I am an artist, curator, etcher and hacker.
contact
+45 2538 0331
anders.aarvik@kollektiv.email or anders.aarvik@network.rca.ac.uk
studio at Halmtorvet 11A-F, Copenhagen
primarily based in Denmark and the UK
artist bio
Anders seeks to dissolve governing social structures such as power, industry, and binarity. His works span across print, sculpture, installation, performance, text, and computation, constructing worlds and objects that inquire into coexistence through a more-than-human lens. He insists on DIY, DIWO (do-it-with-others), low tech (e.g., permacomputing), and upcycling. The body and the objects related to it serve as an analogy for change and are enacted through machines such as computers and printing presses, in a critical exchange where their infrastructural traces are carefully inspected and redistributed.
Anders Aarvik is an artist, curator, etcher, and hacker, who studied at Chelsea College of Arts (UK), Royal College of Art (UK), and Funen Art Academy (DK). He is a co-curator of the exhibition space Ladder Space in Copenhagen, as well as a curator of the computational exhibition platform mpaacc. Besides they also co-organise the artist-run and anti-authoritarian platform cooperative called ursuppe. He is a frequent contributor to journals, FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software), printmaking workshops, and community-oriented initiatives, and has exhibited works at, among others, FILET, London (2024), Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense (2024), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), Grafik Galleriet, Næstved (2021, 2022), Cromwell Place, London (2021), HOXTON 253, London (2021), Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen (2021), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary art, Copenhagen (2020), and Oped Space, Tokyo (2019).
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