Anton Kusters

Anton Kusters focuses on the human condition, exploring transmission between generations, history, trauma, post-witnessing and the loss of experience of place. Born in Belgium in 1974, he obtained a master's degree in Political Science at K.U.Leuven. His works and installations often present themselves as alternate, fragmented narratives through complex themes such as solace, hope and doubt. He draws upon events, biographies and objects from within his own family, connecting them to larger political and social histories, digital data and underlying patterns.

Rooted in photography, he works across different media, and his process based practice ranges from single autonomous pieces to large scale multi-faceted projects. His works and installations include Eucalypt Story (2024), The Classroom Floor (2023), The Blue Skies Project (2018), There is Nothing Here (2021), Zero (2021), Vessel No1 (2020), Image by Image (2017), Yakuza (2011) and Mono No Aware (2014).

He has been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Photographers’ Gallery, FORMAT19, and Landskrona, amongst others. His work is part of permanent collections such as V&A Museum London, ICP Museum New York, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, FoMu Antwerp, and Fundación Banco Sabadell Barcelona. His most recent monograph is titled “1078 Blue Skies, 4432 Days” (2021, Kehrer Verlag).