BIOGRAPHY

art by johanna ritscher
2004 – Exhibition about mass consumption – Ungdomens Hus, Uppsala

2004 – Exhibition for the Clean Clothes Campaign Sweden, about worker’s rights in the garment industry – Stockholm, Malmö, Hultsfred and Arvika.

2004 – Exhibition for ATTAC Sweden about the complexity of privatizing water. A collaboration between several artist – in the Skåne region.

2005 – Installation about sustainable development for the Swedish Red Cross Society, at Humanitetens Hus (House of Humanity) – Malmö, ongoing.

2005 - Exhibition for the Clean Clothes Campaign Sweden, about worker’s rights in the garment industry – Stockholm, Malmö, Uppsala, Örebro, Hultsfred and Arvika,

2005 – I made the paintings used as prizes at the ‘Rebel’s peace award’ in Stockholm, an alternative Nobel prize for youth fighting against war and injustice. I also painted there live!

2006 – Exhibition at Påskveckan – Österlen, Skåne Sweden

2006 – I worked as an architect and director for the exhibition: ‘Just Plain Water?’ by the Swedish Red Cross Society at Humanitetens Hus (House of Humanity) – Malmö, ongoing until the end of 2007.

2006 – Artwork for the cover of Promoe’s (from Loop Troop) album ‘The white man’s burden’, including the 12 inches ‘Songs of Joy’ and ‘Headache’.

2006 – Exhibition; Support Starving Artists – Malmö

2006 – Illustrations for the fanzine ‘Hurra hurra hurra’

2006 – Illustrations for the 'Stajl by Malmö' magazine

2006 – Collaboration with the designer IRIKA; ‘IRIKA loves art by johanna ritscher´

2006 –Fashion show for sustainable development and human rights at Malmöfestivalen, fair, eco and retro design.

2006 - Exhibition at 'Rose Marie Gallerie’ called 'White man’s burden', Malmö.

2006 - Pimp My Bike, for The Agenda 21 office (working for sustainable development) in Malmö, they want to highlight the annual international ‘car free day’ to stop the global warming. I ‘pimped’ peoples bikes to make them bicycle instead of driving cars.

2006 – 2007 - ‘Vanor och ovanor’ (habits and bad habits) facilitator for a lecture series about Gender and how we discriminate each other without notice.

2007 – Logotype for Per Vers (a Danish rapper) fictive record company called ‘Mixedape’.

2007 – Exhibition Architect, about Solar energy, Studiefrämjandet, Malmö.

2007 – Logotype for Kemistry, a Swedish producer (Hip Hop / Soul / Concrete), and artwork for the cover of his firs album ‘The Suicide Ballads’.

2007 – Promotion material for Swedish rapper ‘Cruz Durrty Jada’

Political Mandates
2002 – 2005 - Coordinator for the Fair Trade/Sustainable Development local groups, within the Swedish Red Cross Youth, Uppsala and Malmö.

2004 – 2007 - Vice president on the Swedish Fair Trade board.

2004 – 2007 - Initiated and developed an expert group to push the Fair Trade/Sustainable Development issue forward in the Swedish Red Cross Youth.

2004 – 2005 - Campaign coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign Sweden “Play Fair at the Olympics” for the Swedish Red Cross Youth.

2004 – 2005 - Working group for the creation of the eco and fair trade café and exhibition, Humanitetens Hus (House of Humanity) Malmö.

2006 - Professional lobbyist for Jagvillhabostad.nu (Iwanthousing.now) at Almedalsveckan; the annual week of politics, Gotland.

International Political Mandates
2000 – 2001 - ‘Africa group’ at high school, journey of understanding, Kenya; Mombassa and Nairobi International.

2003 - Youth Camp dealing with disaster prevention, Red Cross international, Nigeria; Kano and Gombe.

2004 - European Enlarged Meeting, Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Bulgaria; Sofia.

2004 - Workshop participator dealing with informal and home based workers in the garment industry, Germany; Maizen.

2005 - workshop participator dealing with Urgent Appeal, Belgium; Brussels.

2005 - UN, Youth representative for the Swedish delegation in UN's Commission of Sustainable Development, CSD, USA; New York.

Education (Various)
1998 – 2001 - Media high school, media and print media, Uppsala.

2003 - Don Quijote, Spanish A + B, Spain; Granada.

2004 - Fair Trade ambassador education.

2004 – Clean Clothes Campaign ambassador education.

2004 – 2005 - Political Science A + B, Malmö Högskola.