Joakim Stampe
 

Born in 1959, lives and works in Gothenburg. 

Joakim Stampe is today one of the leading performance art artists in Sweden. Since 2006 he has created more than 150 performance art works and is frequently invited to festivals and events all over the world. He has showcased his work in more than twenty countries in Asia, Europe, as well as in North and South America. 

Born into a creative environment, his parents were both renowned and socially engaged artists, Joakim Stampe started out to draw and paint in his early childhood. Going from easel painting to object painting, he became in the early 1990’s more and more involved in ephemeral street art. From 2006 and the start of Live Action, which he co-founded, Joakim Stampe subsequently started to focus on performance art. However, without leaving his work with public street art behind which he today has developed into the ephemeral world of water painting.