My artistic practice originates from drawing and painting and has expanded into a range of fields, including glassblowing, textiles, poetry, sculpture, and performance. Teaching and educating others also plays a significant role in my practice, as I see it as an essential aspect of my creative journey.
The fine line between art and craft fascinates me, and this recurring theme permeates my work, whether it takes the form of a painting, sculpture or digital work. I draw inspiration from natural phenomena, scientific research, spiritual thinking, and historical as well as political (mis)interpretations.
By weaving together these diverse fields of interest, I juxtapose fiction and reality to explore life both around and within myself.
And I like things that shine.
Areas of interest: Painting, glass blowing, textiles, sculpture, performance, text, anything that is fun and everything that makes us feel.
Magic Carpets project
”Så Vitt Jag Vet”
In development for OpenArt 2026
Past projects
Johan Is svärd (2024)
Type: Sculpture, mouth blown glass
Crushing All Over (2023)
Type: Sculpture, installation
Crushing All Over is a portrayal of hierarchies and their contrasts. Here, the overwhelming and glittering meets the everyday. At the top hangs a slightly skewed and vibrantly colored chandelier, adorned with handmade glass ornaments. Directly beneath it lies a tufted rug in the shape of a distorted body. Red threads connect the rug to the chandelier, functioning like an umbilical cord—a link between the hunger of the body and the dreams hovering just out of reach.
The artist is fascinated by the intersection between art and craft, and with Crushing All Over, he explores that very tension. The chandelier, symbolic of wealth and excess, is an object rarely touched—something distant and unattainable. The rug, by contrast, is grounded and a natural part of everyday life, something we step on, something that gathers our dust.
By fusing these two objects and making them dependent on one another, he investigates how our desires, ambitions, and dreams are often entangled in the hierarchical structures that surround us.
Crushing All Over carries a story with an open ending. Perhaps the body lifts from the ground and reaches the glittering goal. Perhaps it remains held down by the threads, crushed by the weight of the chandelier—imprisoned by its own place in the world.
Titta Fram (2021)
Type: Mixed media
When I look ahead, I don’t want to see a forest full of scrap, an ocean filled with plastic, and a superficial life cluttered with waste. I want to be able to look forward to a world where we care for our surroundings and our belongings the way we care for each other—with love and respect.
Looking ahead carries several meanings. It can mean looking forward in time, but it can also mean peeking out, like when all the insects emerge in the spring. Perhaps, at its core, looking ahead means seeing possibilities. Looking forward to something. The starting point for this project is precisely that: to look ahead in all its multifaceted meanings.
What inspires you as an artist? I draw inspiration from natural phenomena, scientific research, spiritual thinking, and historical as well as political (mis)interpretations.
What do you think is the purpose of art? To mediate philosophical and existential thoughts between people, objects, worlds. To challenge perceptions in our own and other universes, big and small and everything in between.
Contacts
Email: mail[et]johanadam.com | johanadam.com