LUCKY STRIKE | Antikvariat Privat, Stockholm, Sweden, 2025
Lucky Strike welcomed our closest into a tiny antikvariat for our launch as the Cold Moon supermoon rose. The evening featured an exhibition by Anders Johansson and a performance by One Secret Each.
Pictures by Fredrika Eriksson
LUCKY STRIKE is a floating stage for shared encounters in contemporary art. Drifting through Stockholm and beyond without a fixed address, it embraces risk, discovery, and the chance of a lucky strike. A platform in motion, it connects artists and publics across Sweden and internationally through exhibitions, music, and hybrid events.
Founders & Artistic Directors | Lauren Johnson & Oscar Ramos
- Anders Johansson (1979, Uppsala, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He received his MFA at Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden (2011) and his BFA at Umeå Art Academy in Umeå, Sweden (2009). Anders’ work has been exhibited at ISSUES (Stockholm, Sweden), Galleri Thomassen (Gothenburg, Sweden), Vita Rosen (Gothenburg, Sweden) LOYAL (Stockholm, Sweden), Schiefe Zähne (Berlin), The Loon (Toronto) among others.
Anders’ visual world is a theme park of poppy pinks, ghostly stars and Tokidoki-style collectibles. Climbing into devastated delirium, a craving for the incessant is satisfied by the rapid production of information, a gear of cute accelerationism. Using frottage, a rubbing technique, Anders generates recurring personas that migrate across canvases and animate the objects he creates.
His artworks perform postmodern identity—cultural capital as spectacle. Like fashion, identity can change and be put on at will. Shopping malls (also called shopping galleries) and art galleries share a common DNA: objects staged to be wanted. Placed in a bookstore, Anders’ work enters a different lineage. The mass production of books, born from the Gutenberg press, democratized literacy and redistributed authority. Here, his repeated personas become an elixir for possibility not the meltdown of commodity culture.
-Maria Bergström (b. 1993, Falun) lives and works in Stockholm. Maria is a Composer and Sound designer and graduate of Stockholm University of the Arts (2024) with works featured at major venues including Opera Gratz, Unga Clara and Orion Teatren. Maria released her debut album Debut as One secret each (2025) via PLX Records and played it for the first time the following PLX festival. Now for the first time in Stockholm, she presents select moments from the album, together with highlights from her catalog.
The name one secret each came to her in a dream | Sagas of the soul | Music is her medium, notes crushed in grief | We all guard a hidden truth, one permafrost secret. We wouldn't survive the thaw | We cast stars in the dark and trade in light | One secret each is divine love, original sin, tears watering pain | Deep cuts into human nature.