
Dzungel, seal väljas
"Koos Tugevamad" - Kai Kunstikeskus, 2024
President Kaljulaidi lähisuhtevägivalla ennetuse konverents.
3.12.2024
collaboration with Laima Jaunzema
; Jaunzema ja Rosenberg käsitlevad lähisuhetes esineva vägivalla absurdsust. Läbi jõuliste liikumiste ja muutliku eneseesitluse uurivad etendajad patriarhaalseid mustreid, millega püütakse teisi kontrollida ning mis omakorda juurduvad enese keha rõhumises. Performance liigub komöödia ja brutaalsuse kokkupõrke radadel, vaadates silmitsi pilguga, mis objektistab ja vaigistab. See avab ukse lootusekiirele—vastuhakk absurdsusele, mis valitseb seal, kus peaks olema armastus.

Post-Summer Choir
Von Krahl + EMTA Lavakunstikooli XXXI lend -
Balti Jaama tunnel, 2024
Durational post-Summer choir spectacle in a public space.
6.05.2024
costumes and make-up Pire Sova
vocal coach Anne Türnpu
props manager Linda-Mai Kari
"Järelsuve koor" on kooriperformance, mis esitab laule ajast, kehast ja kuumast suvest. Performance uurib koloniseerimise kihte nii individuaalsel kui ka kollektiivsel tasandil, koorides neid lahti kehade ja ühiskonna pealt. Need kihid ulatuvad üle põlvkondade ja eri kultuuride, avades ruumi häälele ja müstikale. Performance põhineb Aino Kallase “Lasnamäe valge laev” (1913) ainetel, mida tõlgime tänapäeva kehade ja geopoliitilise mütoloogia konteksti.
Kuidas ja milliseid jälgi me jätame oma maale ning teineteise kehadele? Kollektiivsed emotsionaalsed kihid kujundavad meie keelt ja sealt edasi meie füüsist ja liikumisi. Läheneme füsioloogilistele, sotsiaalsetele ja geopoliitilistele teemadele, uurides naabruskondade põlisrahvaste kultuurimõjusid ning kuidas erinevad keeled on jätnud oma mõju meie liikumisele ja suhtlemisele.

A Blastful Finale
Toomas Volkmann "täis minevik" - Fotografiska, 2024
Finnissage performance Toomas Volkmanni isikunäitusele ‘täis minevik’.
8.03.2024
collaboration with Florian Wahl
Scenography Kris Lemsalu
; A Blastful Finale on performance, kus avaneb Volkmanni kontrastidest inspireeritud rituaalide maailm. Etenduskunstnikud Florian Wahl ja Johhan Rosenberg kombivad fotonäituse erinevaid tahke, kus igal nurgal on potentsiaalne tähenduste plahvatus. Etteaste süda on dünaamiline ja ekspressiivne, poeetiline ja lihakas, kaasates publiku elu ja kunsti vahelistesse pragudesse.

Home Stage
Estonian pavilion - Biennale Architettura, 2023
Durational performance and installation.
3-29.11.2023 @Salizada Streta 96, Venice
Curators, architects Aet Ader, Arvi Anderson, Mari Möldre (b210)
Directors Liisa Saaremäel, Keithy Kuuspu
The Estonian exhibition explores the contradiction between the living place as a home and as an exchange value. A succession of Estonian performers will dwell a month, individually, in a Venetian rental apartment that becomes both an abode and a stage. Everyday life, lived and performed in a duet with the apartment rolls out in front of, and among, visitors to the Biennale. Come over!

kohanemine 360°le
Kohanemise Kunst - Kadrioru Kunstimuuseum, 2023
Solo performance for exhibition The Art of Adapting. Opening + finissage
14.08.2023 + 2.03.2024
make-up + horns Martina Gofman
costume Kirke Talu + Madlen Hirtentreu
Näituse kuraatorid: Madli Ehasalu, Triin Metsla
Johhan Rosenbergi skulpturaalne performance „Kohanemine 360°le”, mis juurdub otse müüdi südamest. Kehastades Ovidiuse „Metamorfooside” legendi Kadrioru kunstimuuseumi laemaalilt, kutsutakse see ellu läbi publiku ja vaatlejate pilgu.

The Symphony
"There Is Nothing New Under the Sun" - London, 2023
Body orchestra duet for exhibition "There is Nothing New Under the Sun".
collaboration with Netti Nüganen
7.04.2023, Lewisham Arthouse
Curator Liina Leo

Lether Squeaking Softly
KONSUM - Uue Loomingu Maja, 2022
Performance for Ratkiller's album presentation
18.06.2022
collaboration with Mihkel Kleis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91CxYNuEjQ&t=

._XNUNX_’
Maardu Dekkenaal - Maardu, 2022
5.06.2022
collaboration with Jette Loona Hermanis
wigs Madlen Hirtentreu / costume Kirke Talu
Pindluu põleb ja aeg külmutas nende küüned. Psalmide kaja hõõgab himust ja nunna moshbit rögatab vilus. Nad sisenesid tsemendist basseini, kuni reieluuni, seejärel sääreluuni, ülalõualuuni kuni tardus kuklaluuni. jah, nende luused palved on üdis ja kuulda võetud.. värisevad kopsud, sillerdava vee all veel puhkavad. Tundub , et astusin kamasse.

