2014:
*DIS Magazine. Premiere of the video 'Plasticity Unfolding'
http://dismagazine.com/dystopia/66859/plasticity-unfolding-a-new-video-by-aujik/
*SIMULTAN. Video art festival.
Timisoara. Romania. 8-11 Oct.
http://10.simultan.org/
*Cyland media art lab's Cyberfest.
14 Nov. LUDA gallery. St Petersburg
Cyland website.
*SL-video konst. Skanstullls T-station. Stockholm, Sweden.
Distributed by Filmform.
1 Oct - 31 Jan 2015
http://www.filmform.com/
*Prix Ars Electronica 2014. "Best of selection".
Computer Animation / Film / VFX at Ars Electronica Animation Festival /Electronic Theatre. September, 4th–8th 2014, Linz, Austria.
http://www.aec.at/
*FILE 2014. 25 Aug - 5 Oct. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
http://filefestival.org
*Biwako Biennale 2014. 13 Sept - 09 Nov. Omihachiman, Japan
http://www.energyfield.org/biwakobiennale/
* Press realese for Biwako Biennale 2014. 25 July.
Konno hachimangu shrine. Shibuya, Tokyo. Japan.
*Frankfurter Kunstverein. 'Death is your body' Group exhibition. 01 May - 06 July. 2014.Frankfurt am main. Germany
Curated by Lilian Engelmann.
Featuring: AUJIK (SE/JP)
Berlinde De Bruyckere (BE)
Tudi Deligne (FR)
Omer Fast (IL)
Gosbert Gottmann (DE)
Kaia Hugin (NO)
Hannah Hurtzig (DE)
Teresa Margolles (MX)
Alexandra Meyer (CH)
Jana Müller (DE)
Wangechi Mutu (US/KE)
Thomas Rentmeister (DE)
Taryn Simon (US)
Raman Zaya (IR/DE)
http://www.fkv.de/english/home.html
*Karo - Kunst in der Kasteienstra ße, Essen, Germany. 28 May - 6 June.
Group exhuibition featuring: AUJIK, Dominik Jais, Renate Schütz, schaltWerk, Bianca Wickinghoff
*Contemporary Art Ruhr. Essen, Germany. 30 May - 1 June.
www.contemporaryartruhr.de/
at the Zollverein world heritage site.
curated by Julia Murakami and André Werner.
*Penetrating Surfaces - curated by Robert Seidel.
Austria Film Museum, Vienna. 24-25 May.
info
*the Japan-Day in Duesseldorf, 17 May 2014, Duesseldorf Film Museum, Germany.
curated by Julia Murakami and André Werner.
info
*Madefestivalen. 7-10 May. Vita Kuben. Norrlandsoperan. Umeå. Sweden.
Curated by David Moss, Helena Wikström and Elin Hellrön.
Made
*Premiere of the video 'Impermanence Trajectory: stained seed' by Dazed & Confused magazine:
Dazed
2013.
*Art Walk in Essen, Germany 30th Nov. with German artist Dominik Jais
*Art & Nature. Global Art & Moving Image Awards. CologneOFF 2013 Greece V. 3 dec. 19 Jan 2014. @ Florina School of Fine Arts:
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=3862
*SIMULTAN 2013 'Popular unknown'. media art and artistic experiment. 10-12 oct. 2013 Timisoara, Romania.
http://www.simultan.org/ro/2013/video.html
*CologneOFF 2013 Greece IV
9th Cologne International Videoart Festival
@ 2nd Ionian International Digital Film Festival
9-12 October 2013 – Lefkas/Greece
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=3779
*Reykjavik Art Museum. the Nordic Outbreak program by the Streaming Museum.
