Johannes Wahlström
October 2021
Johannes Wahlström (born 1981) is an award-winning journalist, film director and author with a degree in Media and Communication Science, Social Anthropology and Political Science from Stockholm University.
Johannes Wahlström was the editor of the magazine Tromb (magazine of the year 2006) when it was Sweden's largest community magazine. He has made a number of films for Swedish Television (for which he has been awarded Kristallen, Guldspaden and Stora Journalistpriset) and has worked with Wikileaks - the latter he documented in the film Mediastan which was produced by Ken Loach's Sixteen Films. Together with photographers Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt, he has published a number of books via the publisher B-B-B-Books. His artistic works have been exhibited at Hasselblad Center, Rencontres d’Arles and FG2 in Gothenburg, among others.
Selected exhibitions are: 2021 Tystnadskulturen/ Vacant Niches, GIBCA EXTENDED, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken, project done together with Per Nadén, Thobias Fäldt, Maria Safronova Wahlström, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 On This Day, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 On This Day, Galleri Format. Malmö, Sweden | 2021 FOR SURE, Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland | 2020 FSDNS KLSSR – Ett Kollektiv Beslut, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2020 Everybody hurts, together with Thobias Fäldt, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2020 The Intermediary Chains, Öbergska Galleriet, Styrsö, Gothenburg, Sweden
Selected exhibitions are: 2021 Tystnadskulturen/ Vacant Niches, GIBCA EXTENDED, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken, project done together with Per Nadén, Thobias Fäldt, Maria Safronova Wahlström, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 On This Day, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2021 On This Day, Galleri Format. Malmö, Sweden | 2021 FOR SURE, Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland | 2020 FSDNS KLSSR – Ett Kollektiv Beslut, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2020 Everybody hurts, together with Thobias Fäldt, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2020 The Intermediary Chains, Öbergska Galleriet, Styrsö, Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 The End of Hypocrisy: A Good Day for Bad Weather, together with Museum of Yugoslavia, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2019 Mind your Mind, the Festival-Laboratory Shelter, the Space for Free Arts / Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland | 2018 Swedish Matter, together with Aleix Plademunt, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | Unseen Amsterdam, The Last of the Lucky / You Can’t Always Get What You Want with MLZ | 2018 Art Dep, Westergasfabriek, The Netherlands | 2018 - The Last of the Lucky / You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Galleri Sjögatan Sju, Sundsvall, Sweden | 2018 On This Day, together with Thomas Sauvin, FG2, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2016 The Last of the Lucky / You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2016 The Last of the Lucky / You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Vizualizator Festival, Jugoexport, Belgrade, Serbia | 2016 Cosmos, Rencontres d’Arles, Collège Mistral, Arles, France | 2016 A Beach, Photo Saint Germain, Galerie Jean-Pierre Gros, Paris, France | 2015 A Beach, Skajs, Stockholm, Sweden | 2013 A Beach, VU Photo, Québec City, Canada | 2012 Russian Bang / Ryska smällen, Nextart Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden