Axel Antas Selected works Biography
Born in Finland. Lives and works in London |
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| Studies | |
| 1997-2000 | BA(Hons), Goldsmiths College, University Of London |
| 1995-1997 | The Nordic School of Art, Kokkola, Finland |
| Solo Shows | |
| 2008 | |
| Structures for the Unseen, Spacex, Exeter, UK | |
| Axel Antas, Heino Gallery, Helsinki, Finland | |
| Axel Antas, Rokeby gallery, London UK | |
| 2007 | Invention of solitude, HIAP project room, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2006 | Nature of things, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK |
| 2005 | Interventions, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2004 | Drawings, photographs and video, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2003 | vast, Senko Studio, Denmark |
| 2001 | Breathing Himself Invisible, e1 Gallery, London |
| Silent conversations, Kuvataideakatemian Galleria, Helsinki | |
| 2000 | while we sleep, Economist, London |
| The Acrobat, Kari Kenetti Galleria / Project space, Helsinki, Finland | |
| 1998 | transient, Studio Mezzo, Helsinki, Finland |
Selected Group Shows |
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| 2008 | There Is No Road, LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain Space Now, The Triangle, London, UK This is Nowhere, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK The Drawing Room, London, UK Fruehsorge contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 | Nieuwe Collectie, City of Lier, Belgium Bird Watching: Birds in Contemporary Art, De Vishal exhibition centre, Haarlem, Netherlands Aurora, Norwich Arts Center, Norwich, UK Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils, London, UK Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 mac, Birmingham, UK, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk, UK, DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, UK, Bay Art, Cardiff, UK |
| 2006 | Anatomy of Desire, Encosta Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, UK Focus Finland, Carmelitas Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006, Jerwood Space, London Statment, Paris Photo, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France Plug, White Space, County Hall, London UK Naturally! Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark Divergent Gazes, Mutual apropriations, Enconsta Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal PodArt II, 31Grand Gallery, New York Loop 06, Galería dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2005 | Treescapes, En Línea ( Córcega 284), Barcelona | The Unlimited Dream Company, Bisquit Factory, Newcastle, UK |
| Vadenspejl, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| The Instant of my Death, Galeria dels Angels, Curated by Hannah Collins, Barcelona | |
| Under your skin, Curated by Raul Zamudio, White Box, New York | |
| View 2005, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland | |
| The White Station, Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2003 | I Want, I want!, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland &Towner Art Gallery |
| Video screening, 291 Gallery, London | |
| Prospects 2003, The old truman brewery, London | |
| Platform for Art, London | |
| Video screening, The Kiosk Project, London | |
| Recent work, Axel Antas & Micahel Samuels, Pumphouse Gallery, London | |
| 2002 | RAPT, Prenelle Gallery, London |
| I Did it my way, Prenelle Gallery, London | |
| Finnish video art, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| The Latest Group Show, e1 Gallery, London | |
| Exile, Rum 64, Aarhus, Denmark | |
| 2001 | Video screening at Lux, London |
| Video screening at Gallery Westland Place, London | |
| Location, group show at Trinity Boye Wharf, London | |
| London Art Fair 2001 | |
| 2000 | Holland Animation Film Festival |
| Still, still moving, two mans show at ArtspacePeblinc, Copenhagen | |
| Assembly, collaboration between Golsmiths & Royal College, London | |
| Shotgun, Video screening at Artspace Peblinc, Copenhagen | |
| The Rest of the story, Chelsea College of Art 7 Design, London | |
| Krok, animation festival, Moscow, Russia | |
| Deptford X, London | |
| Goldsmiths Degree Show, London | |
| Self-Service, Five Years, London | |
| 1999 | Goldsmiths Students, Samtidskunst Forum, Oslo, Norway |
| Selected Press and Bibliography |
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| 2007 The New Photographic Portrait, William A. Ewing, Thames & Hudson 2007 Anna Sansom, Axel Antas,, Hotshoe Dec/Jan 2007 2006 Nicky Catley, A Bear-Pit of Art and Taste, Paris Photo, The Sunday Times, 25.11.2006 2006 Paris Photo 2006, Nordic Countries, Eyemazing, 03.2006 2006 Suzy Menkes, Images captured under a Nordic star, International Herlad Tribune, 17.11.2006 2006 Critics Choice, The Observer, Review, 10.09.2006 2006 Eve Therond, North Wind, Whitewall 2005 Anu Uimonen, Pilvi putosi puistoon, Helsingin Sanomat, 03.12 2005, C5 2005 Alistair Robinson, Axel Antas, catalogue essay 2005 Beckey Beasley, To dead to tell you, Catalogue essay 2005 Mikko Oranen, Häilyvä maisema, www.skenet.fi 2004 Morgan Falconer, Last snow of summer. The Times, Dec 2004 2004 Emilia Siltavuori, Anonymitet och ensamhet, HBL Kultur, 14.8.2004 2003 JJ Charlesworth, I Want! I Want!, Art monthly, 10.103 pp.33-35 2001 Martin Herbert, Time Out Review, 3.10 2001 |
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Public Collections |
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Helsinki City Art Museum Houthoff Buruma, Netherlands Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Pro Artibus, Finland Saastamoisen säätiö, Kuopio Art Museum Wihurin säätiö Zabludowicz Collection |
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Prizes and Awards |
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| 2008 | Gronqvistska stiftelsen |
| 2005 | Stina Krooks Stiftelsen |
| 2001 | Svenska Kulturfonden |
| 2000 | Siemens Art Prize |