25-27 Oct.
http://nordicoutbreak.streamingmuseum.org/reykjavik/
*CologneOFF 2013 Lithuania
A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013
@ JCIC Vilnius & Kedainiai Regional Museum
23 September – 29 October 2013
http://coff09.newmediafest.org/
*GLAMY AWARDS 2, the 2nd travelling screening program
"art & nature" by Global Art & Moving Images Awards -http://glamia.newmediafest.org/
*CROSSTALK VIDEO ART FESTIVAL BUDAPEST. 14th September
*STRATA Foundation Pinsiö/Finland. 24 Aug. Presented by CologneOFF, Art & Nature. Global Art & Moving Images Awards:
*Screengrab 2013. First price award to the video 'Impermanence Trajectory: the limbic nest' . New Media Arts Award at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
26 July - 14 August.
Screengrab 2013
* Rabiscuits. Video art & Animation. Alcobaca, Portugal. 2 August.
*FILE Media Art
FILE 2013 - Electronic Language International Festival
July 22-September 02, 2013, FIESP Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Cathexis, a Forest within a Forest & 9 states of ambivalence)
http://www.filefestival.org
*Konstkraft. sommarsalong(group exhibition)Ljusne, Sweden 29 June - 10 Aug.
http://konstkraftljusne.nu/
*ISEA 2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art. 8-28 June. Sydney Australia. Nordic Outbreak by the Steaming Museum.
http://www.isea2013.org/
*The video community: screening tour at Gallery's in Poland.
Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Olsztyn, 3rd April 2013
Colony of Artists, Gdansk, 5th April 2013
Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, 5th April 2013
Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, 7th April 2013
Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Kielce, 8th April 2013
Municipal Cultural Center Sokol, KOT Film Society, Nowy Sacz, 24th April 2013
Museum in Koszalin, Koszalin, 10th May 2013
Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biala, 11th May 2013
Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, KINO.LAB, Warszawa, 15th May 2013
Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, 18th May 2013
13 Muses Gallery, Szczecin, 18th May 2013
Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz, 18th May 2013
Contemporary Art Gallery, Przemysl, 18th May 2013
Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Zielona Gora, 20th May 2013
Centre For Contemporary Art Kronika, Bytom, 25th May 2013
Art Centre – Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, 11th June 2013
Cultural Centre, Suwalki, 13th June 2013
Centre Of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, 13th June 2013
Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, 14th June 2013
City Art Gallery, Czestochowa, 14th June 2013
Museum of Art, Lodz, 21st June 2013
Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, 21st June 2013
*The 9th International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media, Athens Video Art Festival. 7th – 9th June at the Historical Centre of Athens.
Cathexis & Impermanence Trajctory(animation program) + Cathexis full version(CologneOFF program)
http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/2013-edition/program/
*Contemporary Art Ruhr at the the Zollverein world heritage site by the Directors Lounge.
Essen, Germany 31 May - 2 June.
*Kristianstads konsthall, Sverige. May 23. presented by Filmform.
*Japan-Day at the Düsseldorf Filmmuseum, May 25. presented by Directors Lounge.
*Group Exhibition: Nordic Outbreak, New York City.
March 31 through April 30.
Full version of Cathexis at Big Screen Plaza 2-5 April.
At Scandinavia House - the Nordic Center in America 5-25 April.
Presented by Streaming Museum, curated and produced by Tanya Toft and Nina Colosi,
in collaboration with four guest curators: Daniela Arriado, Birta Gudjonsdottir, Kati Kivinen and Jacob Lillemose.
http://nordicoutbreak.streamingmuseum.org/
*VideoGUD 2013, competition, Slottsbiografen. Uppsala, Sweden. 19 April.
*Lightworks video art festival. Grimsby. UK, 15 March.
*Motion Festival Cyprus. Nicosia. Cyprus. 22-24 March.
http://www.motionfestivalcyprus.com/
*IAFA.Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida. March 20-24 (Cathexis presented by Ritch Calvin: Professor at Stony Brook university New York)
*TVP Kultura. TV-broadcasting. Poland. 11 March.
*Group exhibition. Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary art gallery. Krakow. Poland. 6 Feb - 3 Mars.
*The 9th Berlin international directors lounge. 7-17 Feb.
*Carnival of e-creativity Sattal. India. 22-24 February 2013
*Oslo Central Station Screening.(by Oslo screen festival and Rom for kunst)Norway .25 January - 22 February.
http://screenfestival.no/
*The video community:
Municipal Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, audiovisual hall, Krakow, Poland
26 January
*International Film Festival Rotterdamn, DINAMO "survival strategies"
(with Filmform) 27 Jan.
