see I what see You, You see what I see, 2023work in groupshow The Art of Mirrors, at Atelier Nord, Oslo (NO) Digitised 16mm film, shot with prepared 16mm camera, with sound based on the soundtrack of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950), which was the first feature film including shots straight into the sun.

To see is to expose oneself to light, to let oneself be impressed by the world, 2022work in group show BLOOM_, Vulkano, Gothenburg (SE) Unique silver gelatin prints with direct positive paper, artist built frames. Series of 5 prints, each print: 10 x 12,5cm, frame: 31 x 38,5 x 2,5cm.

Sunblind, 2022solo show, Skylight (KHiO), Oslo (NO) The show opened an hour before sunset, and closed an hour after the sun had set. Digital projection, extract from Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950).Solarized photographic prints on direct positive paper, 5,5 x 7cm each, 5 prints in total.Sunfaded coloured paper, 30 x 40cm each, 8 prints in total.Found objects,…

KAN JAG PEKA PÅ EN STJÄRNA ÅT DIG? (CAN I POINT TO A STAR FOR YOU?), 2022visual essay, in NEJD Magasin NR3 “NEJD KORRESPONDERAR” Visual essay wtih a starting point in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, and contradictory eye witness accounts. 6 pages, each page 169 x 239mm.

NEJD Magasin NR4 “NEJD upprepar sig”, 2022spatial installation with David Eng and invited artists, at 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg (SE) Wall left, David Eng: Fast Moving Cars I, collage, resin, wood, 2022. Wall right, Anton Josephson: Moss 1:1, ballpointpen on paper, Anton Josephson, 2021. Floor left, Johan Andrén: Förfäders fornlämningar förbryllar forskare, found objects, 2022.Floor right, Vilde Blom: Leaking…

NEJD Magasin NR3 “NEJD korresponderar”, 2022self-published magazine with 17 contributing artists Edited and art directed together with David Eng, around the theme of correspondence, interpreted in the wider sense, both as dialogic communication and as convergences and mirrorings. Published at the show NEJD Magasin NR4 — NEJD Upprepar sig, 3e Våningen, Gothenburg (SE), 2022. Self-published…

I see that you see me, 2021Public art for the Ambulance Station in Ålem, Sweden, commissioned by Region Kalmar Län Silkscreen print of found photograph on silk fabric, 240 x 180cm.

Among Other Things, 2021solo window exhibition at Galleri Format, Malmö (SE) “Andrén’s photographs depict small things that are difficult to name, together with pieces of plants and fruits and ordinary small objects from everyday life. The things are arranged so as to play with colour and form rather than staging a story, and in some…

Duo Show, 2021with Vilde Blom at Macken, Malmö (SE) Installation in the gallery Macken, at the site of an abandoned gas station in Malmö.  Reproductions of risograph prints by Johan Andrén, sculptures in hard candy and jelly (dissolving during the duration of the exhibition) by Vilde Blom.

NEJD Magasin NR2 “NEJD blickar mot rymden”, 2020self-published magazine with 22 contributing artists Edited and art directed together with David Eng, around themes of vision, gazing, longing, spatiality and outer space. Published at Upplaga 3—helg för självpublikation, NEJD, Gothenburg (SE), 2020. Self-published magazine with 22 contributing artists, edition of 150, 169 x 239mm, 144 pages.