Johanna Billing
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.
Johanna Billing
- Name
- Johanna Billing
- Born
- 1973
- Birthplace
- Jönköping
- Known for
- Video art
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- artist · film director · television producer · photographer
- Education
- Konstfack
- Languages
- Swedish
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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.
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Johanna Billing (born 1973) is an artist, film director and photographer, among other activities, of Swedish nationality. The artist was born in Jönköping.
Johanna Billing was educated at Konstfack. The artist worked in Stockholm.
Languages used include Swedish. Works are held at Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Van Abbemuseum.
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Biography
Biography
Billing worked across artist, film director, television producer, visual artist and video artist and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 7 published texts drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Johanna Billing studied at Konstfack. The recorded working language is Swedish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Stockholm. Work by Johanna Billing is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Van Abbemuseum.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Johanna Billing • Born — 1973 • Birthplace — Jönköping • Known for — Video art • Notable Works — "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)
Life and work
Life and work
Johanna Billing was born 1973 in Jönköping, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Billing studied at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden graduating in 1999. 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
Exhibitions
Billing has exhibited internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include: • 2021: In Purple, Konsthall 16, Riksidrottsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden • 2020: In Purple, Hollybush Gardens, London, United Kingdom • 2019: In Purple, Stadsbiblioteket, Jönköping, Sweden • 2017: Jam Session, with Betty Bailey, Et al., San Francisco, United States • 2017: About Art: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway • 2016: Keeping Time, Villa Croce, Genova, Italy • 2015: Pulheim Jam Session, Hollybush Gardens, London, United Kingdom • 2014: I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die, Fieromilanocity, Milan, Italy • 2012: I’m Gonna Live Anyhow until I Die, The Mac, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom • 2011: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm, Crystal, Stockholm, Sweden • 2010: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom • 2009: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm, Camden Art Centre, London, United Kingdom • 2009: This Is How We Walk On the Moon, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada • 2008: This Is How We Walk On the Moon, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden • 2007: Forever Changes, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Schweiz • 2007: Keep on Doing, DCA, Dundee Contemporary Art Center, Dundee, United Kingdom • 2007: Another Album and other films, Jönköpings Konstmuseum, Jönköpings, Sweden • 2007: Another Album, Hollybush Gardens, London, United Kingdom • 2006: Magical World, PS.1, New York, United States • 2005: Magical World, Hollybush Gardens, London, United Kingdom • 2001: Where She Is At, Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm, Sweden • 2001: Where She Is At, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway
Notable works
Notable works
• In Purple (2019) • Pulheim Jam Session (2015) • I’m Gonna Live Anyhow until I Die (2012) • I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm (2009) • This Is How We Walk On the Moon (2007) • Another Album (2006) • Magic & Loss (2005) • Magical World (2005) • You Don't Love Me Yet (2003) • Where She Is At (2001) • Missing Out (2001) • Project For a Revolution (2000) • Graduate Show (1999)
Identity
Identity
Johanna Billing is recorded with the occupation television producer. Recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as artist, film director, television producer and photographer.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1973
Johanna Billing was born on 1 January 1973.
1994
Enters Konstfack.
Publications
• Johanna Billing - Works [Paperback] • Johanna Billing: Look Behind Us a Blue Sky [Hardback]
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Johanna Billing”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q531113: Johanna Billing
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Johanna Billing.
- 2.Johanna Billing.
- 3.Gronlund, Melissa. Johanna Billing I'M GONNA LIVE ANYHOW TILL I DIE. Flash Art International. 46. 84–86. January 2013.
- 4.Betty Bailey and Johanna Billing: Jam Session. Et al. / Et al. etc.
References
Citations
References
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reference work
Secondary witnessinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q531113: Johanna BillingWikimedia Foundation
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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