BILLIE MAYA

JOHANSEN

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Billie Maya Johansen. Johansen was born in Odense, Denmark, 1986. She lives and works in Copenhagen and she is staying in Studio Verde during February 2020.

The artist graduated from the Staatlische Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Staedeelschule (MFA) in Frankfurt am Main (DE) in 2014. She has studied time-based media at Prof. Jeanne Faust at HFBK in Hamburg (DE) and received a BFA from the Funen Art Academy in 2011.

Billie Maya Johansen works with video, installation, and graphics, united through underplayed humor and a keen interest in contemporary socio-political conditions and phenomena. In her practice, she investigates the human condition and the themes of social decay and weariness against automated relationship. She works with a broad spectrum of mediums.