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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Exhibition catalogue / Interventions
Essays by Becky Beasley & Alistair Robinson51 pp / illustrated throughoutEnglish / Finnish / SwedishPublisher: Galleria Heino / 2005ISBN 952-5636-01-1Out of print
I’m too dead to tell you: withdrawing rooms and other breathing spaces.
Death suspends the relation to place,even though the deceased rests heavily in his spot as if upon the only basis that is left to him.To be precise,this basis lacks,the place is missing,the corpse is not ...