Sara Johansson

The Anatomy of Place
26 September – 22 October 2015

Uppsala Art Museum presents the artist Sara Johansson (1954–2010) with an extensive retrospective exhibition and catalogue. Sara Johansson grew up and resided in Uppsala for most of her life. While her primary medium was painting, she also worked with drawing and installations.

The exhibition presents a broad selection of her paintings and drawings. In addition, the installation Open Hands has been recreated, a piece that Sara Johansson created together with the artist Barbro Curling in 1998 at Eventa 4 at Ekeby Qvarn. 

Anita Glesta (USA), a fellow artist and close friend of Sara Johansson, writes in the catalogue of how the viewer can gain access to another dimension that leads thoughts to science fiction and dreamed worlds, while the paintings seem to express both the longing for a secure place and the quest for an “elsewhere”.

Also included in the catalogue is Annika Berg-Frykholm’s interview with Sara Johansson from the book Om konsten och livet (On Art and Life). Here the artist herself describes how her sketchbooks were full of suggestive architectural and biological organic forms drawn from her imagination. The spatial aspects (surface, depth and volume) fascinated her, and she took inspiration from a wide array of sources: film, music, dance, art, architecture and science.

Uppsala Art Museum owes a huge debt of gratitude to Sara Johansson’s family and others who have been involved in the work on the exhibition and catalogue. 

SARA JOHANSSON
Education: The Gerlesborg School of Art, Stockholm, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Grants: In Memory of Anna-Lisa Thomson Foundation, The Swedish Art Grants Committee, Uppsala County Council Grant, Uppsala Municipality Culture Grant. Public Commissions: Stiftsamfälligheten, Stiftets Hus, Uppsala, Smyckad Rymd, Uppsala, Våra Gårdar, Vänge School. Represented: Public Art Agency Sweden, Uppsala Municipality, Västerås Art Museum. Solo Exhibitions: Approximately thirty solo exhibitions from 1984 to 2009 in Stockholm, Uppsala, Linköping, Helsingborg, Umeå, Sundsvall, among other places. Other Exhibitions: Group exhibitions in Skellefteå, Stockholm, Uppsala, as well as in Japan and Holland. Exhibitions together with Ragnar Johansson in Härnösand and Lövsta Bruk. Collaboration with Barbro Curling at Eventa 1995, 1996 and 1998 at Ekeby Qvarn, Uppsala and Artemis in Uppsala 1998 and 2001. Exhibitions together with Christine Lohe in Uppsala 1998 and 2005.
 

INFORMATION
Åsa Thörnlund, Curator, Uppsala Art Museum, asa.thornlund(at)uppsala.se 
Eva Björkman, Associate producer, Uppsala Art Museum, eva.bjorkman(at)uppsala.se

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