Jörgen Axelvall

Jörgen Axelvall is a Tokyo based photographer and artist from Sweden.
Previous to moving to Tokyo in 2011 Axelvall resided in NYC for 15 years.
He tends towards long-term projects: exploring intimacy and solitude;
soft- or select-focus evoking abstracted, dream-like realms at once personal, yet universal.
Axelvall attempts to seize the utter vulnerability and beauty to transubstantiate the subject into essence of the moment. Axelvall’s visual storytelling interacts with his experimental word.
Axelvall exhibits internationally, and has won significant awards: International Winner, New Exposure by Vogue USA, 2013, Athens Photo Festival, 2019, and The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, 2015.
Axelvall has four monographs to date.
Since 2018, Jörgen Axelvall has been represented by Ken Nakahashi Gallery in Tokyo.

College of Photography
Lund, Sweden 1991-1993

Photography Assistant
Stockholm, Sweden 1994-1996
New York, USA 1996-2002

Major solo exhibition

2020
『And I reminisce』node hotel, Kyoto
2019
『And I reminisce』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
『Go To Become』node hotel, Kyoto
2018
『KÄR/LEK』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
2017
『Go To Become』Bookmarc Tokyo Gallery
『Parité: un plus un est plus encore』Shu Champagne Bar & Art Gallery Tokyo
2015
『I was looking for Park Hyatt Tokyo』China Inn Gallery, Los Angeles 『OIDE』The Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo
2014

『Instant Moments』IDOL Aoyama, Tokyo
『Instant Moments』The Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo
『Always Looking Through Glass』0fr. Tokyo Gallery
『I was looking for Park Hyatt Tokyo』Gallery at the Park, Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Selected group exhibition

2020
『one’s behavior』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
2019
『KÄR/LEK』Featured Exhibition, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney 『Soft Mirrors』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
2018
『Being and Time』Tambourin Gallery, Tokyo
2015

『18th Japan Media Arts Festival』 The National Arts Center, Tokyo 2013
『New Exposure』 OpenHouse Gallery, Soho, NYC