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.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995 – 1996
Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1992 – 1993
Konstfack, Academy for Photography, Stockholm, Sweden, 1989 – 1992
Professor for Photography, Academy Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011 – 2016
Professor for Photography, Academy for Photography, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007 – 2011
Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture, Scholarship, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016
Swedish Arts Council, Scholarship, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Region Halland Cultural Scholarship, Halmstad, Sweden, 2011
Nomination Working Grant, Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
ACME Studios, London, Great Britain, 2005
IASPIS, Headlands Center for the Art, San Francisco, USA, 1998
SÖS Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden
Hasselbladstiftelsen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lindköpings Kommun, Lindköping, Sweden
Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden
Gävle Konstmuseum, Gävle, Sweden
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden
Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden
Upcoming: I am Silver, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, 2021
Lotta Antonsson, Galleri Forum, Malmö, Sweden, 2021
Bliss, Dalslands Konstmuseum, Dalsland, Sweden, 2021
Lotta Antonsson, Västerås Konsthall, Västerås, Sweden, 2020
Lotta Antonsson, Halmstads Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2019
I Am a Woman, Konstepidemien, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018
Lotta Antonsson, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia, 2017
Paths of Inner Power, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016
Magic Circle, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
Tre fotografer – Tre tendenser, Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
Experiment in black, The Regency Town House, Brigthon & Hove, Great Britain, 2010
Lotta Antonsson, Alp Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
I could be the rain, Hamnmagasinet, Varberg, Sweden, 2006
I could be the rain, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, 2003
Lotta Antonsson, Galerie Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany 2001
Monika, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden, 2000
A very young woman under the Influence, Hallands Länsmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2000
Lotta Antonsson, Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1998
My Elusive Dreams, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997
I like America and America likes me, Galleri Campells Occasionally, Köpenhamn, Denmark, 1995
Anywhere you want me, Galleri TRE, Stockholm, Sweden, 1994
It’s my party (and I cry if I want to), Artpit, Malmö, Sweden, 1994
Here’s looking at you, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
Utställning #1, ICIA – Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art, Göteborg, Sweden
Published, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Schweden, 2018
Survival Kit 9, Biological Museum of Riga, Latvia, 2017
Histoire de Vivre, Red Bull Gallery, Paris, France, 2017
Revision, Tredje Våningen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016
With Photography in Mind, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015
Whole Lotta love, Publication Studio, Vancouver, Canada, 2014
Det synliga – Samtida svenskt Fotografi, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden, 2014
The beginning is Always Today, Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Schweden & Sörlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristianstad, Norway, 2014
Photography is Magic, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea, 2012
Victims and Martyrs, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011
Family Vaudevills, Darb 1918, Cairo, Egypt,
Cut-Ups, Zentrum für Fotografie, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
In Conversation with Ingmar Bergman, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, 2008
Konstfeminism, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2007
Art feminism, Hälsingslands Museum, Hudiksvall & Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2006
Imaginis, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, 2006
Motstånd, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2002
Galleri Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany, 2001
What if, Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000
Imaginis, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping, Sweden, 1999
Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, USA, 1999
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