Anna Steinert’s works, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video, are inherently vibrant thanks to her characteristically broad color spectrum. Scribbling saturated colors onto her canvas with oil stick, she forms singular entities that together build a perceptive landscape that, in a further step, dissolves into a collective feeling. Her brash application of color is done in a physically vigorous act of disturbance, yet her paintings evoke an expressional beauty that is visually comforting.
Anna Steinert
ABOUT
Steinert draws on a vast library of visual, literary, and theoretical influences, which she explores through a feminist lens. Her abstract, gestural paintings condense situational complexities and serve as starting points for the reconstruction of significant political, societal, and personal moments. Her practice is a form of resistance against patriarchal conditions and aims to expand the visibility of themes, such as female communities, ecology, and dissimilar forms of sourcing energy.
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BIOGRAPHY
ANNA STEINERT
Born 1983 in Krefeld, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2013
Hochschule für Bildende Künste/ HfbK Hamburg
Scholarships and Awards
2018
Grant from the Berlin Senate for female video artists
Artist in Residency, Superdeals Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Fellowship from Goldrausch Künstlerinnen, Berlin
Art IT, Berlin
2015
Grant from the City of Hamburg
Project funding by the Hamburg Department of Culture
Project funding by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
2014
Prize Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (with CALL)
2012
Project funding ‘Freundeskreis der HfbK Hamburg
Art Award from the Stendar-Feuerbaum Stiftung/ Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung
Artist in Residency Edinborg Arts Centre, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2009
Artist in Residency Lobot Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2024
Was am tiefsten in der Welt liegt
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2022
Über Übergänge
SP2, Berlin
Wanderings
Galerie Tanja Wagner
2019
Astro Bunny
Offraum 8, Dusseldorf
2018
Let me wink at you my lousy pupil’s curtains
Super Deals Brussels, Belgium
2017
Cobalt Necessity
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2016
Timeless Tirades
Keith, Berlin
Besuch einer Vorstellung
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2015
Die seltsamen Riten der Frau Dr. Arabeske
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2014
Flagge der Lebendigen
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Wilde Stille
Kunsthaus Jesteburg, Jesteburg
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2024
Here in the real world
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Transitions
The Space, Hamburg
daß die Göttin nicht himmelwärts, sondern herab nach ihren Freunden blickt
Secci Gallery, Florence
„You Must Be Joking“
BCMA, Berlin
2023
Between the Lines
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Die Farbe fängt des Winters Grau
Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin
die Welt ist noch auf einen Abend mein
Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid
Vidéothèque
Galerie Tanja Wagner
2022
Jahresgaben
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
2021
Works on Paper
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
The Future is Beautiful
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Days of Heartbreak
Pony Royal, Berlin
Das Verlorene Gesicht
Screening at Ticktack, Antwerp
Das verlorene Gesicht
Screening at STROUX, Berlin
2020
Due to – A Fragmentary Archive
Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
What was the Connaisseur
Spoiler, Berlin
Dawn by the Living
Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg
2019
Kunst_Film_Tage
Kunstverein Rosenheim
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p2, Berlin
Woman’s Artist Program
Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
Feeling called love, collection of an idiot
Kunstmuseum Bochum
Spiegelungen | FlächenTiefenSelbstbetrachtungen
Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg
2018
CAPUT
Hilbert Raum, Berlin
The Lousy Curtains
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Romantik – Kaputte Wolken aus Kuckucksheim
Kunsthalle Schlieren, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Fraud, Fake and Fame, Goldrausch 2016
St. Johann Evangelist, Berlin
Bürde
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Post Okkasion
Alte Oberpostdirektion, Hamburg
Müller Steinert Wendt
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2015
Die Zitternde Kammer
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Die Zitternde Kammer präsentiert: We Come As Friends
Sammlung Haus Harig, Hannover
Feministische Avantgarde
With artist group CALL, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Incertitudes
Goethe Institut, Paris, Lyon, Marseille
Bewerberinnen Ausstellung zum Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
2014
Anna Grath, Anna Fasshauer, Anna Steinert
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Gruppenausstellung
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
ff Temporary autonomous Zone 3 / drawing lines
Teatr Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Mini-Animism
Kling & Bang gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland
Die Hure Wanda
kaleidoskop & loophole, Berlin
Kunstepedemie–Büttner & Scolari
Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg
Beyond Mainstream
Kunsthaus Essen, Essen
Bewerber-innen Ausstellung zum Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Read Your Call
Diane Kruse Galerie, Hamburg