Jan Åman is a curator, writer, activist and cultural entrepreneur specialized in the intersection between food, cities, art and social phenomena. He is the founder of several cultural platforms, such as Färgfabriken, that with Åman as Founding director (1996-2008) became one of Europe’s most innovative venues for developing art and urbanity. Apart from investigating the possibilities of art he expanded into urban development and has played an important role in the re-thinking Stockholm, through projects such as Stockholm at Large and Väsby Labs. Together with artist Carsten Höller he invited “the man who re-invented cooking”, Ferran Adrià, to Sweden in 2011 and soon after founded Atelier Slice to create a company for developing change through cities, food and art. Atelier Slice soon received two government commissions to create a platform for innovation through food to pair with those on urbanity and art. Atelier Slice was in 2014 joined by partners Johan Jörgensen and Savinien Caracostea. Åman has received several awards for his achievements, and was the first receiver of the Christo & Jeanne-Claude and Lilja Art Fund Foundation Award for cultural entrepreneurship.
