Belenius, SE

For Market Art Fair 2025, Belenius presents a solo exhibition of works by Swedish artist Atti Johansson, curated by Karolina Aastrup, curator at Sörmlands Museum.

“Atti Johansson (1917 – 2003) grew up in Kiruna but lived most of her life in Sollefteå. Her life and art were marked by the global issues of the present times: new computer technology, environmental destruction, nuclear power, the struggle for peace and the situation of women.

From 1954 to 1958, she commuted between her family in Sollefteå and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she studied. Around 1967, Atti began working on a series of assemblages that she called Mekanisk/Organisk. The works focus on the tension between hard and soft, technology and humans. The works formed the basis for several public works, including a ten-meter-long wall decoration titled Vårt medvetande ligger långt efter teknikens framsteg.

The tension between different poles runs like a common thread through Atti’s work: illusion and reality, hard and soft, artificial and natural, destructive and constructive. In everything she does, she comments on and examines her contemporaries – thoroughly, critically and with great integrity. In light of the climate crisis and the digital revolution we live in, Attis’ art is more relevant than ever.”