Aksel Haagensen
akselhaagensen@gmail.com
Education
2018 – 2020 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn; contemporary art, MA
2014 – 2015 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (exchange studies)
2012 – 2017 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn; fine art, installation and sculpture, BA
EXHIBITIONS
2023 The joy derived from observing birds (that may be gradually disappearing from the world
around us) with curator Saskia Lillepuu, Tartu Art House Small Gallery
2023 The joy derived from observing birds (that may be gradually disappearing from the world
around us) with curator Saskia Lillepuu, HOP Gallery, Tallinn
2023 Pictures of Us with Triin Kerge, Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery
2022 Chronicles of Trap, @post-gallery.online
2022 Pictures of You with Triin Kerge, Pärnu City Gallery Artists House
2021 Keksurajad / Hopscotch with Triin Kerge, EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2021 Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge, Tartu Art House
2020 Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2020 Põgeneme? / At Sea with curator Saskia Lillepuu, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2020 Maintenance is a Drag (It Takes All the Fucking Time) with Katrin Enni, Kaisa Maasik and Kati Ots,
EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2016 Out of Shot, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2015 Truth has died. Will she live again?, EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Adre G. Friedmann – Tallinn War, Raja Gallery, Tallinn
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Superheroes, Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
2022 Botanical Witnesses (curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla), 8th Artishok Biennial, Tallinn Botanical Gardens
2022 Utopia (curated by Auguste Petre), Riga Photography Biennial, Smilga Culture Space, Latvia
2021 ARS Film Festival – AFF 2020/2021, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2021 121&1 (curated by Yoss Stybel ja Vadim Nemirovskiy), Mary Bar, Haifa, Israel
2021 Outside/In (curated by Corina L. Apostol), EKL Kevadnäitus, Tallinna Linnagalerii
2020 lahtiÜhtimine with Ulvi Haagensen, (curated by Jana Huul & Reet Varblane), Võru County Museum, Võru
2019 At the End of the Workday, Vent Space, Tallinn
2019 Future Relics, Vector Festival, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada
2019 ALC VideoArt Festival, Albacete, Spain
2019 REALITY?, Cinema Sõprus, Tallinn
2019 Body and Soul Studio, Kanuti Guild Hall cellar, Tallinn
2019 ARS Film Festival – AFF 2019, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2019 The Future was Yesterday, Pärnu Fotofest, Pärnu City Gallery
2018 MARA:TONE, BINNAR, Mosteiro de Arnoso, Famalicão, Portugal
2018 Little Islands Festival, Sikinos Island, Greece
2018 The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival series, AWEsome Art Space, Art Week Exeter, Exeter, UK
2018 Kontenporanea, Plaza San Juan Arria, Irun, (Basque Country) Spain
2018 Thresholds, Gonzo Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 Estonian Photographic Art Fair 2017, Telliskivi Creative City, Green hall, Tallinn
2017 EnterCITY - TURINvideo, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy
2017 Artist Film Festival III, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
2017 121&1 (curated by Yoss Stybel ja Vadim Nemirovskiy), Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2016 Terra Incognita: Familiar Infinity, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn
2016 Of the sea, The Historic Dockyards Chatham, UK
2016 Gallery Mihhail/näitus Mихаил, Tallinn
2015 Estonian Music Days Sound Installations, public space, Tallinn
2015 artists@WAR, curated by John Ros, GalleryELL (online gallery)
2015 Black and White, 5th Tallinn Drawing Triennial, Architecture and Design Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Portrait of Unseen, Young sculptors’ prize show, ISFAG@EKKM, Tallinn
2013 Landscape Escape (curated sculpture and installation exhibition), Tartu Art Hall
2013 Dimensions Variable, Young sculptors’ prize show, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2012 Taste of Spirit, 4th Tallinn Drawing Triennial, Experimental Gallery, Tallinn
CURATING AND EXHIBITION ORGANISING
2018 – 2019 team member of Vent Space project space (30 exhibitions), Tallinn
2019 I can't be fucked, curated with Kati Ots, Vent Space, Tallinn
ARTICLES
2023 A room of our own, KUNST.EE, 2023-1
2021 Behind Closed Doors, Northeast art blog
2020 Local history in contemporary Estonian culture and art with Triin Kerge, KUNST.EE, 2020-4
2019 Foto on surnud. Elagu Foto!, Sirp
2019 Jimmy Nelson at Fotografiska museum of photography in Tallinn, KUNST.EE, 2019-3
2019 Juhan Kuusi mitte-mustvalge vikerkaare riik, Vikerkaar, 7-8/2019
2016 Antropoloogiline dokumentalist (Anthropological documentarian), Sirp and ERR News
2015 The Gap between ‘Contemporary’ and the ‘Avant-garde’, Echo Gone Wrong
COVERAGE
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, An Australian grandmother is also a Siberian child, KUNST.EE, 2021-4
Pille-Triinu Maiste, Arvustus. Aksel Haagensen ja Triin Kerge kekslevad võidu lapsepõlveradadel. ERR (26. IX 2021)
Sydney linnud ja Voka jonnipunnid. Lehvikuga tüdruk blog (19. IX 2021)
Johanna Jolen Kuzmenko, Arvustus. Lugusid küüditatutest ja väliseestlusest. ERR (27. VIII 2020)
RESIDENCIES
2021 NART Narva Art Residency
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2021 Eerik Haamer Art Award
2019 Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship
2014 Young Sulptor's Prize, second place
