{"id":70,"count":3,"description":"Bj\u00f6rn L\u00f6vin\u2019s (1937\u20132009) multi-faceted body of work consists of installations,\r\npaintings, sculptures, texts and videos. Through his environments, which have\r\npreviously been presented at institutions such as Moderna Museet and\r\nKulturhuset in Stockholm, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, he became one of\r\nSweden\u2019s first installation artists. From the 1970s onwards, he continuously\r\nexplored changes in society by revealing the gap between welfare and consumer\r\nsociety and marginalized groups, while probing the relationship between the\r\nindividual and the collective, between image and reality, as well as what emerges\r\nwhen they meet and the lines between them are erased. L\u00f6vin\u2019s practice was\r\nmarked by a constant, almost archaeological investigation and idea-driven\r\napproach, which often formed the basis of his environments.\r\nBj\u00f6rn L\u00f6vin was born in Falun in 1937. In his youth he studied in Barcelona,\r\nlater attending Stockholm University and Uppsala University to study educa-\r\ntion, scientific theory and information technology. Despite his lack of formal\r\nartistic training, he had his first exhibition at Galleri Mejan in 1970, an early\r\nversion of the more comprehensive exhibition Consumer in Eternity and \u201cMr P\u2019s\r\nHoard\u201d that was presented at Moderna Museet the following year. L\u00f6vin was\r\nalso active as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Royal\r\nInstitute of Art in Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s.\r\nL\u00f6vin\u2019s solo exhibitions include 441\/\u221e=P (Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, 1970),\r\nConsumer in Eternity and \u201cMr P\u2019s Hoard\u201d (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1971),\r\nIn Memoriam (G\u00f6teborgs Konsthall, Liljevalchs konsthall, 1972\u20131973), Memory\r\nFails (Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 1977), L\u2019Image (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1981),\r\nOn the Personal (Moderna Museet, 1987), C\u2014The Struggle for Reality\r\n(Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, 1988; Brandts Kl\u00e6defabrik, Odense;\r\nGalleria Otso, Esbo; Kulturhuset, Saint Petersburg; Link\u00f6pings Konsthall,\r\n1989\u20131991), M\u00f6ten med vatten (Galleri G\u00f6ran Engstr\u00f6m, Stockholm, 2004) and\r\nFocus on: Mr P, Dr L\u00f6wenskj\u00f6ld and Bj\u00f6rn L\u00f6vin (Moderna Museet, 2004).\r\nL\u00f6vin participated in several group exhibitions including Live Show (Moderna\r\nMuseet, 1974), Live Show II (Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1977), Ibid II (M\u00fcnchen-\r\nbryggeriet, Stockholm, 1982), Korrespondenser\u2014ett samtal med Baudelaire\r\n(Swedish Exhibition Agency, 1987), Equinox: Aspects of Swedish Contemporary\r\nArt (The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, 1989), Arte Amazonas (Museu de Arte\r\nModerna, Rio de Janeiro, 1992), Klima Global\/Arte Amazonas (Staatliche\r\nKunsthalle, Berlin; Kunsthalle Siemens, Dresden; Ludwig Forum, Aachen,\r\n1993\u20131994), Revir (Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 1994), Alone Together (Liljevalchs\r\nkonsthall, 1996); Avesta Art (Avesta, 1997), Hemort\u2014Chez Nous (Gallery of\r\nAthens, Athens; Dalarnas museum, Falun; Chartreuse de M\u00e9lan, Taninges,\r\n1999), History Acts (G\u00f6teborgs Konsthall, 2008), Svensk konceptkonst (Kalmar\r\nkonstmuseum, 2010), Image at Work (Index Foundation, Stockholm, 2010), The\r\nModerna Exhibition\u2014Society Acts (Moderna Museet, Malm\u00f6, 2014), Samh\u00e4lls-\r\nmaskinen\u2014industri\u00e5ldern ur konstens perspektiv (Malm\u00f6 Konst\u00ad museum, 2016).\r\nBj\u00f6rn L\u00f6vin is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, the Public Art\r\nAgency Sweden and Verket Avesta.","link":"https:\/\/nullandvoidbooks.com\/contributor\/bjorn-lovin\/","name":"Bj\u00f6rn L\u00f6vin","slug":"bjorn-lovin","taxonomy":"contributor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullandvoidbooks.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullandvoidbooks.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullandvoidbooks.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/contributor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullandvoidbooks.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/product?contributor=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}