ABOUT

Photo: Vanessa Sinclair

I am a Swedish author who writes fiction, and also books about occulture. I also work with filmmaking, in publishing, photography and music. For a quick overview, here are some links:

The Fenris Wolf Newsletter with weekly posts and news. Sign up here.

The An Art Apart site with weekly posts and news. Sign up here.

Carl Abrahamsson på svenska.

AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: Get all my books at the best prices and postage costs.

TRAPART: My own publishing company with an online store, focusing on art books and editions.

PATREON (together with Vanessa Sinclair)

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

HIGHBROW LOWLIFE ON BANDCAMP: A music label I run together with my wife, artist/psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair. Basically an archive for all the music we’ve made together, but there will be new (and older) releases too.

CARL ABRAHAMSSON CURRICULUM VITAE:

1966: Born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1972-1981: Studied at Engelbrektsskolan, Stockholm.

1978: Started taking photographs.

1981-1984: Studied at Östra Real/Östermalms Gymnasium, Stockholm.

1981-1982: Co-published comics fanzine Splasch.

1985-1989: Studied at the University of Stockholm (journalism & film theory/history).

1986-1988: Published music/subculture fanzines Lollipop and Acts Of Interstellar
Torture.

1988: Studied at Stockholms Filmskola/Nya Filmskolan (filmmaking).

1987-present day: Music-making with the band White Stains. Also solo work, and in projects Deform Project, Sinnelag and Understen.

1988-1990: Initial record label and publishing activities through TOPYSCAN (=Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth Scandinavia: Books, booklets, LPs, singles, cassettes, videos).

1989-1993: Edited and published occultural journal The Fenris Wolf in three issues (one magazine and two books).

1990-1993: Founded and worked with record label and book publishing company Psychick Release (CDs, videos, books, booklets, cassettes, events/concerts).

1990-1992: Co-founded and worked with film society Cinematick in Stockholm, organising numerous film shows, events and parties, including in-person- appearances by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Jörg Buttgereit and several others.

1994-1998: Co-founded and worked with book publishing company Looking Glass Press.

1996-2004: Founded and worked with advertising agency/publishing company Übertext.

1996-present day: Photographic and other exhibitions. For a more detailed list, see the ART/PHOTO section at this site.

2000: Edited and published first issue of art fanzine BULT.

2000-present day: Freelance work in journalism, editing, graphic design, advertising and photography.

2000-present day: Lecturing on various topics, mostly about the intersection between art and the esoteric (Royal College of Art, Stockholm, Royal College of Art, Copenhagen, Gasworks, London, the Here to Go-symposium, Trondheim and many more places). Also moderation of talks on art, Q & A-sessions, writing introductions and forewords to catalogs, artists’ books etc.

2000-2018: Music-making with the band/project Cotton Ferox.

2010-2011: Editor and writer at Tidningen Kulturen, music and film sections.

2011-2016: Co-founder of Edda Publishing (together with Fredrik Söderberg). Editor of The Fenris Wolf annual book project (revived in 2011).

2012-present day: Founded and worked with TRAPART Books, Films and Editions.

A chronological list of books and other text-related projects can be found in the WRITING section at this site. 

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