FOLKE ANDREAS JÄJE JOHANSSON (”JAY-JAY JOHANSON”)
1968 Born in Trollhättan, Sweden on October 11.
1975 Starts to play the piano.
1978 Learning clarinet and saxophone, joins a local big band. Jay-Jay has his first ever concert with his ”punk rock” band ”Nej Tack” at the ”Non Smoking Generation” festival in Skara.
1984 Moves to Jönköping and starts music college. Sees Chet Baker playing live, ”a concert that changed my life”, Jay-Jay has said in many interviews. ”At that moment I realized what I wanted to do when I grow up.”
1985 Works as a dance teacher on weekends and after school. One of the students is Erik Jansson. Jay-Jay has described him as a perfect combination of Chopin and Beastie Boys, they’ve been working together ever since.
1989 Joins the army for his 12 months of military service.
1991 Moves to Stockholm, starts Art school.
1993 Works at i-D magazine in London during the summer break. At i-D, they don’t know how to pronounce his name Jäje, so they call him Jay-Jay. 1995 Jay-Jay finishes Art school. Plays a small concert at a friends birthday party, and is discovered by an A&R from BMG Records. Starts recording in BMG’s demo studio in Sundbyberg. ”The Girl I Love is Gone”, ”It Hurts Me So” and ”So Tell the Girls that I Am Back in Town” are the three first songs recorded.
1996 Recording and mixing sessions moves over to the Break My Heart Studio on February 3. In the studio, situated in the Stockholm archipelago, Jay-Jay is working close to Erik Jansson on piano and Magnus Frykberg on drums, Erik, Magnus and Jay-Jay have never stopped working together since. Jay-Jay signs a record deal for 6 albums with BMG on February 23. The debut album ”Whiskey” is released on September 2.
1997 Whiskey is released in France and the rest of Europe and becomes an instant success. A first European tour starts with 30 concerts in France.
1998 A second album ”Tattoo” is released on April 15. A ”Tattoo tour” follows, with more than 50 shows all around Europe. The tour ends with a sold out concert at L’Elysee Montmartre in Paris. During the festival ”La Route du Rock” in St Malo France, Jay-Jay meets up with Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie, a musical collaboration and friendship starts.
1999 Jay-Jay moves to Strasbourg France, but travels back and forth to Stockholm, to work on his third album.
2000 After living one year in France Jay-Jay moves back to Sweden, buys a flat in the Stockholm suburb Sundbyberg, just a couple of blocks away from the studio where he recorded his first songs, 5 years earlier. ”Poison”, the third, and most successful, album of Jay-Jay’s career so far, is released April 18, reaching number 4 in the French album chart. The second single ”Believe in Us” and the ballad ”Far Away” are two of his most loved songs ever, and Jay-Jay still almost always include them in his concerts. The ”Poison Tour” starts in June and ends, again with a sold out show at L’Elysee Montmartre in Paris, after more than 50 concerts around Europe, Brazil and Canada. The concert in Paris on November 20 will be the last show in France until Jay-Jay returns to France again in 2005 for a concert at Bataclan on November 22, more than five years later.
2001 The song ”Suffering” from ”Poison” is featured in the TV-serie ”Queer as Folk”, the first American dramaserie to portray the lives of gay men and women. This becomes the start of a growing fan base in America. Jay-Jay has always mentioned how film music has inspired him, and in 2001 he compose and release his first soundtrack, to the French film ”La Confusion de Genres”. Jay-Jay creates an art installation called ”Cosmodrome” together with Dominique Gonzalez Foerster. It starts showing in Dijon and has since then been exhibited in the Lyon Biennale 2002, Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris 2007, and Centre Pompidou 2015.
EMPTY BEDS DES MOMENTS DE VIE IMMORTALISÉS
« Pendant la tournée mondiale de mon 3ème album POISON à l’Automne 2000, j’ai commencé à collectionner les EMPTY BEDS dans lesquels je me suis endormi . Me réveillant les lendemain de concert, chaque jour dans une chambre différente, dans une ville différente, dans un pays différent, j’ai pris mon appareil photo et j ai immortalisé l’empreinte de mon corps laissée dans les draps, les couvertures et l’oreiller. Ce portrait d’un objet absent devient le symbole de la solitude, du vide et de la tristesse que j’ai pu ressentir. J’ai gardé ces photos dans mon journal, et j’ai continué ce rituel inlassablement de capturer ces moments de calme. Des moments de mélancolie intime. Des moments privés et précieux. » JAY - JAY JOHANSON
Au mois de mars, notre artiste à l'honneur sera Jay-Jay Johanson, néanmoins les artistes que nous suivons en permanence seront bien visibles à la galerie. Nous vous concoctons également un agenda varié et culturel un dimanche par mois, happening, concerts, performances, conférences, lectures, courts-métrages, etc.
