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.
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
2011 – 2016
Professor for Photography, Academy Valand, Gothenburg, SE
2007 – 2011
Professor for Photography, Academy for Photography, Gothenburg, SE
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 me, Galleri TRE, Stockholm, SE
It’s my party (and I cry if I want to), Artpit, Malmö, SE
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
2016
I Am a Woman, Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, SE
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
2015
SÖS Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, SE
2014
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, SE
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
Potsdamer Strasse 65
D-10785 Berlin
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