417.5 ppm – Galleria Heino, Helsinki / 29.9 – 22.10 2023
In his new work, Axel Antas creates a visual counterpart of written poetry. He deals with blankness in a variety of different ways, depicting it literally but also daringly inviting it into the gallery space. ...
Still Life (Inertia Geometry)
Still Life (Inertia Geometry) presents a minimalist composition that evokes some deep, fundamental questions about our perception of a world, assumed to be fully calculable yet its inherent poetics provoke a dialectal debate. Euclidean geometry, represented ...
Nothing is Made, Nothing Disappears – Poikilo Museum / 24 May – 27 August 2023
"Nothing is Made, Nothing Disappears" is Axel Antas' first solo museum exhibition in Finland. The works in the exhibition are predominantly from the last few years, but they nevertheless provide a comprehensive account of the ...
Photo London – Somerset House / 11-14 May 2023
Preview day 10th May
Nested Realities – Elverket / 3.6.2022 – 30.4.2023
Act I: 3.6–23.10.2022
Act II: 5.11.2022–30.4.2023
The Nested Realities exhibition is showing 17 artists who in their various ways reveal surrealist undertones in their works.
Like the early 1920s surrealists, here, too, mysticism, absurdism, irrationality and metamorphosis serve as key ...
Coming to our senses / Kunsthalle Helsinki / 20.8. – 5.9.2021
A I S T I T / coming to our senses awakens our awareness with an invitation for corporeal empathy
Four Finnish cultural institutes, together with the Helsinki Festival, will bring the contemporary visual and performance art projectA ...
When Our Eyes Touch / Maison Louis Carré / 22 May – 1 August 2021
The title of the first exhibition When our eyes touchderives from Jacques Derrida’s question to Jean-Luc Nancy “When our eyes touch, is it day or is it night?” (1) Derrida wrote, “If two gazes come into ...
Axel Antas & Laurent Millet / Institut Finlandais / May 19 – August 1, 2021
Bringing together multiple visual and performing artists working across different geographical locations, When our eye touch – A I S T I T / coming to our senses unfolds a fragile world that is interconnected ...
On Behalf Of Nature / Kouvola Art Museum Poikilo / 7.5.-30.8.2020
Work from the Heino Art Foundation collection
Luonnon Edestä presents different ways of portraying the landscape and nature through modern art techniques. It highlights a theme that is becoming more and more timely: the complex and ...
Stories make worlds / Worlds make stories – Galleria Heino – 23.11.2019 – 22.12.2019
The installation and the photographs in Axel Antas’ exhibition are works with layers of signification and time. Antas has a conceptual and philosophical approach to nature, and in the exhibition, he explores how working through ...