Markus Åkesson Swedish, b. 1975
Markus Åkesson (b. 1975) lives and works in Nybro, Småland, Sweden. He has been participating in a large number of exhibitions at galleries, art fairs and institutions in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London, Vilnius and Sweden. Åkesson had an early focus on the French art scene and has made several solo exhibitions at Galerie Da-End in Paris (the most recent in the autumn of 2020, "Strange Days") and the French art fairs Galeristes, Art Paris and YIA Art Fair. He has also been shown in several solo exhibitions at VIDA Museum, Öland, Sweden and in the retrospective exhibition "Sleeping Beauty" at Kalmar Art Museum 2018, the museum's most visited exhibition to date.
Åkesson is represented at The Public Art Agency of Sweden, Fondation Francès, VIDA Museum, Småland Museum as well as in several private collections, including Alice Walton Family Collection, Château du Rivau, and Jacques-Antoine Granjon Collection. He has made several public commissions, the most recent being the bronze sculpture "When the leaves come falling down" for a church in Småland, Sweden and the most controversial being the large painting "Sleeping Beauty" which was relocated from the entrance of the Swedish school that commissioned the work in 2017.
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Danse Macabre (The Dancers), 2021
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Danse Macabre (The Trumpeter), 2021
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Now You See Me (Danse Macabre), 2021
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Lost, 2021
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The Augur, 2020
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Ornithomancy, 2020
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Now You See Me (Danse Macabre), 2020
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The Clearing, 2020
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Death's-Head Hawkmoth (Dusk Ceremony), 2020
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Book of Coming Forth By Day, 2020
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Insomnia II, 2020
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Market Art Fair | Markus Åkesson
Liljevalchs, Stockholm 29 Apr - 1 May 2022Influenced by art historical motifs, such as the works of the renaissance Old Masters, Markus Åkesson draws arcane and mystical landscapes on the draped cloths covering his subjects. There is...Read more -
Markus Åkesson | Now You See Me
15 Jan - 6 Mar 2021There is the dance of death, directly inspired by the engravings of Holbein the Younger, a saraband where the dead and the living dance together in the heart of a...Read more
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Markus Åkesson at Galerie Da-End, Paris
Cabinet Da-End XI | 15 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 January 21, 2022Galerie Da-End pursues its series of contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities and invites this year for the eleventh issue, nearly twenty international artists to unveil their...Read more -
ELLEN EHK & MARKUS ÅKESSON AT VIDA MUSEUM, ÖLAND
Skogens hjärta | 19 JUN - 3 OCT 2021 June 19, 2021'Skogens hjärta' is a two person show with Ellen Ehk and Markus Åkesson at Vida Museum, Öland. For more information: www.vidamuseum.com Location VIDA Museum &...Read more