2012.
*Cyberfest "at heavens door". St: Petersburg. Russia. 23-28 Nov.
*Anima - International animation festival Banja Luka. Herzegovina. Bosnia 23-28 Oct.
*Digital Art Festival Taipei. Taiwan. "artificial nature" screening. 16-25 Nov.
*SIGGRAPH Asia. Conferance and exhibition. Singapore
28 Nov- 1 Dec.
*Digital Marrakech.Morocco. 6-8 Dec.
*Videomedeja. Novi sad, Serbia. 14-16 Dec.
*29:th Kasseler dok fest. Germany. 13-18 Nov.
*Pixelpop Cardiff. Wales 28 Sept-14 Oct.
*Pixelpop Barranquilla. Colombia 28 Sept-14 Oct.
*Simultan - the beginnig of the end. Timisoara. Rumania.
11-13 Oct.
*Exterasa Arte Actula.(w. cologneOFF) Mexico City. 18-19 Oct.
*Biwako Biennale. Omihachinman. Japan. 15 Sept-4 Nov.
*AND (Abandon Normal Devices)Group Exhibition. Mobile Republic: Digital Caravans. UK
10-11 Aug. Marina, Whitehaven, Cumbria. UK
17-18 Aug. Youthzone, Blackburn, Lancashire. UK
29 Aug-2 Sept. First Street, Manchester. UK
7-9 Sept. Avenham & Miller Parks, Preston, Lancashire.
UK
*Screengrab. Group Exhibition. James Cook University. Townsville. Australia. 10 Aug- 4 Sept.
*Blumenfest Weißensse 2012. 24-26 Aug. Berlin. Germany
*Videoholica International Video Art Festival at the archaeological museum. Varna, Bulgaria. 30 july-3 aug.
*CCC. (the Center for Creative Communications) OnedotZero Shizuoka. Japan. 9-10 June.
*Space Shower TV, broadcasting and web premiere June. Japan.
*Athens Video Art Festival. Greece. 20-22 May.
*Cinemateket.(w.Filmform) Stockholm. Sweden. 6 May
*Nippon Connection. Frankfurt am Main. Germany. 2-6 May
*58th International Film Festival. Oberhausen. Germany. (w. Filmform) 26 April - 1 May.
*VideoGUD. 20 April. Spegeln,Gavle. Sweden
*Oslo screen festival. Oslo, Norway. Filmens hus/Cinemateket. 11 March.
*Japan Media Arts Festival 2012(w. Ars Electronica) Japan National Art Center Tokyo. 22 Feb-4 March.
*"You can tell us" Group Exhibition, Factory-Art Gallery. Berlin, Germany. 16 Feb-16 March.
*1st International Screening Festival. Cyprus. 23&24 March.
*Spitz Hotel. Ars electronica. Linz, Austria.
*”Deep Space Live” Ars Electronica Linz, Austria. 22 March.
*Ars Electronica Animation Festival 2011 at:
January 24th. Austrian Cultural Forum London
Mars 22th. Earth Day. National Science Museum in Jemen
May 18th 20th. New Codes */ Athens Video Art Festival 2012
May 18th. (Museum Night) until June 30th 2012 in Perm/Russland at the Permm Museum
May 25th. Mediathek Holon, Israel
June 1st. World Music Festivals Dikaja Mjata http://www.mintmusic.ru/ Moscow, RU
May 26th. in the framework of OHMI Trust at CBSO Centre in Berkley Street Birmingham
June 06th. Le Cube Paris / Screening Marathon
July 6th – 18th. Second Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition @ Mohsen Gallery
July 14th – 22th 2012, Sunset Janghang Festival, Seochon-gun, South Korea
August 24th 2012, Athens International Film Festival, Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park, Athen / Greece
September 27th - November 04th. Donumenta, Regensburg / Germany
September 28th – October 04th.CMoDA (China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts) in the framework of Beijing Design Week 2012, China
Athens International Film Festival
Internationales Kulturfestival "Cervantino", Guanajuato, Mexico
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
2011.
