Markus Öhrn

Markus Öhrn (b. 1972) is a Swedish visual artist. He graduated from the Master of Fine Arts programme at Konstfack, Stockholm, in 2008. Markus Öhrn works with video, sound installations and performances. His installations have been presented in Sweden and internationally in places such as Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; Volksbühne (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Arsenal), Berlin.

In 2010 he directed his first theatre performance, "Conte d’Amour", that was awarded the First Prize at the Impulse Festival 2011, in Germany. "Conte d’Amour" was the first part of a trilogy that was followed by the performances "We Love Africa and Africa Loves Us" (2012) and "Bis zum Tod" (2014). The performances have been shown at festivals around the world such as Theater Treffen, Berlin; Wiener Festwochen; Festival d’Avignon; Festival Transamerique, Montreal; Theater Der Welt.

In 2015 Markus started to work with site-specific performances in series. The first piece in this format was the "Azdora" project that he created for Santarcangelo Festival in Italy, where he created a Black Metal / Noise band with housewives that performed for 10 days in a row. Since then he has made an "Adventscalendar" for Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin – 24 different performances in 24 days, in December 2015 – and then the follow-up 11-day performance "Wir sind die Guten", also at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, in 2017.

In 2018 Markus is also creating a commission work for Wiener Festwochen and Wiesbaden Biennale, called "Häusliche Gewalt" (Domestic Violence). In 2015 he participated at the "X-Apartments" project of the Onassis Cultural Centre’s Fast Forward Festival in Athens. Markus Öhrn lives and works in Berlin, Germany.