Karin Johansson, born 1964 in Värnamo, Sweden, and currently work and lives in Gothenburg. In 1994 she graduated from HDK Academy of Design and Crafts Gothenburg University. Her work is featured in several private and public collections, and she is the recipient of several major grants and awards, among them the ten-year working grant of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. She is one of the founders of the international jewellery gallery Hnoss in Gothenburg, later Hnoss Initiative. Between 2007-2019 she was the head of department/professor of the Jewellery Art department at HDK Academy of Design and Crafts Gothenburg University.


Karin on her works:
I collect real objects and images, seized from my daily surroundings. In fact, my studio is an endlessly growing collection of bits and pieces, both visible and invisible, that become parts of a map I keep updating and revising. My work is a treasure hunt among things and ideas finally fashioning into pieces of jewellery made to be desired, worn, questioned, or loved.