*Attraction of the Opposites. 26 jan-6 feb. Rotterdam. Holland
*Souvenirs from Earth. Broadcasting. French & Germany. + screening at Palais de Tokyo. Paris. January.
*International Film Festival. Rotterdam. Holland. 26 Jan. – 6 Feb. 2
*Japan Media Arts Festival "Jury recommended work". Japan National Art Center. Tokyo. 2 Feb.– 13 Feb.
*CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE. March.
*Lightworks Festival. Grimsby. U.K. 18 March.
*Nippon Connection. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 27 April - 05 May.
*VideoGUD. Falun, Sweden. 6-7 May.
*We Love Japan. Oporto. Portugal. 27 May.
*DMY Festival 2011 Berlin. Platten Palast Gallery. with Patric Guenther. Berlin. Germany. 3-5 June.
*Prix Ars Electronica "Honorary mention award". Linz. Austria. 31.8-6.9.
*Ars Electronica Animation Festival. Linz. Austria. 31.8-6.9.
*Siggraph - computer animation festival. Wien. Austria. 7 Oct.
*"WRAP LAP RAP" Group exhibition. Red Brick Warehouse. Yokohama. Japan. 12-17 Oct.
*Computer Space. Sofia. Bulgaria 24.10-10.11.
*OneDotZero "Adventures in Motion"l 2011. BFI Southbank. London. 23-27 Nov.
*CMoDA: Creative Futures Exhibition. Beijing. China. 17 Dec-3 Jan.
2010.
*”the Grass is Greener” . Group exhibition. Vastmanlands museum
*JunKroom vol. 15. Video screening. Kyoto. Japan
*Erlebnisklo.(With Dominik Jais) Essen. Germany
*VideoGUD. Uppsala. Sweden
*Brooklyn Bowl. New York City. USA
*Tags. Novosibirsk. Russia
*Expanded Architecture. Part of Sydney Architecture Festival. Australia
*OneDotZero"Adventures in Motion" 2010.BFI Southbank, London.
*STRP. Art & Technology. Klokgebouw, Eindhoven. Holland. 18-28 Nov.
Solo Exhibitions:
2001. QNQ.STR. Galleri 60. Umea
2007. 3 AUJIK videos. Osaka contemporary art center. Osaka. Japan.
2009. MOLOCH. Dohjidai Gallery. Kyoto. Japan
2011. 9 - 21 May. AUJIK - Cathexis. Art Space Kimura Gallery. Tokyo. Japan.
2015. CAC (Contemporary Art Center) Vilnius, Lithuania. 4-18 March.
Curated by Neringa Bumbliene.
http://www.cac.lt/en
Grants:
2005. Umeå stipendium
2005. Mimmi Brunsen's Stipendium
2006. Länskonststipendiat. Gavleborgs lan
2008. 1-Year Working Grant. Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2011. Project Grant. Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2011. Project Grant. Ax:son Johnson's foundation
2014. International exchange grant.
Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2014. Project Grant. Ax:son Johnson's foundation
Awards:
Prix Ars Electronica 2011. Linz, Austria. Honorary mention award.
Japan Media Arts festival.
Japan National Museum. Tokyo, Japan. Jury recommended work.
Screen grab 2013. New Media Art. First Price award. James Cook's university. Townsville, Australia.
Represented:
Filmform
Ars Electronica
Source Video Magazine
Swedish Art Council
OnedotZero
Souvenirs from Earth
Japan Media Arts Festival
Space Shower
Anti-Utopias.
Articles and interviews:
Visual Art Beat Internet Magazine
Stigmart Video Magazine
One point Four
Visual Art Beat Magazine
33:rd Square
Anti-Utopias
Pink Tentacle
Trash Lab
CologneOFF
Responsible for the content on this site is Stefan Larsson
MFA Umea Art Academy. Umea University. 2005
Born in Soderhamn. Sweden
Lives and works in Otsu, Japan
for contact and inquiries: info@aujik.com
