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We are excited to announce that Anton Alvarez has joined Helsinki Contemporary.

Anton Alvarez’s sculptural forms challenge our perception of weight and gravity and appear both of this world and utterly separate from it. His practice focuses on the design of systems, tools and processes for producing sculptural objects and architecture. The technologies created by the artist to aid in the creation of the work are inextricable from the artist’s work. They highlight the way in which an artist can become both craftsman and engineer, and the tension between the two roles.

Anton Alvarez (b.1980) graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. He is currently based in Stockholm. Alvarez’s recent solo exhibitions include Honey in Millesgården in Stockholm; The Remnants in Bishopsgate 100 in London, Tight Squeeze at  Huxley-Parlour in London, The Flavour is So Strong at Larsen Warner in Stockholm, L’Ultima Cera in the Church of San Bernardino alle Monache in Milan, Visual Vertigo at Espace Muraille in  Geneva and Alphabet Aerobics at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford, UK. In September 2019 Alvarez was included in the 10th Korean Ceramic Biennale. His work has been included in group shows in eg.  Clay Keramikmuseum in Middelfart, Denmark, New Art Centre at Roche Court, UK, Daelim Museum in Seoul, Korea and the Texture Museum in Belgium. Alvarez’s work is included in the public collections of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Denver Art Museum in Colorado, and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg as well as many prominent private collections.

Alvarez’s debut at Helsinki Contemporary was in the group show Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat, which opened in February 2024.

Read more about the artist here

Browse Anton Alvarez's works on Artsy