Charlotte Johannesson
Charlotte Johannesson is participating in the MUNCH Triennale with several textile works.
Photo: Lotten Pålsson
Born in 1943 in Malmö, Sweden. Based in Skanör.
Trained as a weaver, Johannesson began making tapestries as art in the 1960s, often with a satirical slant on mainstream politics. Johannesson’s works with both the craft technology of the loom and the digital technology of computer programming, exploring their formal and conceptual connections.
In 1981 she established the Digital Theatre with her partner, Sture Johannesson, in Malmö, Sweden. As Scandinavia’s first digital arts laboratory, the Digital Theatre functioned as an independent platform for both research and artistic projects and has been described as one of the most advanced Apple systems of its time. In recent years, Johannesson’s work has been included in the biennials of São Paulo (2016) and Venice (2017, 2022), had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg in Switzerland, Nottingham Contemporary and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
