Lotta Antonsson


About


Lotta Antonsson (*1963, Varberg, Schweden) lives and works in Berlin and Falkenberg.



Lotta Antonsson (*1963) belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s and whose work was inspired by postmodern art and theory. She addressed the vulnerability of young women and thereby sparking a new public debate about power and social gender. During her studies at the Art Academy in Stockholm, she questioned the objectification of women with irony and self-distance and criticized the male gaze.

Antonsson’s work reflects her fascination with the late 1960s and 1970s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions. From a process that utilizes techniques of collage and montage emerges a very personal way of looking at the ephemeral nature of things.

Antonsson explores the limits of photography and experiments with different materials from her archive by complementing vintage photographs from fashion and erotic magazines with natural objects such as stones, corals, and shells. Her analog cuts and repetitions seize upon the allegorical potential of image fragments, freeing fashion, and erotic photography in an exploration into the gendered side of this clichéd history. 

Her oeuvre includes collages and installations that seek a formal and psychological engagement with gender history and relate to a spatial context in which photographs and objects are combined into an associative whole.

Work


BLUE (Shell for You)

Lotta Antonsson, installation view, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition
Lotta Antonsson, Paths to Inner Power, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition
Lotta Antonsson, installation view, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition

I Am Silver

Lotta Antonsson, installation view, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition
Lotta Antonsson, Paths to Inner Power, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition
Lotta Antonsson, installation view, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition

Seashell Collages

Lotta Antonsson, SIMONE, I am Silver, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson gallery, Berlin, solo exhibition

Geometric Collages

Arrangement of Ideas

CV


Education

1995 – 1996 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE

1992 – 1993 Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, DK

1989 – 1992 Konstfack, Academy for Photography, Stockholm, SE

Teaching

2011 – 2016

Professor for Photography, Academy Valand, Gothenburg, SE

2007 – 2011

Professor for Photography, Academy for Photography, Gothenburg, SE

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2023

BLUE (Shell for You), Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

West Coast / West Coast, Trapp Projects, Vancouver, CA

2022

Shimmering Eyes, Lidköping Art Museum, SE

I Am a Woman, Villa Axel Munthe, Capri, IT

Press Girls, Brillo, Stockholm, SE

2021

I am Silver, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

Lotta Antonsson, Galleri Forum, Malmö, SE

Bliss, Dalslands Konstmuseum, Dalsland, SE

2020

Lotta Antonsson, Västerås Konsthall, Västerås, SE

2019

Lotta Antonsson, Halmstads Konstmuseum, Halmstad, SE

2018

I Am a Woman, Konstepidemien, Gothenburg, SE

2017

Lotta Antonsson, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV

2016

Paths of Inner Power, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, SE

Magic Circle, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm, SE

2012

Tre fotografer – Tre tendenser, Marabouparken, Stockholm, SE

2010

Experiment in black, The Regency Town House, Brighton & Hove, UK

2008

Lotta Antonsson, Alp Gallery, Stockholm, SE

2006

I could be the rain, Hamnmagasinet, Varberg, SE

2003

I could be the rain, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, SE

2001

Lotta Antonsson, Galerie Sparwasser, Berlin, DE

2000

Monika, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, SE

A very young woman under the Influence, Hallands Länsmuseum, Halmstad, SE

1998

Lotta Antonsson, Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver, CA

1997

My Elusive Dreams, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm, SE

1995

I like America and America likes me, Galleri Campells Occasionally, Köpenhamn, DK

1994

Anywhere you want meGalleri TRE, Stockholm, SE

It’s my party (and I cry if I want to), Artpit, Malmö, SE

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024

RIZZ/MAXX ’24, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2022

Mörkrum Svartklubb, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, SE

2021

Office Work, Trylowski Collection, Vancouver, CA

Mot en annan värld. 25 år av svensk samtidskonst – Sten A Olssons Kulturstipendium, Götenborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, SE

Kaputtspielen, Galerie Thomassen, Gothenburg, SE

2019

Here’s looking at you, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, SE

2018

Utställning #1, ICIA – Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art, Göteborg, SE

Published, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, SE

2017

Survival Kit 9, Biological Museum of Riga, LV

Histoire de Vivre, Red Bull Gallery, Paris, FR

2016

Revision, Tredje Våningen, Gothenburg, SE

2015

With Photography in Mind, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, SE

2014

Whole Lotta love, Publication Studio, Vancouver, CA

Det synliga – Samtida svenskt Fotografi, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, SE

The beginning is Always Today, Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Schweden & Sörlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristianstad, NO

2012

Photography is Magic, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, KR

2011

Victims and Martyrs, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE

Family Vaudevills, Darb 1918, Cairo, EG

2009

Cut-Ups, Zentrum für Fotografie, Stockholm, SE

2008

In Conversation with Ingmar Bergman, Kunstmuseum Thun, CH

2007

Konstfeminism, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, SE

2006

Art feminism, Hälsingslands Museum, Hudiksvall & Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE

Imaginis, Bildmuseet, Umeå, SE

2002

Motstånd, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

2001

Galleri Sparwasser, Berlin, DE

2000

What if, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

1999

Imaginis, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping, SE

Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, US

Publications

2016

I Am a Woman, Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, SE

Awards and Grants

2016

Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture, Scholarship, Gothenburg, SE

2015

Swedish Arts Council, Scholarship, Stockholm, SE

2011

Region Halland Cultural Scholarship, Halmstad, SE

2009

Nomination Working Grant, Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm, SE

2005

ACME Studios, London, UK

1998

IASPIS, Headlands Center for the Art, San Francisco, US

Public Works

2015

SÖS Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, SE

2014

Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, SE

Collections (selected)

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Magasin III, Stockholm, SE

Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, SE

Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, SE

Hasselbladstiftelsen, Gothenburg, SE

Lindköpings Kommun, Lindköping, SE

Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, SE

Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle, SE

Gävle Konstmuseum, Gävle, SE

Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, SE

Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, SE

Soho House, Stockholm, SE