About
I like to compare my way of working to gardening a piece of land. For me, the canvas is a field on which something living unfolds. Each of my paintings develops its own shape in the process of creation. I can’t predict it, the painting follows its own dynamic, as is the nature of things. Behind every stroke there is a new challenge that I explore. For me, it is about an experience that takes place on an abstract level of imagination.
I see imagining as an invitation to let my gaze wander, to fantasize and to allow myself to immerse myself.
I perceive my painting processes as metamorphoses in which the perpetual becoming of liveliness paves its way, but never sticks to a single form.
Working with masks opens up a wide range of possibilities for me on a content-related, visual and performative level. Just as in my painting, the transformation of liveliness is at the center of my work. While in painting I shape this process in a non-representational and process-oriented way, with masks their expressive power manifests itself in a direct embodiment of performativity. I am particularly fascinated by their unique, animistic power, which combines transformation, abstraction and communication.
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Anna Steinert was born in Krefeld in 1983.
In 2013, she obtained her Master’s degree from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfbK) Hamburg, where she studied with Werner Büttner and Hanne Loreck.
The previous year, in 2012, she became a board member of the feminist artist group CALL.
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2025
upcoming: Carnival of the Goddess, (solo), Reiter Galerie, Leipzig
Resonanz der Rituale (groupshow curated by Keumhwa Kim), The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2024
Was am tiefsten in der Welt liegt (solo), Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
»daß die Göttin nicht himmelwärts, sondern herab nach ihren Freunden blickt«, (Groupshow), Secci Gallery, Florenz
Here in the real world (invited by Monika Michalko, Groupshow), Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Kinky – Malerei im Saft, (Groupshow), Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin
Frieze (with Galerie Tanja Wagner), London
Transitions, (Groupshow), The Space, Hamburg
Boops now No 1, (Groupshow), POV Contemporary and Galerie Philipp Anders, Leipzig
2023
Ursuppe mit Zusatzstoffen, (solo), Ingeborg Wiensowski, Hamburg
Amtsalon, (artfair), Berlin
Die Farbe fängt des Winters Grau (Groupshow), Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin
Between the lines, (Groupshow), Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Die Welt ist noch auf einen Abend mein, Groupshow, Galería Erhardt Flórez, Madrid
Über Übergänge, SP2, Berlin (solo)
Hallen#4, Berlin Art Week, Wilhelmhallen, Berlin
Fantomas, Groupshow, 8. Salon, Hamburg
Die Geister, die ich rief, Groupshow, Kimgo, Berlin
Vidéothèque, Groupshow, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2022
Wanderings, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin (solo, cat)
Editions for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Amtsalon, Berlin
2021
The Future is beautiful, Two persons show with Cathrin Hoffmann, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Days of Heartbreak, Groupshow curated by Nicola Petek, Pony Royal, Berlin (cat)
Screening „Das Verlorene Gesicht“, Ticktack, Antwerp, Belgium
Das verlorene Gesicht, STROUX, Berlin
Works on Paper, Groupshow, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2020
Due to – a fragmentary archive, Groupshow, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin (cat)
What was the Connaisseur, Groupshow, Spoiler, Berlin
Dawn by the Living, Groupshow, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg
2019
Woman’s Artist Program, Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
Kunst_Film_Tage, Kunstverein Rosenheim
MACRODOSER, Duo Show with Hanna Mattes, Sp2, Berlin
Feeling called love, collection of an idiot, Kunstmuseum Bochum (cat)
Spiegelungen | FlächenTiefenSelbstbetrachtungen, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg
Astro Bunny, Offraum 8, Düsseldorf (solo)
2018
CAPUT, group show curated by Mathias Deutsch, Hilbert Raum, Berlin
The Lousy Curtains, Film premiere, Wiensowski&Harbord, Berlin
Relying on my heart, Galerie im Künstlerhaus, Leonberg (cat)
Romantik – Kaputte Wolken aus Kuckucksheim, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland
Let me wink at you with my lousy pupil’s curtains, Super Deals Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2017
Cobalt Necessity, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (solo)
2016
Fraud, Fake and Fame, Goldrausch 2016, St. Johann Evangelist, Berlin (cat)
Bürde, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Timeless Tirades, Keith, Berlin (solo)
Besuch einer Vorstellung, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (solo, cat)
2015
Die seltsamen Riten der Frau Dr. Arabeske, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (solo)
Feministische Avantgarde, with artist group CALL, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Incertitudes, Goethe Institut, Paris, Lyon, Marseille
2014
Anna Grath, Anna Fasshauer, Anna Steinert, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
ff Temporary autonomous Zone 3 / drawing lines, Teatr Studio, Warschau, Poland
Mini-Animism, Kling & Bang gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland
Flagge der Lebendigen, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (solo)
Kunstepedemie–Büttner & Scolari, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (cat)
Wilde Stille, Kunsthaus Jesteburg, Jesteburg (solo, cat)
Beyond Mainstream, Kunsthaus Essen
Scholarships, Grants
2018
Berlin Senate artist funding for female video artists
Superdeals Brussels, Artist in Residency, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Art IT, Berlin
2015
Working Scholarship of the City of Hamburg
Project funding from the Hamburg Department of Culture Project funding from the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
2014
Prize of Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt (with CALL)
