Axel Straschnoy (Buenos Aires, 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist who is interested in the way technology is produced, received and used. His work explores the relationship between human and mechanical/symbolic devices and how they are used to grasp, represent and archive the world.
Straschnoy’s works are based on long-term projects and the research behind them is often carried out collaboratively. He even created the production company Kolme Perunaa as a tool to materialize his work. He utilizes alternative methods and places to make the audience meet art. Every artwork he undertakes requires thoughtful and detailed research on his part and the initial ideas are transformed in the process in a varied array of ways. Thus, his artistic projects demonstrate to what extent the artist is forced to personalize both the way he works but also its final presentation. This work method makes technology itself a work of art and makes the artist the final creator. The objects of study maintain a constancy, as well as their evolution in terms of analysis and narrative within the universe itself. Axel Straschnoy has a BA in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires (2005). Between 2001 and 2003 he attended Mónica Girón’s workshop. He held numerous solo exhibitions, among which are: Kislpisjärvellä (Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam, 2013; MAMBA, Buenos Aires, 2012), Opening Archive (Ateneum Museum Library, Helsinki., 2013), How to build a dishwasher (Kunsnernes Hus , Oslo, Norway, 2011), Opening (Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, 2008), Camera (MAA-TILA, Helsinki, Finland, 2007), among others. He received the first arteBA-Petrobras Prize for Visual Arts in 2005 and he has participated in the Le Pavillon program at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and was Associate Fellow of Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. He received the MAMBA Honorable Mention – Prize Fundación Telefónica in 2009.
He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.