Annika Larsson

Born:

1972

Residence:

Berlin, Germany

Nationality:

Swedish

Trust:

APT London

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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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Marianne Boesky Gallery presenting Something Beautiful, a group show curated by Nicolas Wagner and Khary Simon of CRUSHfanzine
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The MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma presents the first solo show to be held at an Italian public institution featuring Swedish artist Annika
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We are pleased to announce We’ve All Got Issues: Video Art from the APT Collection the first ever online, selling exhibition of video art featuring 16 videos by an international roster of member artists from Artist Pension Trust® (APT). The show is hosted by MutualArt.com and will be up for a period of two weeks from May 29 to June 12, 2014. All works will be shown in their full-length versions and made available for purchase through the website.
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Entering Micky Schubert, I feel like I have just walked into a museum exhibition. The grand title of the group show already suggests
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On Tuesday the Moving Image fair, which is devoted to video, film, animation, projections, and all other manner of, well, moving images, announced the artists and dealers who will be showcased during its upcoming London edition
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Born in 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden, Annika Larsson lives and works in Berlin. Her practice is concerned with power struggles and the notion of the gaze, uncomfortably positioning the spectator as a voyeur. Her works indefinitely postpone resolution as a means of exploring desire. They operate by frustrating expectations of a climactic event, which has increasingly become synonymous with the cinematic experience. Larsson’s videos often depict power relations between dominant and submissive male figures, cast within decidedly undemocratic hierarchies. They suggest partial narratives and ambiguous situations that seem to occur within indeterminate spans of time, distended through the use of minimal electronic music. They often transform social rules of conduct into coded gestures within hermetic rituals. Spliced with fragmented images of body parts reminiscent of both fashion photography and Western iconography, Larsson’s videos push objectification to an extreme, hollowing out her subjects to the point of breathing icons.

Her work has recently been shown in group exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Maxxi Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome and MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo. She received the prestigious Villa Massimo award in 2014, which included a one-year residency in Rome.

She has had many institutional solo-exhibitions including the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, Le Magasin, Grenoble, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, London, ZKM, Karlsruhe, S.M.A.K., Gent and Musac, Lyon. She has participated in biennials such as 49th Venice Biennial, 8th Istanbul Biennial and 6th Shanghai Biennial among others. Her work will be shown at Die Kalte Libido at Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Annika Larsson is represented by Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm and Bugada & Cargnel, Paris.

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