Annika Larsson

Annika Larsson is a pioneer within the field of Time Based Media and has since the early 2000’s created internationally acclaimed works that have become seminal within its genre. Her work examines the entangled relationship between power, knowledge, embodiment, affect and visuality within our digital and physical worlds. Engaged with the potential of (human and non-human) queer performativity, she is interested in gestures, rituals and actions, as well as patterns of behaviour that obscure or challenge power structures.

Annika Larsson (b. 1972, Stockholm) lives and works in Berlin. Her photo-, video- and computer-based works, installations, and performances have regularly been exhibited in international solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome; Velan Center, Turin; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Fridericianum, Kassel; La Fabrica, Madrid; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bogotá; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. She has also participated in several biennials and festivals, such as 49th Biennale of Venice and Forum Expanded – 61st Berlin International Film Festival, and has been awarded numerous stipends and awards for her work.

Larsson’s works are likewise represented in important art collections, such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; S.M.A.K, Ghent; the Goetz Collection, Munich; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain. In 2014, she received the prestigious Villa Massimo award which included a one-year residency in Rome. From 2018 to 2023 she had a professorship at the HFBK - Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. As of 2025, Larsson is the professor for Time Based Media at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany.

Exploring the potential of the body and moving image to overturn our habitual course and change the order of things, Larsson led the artistic research project NON-KNOWLEDGE, LAUGHTER & THE MOVING IMAGE in 2018-2022. This project was funded by the Swedish Research Council and done in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the HFBK - Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. In 2023, a publication on the research will be released together with Archive Books.

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