Overview
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.
Exhibitions
Installation shots
Works
  • Untitled (Strange Powers) IV
    Untitled (Strange Powers) IV
  • Untitled (Strange Powers) V
    Untitled (Strange Powers) V
  • Untitled (Strange Powers) VI
    Untitled (Strange Powers) VI
  • Untitled (Strange Powers) VIII
    Untitled (Strange Powers) VIII
  • Photomontage (Strange Powers) I
    Photomontage (Strange Powers) I
  • Photomontage (Strange Powers) II
    Photomontage (Strange Powers) II
  • Photomontage (Strange Powers) III
    Photomontage (Strange Powers) III
  • Fuzzy Speaker I
    Fuzzy Speaker I
  • Strange Powers - Prologue
    Strange Powers - Prologue
  • Theremins & Drums
    Theremins & Drums
  • Fear of Flying
    Fear of Flying
  • The Discourse of the Drinkers
    The Discourse of the Drinkers
  • Blue
    Blue
  • Europe
    Europe
  • A HOLE -PANDA
    A HOLE -PANDA
  • A HOLE - WOLF
    A HOLE - WOLF
  • ANIMAL in 14 movements
    ANIMAL in 14 movements
  • Blind
    Blind
  • Drunk
    Drunk
  • Copia
    Copia
  • UNTITLED (DRIBBLING)
    UNTITLED (DRIBBLING)
  • Frau
    Frau
  • Scenografi
    Scenografi
  • Pirate
    Pirate
  • 3L33T
    3L33T
  • Power Down
    Power Down
  • Ride This
    Ride This
  • Untitled (FIRE)
    Untitled (FIRE)
  • Fire
    Fire
  • Hockey
    Hockey
  • Blood
    Blood
  • New Gravity
    New Gravity
  • Bend II
    Bend II
  • Untitled (Poliisi)
    Untitled (Poliisi)
  • Pink Ball
    Pink Ball
  • Dog
    Dog
  • Die
    Die
  • 40-15
    40-15
  • CIGAR
    CIGAR
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