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The Sea Colony

The Sea Colony (Havskollonin) is a new video work that will be shown at Halland Art Museum October 17, 2026 – January 17, 2027 during the exhibition Road Signs (Vägmärken) – 10 Years of Art Inside Out.


The Sea Colony (Havskolonin) is a new video work emerging from a performative and collective experiment developed in and around Laholmsbukten on the Swedish west coast. Through an open call, a group of participants gathered for a three-week process exploring speculative forms of aquatic coexistence in a time of rising sea levels and shifting planetary conditions.

Together, we developed alternative personas, bodily extensions, wetsuits, sounds, movements, and rituals, as if new organs and logics were slowly emerging. The resulting film follows a temporary colony moving through sand dunes and shorelines, somewhere between exhaustion, play, transformation, and migration. Bodies crawl toward the sea, costumes are shed and abandoned, and another reality gradually begins to take shape.

The work is produced with support from Art Inside Out.

New music for the work is composed by Adele Marcia Kosman.
The Sea Colony will be presented at Halland Art Museum in autumn 2027.


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Solastalgia Pangolin

From the ground, a vaulted figure. Through the centuries, a vessel. In place and in motion, a field hospital on the front lines of the climate crisis. A simple cabin or capsule, but at the same time a complex sculptural base station with ramifications in time and space. Solastalgia Pangolin is a temporary home for artistic refinement and contemplation regarding the state of the biosphere that is our eternal home.

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris writes about Signe’s artistry in her book The Hydrocene

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris writes about Signe’s artistry in her book The Hydrocene – Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water.

Routledge.com/The-Hydrocene-Eco-Aesthetics-in-the-Age-of-Water/Bailey-Charteris/p/book/9781032501321

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (PhD) is an Australian and Swedish curator, writer and academic with expertise in the politics and poetics of eco-aesthetics.

Hestens oprindelse at Rønnebæksholm, Denmark

Foto: Helge Olsén

Signe Johannessens work Thank you for carrying (2023) is part of the exhibition Hestens oprindelse at Rønnebæksholm, Denmark.

2 March 2024 – 9 June 2024
Hestens oprindelse at Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark.

Artists:  Agnes Lunn, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Casper Roshan Koch Hughes, Helen Schou, Karl Hansen Reistrup, Maiken Bent, Olivia Holm-Møller, Rasmus Myrup, Signe Johannessen, Soheila Sokhanvari, Sonja Strange, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Kunstteater (Mathias Dyhr), Kultivator.

Beyond Nuclear Family: Home Sweet Home 

Works by Signe is part of the exhibition Beyond Nuclear Family: Home Sweet Home at EFA Project Space, November 17, 2022– January 7, 2023.

https://new-york.czechcentres.cz/en/program/exhibition-beyond-nuclear-family-home-sweet-home-at-efa-project-space

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Production still, Puppy Play (2020) by Signe Johannessen. Photo: Helge Ols´en

The book Trophy awarded the Year’s Most Beautiful Book by Grafill in Norway

The book Trophy is awarded the Year’s Most Beautiful Book in the category Photobook/Artbook by Grafill in Norway.

An art book in pocket format with a wonderful tactile and holographic silver shimmer cover that matches the book’s prismatic collection of texts revolving around Signe Johannessen’s artwork. The interior’s slightly careless typography does not sacrifice elementary requirements for legibility, and the consistent use of a display font designed for the book by the book’s designer refers to the artist’s use of materials. A desirable object one cannot avoid noticing.

The jury’s comment

Diploma to Signe Johannessen and Lars Høie for
Trophy. Editors: Caroline Malmström and Signe Johannessen


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Beyond Nuclear Family: Recipes for Happiness at Display in Praha

OCT 13, 2022 — NOV 27, 2022
Works by Signe is part of the exhibition Beyond Nuclear Family: Recipes for Happiness at Display in Praha, Czech republic. Opening: Wednesday 12. October 2022 17:00

JCHS curatorial collective (Barbora Ciprová, Veronika Čechová, Tereza Jindrová, Karina Kottová).

Display.cz/en/projects/nejen-nuklearni-rodina-recepty-na-stesti

Production still, Puppy Play (2020) by Signe Johannessen. Photo: Helge Ols´en

CORONASAMLINGEN – Statens konstråds nyförvärv 2021 – at Havremagasinet

Works by Signe is part of the exhibition CORONASAMLINGEN – Statens konstråds nyförvärv 2021. The Exhibition shows works that is part of the New acquisition 2021 by Art Agency Swedn.

4 JUNI – 11 SEPTEMBER, 2022
at Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden.

Havremagasinet.se/event/vernissage-4-juni

Havremagasinet.se/utstallning/coronasamlingen

Trophy (2020) Foto: Gert Germeraad

The book Trophy

The book Trophy

The book Trophy is a deep dive into the art practice of Signe Johannessen with newly produced texts by Axel Andersson, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Ida Bencke, Julia Björnberg, Christina Fredengren, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Signe Johannessen, Therese Kellner, Caroline Malmström, Kristina Sigunsdotter and Cecilia Åsberg. Graphic deign by Lars Høie. Edited by Caroline Malmström and Signe Johannessen. 

The book is available in assorted art bookstores and galleries such as Malmö Konsthall, Ystad Konstmuseum, Oslo Kunstforening and more. 

The book can be ordered from Klicka här

”Swamp Posthumous” by Signe Johannessen in collaboration with Cullberg – Accelerator

The artist Signe Johannessen presents the film Swamp Posthumous, a co-production of Cullberg and Accelerator. Swamp Posthumous is a further development of Signe Johannessen’s work Posthumous Dialogue which is part of the exhibition Experimentalfältet.

Movie screening at 18:00 August 25, 2021 at Accelerator.

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LIAF 2019 was awarded The Norwegian Art critics Prize 2019

LIAF 2019 produced the book The Kelp congress in which the work The Kelp Medal of Honour is presented.

LIAF 2019 was awarded The Norwegian Art critics Prize 2019 for their group Exhibition High Tides where signe Johannessens work was presented.

https://2019.liaf.no/en/news/liaf-awarded-the-norwegian-art-critics-prize-for-2019/

https://kritikerlaget.no/saker/kunstkritikerprisen-2019-1398