Architecture
Artistic Spatial Practices & Tactics

Johanna Fager is an architect an artist that explores the interplay between the city, our sensory perceptions, and politics – how we experience the presence of the body and mind in a given environment. Through a blend of text, architecture, image, sound and installations, she focuses on what cannot be measured: how a place feels, sounds, and how we move within it.

She has extensive experience as a sub-consultant architect, co-creator and collaborator to, and with, other architect studios and artists.

In collaboration with composer and sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK) and visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) she is part of PUBLIC RETREAT.

She is also a part of the collaborative artist and architect platform Of Public Interest (OPI) Studio founded and run by professor and artist Jonas Dahlberg.

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PUBLIC RETREAT – on Fire
at Färgfabriken Architecture Triennale

︎︎︎ October 2024

A Solo exhibition as part of the Architecture Triennale at Färgfabriken. PUBLIC RETREAT is an interdisciplinary art and architecture project by composer and sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE).

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Of Others’ Uses - Svenska Margaretakyrkan, Oslo

︎︎︎ Ongoing

Of Public Interest (OPI) Studio was commissioned by Svenska Margaretakyrkan in Oslo to make a public artwork celebrating the churches 100th anniversary in 2025.

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Årsta Scoutkår / Scout Group

︎︎︎ Ongoing

Remodeling and reprogramming of approximately 500 sqm main building for the Årsta Scout Group.

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In collaboration with Magiska Barnarkitekter & Transfer Studio

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PUBLIC RETREAT at Platform Deep Dive

︎︎︎ August - December 2024

PUBLIC RETREAT was the first artist entry to be invited to the practice-based research program Platform Deep Dive, intitated by Platform Stockholm (SE).

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Place de l’Étoile

︎︎︎ Ongoing

The story of an innocent misunderstanding, and a gesture of forgivness.

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NYA LÖVHOLMEN nominated for Architects Sweden’s Critics Award /Kritikerpriset 2023!

︎︎︎ March 2024

The collaborative art and architecture project by composer and sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE) has been nominated for the Critics Award 2023.

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PUBLIC RETREAT ...through the eye of the ear. Click, stop, ) ) ) ) !?

︎︎︎ March 2024

PUBLIC RETREAT ...through the eye of the ear. click, stop, ) ) ) ) !? is an immersive sound experience about how we sense the world with our ears.

A solo exhibition at Galleria Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland.

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PUBLIC RETREAT
The Graveyard Digression - radio edit. radiOrakel

︎︎︎ February 2024

What can a cemetery teach us? A sound journey about organizing death and how the places for eternal rest can act as a public retreat as well as being an archive and, through all its collective stories - a witness to the city’s development.

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PUBLIC RETREAT - The Graveyard Digression + Begravningsplatsavvikelsen.

︎︎︎ October 2023

PUBLIC RETREAT in Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab’s exhibition “Scores from Gröndal / Scores for Malmö” at Galleri Spark, Malmö, with “Begravningsplatsavvikelsen - ett manus för kontextuell och platsspecifik analys” and “The Graveyard Digression”.

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NYA LÖVHOLMEN - a citizen proposal + radio program & collective listening session

︎︎︎ June 2023

We discuss and reflect on the city, sound, power and politics - who the city is for and how we today, right now, are building the future. And a little bird takes us on a flight through our citizen proposal -NYA LÖVHOLMEN, before we land together in a final call for action.

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Collaboration between sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE).

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SFA. Sub-consultant to Hultén Olsson Arkitekter

︎︎︎ Ongoing

SFA, Stockholm Future Wastewater Treatment Plant, is Stockholm Vatten and Avfall’s large scale project of redeveloping and extending the current wastewater treatment plant Henriksdals Reningsverk, making it into one of the most technically up to date in the world.

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Vem är Yvonne? (Who is Yvonne?)

︎︎︎ Ongoing

Our most private space can probably, maybe obviously, be said to be our home. Where we sleep, eat, love, cry, dream, work, take our first wobbly steps, argue, and laugh – live.

A study of sharing the most private space with strangers - over time.

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NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #4 - a sound magazine

︎︎︎ May 2023

What does a neighborhood that doesn’t yet exist sound like? We hear sounds, but we also feel them in our bodies. It hisses, rustles, roars, knocks, hums.

NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE is a part of tests, works and practice-based research within the research hub Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab.

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Collaboration between sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE).

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NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #1-3

︎︎︎ February - April 2023

Living is something everyone does, in one way or another, but how can be an indicator of culture, privilige, ideals, ideas, forms of society, preferences, history etc. What is a home? - For you?

NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE is a part of tests, works and practice-based research within the research hub Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab.

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Collaboration between sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE).

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Stoft V-VII

︎︎︎ 2020 / Charcoal Series

Charcoal / tinted charcoal on MDF boards 100 x 50 cm.

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SVOA. Sub-consultant to
Hultén Olsson Arkitekter

︎︎︎ 2020

New entrance / reception building at SVOA’s (Stockholm Vatten och Avfall) office at Henriksdals Reningsverk, Stockholm.

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Terra

︎︎︎ 2020

Competition proposal for a wine tasting facility at the vineyard Quinta do Monte d’Oiro in Portugal.

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Collaboration with Roger Bejinha

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Villa K

︎︎︎ 20216

Design for a residence on the country side.

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Telge Hovsjö + ANTICIPATING 2020

︎︎︎ 2013-2014

Master’s Diploma project in architecture 2013 followed by a commission from the Municipal Housing Company Telge Hovsjö to take part in the strategy and planning of a redevelopment process of the area Hovsjö, Södertälje.

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