Akay and Olabo, Permanent Vacation, 2018, installation view at Gallery Steinsland Berliner
Akay and Olabo (SE)
Akay and Olabo work under pseudonyms and navigate their surroundings with similar discretion. With an astute eye and resourceful spirit, they move around the city taking note of what is often bypassed by others. Discarded materials and abandoned spaces are utilized and revitalized through installations, spatial interventions, objects and films that deliver alternative takes on life and society as it stands. Their working approach is guided by a mischievous sense of humor and DIY-sensibility; the results encompass both pointed confrontation and poetic beauty.
Stockholm-based Akay and Olabo are frequent collaborators with each other and other like-minded individuals. Between them, with Akay being a real pioneer of the genre, they possess decades of influential documented artistic practice that has taken place mostly in the public sphere.
Väv
Lashing straps, 200 x 300 cm
2021
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Untitled
Lashing straps, 120 x 80 x 72 cm
2018
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Fences series
Gunnebo fence and oak frame, 140 x 136cm
2018
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Custom Standard
Oak wood, 80 x 120 cm
2018
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Permanent Vacation
Installation view at Gallery Steinsland Berliner
2018
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Flaggan
Installation view, in collaboration with Klisterpeter
2015
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Köp ett liv (Buy a life)
Guerrilla installations on public ad spaces
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Commandos
In collaboration with Klisterpeter
2016
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Hyenas on Stureplan
Guerrilla installation of 5 concrete hyenas
2011
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Väv
Lashing straps, 200 x 300 cm, 2021
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Untitled
Lashing straps, 120 x 80 x 72 cm, 2018
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Fences series
Gunnebo fence and oak frame, 140 x 136cm, 2018
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Custom Standard
Oak wood, 80 x 120 cm, 2018
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Permanent Vacation
Installation view at Gallery Steinsland Berliner, 2018
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Flaggan
Installation view, in collaboration with Klisterpeter, 2015
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Köp ett liv (Buy a life)
Guerrilla installations on public ad spaces,
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Commandos
In collaboration with Klisterpeter, 2016
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Hyenas on Stureplan
Guerrilla installation of 5 concrete hyenas, 2011
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