Finissage
Guided tour in the exhibition, 1-1.45 pm
Conversation with artist Signe Johannessen, co-curator Caroline Malmström and art historian Mathias Danbolt in festsalen, 1st floor, 2-3.30 pm

Signe Johannessen (born 1978 in Alstahaug, Norway) lives and works in Gnesta outside of Stockholm. She was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Johannessen has been active as an artist in Sweden for more than fifteen years, and this is her first solo exhibition in Norway.

Posthumous Tales is formed from artistic investigations into museum archives and artefacts from archaeological finds, including the Kvarntorp find. In these artistic investigations Johannessen attempts to repatriate, correct, or de-classify the objects from the archives in which they have been held.

Signe Johannessen was born in 1978 in Alstahaug, Norway and lives and works in Gnesta outside Stockholm. She is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and works primarily with sculpture, video, drawing and performance. Johannessen often collaborates with other types of knowledge related to research, archeology and history. She is one of the founders of Art Lab Gnesta, a self-organized collective for artistic and experimental practice in Sörmland, Sweden.

Signe Johannessen has been presented in institutions such as the Moderna museum, Accelerator and Färgfabriken in Stockholm, Örebro Konsthall, LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) and EFA Project Space, New York. She is represented in a number of collections, such as the Moderna museum in Stockholm, the Norwegian Art Council and the Ystad Art Museum. Johannessen is currently working on solo exhibitions to be presented at the Lilith Performance studio in Malmø and Rønnebæksholm in Denmark. A third version of Posthumous Tales will be shown at The North Norwegian Art Centre in November this year.