CHART 2019 / Kunsthal Charlottenborg / 30.8. – 1.9.2019
Finnish artist Axel Antas is showing at CHART 2019 new photographs, sculptures and drawings.
A new large scale photograph called 0.1ha taken in the Danish forest Gribskov is part of the installation at CHART. The photograph is an outcome of a work ...
North Coast Art Triennial, Gribskov, Denmark / 22 June – 22 September 2019
19 Nordic artists have descended upon the landscapes and the art and cultural institutions of the Municipality of Gribskov to participate in the North Coast Art Triennial this summer.
What does heritage mean to people today? ...
VOLTA Basel 2019 / 10. – 15.6.2019
Finnish artist Axel Antas is showing two new photographic series at Volta Basel. The concept of the project is looking at copies and the act of copying as a means of understanding and relating to ...
Uncanny Valley / 4.2.2017 – 26.2.2017
For his solo exhibition, Finnish artist Axel Antas brings together new C-type photographs and video with pencil drawings to explore our physical relationship to the natural world, and our alienation from it.
Travelling through the remote ...
Long Player / Sinne / 10.4.2015 – 3.5 .2015
The work was made as a study in observing separate time frames simultaneously. Long Player is a 3 channel video installation with sound and photography. The basis of the work is a structure built in ...
Natural High Frequency
A monograph printed with Galleria Heino
Essays by Martin Herbert, Hanna Johansson, Bettina KleinHardback155 pp / illustrated throughoutEnglish / Finnish / SwedishPublisher: Galleria Heino / 2014ISBN 978-952-5636-29-1Limited edition of 500 copies
Natural High Frequency / Galleria Heino / 19.4.2014 – 18.5.2014
Axel Antas and the unseen in photography
After living in London since 1997, Axel Antas (b. 1976) took up residency at the Villa Snäcksund art centre in Tammisaari at the beginning of 2013. Galleria Heino´s exhibition ...
Seen and Not Seen: On Axel Antas
Text by Martin Herbert
In 2007, a handful of forlorn wooden structures appeared in the vast, implacable landscapes of the Catalan Pyrenees. They were handbuilt, intended as birdhouses and, to judge from photographs such as Structure ...
Singularities
Text by Bettina Klein
The still life can no longer be clearly distinguished as a genre in contemporary photography; the boundaries have dissolved and such forms of categorization have long lost their relevance. Yet in a ...
From the Gesture of Breathing to a Mathematical Dead End. On the Incarnation of the Landscape in Axel Antas’s Art
Text by Hanna Johansson
There is a familiarity in watching and moving in a landscape, while the landscape also embodies certain shared emotions and values. We may ask, however, what do we see when we look ...