Why Africa? My third trip to Africa south of Sahara. There I have found something very important for me both as an artist and human being. Hope to explain it better with my work (paintings and the articles).Painting 200x150cm "To the Sun"
Monday, August 18, 2008
18.august
Why Africa? My third trip to Africa south of Sahara. There I have found something very important for me both as an artist and human being. Hope to explain it better with my work (paintings and the articles).
Friday, August 15, 2008
Africa-trip 2008
The Exhibitions in Siglufjord are over and I prepare for Mosambique, leaving the 19th of Auguste.
More about that later I hope.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Málverk 2008 / Paintings 2008
With fire and ice 150 x 200cm, 1996-2004
Existence with water 110 x 140 cm / Tilvera með vatni 2007
The ways of the ocean II 200 x 150 cm / Á vegum hafsins II 2008
The ways of the ocean I 200 x 150 cm / Á vegum hafsins I 2008
Krítarverk / Pastel drawings
On the Road I 104x74cm 2009
Thinking North 1-4 4x 40 x 30 cm 2008
Sketches from Benin 100 x 70 cm 2006
Africa drawings 2x 40 x 60 2006
Africa drawings 2x 40 x 60 2006
Eldri málverk / Older paintings
Existence with Sun 200 x 150 cm / Tilvera með sól 2005
With Ice and Fire 150 x 200 cm / Með ís og eldi 2000-2005 
After Africa I 105 x 135 cm / Eftir Afríku I 2001
Existence in blue 150 x 200 cm / Tilvera í bláu 2006
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
C.V.
Jóhanna Boga: born in in Iceland, studied in The Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, in Beaux Arts in Paris and in other places in France.
Private Exhibitions, e.g.:
Iceland: The Nordic House, Reykjavík 1982, 1985, 1986, 1996
The Reykjavík Municipal Art Gallery 1989
ASI Art Museum 1993
Hafnarborg Art Hall 1994 og 1999
Icelandic graphic artists gallery 2006
Finland: Helsinki Art Festival at Taidegrafikot Gallery 1978
Art Museum of Tampere 1978
Helsinki Art Hall Studio 1982, Gallery Duetto, Helsinki 1989, 1992 og 1999
Norway: Gallery 7, Oslo 1979
Bergen Art Society 1982
Sweden: Sveagalleriet, Stockholm 1986
The Art Hall, Gävle and Sundsvall Art Museum 1991
Holland: Iceland Gallery, Den Haag 1992
USA: World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco 1982
P.L. University Art Gallery, Tacoma 1990
Unibank Gallery, New York, by invitation of the American-Scandinavian Society 1994, Ink-Shop Gallery, Ithaca N.Y. 2005
Group Exhibitions e.g.:
Several group exhibitions both in Iceland and other countries, e.g.:
Scandinavia Today in USA 1982
“10 Artistes Contemporains Islandaises” in Bordeaux 1987
Nordic Art Festival in Århus, Denmark 1991, Den Frie in Copenhagen and in Dortmund Rathaus 1992
Södertälje Art Hall in Sweden and in The Nordic House Faeroe Islands 1994
“Nordic Nature” in Luleå Art Hall, Sweden 1995
Charlottenborg Art Hall in Copenhagen 1998, Citee des Arts, Paris, 1999
Summer exhibition, The Nordic House, Iceland 2004
Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Danmark 2005 and Jyväskyle a group exhib. Graphica Creativa, The Art Museum of Uppsala Sweden 2006, and Gallery North-Atlantic Copenhagen 2006
Works in Public Collections, e.g.:
The National Gallery, Iceland
The Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
The Atheneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The National Museum in Stockholm, City of Gävle, and other cities in Sweden
Bergen and Trondheim, Norway
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A Mural in concrete (scraffito) and mosaik in a High School in Reykjavik and at the Company Valla in Reykjavik
Private Exhibitions, e.g.:
Iceland: The Nordic House, Reykjavík 1982, 1985, 1986, 1996
The Reykjavík Municipal Art Gallery 1989
ASI Art Museum 1993
Hafnarborg Art Hall 1994 og 1999
Icelandic graphic artists gallery 2006
Finland: Helsinki Art Festival at Taidegrafikot Gallery 1978
Art Museum of Tampere 1978
Helsinki Art Hall Studio 1982, Gallery Duetto, Helsinki 1989, 1992 og 1999
Norway: Gallery 7, Oslo 1979
Bergen Art Society 1982
Sweden: Sveagalleriet, Stockholm 1986
The Art Hall, Gävle and Sundsvall Art Museum 1991
Holland: Iceland Gallery, Den Haag 1992
USA: World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco 1982
P.L. University Art Gallery, Tacoma 1990
Unibank Gallery, New York, by invitation of the American-Scandinavian Society 1994, Ink-Shop Gallery, Ithaca N.Y. 2005
Group Exhibitions e.g.:
Several group exhibitions both in Iceland and other countries, e.g.:
Scandinavia Today in USA 1982
“10 Artistes Contemporains Islandaises” in Bordeaux 1987
Nordic Art Festival in Århus, Denmark 1991, Den Frie in Copenhagen and in Dortmund Rathaus 1992
Södertälje Art Hall in Sweden and in The Nordic House Faeroe Islands 1994
“Nordic Nature” in Luleå Art Hall, Sweden 1995
