Artists Anonymous, founded in 2001, live and work in London and Berlin.
Artists
Lene Berg (*1965) was educated as a film director at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. She works with video and installations, photography and text.
Her video The Man in the Background and her publication, Gentlemen and Arseholes, were launched as two parts of one project about art and propaganda during the Cold War. The project focused on the...
Paolo Bottarelli was born in Brescia in 1975. He studied painting at the Academy of fine Art in Venice, graduating in the phenomenology of contemporary art, before abandoning art in favour of chess. For ten years his studies focussed on chessboard squares, perfect mathematical calculations and flashes of intuition. He played almost obsessively, while at the same time also studying music and...
Sonia Boyce was born in London in 1962, where she still lives and works, and in the early 1980s emerged as a figurative painter, quickly gaining critical attention as part of the black British arts movement, for works that spoke about racial identity and gender.
Since the 1990s Boyce has worked increasingly with other people in what she calls ‘improvised collaborations’,...
Boris von Brauchitsch (*1963 in Aachen) studied History of Art in Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin and wrote his PhD about the photographer Herbert List. He works as Photographer, writer and curator, and lives in Berlin.
Other publications are Michelangelo (Suhrkamp, 2009), Klassiker der Architektur (Reclam, 2009),Caravaggio (Suhrkamp, 2007...
Angela Bulloch (*1966 in Rainy River, Canada) studied at Goldsmiths College in London and is recognised as one of the YBA. She works predominantly with light, video and sound and usus ‚inter-passive‘ systems to engage with the viewer. She lives and works in Berlin.
Peter Carlberg (1931-2008) was the nephew of Dada-artist Hannah Höch. Being a close relative, Peter Carlberg has been dedicated to promoting his aunt's work. In 1978 while Hannah Höch was still alive, he made the film "Diptam Baumzingel Bunter Mohn" documenting her garden. He also recorded his musical interpretation of Höch's verses in Bilderbuch.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design at the Norwich School of Art and Design, Alexine Chanel (*1972 in Lyon) moved to Budapest, where she began her artistic production. Chanel lives and works in Berlin since 2004. She has held exhibitions at galleries Jarmuschek und Partner, MARS and Artport Contemporary, among others. The main recurring theme of her work is the...
Paolo Chiasera (*1978 in Bologna) is fascinated by historical icons, myths and cultural symbolism. He isolates excerpts from cinema, literature and philosophy, which he then uses as pawns within a new story that makes use of the visitor's 'collective memory'. For Chiasera, history is a starting point for creating a process of deconstruction and afterward the construction of a shape and he is...
Gayle Chong Kwan is of Scottish-Chinese Mauritian descent and was born in Edinburgh in 1973. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art, an MSc in Communications from Stirling University, and a BA in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University. She lives and works in London.
Gayle Chong Kwan’s practice readdresses individual and collective...
Daniel Gustav Cramer (*1975 in Neuss) studied in Münster and at the Royal College of Art in London. From 2005 to 2007 he was Senior Lecturer for Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Recently, Cramer had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Dortmund and the Goethe Institut in Dublin. He lives and works in Berlin. Together with Haris Epaminonda, Daniel Gustav Cramer is working on...
Nick Crowe (*1968 in Barnsley) lives and works in Berlin and Manchester. In many of his works, Crowe engages with our medialised invironment. He works as a sculptor and in new media. Together with Ian Rawlinson, he also has a communal practise in video and film.
Solo-exhibitions and projects (Selection)
2008: 'Sammlung Witkowska', Axel Lapp Projects; 2007: 'At 25 Metres', FACT...
Jorn Ebner (*1966 in Bremerhaven), lives / works in Berlin. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London (1995-98), as well as English Literature at University Hamburg (1990-95). Between 2002 and 2005 he held an AHRB research scholarship at the art school of Newcastle University. His works deal with landscapes / cityscapes in different related media,...
Loretta Fahrenholz (*1981 in Starnberg) studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. In 2010, she was participating in the Whitney Independent Study Program, in 2011, she received the Marion Ermer Preis.
In his works which are strongly influenced by the history and politics of the current day, Omer Fast (*1972 in Jerusalem) scrutinizes the value of experience in society. He often takes actual events or incidents as his starting point, reconstructing them with the aid of research, interviews or found material. In his intensive film installations, mostly all multi-channel works,...
