OLOF OLSSON

Olof Olsson lives in Copenhagen. He’s the product of the 1960s charter tourism industry, his Dutch mother and Swedish father met in Mallorca.

In his youth Olof made attempts in photography, journalism, and as a pirate radio DJ. Olof studied English, philosophy and translation theory at Lund University, and went to art school at Konstfack in Stockholm and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen.

Olof did his first exhibition in 1992: a fictitious museum installation about a photographer who couldn’t stop taking photographs. Since 2007, Olof performs info comedy — a combination of lecture, comedy, autobiography, and melodrama.

Olof’s first feature-length info comedy Driving the Blues Away, premiered in 2012. In 2016–2018, Olof performed it regularly in his Copenhagen one-room apartment (with an audience capacity of twelve), constantly fine-tuning the script. The audience got a two-hour performance and two cocktails for fifty Danish kroner. By early 2020, Driving the Blues Away had been performed 122 times in 19 countries.

After three years of writing, Olof’s second feature-length info comedy, Driving the Doubts Away, premiered in 2023. It’s currently touring. After each performance the script is revised and refined.

Driving the Doubts Away is the first part of a trilogy about Olof’s first year in art school. The trilogy will be completed in the year 2030.

When touring, Olof travels by train – with a premium sound and light system in his luggage.

Olof’s luggage, on tour with Driving the Doubts Away, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, February 2026.