akselhaagensen@gmail.com
Education
2018 – 2020 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn; contemporary art, MA
2014 – 2015 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (exchange studies)
2012 – 2017 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn; fine art, installation and sculpture, BA
EXHIBITIONS
2023 The joy derived from observing birds (that may be gradually disappearing from the world
around us) with curator Saskia Lillepuu, Tartu Art House Small Gallery
2023 The joy derived from observing birds (that may be gradually disappearing from the world
around us) with curator Saskia Lillepuu, HOP Gallery, Tallinn
2023 Pictures of Us with Triin Kerge, Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery
2022 Chronicles of Trap, @post-gallery.online
2022 Pictures of You with Triin Kerge, Pärnu City Gallery Artists House
2021 Keksurajad / Hopscotch with Triin Kerge, EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2021 Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge, Tartu Art House
2020 Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2020 Põgeneme? / At Sea with curator Saskia Lillepuu, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2020 Maintenance is a Drag (It Takes All the Fucking Time) with Katrin Enni, Kaisa Maasik and Kati Ots,
EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2016 Out of Shot, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2015 Truth has died. Will she live again?, EKA Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Adre G. Friedmann – Tallinn War, Raja Gallery, Tallinn
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Superheroes, Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
2022 Botanical Witnesses (curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla), 8th Artishok Biennial, Tallinn Botanical Gardens
2022 Utopia (curated by Auguste Petre), Riga Photography Biennial, Smilga Culture Space, Latvia
2021 ARS Film Festival – AFF 2020/2021, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2021 121&1 (curated by Yoss Stybel ja Vadim Nemirovskiy), Mary Bar, Haifa, Israel
2021 Outside/In (curated by Corina L. Apostol), EKL Kevadnäitus, Tallinna Linnagalerii
2020 lahtiÜhtimine with Ulvi Haagensen, (curated by Jana Huul & Reet Varblane), Võru County Museum, Võru
2019 At the End of the Workday, Vent Space, Tallinn
2019 Future Relics, Vector Festival, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada
2019 ALC VideoArt Festival, Albacete, Spain
2019 REALITY?, Cinema Sõprus, Tallinn
2019 Body and Soul Studio, Kanuti Guild Hall cellar, Tallinn
2019 ARS Film Festival – AFF 2019, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2019 The Future was Yesterday, Pärnu Fotofest, Pärnu City Gallery
2018 MARA:TONE, BINNAR, Mosteiro de Arnoso, Famalicão, Portugal
2018 Little Islands Festival, Sikinos Island, Greece
2018 The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival series, AWEsome Art Space, Art Week Exeter, Exeter, UK
2018 Kontenporanea, Plaza San Juan Arria, Irun, (Basque Country) Spain
2018 Thresholds, Gonzo Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 Estonian Photographic Art Fair 2017, Telliskivi Creative City, Green hall, Tallinn
2017 EnterCITY - TURINvideo, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy
2017 Artist Film Festival III, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
2017 121&1 (curated by Yoss Stybel ja Vadim Nemirovskiy), Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2016 Terra Incognita: Familiar Infinity, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn
2016 Of the sea, The Historic Dockyards Chatham, UK
2016 Gallery Mihhail/näitus Mихаил, Tallinn
2015 Estonian Music Days Sound Installations, public space, Tallinn
2015 artists@WAR, curated by John Ros, GalleryELL (online gallery)
2015 Black and White, 5th Tallinn Drawing Triennial, Architecture and Design Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Portrait of Unseen, Young sculptors’ prize show, ISFAG@EKKM, Tallinn
2013 Landscape Escape (curated sculpture and installation exhibition), Tartu Art Hall
2013 Dimensions Variable, Young sculptors’ prize show, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2012 Taste of Spirit, 4th Tallinn Drawing Triennial, Experimental Gallery, Tallinn
CURATING AND EXHIBITION ORGANISING
2018 – 2019 team member of Vent Space project space (30 exhibitions), Tallinn
2019 I can't be fucked, curated with Kati Ots, Vent Space, Tallinn
ARTICLES
2023 A room of our own, KUNST.EE, 2023-1
2021 Behind Closed Doors, Northeast art blog
2020 Local history in contemporary Estonian culture and art with Triin Kerge, KUNST.EE, 2020-4
2019 Foto on surnud. Elagu Foto!, Sirp
2019 Jimmy Nelson at Fotografiska museum of photography in Tallinn, KUNST.EE, 2019-3
2019 Juhan Kuusi mitte-mustvalge vikerkaare riik, Vikerkaar, 7-8/2019
2016 Antropoloogiline dokumentalist (Anthropological documentarian), Sirp and ERR News
2015 The Gap between ‘Contemporary’ and the ‘Avant-garde’, Echo Gone Wrong
COVERAGE
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, An Australian grandmother is also a Siberian child, KUNST.EE, 2021-4
Pille-Triinu Maiste, Arvustus. Aksel Haagensen ja Triin Kerge kekslevad võidu lapsepõlveradadel. ERR (26. IX 2021)
Sydney linnud ja Voka jonnipunnid. Lehvikuga tüdruk blog (19. IX 2021)
Johanna Jolen Kuzmenko, Arvustus. Lugusid küüditatutest ja väliseestlusest. ERR (27. VIII 2020)
RESIDENCIES
2021 NART Narva Art Residency
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2021 Eerik Haamer Art Award
2019 Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship
2014 Young Sulptor's Prize, second place