Turtle Pond, 2025
Turtle Pond, 2025
Turtle Pond, 2025
2025
oil, acrylic, charcoal, chalk, and fixative on canvas
200 × 190 cm
2025
oil, polyamide filament, and used plush turtle on canvas
72 × 100 cm
Frieze London, 2023
2023
Oil, egg tempera, flashe, pigment on textile
80 × 120 cm
2023
Oil, acrylic, wood stain, spray paint, ink on textile
90 × 70 cm
2022–2023
Oil, spray paint, ink on textile
125 × 80 cm
2023
Oil, spray paint, egg tempera on textile
135 × 80 cm
2023
Oil, flashe, oil stick, egg tempera, wood stain on textile
140 × 220 cm
2023
Oil, oilstick, spray paint, egg tempera, pigment, wood stain on textile
200 × 140 cm
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023
2023
Oil, ink, vinyl paint, pigments on textile
200 × 120 cm
2023
Oil, ink, acrylic, oilstick, pigments on textile
180 × 120 cm
2023
Oilstick, ink, pigments on textile
180 × 110 cm
2023
Oil, acrylic, spraypaint, vinyl paint on textile
120 × 90 cm
2022
Oil, vinyl paint, pigment, ink, spray paint on textile
180 × 135 cm
2022
Oil, pigments on textile
95 × 65 cm
2022
Oil, vinyl paint, acrylic, spray paint on textile
140 × 125 cm
2022
Oil, pigment on textile
130 × 120 cm
Forever Home
Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2022
Forever Home
Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2022
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
40 × 55 cm
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
60 × 45 cm
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
50 × 40 cm
Wine Or Candy
Haus der Kunst, Oslo, 2022
2021
Oil and enamel on synthetic textile
63 × 112 cm
2021
Oil and enamel on synthetic textile
63 × 112 cm
Point No Point
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020
Point No Point
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020
2020
Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric
140 × 205 cm
Signs and Portents
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
Signs and Portents
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
Signs and Portents
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
Signs and Portents
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
135 × 80 cm
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
150 × 110 cm
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
160 × 118 cm
2019–2020
Oil, spray paint, acrylic and enamel on synthetic fabric
135 × 110 cm
2019–2020
Oil, spray paint, enamel and marker on synthetic fabric
80 × 150 cm
2019
Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric
90 × 60 cm
2019
Oil, spray paint, enamel on velvet
100 × 80 cm
Images no. 7–9: documentation by Eric Bell; images no. 10–16: documentation by GRAYSC
Artissima art fair, Torino, 2019
2018
Oil and spray paint on polyester
120 × 90 cm
2019
Oil and lacquer on polyester
90 × 50 cm
Anne Fellner is a Swiss/U.S. artist based in Berlin and Zurich. Her genre-bending paintings navigate a broad field of styles and materials: from figuration to abstraction, from hard-boiled to hypnotic, from cinematic to plein-air. Drawing on a variety of techniques, the artist projects her signs and figures onto colourful, synthetic fabrics, allowing the textile’s physical properties to set the tone.
Education
- Berlin Program for Artists (BPA), 2019–2020
- Diploma in Painting, class of Astrid Klein, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2015
- Study of Painting, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2009–2015
Upcoming
- CRASH 2, New Scenario, online, 2025
- Artist Talk, Zurich University of the Arts, 2025
Solo & duo exhibitions
- Turtle Pond, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2025
- Für Ilse 2, with Okka Esther-Hungerbühler, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, 2024
- Stadt, Land, Fluss, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023
- Forever Home, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2022
- Primordial Dime, Zyrland Zoiropa, Berlin, 2022
- Depth Of Field, with Alessandro Carano, Castiglioni, Milan, 2022
- Wine or Candy, Haus der Kunst, Oslo, 2022
- Onion Chamber, with Carla Milentis, Holden Garage, Berlin, 2021
- Für Ilse, with Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, new-home, Berlin, 2021
- Signs and Portents, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
- Point No Point, BPA Studios, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2020
- Take My Face, Liszt, Berlin, 2019
- Castle of Insolence, with Burkhard Beschow, TONUS, Paris, 2017
- Filterest, with Burkhard Beschow, Real Positive, Cologne, 2016
- Wind in the Willows, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, 2015
- Meet the Neighbors, with Burkhard Beschow, BSMNT, Leipzig, 2015
- Drywine, with Burkhard Beschow, Info-Punkt, Leipzig, 2012
Selected group exhibitions
- MARTWA NATURA, C45 Studio, Wiesbaden,2025
- Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, 2025
- Intimate Opening, makam, Berlin, 2025
- An Account in the Luck and Misfortunes of ____, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, 2024
- A Gentle Cruise, JVDW Galerie, Dusseldorf, 2024
- Vanitas Fair, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin,2023
- Nature, Charim Gallery, Vienna, 2023
- Compound, Bbberlin, Systema, Marseille, 2023
- Doors, Provence, Zurich, 2022
- 22 Women Artists, Stations, Berlin, 2022
- Sammlung Simonow Vol. 3, Delphi Space, Freiburg, 2022
- Energy Patterns, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Berlin, 2022
- What do you mean when you don’t understand me when I say I'm not looking for a solution, I just want you to feel what I’m saying to you, Feux Pâles, Brussels, 2021
- Laube zur Schiefen Lage, Cabaret Voltaire, Münsterhof, Zurich, 2021
- Stipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus Zurich, 2021
- Stay With Me - 4 Generations of Painters, Kunsthaus Zofingen, 2021
- Sömmervögel, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, 2021
- Sammlung Simonow Vol. 2, die wellenmaschine, Berlin, 2021
- No Day But Today, Bjurholmsgatan 3C, Stockholm, 2020
- Die Walz Roadshow UK, Hackney City Farm, London, 2020
- Boboli Börnicke, offsite, Börnicke, 2020
- Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, Munich, 2020
- True Grid, unanimous consent, Zurich, 2020
- A Quest For Lasting Values, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, 2020
- The Late Show, Main Street Gallery, Toronto, 2019
- August, Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, 2019
- bandwagon, Pogo Bar at KW Institute, Berlin, 2019
- I ain’t though, Ortloff, Leipzig, 2019
- Rock The City, Root Canal, Amsterdam, 2018
- Keeper Of A Fever, No Place Gallery, Ohio, 2018
- Featherstrokes Of A Damozel, Stadium, Berlin, 2018
- Der Schneckentraum, Suicidal Oil Piglet, Melbourne, 2017
- Wildlife Skulpturenpark, Nesoddparken, Oslo, 2017
- My Heliotropic Eyes, M.I/mi1glissé, Berlin, 2017
- Yey an unusual way of spelling yay, Jir Sandel, Los Angeles, 2017
- Real Positive/die walz, offsite, Frankfurt, 2017
- Times New Romantic, M.I/mi1glissé, offsite, Berlin, 2017
- Psaumes de Gorphoncelet, Center, Berlin, 2017
- Xecret Ballhaus, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, 2017
- I Live Vicariously Through You, Low Rence, San Francisco, 2017
- 1st Art Safiental, Graubünden, 2016
- Works From The Collection, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, 2016
- Switchers, Galerie fiebach, minninger, Cologne, 2016
- The 7th Guest, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, 2016
- Dress Rehearsal (by Centre for Style), Akademie der Künste, 9th Berlin Biennale, 2016
- Body Holes, New Scenario, IX. Berlin Biennale, online, 2016
- Works from the Collection, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, 2016
- Comedy Club, offsite, Berlin
- The Bathhouse Show, Space Space Gallery, Tokyo, 2016
- SAUERSAZOBOMB, Melbourne-Offsite-Index/Info-Punkt, Berlin, 2016
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium, offsite, Mallorca, 2016
- First Utterance, offsite, Berlin, 2016
- Fellner-Beschow-Lytke, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, 2016
- CRASH, New Scenario, online, 2015
- Amourteurs, Future Suburban Contemporary, Copenhagen, 2015
- VENICE BEACH GALAXY X-GOLD, offsite, Marseille, 2015
- Leipzig malt, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, 2015
- Windowlicker, Center, Berlin, 2015
- Nominee Exhibition for Student Prize of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, 2014
- Official Office, Store, Dresden & Recess, New York, 2014
- Copy & Repeat, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, 2013
- My Sky Is The Limit, New Bretagne, Essen, 2013
- We outsourced everything and now we’re bored, L’Atelier-KSR, Berlin, 2013
- Hotel Moscow, Artplay, 2013
- Festisvall, Ortloff, Leipzig & Artíma Gallery, Reykjavik, 2013
- Fight II, Center, Berlin, 2013
- Inbox Allstars, C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts, Dresden, 2013
- Landscapes In Transformation, Centre d’Art Passarelle, Brest, 2012
- Natur 3d, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 2012
Art fairs
- Vanitas Fair, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, 2023
- Autumn, Frieze Focus, solo presentation Damien & The Love Guru, London, 2023
- Liste Showtime, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, Basel, 2021
- Art Brussels, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
- Artissima, with Mickael Marman, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, Torino, 2019
- Paris Internationale, invited by Tonus, Paris, 2017
- Art Cologne, invited by Real Positive and Galerie Fiebach, Cologne, 2017
Grants, awards, stipends, prizes
- Swiss Art Award, Basel, 2023
