Erik Johansson Surreal Photography
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Here you can find the latest news about Erik's work. Exhibitions, new work and behind the scenes videos. Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and visual artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. He is known for creating surreal worlds through the combination of photographs. He primarily focuses on personal projects and exhibitions, and his approach to photography is unique in that he..
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Navigating the Social Media Maze
In the digital age, social media has become an indispensable tool for connecting with each other, regardless if it’s your family, friends or with artists and others. However, as platforms evolve and algorithms shift, it's becoming increasingly hard to stay up to date with everything happening and to share my work with the people who are actually interested. I want to connect with you directly and I want to make sure you don’t miss out!
From the showroom in Prague, April 2024
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New exhibition just opened in Fotografiska Museum of Photography in Stockholm, Sweden. The Echo Chamber explores the topic of how we connect to each other and don’t, an immersive experience with with images, text and sound. Step into my world in a new way!
In this exhibition, three different themes illustrate the complexity of human perception. Based on Erik Johansson's images titled The Echo Chamber, Filter Bubbles and Painting a World of Our Own, we have allowed each theme to grow out into the room. Here you will neither find answers to the big questions, nor a shimmering utopia ..read more
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This year I’m exhibiting my work in Austalia at Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Ballarat. The venue is a fantastic space that used to be a gold exchange back in the days. I worked together with Architect Tina Peterkova on the exhibition design. The exhibition is called “How to Fly“ and we wanted this to also be reflected in the exhibition design ..read more
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New exhibition in Busan, South Korea. Including more than 80 works produced over the past 15 years it’s one of my largest exhibitions so far ..read more
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A look behind the scenes of my latest project “Make Believe“ and how it was made. Book photographed in my studio in Prague, background/surrounding photographed in Sweden and model and the grass photographed in a park in Prague, Czech Republic. Model: Inga Sitas ..read more
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Note: I was not sponsored or given any of the components either for free or at any discount in this post, I just want to share my personal opinion about my last computer build!
Why build your own Computer?
I have always liked building my own computers, I feel that it gives me more control over optimization of that machine that I want to work on and the joy of combining parts into a computer is maybe something that started already when I was building LEGO as a child. Furthermore it’s a affordable way of maximizing you performance to affordability. Julian Erksmeyer helped me select components an ..read more
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New big exhibition in Falun, Sweden including 56 large artworks and a few new unpublished works in a beautiful old industrial space. Exhibition design with floating walls designed by Tina Peterkova. Big thanks to Magasinet and everyone involved that helped it come to life!
Open daily from 11 am - 5 pm until 21 August 2022
Location:Magasinet
Tullkammaregatan 12, 791 31 Falun, Sweden ..read more
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Ideas Come at Night - Les idées viennent la nuit
From February 18th until April 24th 2022 my new exhibition “Ideas Come at Night“ is on display at the Swedish Institute in Paris, France. The exhibition contains twelve large artworks and six smaller works together with a collection of about 160 sketches of Erik’s work of previous and upcoming projects. The exhibition is built around a center room containing a bed and lightbulbs illuminating the small inner room. The walls in the inner room are decorated with sketches and ideas, some of the original sketches included in the exhibit ..read more
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UPDATE:SOLD OUT IN 90 MINUTES!
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€ 800 — Edition of 12
100% of the sale price will be donated to Ukraine Humanitarian Fund
Signed and numbered on the front. Special limited edition print of “Self-Supporting“ under the name “Together we are Strong“.
Paper: Rauch Museum Natural Silk 300
Print size: 58 x 46 cm ( 22.8 x 18.1 inches )
Shipped rolled in a protective tube. Price includes worldwide shipping. If interested please send a message to the email below.
ukraine@erikjohanssonphoto.com ..read more
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In december 2019 my second exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm openend. It’s my biggest exhibition so far and covers work from the past 10 years in a big beatiful space including a few new unpublished projects as well. If you happen to be in Stockholm before the 1st of March I hope you have a chance to have a look for yourself. You’ll find it here: Fotografiska (location ..read more