Annie Åkerman is an artist and writer. Her work engages with the materiality that underpins the use and circulation of energy. She focuses on how measurement, object and interface correlate in organizational systems.

Åkerman (*1991, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. She received an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and has also studied at Cooper Union, New York, and Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Her work has recently been included in solo- and group presentations at Courtney Jaeger, Basel; ISSUES, Stockholm; Villa Numa, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Sunnyside, Helsinki; The Tail, Brussels and LOYAL, Stockholm. Her solo exhibition at Beau Travail, Stockholm opens in 2027. Recent residencies and studio programs include Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Musée de Beaux-Arts MBAC, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels and Cité internationale des Arts, Paris. Together with Anton Halla she initiated the project Cues in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014 the venue operates under the guise of an intermittent lounge bar that hosts a variety of receptions.

At AiR 351 she will investigate distortions generated by the thermic power of solar light. Her production will center on devices that connect explosive conversions of energy to the domain of timekeeping. By tracing the operations of combustive mechanisms she will look at how power is distributed through protocols of standardization.