traps
Kanuti Gildi Pühavaimu SAAL, Tallinn 2022
premiere 2.05.2022
sound design Karl Saks / light design Priidu Adlas
sound § light technician Hendrik Kaljujärv + Kristiina Tang
dramaturgy Maike Lond + Netti Nüganen / producer Eneli Järs
'Traps' incorporates a series of infinite gestures, resulting in a wet sewage space where texts, bodies, concepts, and configurations are arranged and collide.
Children are called dreamers, often giving wings to all that is invisible or already known or fixed. They provoke ambiguity and make friends easily with the unknown. The unknown is always looking for forms, through unconscious actions and behaviors. In addition, the unknown can sometimes make itself visible to the child. Gradually aging in the playgrounds, I notice that the "real" is only the result of a collective contract and based on territory. Identity then becomes a construct as a result, but it is a threshold - a bit of the unknown and the familiar, and something reproducible. Like a glimpse of recognition and absurdity between fiction and reality, constantly creating us with the content of different fictions.There are no clear boundaries within the parameters established in reality. Thanks to this insight, the boundary between fiction and reality disappears. The blurring of this boundary stems from my deeper understanding of what might be the engagement between humans and the environment. Inclusivity. There are wild animals, people and forms of life in the world for which our system lacks any flow of information. Yet the world offers a far more communicative reality and ways of movement with interaction than we ever know or think.

KÕDU
EKA Galerii, Tallinn 2021
exhibition-performance
25-29.11.2021
author and choreography Johhan Rosenberg
performers Iris Lillemägi, Sveta Grigorjeva, Johhan Rosenberg, Bosa Mina and Laima Jaunzema. Sound design Mihkel Kleis / Gallerist Pire Sova.
:they have not managed to conceive you
and you have already occurred
be such hag and tell me
who is it that imagined you;
The age-old phantom Kõdu is living in all organisms while decomposing them from the inside. The constant resistance with apparent subjugation will end with the inevitable surrender.
The performance takes over the gallery space with an installation that changes over time. Johhan works together with the participants based on their artistic practice. Through sensing the body movements the utterer and the uttering become one while provoking the obscure new creatures are brought to life.

LARVA
Curving The Dance - opening Riga, 2021
poetry slam-up "Larva". anti music, anti dance and anti poesy.
with lizard sisters Laima Jaunzema and Maciej Sado

court rat
KONSUM - Uue Loomingu Maja, 2021
collaboration with Mihkel Kleis

Eden Detail
Kanuti Gildi SAAL - Tallinn, 2021
premiere 1.02.2021
collaboration with Jette-Loona Hermanis
performers Johhan Rosenberg, Jette Loona Hermanis, Eden Olev, Anne Türnpu / Andoni Zamora Txakartegi. Light design Mikk-Mait Kivi and Sasha Mirson / Set design: Matīss Rucko / Costumes Angela Pilliroog / Grimm Martina Gofman
“Eden Detail” is a performative fable, which melts the aged with the catastrophic following. Through the forest ghosts, witches and chants everything becomes converted to nowadays rust. Our good-old Linda was born with tattoos on her flesh. And Kalev who’s a flasher is looping with eggs. Moths on high-heels stomping the wheat as mushroom trips make the slavering beat.

Remote Seasons
RE+EMBODIEMENT, Berlin 2020
2-4-10.2020, Studio dB, Berlin
collaboration with Peter Kirn
The project is produced and live streamed collaboratively between Vladivostok and Berlin, by curators Peter Kirn of Create Digital Media GmbH, Berlin (and media partner CDM.link).

T.R.A.P.S.
SNDO Graduation work, Amsterdam 2020
premiere 2.07.2020 @Dansmakers
concept, set design and performance Johhan Rosenberg
light design Martin Kaffarnik + Paulina Prokop
advise and support by Ana Vujanovic + Laima Jaunzema
music Helgi Sallo, Andreas Aalberg Tegnander, Johhan Rosenberg
T.R.A.P.S. creates a hypered identity to foreground the absence of its being. Investigating and falling into the gaps between the citational and visceral, It gazes back to reflect its own sociality and sings forgotten melodies. The space meditates in its surrounding before the language, creating an atmosphere of both intimacy and estrangement. Searching for emergence of physicality.
T.R.A.P.S. is a microscopic landscape for traps - areas of thinking which we stumble upon, even though we have the best of skills and intentions. In the struggles to extricate ourselves from the areas, T.R.A.P.Seeks to discuss an absent image and trace our forgotten belongings. T.R.A.P.S. is a limited potential and a force of displacement.T.R.A.P.S. is a trapping pulse and a raw meat programmed to consume.T.R.A.P.S. is a place where drugs and identities are sold and dissolved.It is a scream, hope from hopelessness, a person’s dirty mouth and also a two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse. It Travels, Restricts, Attrapts (?), Pushes and Stops our presence while we’re being tricked by our own traps.

Заброшенная танцбольница
ZIL, Moscow / SDVIG, St.Petersburg, 2019
18+20 @Zil, Moscow + 9.12 @SDVIG, St.Petersburg
performance Johhan Rosenberg
ZIL curated Анастасия Хлынова
support Лаймa Яунземы, Антони Муриги и SDVIG
The notion of freedom revolves around body, language and spectator. The main character is in a state of dissonance. Xe analyzes, looking for this place in reality, trying to find a point of freedom and creativity. The work of the choreographer seeks a balance between the intuitive and the situational, dissecting the body of dance.
