Gallery Extra is a presentation platform for performance art. Gallery Extra was founded and run as a performance work 2018 by Swedish artist Johan Lundin and was at that time administrated by several alter ego characters by the artist. Gallery Extra was started as a drag project, a disguise of a gallery occupying positions and claiming authority. Since 2020 Gallery Extra functions as an actual gallery organising events and exhibitions with a focus on performance art. Exhibitions are often arranged at places where art is not usually presented. Sometimes the presentations are expanded online through video, VR or interactive games. Johan Lundin is the artistic leader for the Gallery Extra.
The core in this way of working with art is mobility and communal power, self organisation amongst artists and the urge to foster a fun, fair, socially and economically stable and qualitative art market for the artist, the audience and the collector. Exhibitions have been arranged at venues such as empty shopping centres, hunting villas, beaches, luxurious suits, tunnels and at other institutions.
Gallery Extra has been organising exhibitions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, South Africa and Germany. Through being a continuously changing production platform we try to interrogate our own rules and standards. Gallery Extra sometimes strives to create opportunities to interact with and reach a broad audience, other times we speak to our close family and friends and sometimes we just have a conversation with ourself. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political discourse, Gallery Extra aspires to serve as a platform for art that interacts with and forms the surrounding society.
