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Anni Hagberg (b.1995, Cairns) is a Finnish-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Hagberg has a particular interest in investigating unpredictable process-driven material encounters through sculpture and installation. Primarily working with non-traditional materials within ceramic and craft processes, Hagberg creates spatially informed works that explore processes of change, material interaction and notions of time.
Contact
anni.hagberg@gmail.com
Selected One & Two Person Exhibitions
2025(Upcoming), CAVES, Melbourne, VIC.
2024Pit Projects: Thistle Chair (Collaboration with Michael Gittings), The Nicholas Building, NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne, VIC.2023Water under a bridge, CAVES, Melbourne, VIC.
2022 Trace Encounters, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, VIC.2020 Anni Hagberg, Neon Parc (City), Melbourne, VIC.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025(Upcoming) Future Ambition, Pit Projects collaboration with Michael Gittings, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2024National Emerging Art Prize 2024 (Ceramics), The Garden Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, NSW.
Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize, Pit Projects collaboration with Michael Gittings, Curl Curl Creative Space, Curl Curl, NSW.
In a restless world like this is, Curated by Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora, VIC.
Taking Shape, Trocadero Projects, Footscray, VIC.
2022It’s not just blue, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
Improper Structures, Curated by Eliza Tiernan & Josephine Briginshaw, NGV Melbourne Design Week, Creo, Cremorne, VIC.
New Blood: Embodiment, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, VIC.2021Hall & Wilcox Art Exhibition, Hall & Wilcox, Melbourne, VIC.
Emerging Artist Award 2021, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC.
Hold, Curated by Phoebe Thompson, Platform Arts, Geelong, VIC.
Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, Wyndham Vale, VIC.
Neon Parc, Quarantine Art Fair, Portsea, VIC.
2020Of Colour and Light 2020, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC.
PLATFORM (LOCAL), The Substation (Online), VIC.
Wood Street Youth Art Prize, Hobson Bay City Council (Online), VIC.
2020 Fresh!, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2019
RMIT Ceramics Association Graduate Prize Winners, CLAD Bendigo Pottery, Bendigo, VIC.
Fibre, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
Selected Awards & Grants
2024Finalist, National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP)
Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Art Gallery
Finalist, Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize (Pit Projects collaboration with Michael Gittings)
2021Winner, Innovation Award, University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery
Finalist, Emerging Artist Award, fortyfivedownstairs
2020-21Funding Recipient,Creative Partnerships Australia MATCH Lab
2020Winner, The John Wardle Architects Craft Prize
Winner, The Design Files Emerging Maker Award
Selected Press
2024Union Magazine, ‘Anni Hagberg and Michael Gittings on their Thistle Chair’ by Grace Sandles, June 2024.
2021Art+Edit Magazine, ‘Gallery Panel: Anni Hagberg’, Issue 27, March 2021.
The Design Files, ‘Inside the Dreamy Garden Shed Studio of Emerging Ceramic Artist, Anni Hagberg’ by Sasha Gattermayr, January 2021.
2020Australian Journal of Ceramics, ‘Annual Education Survey’, Vol 59, No.2, July 2020.
2019Australian Journal of Ceramics, ‘Exploring Porcelain’, Vol 58, No. 3, November 2019.
Selected Writing
2024‘Home/love/sick’, Exhibition text for Rub You by Hee Joon Youn, Seventh Gallery, May 2024.
2021‘Contemplating the Mould’, Catalogue essay for Preliminary Structures, curated by Eliza Tiernan & Josephine Briginshaw for Melbourne Design Week, 2021.
2020‘Reader Reflections: Looking Ahead’, Art Almanac, November/December 2020.
2019
‘A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition Needing to be Reviewed’, Australian Journal of Ceramics, Vol 58, No. 3, November 2019.
Education
2021-23Master of Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne (High Distinction)
2020Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), RMIT University (First Class)
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art (High Distinction)
Selected Professional & Teaching Experience
2022-25Program and Engagement Coordinator, Craft Victoria
2024Exhibitions and Programs Manager (acting), Craft Victoria
Emerging Writers Program Participant, Seventh Gallery
2023Sessional Lecturer, RMIT University
2022Curatorial and Programs Assistant, Craft Victoria
Art and Design Technician, RMIT Training
Presenter, 16th Australian Ceramics Triennial, Alice Springs2021Presenter, Troc Peer-to-Peer Program, Trocadero Projects2020-22Board Member, Trocadero Projects2020 Panel Leader, Ceramics Today Round Table (Online), Craft Victoria
2019Studio Assistant, Andrei Davidoff