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Jay-Jay Johanson Empty Beds on tour 2003 - 2018
37•14February2003AndyWarholFactory,NewYork,USA,ChelseaHotel 38•4April2009LeCargodeNuit,Arles,France,HotelAtrium 39•23April2009Ikra,Moscow,Russia,GoldenAppleHotel 40•23September2009Ex-Centris,Montreal,Canada,OpusHotel 41•10July2010YugongYishan,Beijing,China,TravellerInnHuaqiao 42•11July2010Mao,Shanghai,China,Motel268 43•26May2011Teatrodell’Arte,Milano,Italy,HotelHermitage 44•1March201216Tons,Moscow,Russia,HiltonHotelLeningradskaya 45•26October2013MaoLiveHouse,Beijing,China,HanTingInn 46•27October2013TuSpace,Guangzhou,China,SevenDaysInn 47•28October2013OnStage,Shanghai,China,HanTingInn 48•6November2013Tao,SaintPetersburg,Russia,KempinskiMoyka 49•7November2013Loft,Krasnoyarsk,Russia 50•15November2013CasadasArtes,Oporto,Portugal,VilaNovadeFamalicao 51•16November2013TeatroAveirense,Aveiro,Portugal, 52•21November2013AcapulcoCasino,Gijon,Spain,HotelHermanCortes 53•22November2013TeatroLara,Madrid,Spain,HotelSiesteIslas 54•23November2013ExhibitionCentre,Bilbao,Spain,NovotelBaracaldo 55•24November2013Auditorium,Girona,Spain,BestWestern 56•6December2013Valentin,Istanbul,Turkey,HotelSheraton 57•10December2013EpicerieModerne,Feyzin,France,CentralLyonPerrache 58•11December2013Trianon,Paris,France,HoteldelaTourD’Auvergne 59•12December2013Silencio,Paris,France,RuedesCascades 60•16December2013TikiBar,Athens,Greece,AcropolisSelectHotel 61•8February2014Antigel,Geneva,Switzerland,HotelCornavin 62•19March2014IslingtonAngel,London,England,WappingRoseGarden 63•10April2014JollyJoker,Ankara,Turkey 64•27April2014Atmosphere,Tyumen,Russia,HotelMercure 65•19July2014ArtplayRooftop,Moscow,Russia 66•29August2014PrideFestival,Copenhagen,Denmark,HotelSavoy 67•3October2014LeSansReserve,Périgueux,France,HotelRegina 68•17November2014LaTrastienda,BuenosAires,Argentina 69•23January2015LeParvis,Tarbes,France,Rex 70•14February2015C3Stage,Guadalajara,Mexico 71•18April2015PointÉphémère,Paris,France,AlbaOperaHotel 72•16October2015LaCigale,Paris,France,HotelArvor 73•27October2015Alambra,Mons,Belgium,Dream Hotel 74•9August2016LaMadeleine,Brussels,Belgium,RadissonBlueRoyal 75•31December2016Spacehall,Tbilisi,Georgia,HotelFabrika 76•28January2017A2,SaintPetersburg,Russia,HotelGu
77•9February2017Fri-Son,Fribourg,Switzerland,HotelAlpha 78•10February2017LaBelleElectrique,Grenoble,France,NovotelGrenobleCentre 79•12February2017Spy,Moscow,Russia,StandartHotel 80•9March2017ContainerHall,Izmir,Turkey,HiltonDoubleTree 81•11March20176:45,Ankara,Turkey,SonnoHotel 82•12March2017Roxy,Istanbul,Turkey,PeraCenter 83•31March2017CentrePompidou,Paris,France,Hôteldel’écoleCentrale 84•1April2017LeManège,Lorient,France,HotelMercure 85•2April2017LeNormandy,SaintLô,France,HotelMercure 86•4April2017GanmarthSalle1,Carthage,Tunisia,CarthageThalassoResort 87•9April2017Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,Japan,HarutomihisaiBuilding101 88•13April2017Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,Japan,HarutomihisaiBuilding101 89•22April2017SofarSessions,Barcelona,Spain,H-TopBcnCity 90•23April2017Apolo,Barcelona,Spain,HotelEuropark 91•12May2017CentreGeorgesPompidou,Paris,France,Hôteldel’écoleCentrale 92•3July2017AtlasWeekend,Kiev,Ukraine,HotelPresident,Room 339 93•9July2017FnacFestivalHôteldeVille,Paris,France,HotelDwin,Room 306 94•15July2017ContemporaryArtCenter,Sevilla,Spain,SilkenAndalusPalace 95•4August2017Hi-hat,SaintPetersburg,Russia,VedenskiyHotel,Room 606 96•5August201716Tons,Moscow,Russia,HolidayInnSushevskaya,Room 1304 97•27August2017KoktebelJazzFestival,Odessa,Ukraine,MozartHotel,Room 303 98•28September2017PerformanceHall,Ankara,Turkey,OnyxHotel 99•29September2017ContainerHall,Izmir,Turkey,HiltonGardenInn 100•30September2017DorockXL,Istanbul,Turkey,DilaHotel,Room 314 101•7October2017Swoon,Budapest,Hungary,BoscoloHotel,Room 177 