Stigter Van Doesburg - Contemporary Art Gallery

Josefin Arnell

Floating between aspects of documentary and fiction, Josefin Arnell’s work methodically navigates the space between exuberance and self-exploitation. Her often favored medium of video freely traverses digital and physical boundaries, including performance, installation, objects, poetry and drawings. Through storytelling, loose narratives are often centered around characters that attempt to navigate contemporary infrastructures with impossible demands. These characters veer toward endless monologues rather than conversations, meanwhile interlacing in a sort of metasphere to compose a script. By often choosing to work with non-actors, she captures a rawness that reflects an emotional landscape exploring unattainable desires, perfectionism and control. The teenage girl, the horse and the mother are recurring characters alongside clumsy allegories wrestling with conflicts of the human condition or environmental catastrophes.

Josefin Arnell lives and works in Amsterdam (NL).

INSTALLATION VIEW AT ROZENSTRAAT. FRENEMY BY JOSEFIN ARNELL AND MARGARET HAINES. PHOTO GERT-JAN VAN ROOIJ.

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Josefin Arnell

ARRESTED WHILE BIRTHING

watercolours, ink

Josefin Arnell

FEEDING BUNNY

watercolours, pastel, ink, oil crayons

Josefin Arnell

CLEAN EXPRESS

watercolours, pastel, ink, oil crayons

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

ROSETT (SUCK ON ME HARDER I EAT YOU FOR STARTER)

hand and maschine embroidery on textile

Josefin Arnell

BLOOD SISTERS

video

Josefin Arnell

DEN BLOMSTERTID NU KOMMER (NOW THE TIME OF BLOSSOMING ARRIVES)

video

Josefin Arnell

(MOTHER) SUCKING GATES

styrofoam, acrylic, fiberglass, acrylic paint, varnish, wood, metal

Josefin Arnell

SLAPPING BUTT

drawing on paper, framed

Josefin Arnell

CHAMPS

video

Josefin Arnell

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL

video

Josefin Arnell

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL

video

Josefin Arnell

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN

video

Josefin Arnell

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN

video

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

2024	Dinner, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2024	Stora Stygga Vargen/Big Bad Wolf, Konsthall C`+ Preschool Munipalicy of Stockholm
2024	Crybaby, Index Stockholm, Curated by Marti Manen and Isabella Tjäder
2021	Wild Filly Story, Vilnius
2020	Wild Filly Story, curated by Rhea Dall, UKS, Oslo
2020	Bloomers in the Woods, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2019	Suck on Me Harder I Eat You for Starter, Lilyrobert Gallery, Paris

2024	Animal Farm, Museum Rijkswijk, curated by Julia Geerlings, Rijkswijk
2023	Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Curated by Manique Hendricks
2023	Brave and Pathetic is Better Than Drowning in Shame - DUO Show, Cell Project Space, London
2023	Prix de Rome, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2022	The Lure, Duo presentation: Josefin Arnell & Marilou Bal, Sissi Club, Marseille
2022	The Box, Parts Project, Den Haag, NL
2022	Even a worm will turn, The Nordic House, Reykjavik
2022	Frenemy, Duo presentation: Josefin Arnell & Margaret Haines, Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose
2021	Regenerate, Brussels
2021	Athens Biennale 7 Edition: Eclipse, Athens
2020	I’m From Nowhere Good, Montreuil
2019	Performance: Failure is a Feeling that Exist Long Before it Comes, Antwerp Art Weekend
2019	Abstract Seks: We Don’t Have Any Clothes, Only Equipment, Turin
2019	HELLFUN, 3HD Festival, Berlin
2019	Conversing Motherboards, Antwerp Art Weekend
2019	For Better or Worse, Kunstverein Göttingen
2019	3 Package Deal Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
2018	Feature expanded with Natasja Loutchko
2018	Beyond Future is Past, Kunsthalle Münster
2018	Haptic House, Berlin
2018	The Hazenstraat Biennale, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2018	The Tick, Theodora Niemeijer Prijs, Van Abbee Museum Eindhoven
2018	6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
2018	A Guiding Dog for a Blind Dog, Contemporary Art Futurua, Prague
2018	Sister Said to Satan: My Diary is Too Hot For You, duo show with Margaret Haines, London
2018	It’s a Long Way to Heaven, Tegel Art Mega + Yek, Stockholm
2017	Rocky: Quick and Dirty in Societeit Sexyland, Amsterdam
2017	Het Mysterie van de Waarheid, Mini Museumnacht
2017	Duo show with Aapo Nikkanen, Sorbus Gallery
2017	The Future is Feminist
2017	Todays Art, Den Haag
2017	Fallingwater, Ardez
2017	I’m in the Mood for Love - Eternal Night – The Explanation
2017	My Wild Flag Performance Festival, Stockholm

Wednesday - Friday	12:00-18:00
Saturday -	13:00-18:00

Josefin Arnell

INSTALLATION VIEW AT ROZENSTRAAT. FRENEMY BY JOSEFIN ARNELL AND MARGARET HAINES. PHOTO GERT-JAN VAN ROOIJ.

INSTALLATION VIEW AT ROZENSTRAAT. FRENEMY BY JOSEFIN ARNELL AND MARGARET HAINES. PHOTO GERT-JAN VAN ROOIJ.

video

Josefin Arnell

ARRESTED WHILE BIRTHING

ARRESTED WHILE BIRTHING

watercolours, ink

Josefin Arnell

FEEDING BUNNY

FEEDING BUNNY

watercolours, pastel, ink, oil crayons

Josefin Arnell

CLEAN EXPRESS

CLEAN EXPRESS

watercolours, pastel, ink, oil crayons

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY, 2020

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

ROSETT (SUCK ON ME HARDER I EAT YOU FOR STARTER), 2020

ROSETT (SUCK ON ME HARDER I EAT YOU FOR STARTER)

hand and maschine embroidery on textile

Josefin Arnell

BLOOD SISTERS, 2020

BLOOD SISTERS

video

Josefin Arnell

DEN BLOMSTERTID NU KOMMER (NOW THE TIME OF BLOSSOMING ARRIVES), 2018

DEN BLOMSTERTID NU KOMMER (NOW THE TIME OF BLOSSOMING ARRIVES)

video

Josefin Arnell

(MOTHER) SUCKING GATES, 2019

(MOTHER) SUCKING GATES

styrofoam, acrylic, fiberglass, acrylic paint, varnish, wood, metal

Josefin Arnell

SLAPPING BUTT, 2020

SLAPPING BUTT

drawing on paper, framed

Josefin Arnell

CHAMPS, 2017

CHAMPS

video

Josefin Arnell

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL, 2016

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL

video

Josefin Arnell

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL, 2016

MOTHERSHIP GOES TO BRAZIL

video

Josefin Arnell

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN, 2016

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN

video

Josefin Arnell

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN, 2016

GAG REFLEX / I WANNA TO PUKE IN HEAVEN

video

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY , 2020

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

WILD FILLY STORY, 2020

WILD FILLY STORY

video

Josefin Arnell

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