Theresa Frölich (*1977 in Göttingen) studied Theology and German Literature in Bonn and then Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Münster in the class of Guillaume Bijl and at theHochschule der Bildenden Künste in Munich with Klaus vom Bruch. In spatial installations she investigates the construction of identity. In self trials and in historic research she is...
Ryan Gander (* 1976 in Chester, UK) lives and works in London. Following his studies at Manchester Metropolitain University, Gander held residencies at Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
In 2008, a major solo show, Heralded as the new black, toured Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, South London Gallery and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, while...
Monica Germann (*1966 in St. Gallen) & Daniel Lorenzi (*1963 in Solothurn) studied at the Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung in Zürich and work collaboratively since 1995. In their wall drawings and large installations they use very different elements - art historical influences as well as the objects of daily life, or the records and equioment of the musical passion; at...
Giulia Giannola was born in Naples in 1985. She studied Visual Arts at IUAV University in Venice, where she began to work with performances and video. After her degree she moved to Berlin where she is currently studying the Universität der Künste. In her performances she creates choreographies, staged situations, and actions in public spaces to reflect on the...
Eiko Grimberg (* 1971) lives in Berlin. His most recent project was “When Germans clap, it's like we boouuh”, an artist’s book about Germany in the USA and vice versa. The author is co-founder of the artist-run gallery Amerika.
The film maker and artist Romeo Grünfelder (*1968) studied music and visual communication in Hamburg. He recently had a residency at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades and in 2008 received the scholarship of the City of Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg.
Jeanne van Heeswijk (*1965) lives and works in Rotterdam and New York. She is a visual artist who creates contexts for interaction in public spaces. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public spaces or remodels existing ones. To achieve this, she often works closely with...
Hannah Höch (1889—1972) is the most important female artist of the Modernist period in Germany. Her work centres around the dadaistic principle of photomontage which she developed, together with Raoul Hausmann, in the early years of the 20th century. Without subscribing to a canon of form as a fixed program, she opened up new and unnerving worlds of images through the manifold...
Maarten Janssen (born in 1960 in Rijswijk, Netherlands) studied at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam. He lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin.
The autonomy of the image is the recurring proposition in the analytical works of Janssen. By objectifying processes of decision-making, Janssen seeks to enable the work to describe itself as resulting from intrinsic causes.
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Annette Kisling (*1965) lebt in Berlin.
In photographic series, she describes her experiences with the surrounding architecture. She studied at the academies of Kassel, Offenbach and Hamburg. longer residencies and periods of work in Zurich, Rotterdam, Paris, Venice and Marfa, Texas. Recent exhibitions: 'Wege zur Selbstverständlichkeit - Set 4' (Fotomuseum Winterthur 2007), 'die...
Max Kossatz (*1970) studied at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and since then has taken part in many international exhibitions, ie the Venice Biennale. In the mid-90s in New York, he took part in creating an Internetproviders for artists. Since his return to Austria, he held several positions in the areas Internet, Mobile Services and Retail.
Since 2005 he is co...
Reinhard Kühl (*1967) lives and works in Berlin.
He studied painting and photography in Berlin, Moscow, Vilnius, London, Chicago and Budapest.
Prizes and scholarships: Artists’ Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; DAAD-Scholarship Poland; Air Art 2000 of EADS Munich, Studio prize of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Berlin, iaab-Scholarship Edinburgh of the...
Edgar Leciejewski (* 1977 in Berlin) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) in Leipzig – where he was taught by Timm Rautert, Christopher Muller and Peter Piller. In 2010, six months at the International Studio and Curatorial Programm New York, with a stipend from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. He lives and...
Daniela Löbbert (*1979) studied design at the Fachhochschule Münster and art at the Kunstakademie Münster as well as at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2007, she received the development grant of the Kunstakademie Münster and the Max-Ernst award from the city of Bruhl.
Emanuel Mathias (*1981 in Halle/Saale) studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and at the Universidad del Bellas Artes, Bilbao. In 2010, he spent 6 months in Istanbul, on a DAAD fellowship. In 2011, he received the Marion ermer Preis. Mathias lives and works in Leipzig.
Reiner Maria Matysik (*1967 in Duisburg) lives in Berlin, studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig and at the Ateliers Arnhem. 2004 he directed the artistic development project "Institute of Biological Sculpture" at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Visual Arts, Faculty of Architecture,...
Jürgen Mayer H. (*1965) studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and at Princeton Universtiy. His work was published and exhibited worldwide and is part of international collections like the MoMA New York and SF MoMA. His work was awarded with numerous prizes, i.e. the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award 2003 Emerging Architect and Winner Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for Metropol Parasol...