Charlottenborg Art Hall in Copenhagen 1998, Citee des Arts, Paris, 1999
Summer exhibition, The Nordic House, Iceland 2004
Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Danmark 2005 and Jyväskyle a group exhib. Graphica Creativa, The Art Museum of Uppsala Sweden 2006, and Gallery North-Atlantic Copenhagen 2006
Works in Public Collections, e.g.:
The National Gallery, Iceland
The Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
The Atheneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The National Museum in Stockholm, City of Gävle, and other cities in Sweden
Bergen and Trondheim, Norway
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A Mural in concrete (scraffito) and mosaik in a High School in Reykjavik and at the Company Valla in Reykjavik
Artist statement - In spite of the sunshine
In spite of the sunshine and the smiles of the children, men dropped bombs.
About studies and themes of works:
I studied in art academies in France and Sweden and have both
studied and worked on various trips to India, Mexico, Greece, Spain, USA, France,
Uganda, Benin and several other places. Some of these working trips have been of great importance for the development of my work.
I work with paintings, lithographies, drawings, and murals in concrete or with other materials in a manner that would be called expressive-abstract. My work has often reminded people of the Icelandic nature but I know that even if its roots are in the Westman Islands with the rocky shores and the struggle with the Atlantic Ocean all around and the brushstrokes are somehow influenced by that, the different aspects of life with the variety of human culture and nature and the life and struggle of life in other corners of the Earth is also among its sources.
The wonders of creation, the restlessness, the power, and the struggle in nature and the interactions between man and nature are among the things I find myself compelled to depict. In fact, my work is no less a universal metaphor for human life on Earth.
Travels to distant corners of the world have had a great impact on me and served as reminders of how opposites in nature and culture belong, after all, to the same natural laws that hold everywhere on Earth. We are in fact all parts of the same creation which we ought to respect.
The paintings I am working on now are much influenced by my travels in recent years, such as to Mexico, Lebanon and Africa. Things happening in this world which can be so beautiful are constantly pressing on my mind.
The mixture of being like and unlike is an important component in all relations between humans, such as when enjoying culture and art, and in feeling friendship and love.
How have we humans come to divide humans on Earth into “we” and “other” and not respecting the rights of others?
About studies and themes of works:
I studied in art academies in France and Sweden and have both
studied and worked on various trips to India, Mexico, Greece, Spain, USA, France,
Uganda, Benin and several other places. Some of these working trips have been of great importance for the development of my work.
I work with paintings, lithographies, drawings, and murals in concrete or with other materials in a manner that would be called expressive-abstract. My work has often reminded people of the Icelandic nature but I know that even if its roots are in the Westman Islands with the rocky shores and the struggle with the Atlantic Ocean all around and the brushstrokes are somehow influenced by that, the different aspects of life with the variety of human culture and nature and the life and struggle of life in other corners of the Earth is also among its sources.
The wonders of creation, the restlessness, the power, and the struggle in nature and the interactions between man and nature are among the things I find myself compelled to depict. In fact, my work is no less a universal metaphor for human life on Earth.
Travels to distant corners of the world have had a great impact on me and served as reminders of how opposites in nature and culture belong, after all, to the same natural laws that hold everywhere on Earth. We are in fact all parts of the same creation which we ought to respect.
The paintings I am working on now are much influenced by my travels in recent years, such as to Mexico, Lebanon and Africa. Things happening in this world which can be so beautiful are constantly pressing on my mind.
The mixture of being like and unlike is an important component in all relations between humans, such as when enjoying culture and art, and in feeling friendship and love.
How have we humans come to divide humans on Earth into “we” and “other” and not respecting the rights of others?
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