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.


Setting out with his preference for Polaroid to connect with the traditions of casual, studio, and illicit photography, Axelvall pursues the immediacy and tactility to preserve the thrill of each fresh encounter. Each photograph is meticulously scanned for subsequent treatment to evoke the heightened thrall and promise of each encounter. The final presentation is of utmost importance with hands-on involvement: carefully selectin...

College of Photography
Lund, Sweden 1991-1993

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

Major solo exhibition


2024
『Most likely, the frames will destroy themselves part II』LOWW Gallery, Tokyo
2024
『Most likely, the frames will destroy themselves part I』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
2022
『Looking Up』Ken Nakahashi Gallery, Tokyo
2021
『And I reminisce』Bookmarc Gallery Tokyo
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 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


2024
『COSMOSOPHY Jörgen Axelvall + Yurina Okada』Biscuit Gallery, Tokyo
2024
『Bad Romance: Affective Body with its Misapprehension and Rumours』
curated by Nñg project, Waley Art, Taipei, Tawain
2024
『POSITION. FIXED FOREVER』LOWW Gallery, Tokyo
2023
『Matsumoto Architecture+Art Festival』Matsumoto Naga...