No Never
Annika Eriksson
11 September - October 11, 2025
Review in Kunstkritikk
Emily Fahlén and Annika Eriksson came by the gallery one day when Annika was in town earlier this spring. We sat down for a while and talked about this and that, different art scenes for example. Katarina thought they were a
little secretive but suspected nothing. Not long thereafter, Mint reached out to ask if we wanted to take part in September Sessions and do a solo show with Annika.
Neither Katarina nor Max knew Annika personally beforehand and we usually decide what to show at Antics ourselves but this felt absolutely right. Mint had invited anorak to curate this year’s programme. Annika developed the work that you can witness in the main room in conversation with Mint and anorak and with Antics’ space in mind, but mostly with herself and her cat in her own apartment in Berlin. We only knew that it would be some kind of video installation and were pleased with the amount of information.
Closer to the opening, we all touched base and Annika sent us a sketch for a wall that was to be built. We had one Zoom meeting about the wall and about projectors. Before Annika’s arrival, Max sourced the material for the wall and built it and went and borrowed projectors and media players from Bonniers konsthall and Index, though we ended up not using the projector from Bonniers.
Annika arrived in Stockholm on Sunday, September 7 and came straight to Antics, were we assessed the situation and got to work. Inter-mixed with the install were conversations about different cities, art education, mood, children, babies, the 90s, felines, lycra, different cameras and projectors and time for our side-jobs as art technicians and taking care of our one-year-old daughter Rosa. We were pretty much done with the install by Tuesday.
All in all, it went really well and we look forward to hearing people’s spontaneous reactions to the work.