Alexej Meschtschanow (* 1973 in Kiev) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the HGB Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler in 2008.
Bea Meyer (* 1969 Karl-Marx-Stadt) works and lives in Leipzig.
One-person-shows: 2006 ROT / WEISS / HOCKEN / HEIM, Galerie b2_ Leipzig; 2003 REIN/RAUS, LIGA Galerie, Berlin; 2002 WOLKE, SEPTEMBER 2001, Galerie Interdruck Leipzig; 2002 WIE FINDET IHR DIE+ICH MUSS IRGEND ETWAS FINDEN, LIGA Galerie, Berlin
Uriel Orlow (*1973 in Zurich) lives and works in London.
He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, at the Slade School of Art (UCL) and the University of the Arts in London, as well as at the university of Geneva. He is currently involved in a research project within the framework of the 'AHRB...
Reloading Images is an open network of artists, writers, curators, architects, filmmakers, designers, scholars and interdisciplinary cultural practitioners. Members of the network initiate and organize activities on a project-by-project basis, working together across various disciplines, formats and places. The practice takes the form of process-oriented artistic research. Reloading Images...
Cornelia Renz was born in Kaufbeuren in 1966. She studied Painting and Graphics at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig from 1993 until 1998. Until 2001, she was Meisterschüler with Sighard Gille. Since then she lives and works in Berlin.
Stipendien und Preise
2011: Villa Aurora Stipendium; 2005: Förderpreis Bildende Kunst der Schering...
Julian Rosefeldt, born 1965 in Munich, studied architecture in Munich und Barcelona. He mainly works in the medium film, ranging in style from documentary to theatrical narrative. He lives and works in Berlin.
Since 1994 he has participated in exhibitions at, among others: Kunstmuseum Bonn, EX3 Florenz, P.S.1 New York, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Royal...
Sarah Ryan (* 1975) studied at Queensland College of Art in Brisbane (AUS) and at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart (AUS). She lives and works in Toowoomba (AUS). Currently she is resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
Claudia Schötz (*1979 in Altdöbern) studied at the Mediadesign Akademie Berlin and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden. In 2011, she received the Marion Ermer Preis. Schötz lives and works in Dresden.
Jens Schubert (*1983 in Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge) studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. In 2011, he received the Marion Ermer Preis. Schubert lives and works in Leipzig.
Tina Schulz (*1975) studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. In her work, Schulz investigates the relationship between the acts of viewing and being viewed, using different media, while working mostly in installations, and employing conceptual strategies.
She was co-founder of the gallery projects LIGA (Berlin) and b2_ (Leipzig). in 2004, she was supported by a...
Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson conduct their collaborative practice from bases in the north of England, Iceland and Gothenburg, Sweden. With a strong research grounding, their socially engaged projects explore contemporary relationships between human and non-human animals in the contexts of history, culture and the environment. The practice sets out to...
Petra Trenkel (*1968 in Bischofsheim/Hanau) studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. In 2003 she was a participant of the Goldrausch artists’ project in Berlin, in 2005 she had a residency of the Hessian Culture Foundation in London, and in 2006 she had a residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. She lives and works in...
Costa Vece (*1969 in Herisau) is a Swiss artist working with video and installation. He lives and works in Zurich.
Vece grew up in the canton of Appenzell Außerrhoden in a family of Italian/Greek origin. From 1989 to 1994, he studied at the F + F School for Experimental Design in Zurich. In 1998 he had his...
Clemens von Wedemeyer (*1974 in Göttingen) studied Fine Art in Leipzig. Some of his filmic works are narrative (short) films, while others are reflections and experiments about cinema, and a third group are multi-channeled video works. With this practice, Von Wedemeyer moves between art and cinema, but with films of changing forms as they take on a strongly conceptual position with...
Frauke Wilken (*1965 in Göttingen) studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig and at the Facultat de Belles Arts in Barcelona. Since 1992, she lives and works in Cologne.
After training as a church painter, Elke Zauner (* 1972 in Altötting) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Numerous exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Italy, Finland and Poland have followed. In 2008 she had a residency at Villa Massimo in Rome. Zauner lives and works in Bamberg.
Walter Zurborg (*1980 in Vechta) studied Fine Art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Braunschweig (under Ulrich Eller and Thomas Virnich), and became a Meisterschüler in 2009. He lives and works in Braunschweig, Goldenstedt.