Mikael Jansson captured the 2024 Portrait of Honour for the Swedish National Museum, featuring legendary songwriter and producer Max Martin, added to the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle. The portrait pays tribute to Martin’s extraordinary musical legacy and his lasting impact on global pop music.
Iggy Pop Exhibition
Iggy Pop presented in fourteen images shot in Miami 2010 by Mikael Jansson in the exhibition Iggy Pop. CFHILL, Stockholm, May 24- July 8, 2022.
World of Interior
Mikael Jansson, was asked to portray the Karen Blixten inspired bouquets for the magazine World of Interiors in her property where she spent the last decade of her life. The reportage was a homage to the baroness and danish author Karen Blixten, whom lived an extravagant life. The florist Helen Olsen composed the bouquets from Karen Blixten’s characteristic garden. The photographies where taken at the late Karen Blixtens property, Rungstedlund outside of Copenhagen.
Italophilia Exhibition
Mikael Jansson first photographed Cara Delevigne in 2012 in the small, Medieval village Noto in Sicily in an assignment to capture a story and memories of the film L’Avventura from 1960 directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. A selection of the images exhibited together with Mats Gustafsson and Liselotte Watkins. CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, February 5-April 3, 2021.
Unscripted Scenes Exhibition
Mikael Jansson presented a selection of photographies taking us on a journey through vitality, timeless portraits and partying photographs from 1994 to 2020 in a solo exhibition in Stockholm. CFHILL, Stockholm, November 6-November 28, 2020.
Bright Futures, Bon Magazine
Bon74_Graduation (dragged)2019 Mikael Jansson photographed the graduation party of a secondary school in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb . A project for Bon Magazine published in 2020 curated by Angie Åhström. The images are not styled nor arranged. ”Bright Futures,” Bon Magazine, 2020
Witnesses
“Witnesses” an exhibition and film documenting Holocaust survivors in Sweden, at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm in October, 2018. This project was made possible through a grant I received from the Micael Bindefeld foundation on January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day in Sweden. The full film can be viewed at svtplay.se until January 2025, Music composed by Jacob Mülhrad. Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2018. Photographs of the exhibition taken by Johan Carlson.
Daria, The Archipelago Series – Box
Limited Edition Prints of Daria in the Archipelago Series. Box designed by Fabian Baron.
2018
Daria, The Archipelago Series
The Exhibition Daria in the Archipelago by Mikael Jansson. CFHILL, Stockholm, May – June, 2018. Photographs of the exhibition taken by Magnus Mårding.
Boychild Exhibition
Boychild photographed in Paris 2-3 July 2013. A personal project that was partly showed at Gun Gallery, Unseen, Amsterdam. Also published in Candy Magazine. Gun Gallery, Amsterdam, 2013.
Stockholm New — national romanticism from double turn of the centuries: contemporary fashion photography meets classic masterpiece painting
The celebrated exhibition at esteemed and historic Thielska Galleriet museum in Royal Djurgården park in Stockholm juxtaposed photographic images with Nordic masterpiece paintings from the previous turn of the century by Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, August Strindberg, Eugéne Jansson, Bruno Liljefors, and many others. Mikael Jansson was the main photographers in the exhibition, contributing twenty unique prints, four of these in monumental format. The exhibition was curated by Claes Britton and Andreas Brändström. Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, 2013.
Dum Dum Boys Exhibition
A selection of the
rock star images were shown at the exhibition Dum Dum Boys, Gun Gallery in Stockholm. Dum Dum Boys exhibition, Gun Gallery, Stockholm, 19 May-19 June, 2011. Also at The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, 9 September-27 October, 2013 and The Pan, Amsterdam, 23 November-1 December, 2013
Iggy Pop, Book
The Dum Dum Boys exhibition was accompanied by the book Iggy Pop, featuring portraits photographed by Mikael Jansson in Miami in December 2010. Book designed by Greger Ulf Nilsson, published by Gun Gallery, 2011
Dum Dum Boys
For the spring 2011
men’s fashion supplement of the New York Times style supplemet T-magazine, Mikael
Jansson created a series of images called Ballad of a Thin Man, styled by Bill Mullen and featuring a series
of portraits of rock stars Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Michael Stipe, David Gahan, Nick
Cave, Bryan Ferry, and David Johansen. A selection Ballad of a Thin Man, New York Times style supplement T-magazine, spring 2011
Crystal Renn
A film by Mikael Jansson & Mark Carrasquillo. Starring Crystal Renn. Music by David Lynch, 2011
The Royal Wedding
Mikael Jansson first photographed Crown Princess Victoria in Sweden in 2002, for a famous series of images for Stockholm New magazine. In 2010, Mikael was commissioned to photograph the official portraits for the Royal Wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel. Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2010.
Le Boucher, Book
The images of Anna Jagodzinska were originally photographed in 2008 for a book for Stockholm’s esteemed restaurant Operakällaren, but were rejected. A book was later published in an exclusive edition of 500 signed and numbered copies featuring an explicitly erotic short story “The Boucher” by French Author Alina Reyes. Eventually the photographs were also exhibited in another famed Stockholm restaurant, Sturehof. Exhibition ”Primavera”, Sturehof, Stockholm, October-December, 2009. Book ”Le Boucher” designed by Greger Ulf Nilsson, published by Gun Gallery, 2010
Speed of Life Exhibition
An Exhibition where Mikael Jansson portrays the life- embracing and death-defying allure of Formula 1 in photographs. The exhibition premiered in Kulturhuset in Stockholm in 2007. CFHill presented the exhibition Speed of Life again in 2017. CFHill, Stockholm, April – May 2017. Photographs of the exhibition taken by Pelle Bergström.
Speed of Life, Book
From 2003-2006 Mikael Jansson followed the Formula 1 circuit around the world, photographing cars, drivers, mechanics, race tracks, pit lanes and spectators in Sao Paolo, Monza, Shanghai, Bahrain, Monte Carlo, Indianapolis, San Marino, Nürburgring, and most other of the seventeen stops on the grand world tour. Exhibition Kulturhuset (House of Culture), Stockholm, 26 May-12 August, 2007. Book designed by Greger Ulf Nilsson, published by Steidl Verlag, 2007
Stockholm Art Fair
Large exhibition of selected images 1985-2002. Exhibition Stockholm Art Fair, 2004
Mikael Jansson, Book
The book is a retrospective presenting selected images of the first twelve years of Mikael Jansson’s career and features portraits, nudes and still-lives in black and white. Book designed by Johan Fredlund, published by Beaufort Press, 1999.
Dutch, Magazine
In 1998, Mikael Jansson was approached by Matthia Vriens, edior in chief of cutting edge fashion magazine Dutch, and asked to do a full magazine nude portfolio. Vriens idea was to give fashion credits to the nude images. Mikael Jansson, together with stylist Kari Hirvonen, photographed for four days in his summer house and on various locations in the Stockholm Archipelago, with a cast of the greatest Nordic models of the era. The epic 82-page spread can be seen as journal over Mikael Jansson’s classic black and white first twelve year stage of his career. Dutch Magazine, 1998.
Catwalk, Exhibition and Book
The Catwalk Exhibition was a group exhibition at Fotografiska Museet which used to be part of the Modern Museum in Stockholm. Mikael Jansson exhibited a variation of photographs taken between 1989 to 1993. The Book was published in correlation with the exhibition. Curated by Jan Erik Lundström. Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, April 1993.
