Video Exhibit by Johanna Billing at P.S.1

The show at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center includes Billing's recent video Magical World (2005), shot in an after-school cultural center in the Dubrava-district of Zagreb, Croatia. The work offers a glimpse of a country in transformation that is still recovering from the break-up of former Yugoslavia but is projected to join the EU in a couple of years. Footage of a group of children carefully rehearsing the Rotary Connection song "Magical World" are interspersed with imagery from an urban environment in development. 
 
Johanna Billing (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She received a M.F.A. degree from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm in 1999. She has been the subject of numerous solo shows over the last few years in Europe and the U.S. Her work was included in the 9th Istanbul Biennial in 2005, the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003, and in the 1st Prague Biennial, also in 2003. Her work is part of the collections of the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Holland; the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

The exhibition is curated by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss. 
 
Magical World by Johanna Billing
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
February 26 - April 24, 2006
Thursday - Monday, 12-6 pm

For more information: www.ps1.org

Image: Magical World © Johanna Billing