ARTIST STATEMENT
Lise Johansson is a Copenhagen-based visual artist working with staged photography and constructed environments. Through miniature architecture, layered imagery, and carefully composed scenes, her work explores the fragile boundary between reality and illusion, often addressing themes of identity, memory, and belonging.
Her photographic series create ambiguous spaces where scale, perspective, and narrative shift between the real and the imagined. Drawing on cinematic composition and feminist perspectives on representation, Johansson’s work invites viewers to reconsider how images construct reality.
BIOGRAPHY
Lise Johansson is a Danish visual artist based in Copenhagen. She is represented by In The Gallery in Copenhagen and Palma de Mallorca.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at art fairs such as Art Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, PAN Amsterdam, and Zona Maco Mexico City.
Johansson studied art history and visual culture at the University of Copenhagen and previously trained in conservation and restoration at the National Museum of Denmark. Her artistic practice is closely connected to research, exploring photography’s relationship to fiction, memory, and constructed realities.
Her works are included in private collections internationally, including Europe, Asia, and the United States, and have been presented at international art fairs and exhibitions.
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming
2026 Solo Exhibition, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (June)
2026 Solo Exhibition, In The Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (September)
ART FAIRS
2026 ZONAMACO Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2025 Art Miami, USA
2025 Art Central, Hong Kong
2025 Photo Basel, Switzerland
2025 Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 ZONAMACO Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Photo London, United Kingdom
2024 Photo Basel, Switzerland
2024 ZONAMACO Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Art Miami, USA
2023 ZONAMACO Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Art Miami, USA
2022 Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2026 In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2026 In The Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2022 I’m Not Here, Artsy — Online exhibition
2021 Guest Room curated by Anika Meier, DER GREIF — Online exhibition
2018 Composite Structures, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2025 Archiv der Augenblicke, Foto Forum Dresden
2023 Through Her Lens, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Image Nation, SOHO Photo Gallery, New York, USA
2023 In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Counterparts – Hellerau Photography Awards, Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany
2022 Winter Light, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 FotoNostrum Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Summer Light, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 ImageNation, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy
2021 Art on Paper, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Image Nation, Paris Photo Off, Paris, France
2019 Self-Staged / Selv-Iscenesat, Denmark
2019 Home/Away, Gallery Anders Breiner, Denmark
2018 Winter Light, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Image Nation, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris, France
2018 Award Winners, In The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Salon de la Photo, Paris, France
2017 Reggia di Monza, Italy
2017 Sony Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Ginza Milan, Italy
2017 Bucharest Photo Fest, Romania
2017 Galerie GADCOLLECTION, Paris, France
2017 Brussels Expo, Palais 4, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Palazzo Trigon, Enna, Italy
2017 Sony Square NYC, New York, USA
2017 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London
2016 SVEND, UngK, Aarhus, Denmark
AWARDS
2025 International Photography Awards (IPA) — Honorable Mention
2024 Nikon Emerging Photographer Award — Shortlisted
2023 Corporate Vision Small Business Awards — Most Inspiring Fine Art Photographer
2022 Hellerau Photography Awards — Finalist
2021 International Photography Awards (IPA) — 1st Place, Fine Art
2020 International Photography Awards (IPA) — Honorable Mention, Fine Art
2020 International Color Awards — Photographer of the Year, Outstanding Achievement
2020 International Color Awards — 1st Place Fine Art (Absence)
2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards — Nominee, Fine Art
2019 International Color Awards — Nominee, Fine Art (Lighthouse)
2018 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards — Nominee, Conceptual
2017 Felix Schoeller Photo Award — Shortlist, Conceptual (Hearth)
2017 Sony World Photography Awards — National Award Winner, Denmark (Hearth)
2017 Sony World Photography Awards — 1st Place, Enhanced Category (Hearth)
2017 Monochrome Awards — Honorable Mention, Conceptual (Sehnsucht)
2016 Hasselblad Student Award — Winner
2016 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards — 2nd Place, Conceptual (Sehnsucht)
COLLECTIONS
Works are held in private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Pikene På Broen Artist Residency, Kirkenes, Norway
COLLABORATIONS
2025 Weeping Men — Hybrid performance and video installation Co-production: CuntsCollective (DK) and Pikene På Broen (NO) with HUUTAJAT Choir (FI) Premiered at Barents Spektakel, Norway
2024 Co-founder of DÍSIR, Nordic network for womxn lens-based artists
TALKS & MEDIA
2024 KBH Film og Fotoskole, Copenhagen — Artist Talk
2024 Grundtvigs Fotofestival, Hillerød — Workshop
2023 Through Her Lens, In The Gallery, Copenhagen — Artist Talk
2022 United Nations of Photography Podcast, United Kingdom — A Photographic Life, 228
2021 Grundtvigs Fotofestival, Hillerød — Workshop
GRANTS
2025 Statens Kunstfond — Nordic Mobility Funding, support for Weeping Men
2024 Nordic Culture Fund — support for the DÍSIR network
COMMISSIONS
2018 In Vacuo project for VM Elektro, Denmark
MEMBERSHIP
2016–present Danish Union of Journalists (Dansk Journalistforbund)
EDUCATION
2024–2026 Master of Arts in Art History, University of Copenhagen (ongoing)
2019–2023 Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of Copenhagen
2012–2016 Media College Viborg, Portrait & Commercial Photography
2012–2016 Apprenticeship with Roberto Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark
2010 Vera – School of Art and Design, Fine Art Photography
2006 Grundtvig Højskole