Aksel Haagensen
  • Vanaemale külla / Going Home
  • Põgeneme? / At sea
  • Coastline
  • Maintenance is a Drag
  • I have made these masks
  • Grandmother in a Boat
  • Black Boxes
  • Adre G. Friedmann
  • Other and Older
    • Essays on Seeing >
      • Cannonball
      • Zoom Out
      • Scaling Tall Mountains
    • Do Androids Dream of the Apocalypse?
    • Out of Shot
    • Media GIFs
    • Jerusalem Toast
    • Los Desastres de la Lifta
    • December 2014
    • Wanted Man
    • A River
    • A Tower
Aksel Haagensen
Born 1993        Sydney, Australia
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)
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2012 – 2017            
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn; fine art, department of installation and sculpture, BA


EXHIBITIONS  
2020
Kuhu me lähme? / Off we go! with Triin Kerge, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
Põgeneme? / At Sea with curator Saskia Lillepuu, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn

Maintenance is a Drag (It Takes All the Fucking Time) with Katrin Enni, Kaisa Maasik and Kati Ots, EKA Gallery, Tallinn

2016
Out o​f Shot, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
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2015                  
Truth has died. Will she live again?, EKA Gallery, Tallinn

2014                  
Adre G. Friedmann – Tallinn War, Raja Gallery, Tallinn


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
Future Relics, Vector Festival, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada
ALC VideoArt Festival, Albacete, Spain
REALITY?, Cinema Sõprus, Tallinn
Body and Soul Studio, Kanuti Guild Hall cellar, Tallinn
ARS Film Festival – AFF 2019, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
The Future was Yesterday, Pärnu Fotofest, Pärnu City Gallery

2018
MARA:TONE, BINNAR, Mosteiro de Arnoso, Famalicão, Portugal
Little Islands Festival, Sikinos Island, Greece
The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival series, AWEsome Art Space, Art Week Exeter, Exeter, UK
Kontenporanea, Plaza San Juan Arria, Irun, (Basque Country) Spain
Thresholds, Gonzo Unit, Thessaloniki, Greece

2017
​Estonian Photographic Art Fair 2017, Telliskivi Creative City, Green hall, Tallinn
EnterCITY -  TURINvideo, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy
Artist Film Festival III, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
International Short Silent Film Celebration, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
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2016
Terra Incognita: Familiar Infinity, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn            
Of the sea, The Historic Dockyards Chatham, UK
Gallery Mihhail/näitus Mихаил, Tallinn

2015  
Estonian Music Days Sound Installations, public space, Tallinn               
artists@WAR, curated by John Ros, GalleryELL (online gallery)
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
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

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ARTICLES
2019
Foto on surnud. Elagu Foto!, Sirp
Jimmy Nelson at Fotografiska museum of photography in Tallinn, KUNST.EE, autumn 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

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SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2019
Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship

2014
Young Sulptor's Prize, second place
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