Joel Danielsson & Louise Öhman’s visual practice oscillates between the reflections of memory and a speculative perspective as it unfolds across endless stretches of time and dimensions. They reshape historical events through a special interest in the structure of the image, through its haunting qualities and the transforming, animating or petrifying movements it may perform.
With attention to detail, they are conscious about the materiality of the image. In compositions with both found footage and various forms of image production their practice questions technology and its forms of representation. Their work materializes as a multi-layered speculative montage layering past, present and future in conjunctions of video, sound, text, photography and installation.
Joel Danielsson (1988, SE) and Louise Öhman (1989, SE) have collaborated since 2014.
They studied Fine Art at Umeå Academy of Fine Art, Sweden (2019-2021) and The Art Academy of Bergen, Norway (2014-2017). They are based in Stockholm, Sweden.
UPCOMING
2026, Duo exhibition with Hanna Tordai, Galleri Résistance, Gothenburg
PAST
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, DEAD RINGER, Detroit Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
2023, CURRENTS, NEJD, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018, Stone is the Bone of my Mother, Joy Forum, Bergen, Norway.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Curated by Espen Johansen, participated with the work TRANSMISSION. Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, Norge.
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norge.
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Rogaland Kunstcenter, Stavanger, Norge.
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, Norge.
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund, Norge.
2022, Monument, Vestlandsutstillingen 2022, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund, Norge.
2021, Ovanliga Tider/In an exceptional time, participated with the work TRANSMISSION, Bildmuseet, Umeå.
SCREENINGS
2024, Shortcuts, FetFilm in Hägersten, screening of FALLING UPWARDS.
2022, An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden. Screening of TRANSMISSION.
2021, Conversations of our Time, EduCity, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Screening of the video work Stone is the Bone of my Mother. Recipient of the Jury Prize.
2019. Media Matter, conference of Media-Archeological Research and Artistic Practice at Stockholm University and Fylkingen. Screening of Stone is the Bone of my Mother and SIGNS.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER
2025, REFLECTIONS, a soundpiece for Artio on Radio Reimers, curated by Linnea Wästfelt.
2024, ON LOSS, a publication with art, perspectives and personal stories on loss with several artists and writers. Contributed with the work Sammanfallet. Edited by the artist Eleni Ieremia. Published in Bergen, Norway.
GRANTS
2025 Projectgrant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2023 Travel Grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2023 Helge Ax:son Johnson
2022 1-year working grant, The Swedish Arts Grant Committee
2022 International Cultural Exchange Grant for exhibition in Bergen, Norway, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2021 Travel Grant for research-trip to Carantec, France, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2021 Recipient of master student grant, Umeå Academy of Fine Art, Sweden
2019 Helge Ax:son Johnson
© Joel Danielsson & Louise Öhman