TRUE COLORS
opening
30.04.2022 11am – 7pm
01.05.2022 11am – 4pm
ANJA SCHWÖRER
Anja Schwörer‘s art is inspired by the theme of memory. Rememberance is understood as material that can take on the most bizarre and capricious connotations and forms. These forms are impressed on the fabric through the stages of dying, bleaching, knotting, and untying. The bleaching process lies at the core of the woirk, partly due to the printing and photograpic techniques that Schwörer has mastered.
„I think a lot about the idea of the ‚indexical image‘ and how its conception influenced my work.
In the digital age, the model of indexicality is losing its function as a form of documentation. The relation between the image and its picture as cause and effect no longer exists. What is real, what is true, and what is fake. You can’t be sure what factors are real. Facts can be manipulated. Bearing this in mind, how can image-making be authentic and immediate in our times?“
„I don‘t think that everything that happens in my paintings has to be, or even should be, understood. Art is seen from various angles. Everyone observes an image in a different way, since each person possesses an individual knowledge, and has a divergent cultural education and origin. Yet the viewer should have a certain receptivity, an openness and an existential curiosity.“*
*Extract from the book, Lab-Life of Artists in berlin: An Art Guide, written by Valentina Galossi, published by Hendrik Baesler Verlag, 2018, Berlin.
WORKS + INSTALLATION VIEWS
CV
lives and works in Berlin, DE
1997- 2003 Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe 2002- 2003 Master student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021
Pose, Hammerschmidt + Gladigau, Erfurt 2019 Loops / Things
2017
Meshes, Aplus, Berlin
my heartland, heartland, heartland, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne, Germany
2016
Terræn, Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen
new style…new feeling… Hubertushoehe Art + Architecture, Berlin Embassy, with Lori Hersberger, Berlin.
2014
Unfolding, Hammelehle and Ahrens Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2013
To hell and back, Hammelehle and Ahrens Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
2012
Change & Necessity, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
2011
Summer Project, Fourteen30 contemporary, Portland, Oregon.
Perspectives on Contemporary Painting, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt/Main
2010
Le Pli, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions (selection)
2022
textile, HAUNT, Berlin, curated by Stephan Klee and drj art projects Chapter II, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
2020
How space can be defined, BcmA Berlin, curated by Jeroen Cremers
De Rerum Natura, Über die Natur der Dinge, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, kuratiert von Meik Stamer
2019
7, Vollreinigung, Berlin, curated by Tahnee Godt & Alexander Warhus
In Media Res, Kunstverein Arnsberg, curated by Ursula Ströbele
Ornament & Abstraction, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2018
ankst, Municipal Gallery Cordonhaus, Cham
LAB, Una Vetrina, Rome, curated by Valentina Galossi
2017
The Moment, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
DYSTOTAL, Ludwig Forum Aachen, curated by Konsortium Suckstract, Kunstverein Konstanz
2015
L’oiseau présente…Be Abstract, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall
of light, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2014
Brand New Second Hand, Vigo Gallery, London
Suckstract, Gallery of the City of Remscheid
2013
umstellen, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
2012
Material Occupation, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
choses vues à Droite et à Gauche (sans lunettes), Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2011
Erika Mustermann Collection, Der Strich, Pavillon in front of the Volksbühne, Berlin
We regret to inform you there is currently no space or place for abstract painting… Martos Gallery, New York