102•11October2017,TeatrodasFiguras,Faro,Portugal,CasaModesta,Room VIII 103•12October2017TeatroTivoli,Lisbon,Portugal,HotelFlorida,Room 922 104•13October2017TeatroJoséLuciodaSilva,Leiria,Portugal,AiresdaSerra,Room 101 105•14October2017TeatroMunicipal,Guarda,Portugal,HotelLusitania,Room 101 106•15October2017TeatroCirco,Braga,Portugal,HotelMercure,Room 615 107•21October2017BiNuu,Berlin,Germany,Nhow,Room 604 108•23October2017SalaBBK,Bilbao,Spain,HotelErcilla,Room 521 109•12November2017TeatroCircoCartagena,Spain,HotelCartagonova,Room 605 110•23November2017ThéâtredeCaen,Caen,France,HotelModerne 111•10December2017Omeara,London,England,NovotelCitySouth 112•18December2017Botanique,Brussels,Belgium,HotelBloom 113•10February2018Victoire2,Montpellier,France,QualityHotel,Room 111 114•16February2018LaFermed’enHaut,Villeneuves’Ascq,France,KyriadLille,Room 220 115•18February2018LeRocherdePalmer,Cenon,France,KyriadPrestige,Room 121 116•1March2018ErartaMuseum ofContemporaryArt,SaintPetersburg,Russia,SoloSokos,Room 412 117•2March2018GlavclubConcertHall,Moscow,Russia,PalmiraHotel,Room 1116 118•2November2018DemetriaMainGallery,Guadalajara,Mexico,HotelDemetria 119•9May2019CafédelaDanse,Paris,France,StandardDesignHotel,Room 205 120•9November2019L’Octogone,Lausanne,Switzerland,HotelVictoria,Room 20
121•25May2007LesDocks,Lausanne,Switzerland,HotelAgora 122•8December2007Sonofila,Guadalajara,Mexico,HiltonHotel 123•19October2008CentrodesArtes,Portalegre,Portugal,Dom JoaoIII 124•5April2009Bataclan,Paris,France,HotelCroixdeMalte 125•26November2014CentreGeorgesPompidou,Paris,France,HiltonHonors,Room 353 126•17June2015Berghain,Berlin,Germany,PlusHotel,Room 105 127•23November2017L’Alhambra,Paris,France,HôtelArvor 128•22December2017TikiBar,Athens,Greece,HotelAcropolis,Room 306 129•23December2017Teatrum,Chisinau,Moldova,Zentrum ApartHotel,Room 508 130•1January2018Orange,London,England,ZHotel,Room 308 131•3March2018Robeda,Novosibirsk,Russia,DomikaHotel,Room 710 132•7April2018ChelseaCafé,Vienna,Austria,Getreidemarkt 133•1July2018CulturaAtomica,Zaragoza,Spain,NHSport,Room 202 134•22November2018MAO,Beijing,China,Hotel8509 135•23November2018MAO,Huangzhou,China,SophiaHotel,Room 8711 136•24November2018MAO,Shanghai,China,Motel168,Room 722 137•11January2019Islington,London,England,ZHotel,Room 421 138•6June2019Shadowplay,KarlovyVary,CzechRebublic,GrandHotelPupp,Room 245 139•13October2019EspinhoAuditorio,Espinho,Portugal,PraiaGolfe 140•28October2019LeBotanique,Brussels,Belgium,nhowHotel,Room 202 141•27November2019Nachtasyl,Hamburg,Germany,PierDrei,Room 542 142•29November2019SilentGreen,Berlin,Germany,MarriottBonvoy,Room 1003 143•15January2020FrancisBaconEstate,CapeTown,SouthAfrica,RisiRoadFishHoek 144•31January2020100Club,London,England,ZHotel,Room 223 145•21August2020ClaustredeMenorca,Menorca,Spain,AcapulcoPlaya,Room 240 146•23August2020,ClaustredeSantBonaventura,PalmaMallorca,Spain,AcapulcoPlaya,Room 303 147•16October2020TeatroCirco,Murcia,Spain,HotelCetina 148•29July2021CiudadedaCultura,SantiagodeCompostela,Spain,CasaDouro,Room 18 149•7August2021TheatredesCarrieres,Lacoste,France,ChatuaudeLacoste,Room B3 150•10October2021AuditorioTorrevieja,Alicante,Spain,DonaMonse,Room 107 151•26November2021Echonova,Vannes,France,IbisHotelRoom 101 152•27November2021LaSirène,LaRochelle,France,BestWesternHotel,Room 123 153•29November2021LeTrianon,Paris,France,AlbaOpera,Room 34 154•1December2021Fuzz’yon,LaRochesurYon,France,Campanile,Room 423 155•3December2021L’Astrolabe,Orléans,France,EscaleOceania,Room 204 156•4December2021EspacedesArtes,Chalon,France,HotelSaintGeorges,Room 208 157•18December2021Rokva,Tbilisi,Georgia,RoomsHotel,Room 326 158•7January2022AuditoriodelaRioja,Bilbao,Spain,HotelSeminaro,Room 549 159•6February2022Zorlu,Istanbul,Turkiye,Marriott,Room 1212 160•23June2022JardinAlhambra,Madrid,Spain,PetitPalace,Room 31
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