhood paradise. Eventually I succeeded as the plant closed in 2005. With help from Maria and Claes.

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