Atti Johansson
Atti
16.05 – 18.05.2025
Curated by Lina Aastrup
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Atti Johansson (1917–2003) grew up in Kiruna but spent most of her life in Sollefteå. Her life and art were shaped by some of the most pressing global issues of her time: emerging computer technology, environmental destruction, nuclear power, the peace movement, and the fight for women’s rights.
Between 1954 and 1958, she commuted between her family in Sollefteå and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she studied. Around 1967, Atti began developing a series of assemblages entitled Mekanisk/Organisk (Mechanical/Organic), which explored the tension between hard and soft, technology and humanity. These works later served as the basis for several public commissions, including a ten-metre-long wall installation titled Vårt medvetande ligger långt efter teknikens framsteg (Our Consciousness Is Far Behind Technological Progress).
This dynamic between opposing forces runs as a central theme throughout Atti’s work: illusion and reality, hardness and softness, artificial and natural, destructive and constructive. In all her work, she offered a thoughtful, critical, and deeply principled examination of the world around her.
In light of today’s climate crisis and ongoing digital revolution, Atti Johansson’s art is more relevant than ever.
– Lina Aastrup, 2025