- Exhibition stipend, Pro Helvetia, 2023
- Work stipend from the City of Zurich, 2021
- Student prize of the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, 2014
- Audience prize “Best Video Work,” Building Building, Dresden/Utrecht, 2014
Residencies
- Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, 2024
- Berlin Program for Artists (BPA) at Gropius Studios, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2020
Curated projects (selection)
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 7: Stefan Thater, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2024
- Tereso y Margarito, Juan Larraín González, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2023
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 6: Burkhard Beschow, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2023
- ///SANGTHIPOLYT////VIKTORIAWENDELSKOUSEN||||||||BBBERLIN| MATTHIEUPALUD|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||, BPA Raum, Berlin, 2022
- …although the dynamic was clear on close inspection, at a distance it was difficult to tell if they were making fun of him or if he was making fun of them., John Ryaner & James Sturkey, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2022
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 5: Kamilla Bischof, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2022
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 4: Mahsa Saloor, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2022
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 3: Samuel Haitz, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2022
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 2: Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2021
- The Bellermann Hypnotist Vol 1: Benedikt Bock, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2021
- Casa Uovo, group exhibition, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2021
- Living As, group exhibition, Sangt Hipolyt x Loggia, München, 2020
- Comedy Club 1–4, three group exhibitions, different offsite locations, Berlin, 2017
- The 7th Guest, group exhibition, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, 2016
- Works from the Collection, group exhibition, online & Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, 2016
- SAUERSAZOBOMB, group exhibition, Melbourne-Offsite-Index/Info-Punkt, offsite, Berlin, 2016
- Havenstrasse, group exhibition, Punk Cafe/Info-Punkt, offsite, Berlin, 2016
- #TheColorofYourSheetsMayAttractBedbugs, Naomi Pollack, Info-Punkt, online, 2016
- #sickpainting, Tom Fellner, Info-Punkt, online, 2015
- Cambios de Estado, Cosima zu Knyphausen & Francisca Khamis, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, 2015
- Sub Rosa, digital poetry album, Info-Punkt, online, 2014
- Eine Sorge weniger, Gritli Faulhaber & Hanna Stiegeler, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, 2014
- Tools of the Ape, group exhibition, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, 2013
Teaching & Artist Talks
- Lecturer in BA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, 2025–
- Curtain Call, interdisciplinary exhibition project with students of the University of the Arts Bremen, concept, coordination, 2025
- Professorial Teaching Assignment, Class of Painting/Drawing Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn, University of the Arts, Bremen, 2022–2025
- Lecture, Perspectives in Painting, Class Painting/Drawing Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn, University of the Arts Bremen, 2024
- Artist Talk, Kombiniere, Kombiniere, University of the Arts Bremen, 2022
- Artist Talk, Ahnung, with Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Slow Rise Radio, 2022
- Artist Talk, Jumps & Cuts, Berlin Program for Artists, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2020
- Artist Talk, Art Taaalkssss, Institut Kunst, Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2020
- Workshop, Fold, Texture, Pattern: Textile in Painting, Institut Kunst, Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2020
- Lecture, A Penchant for Purple, Institut Kunst, Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2020
- Lecture Performance, Artists as Independent Publishers, with Burkhard Beschow, University of Bremen, 2016
- Workshop, While We Work, AFFECT Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices, Agora, Berlin, 2016
Related activities
- Kaotic with a K – T-shirt launch, with Tina Braegger, Stefan Tanase, Basel Social Club, 2025
- Lurker Moxie Heart, reading, Tanznacht, Berlin, 2021
- Stipendien der Stadt Zürich, exhibition catalog, Ed. Helmhaus, Zürich, 2025
- Wine or Candy, artist book, Ed. Anne Fellner, Berlin, 2023
- Swiss Art Awards, exhibition catalog, Ed. Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern, 2023
- Stipendien der Stadt Zürich, exhibition catalog, Ed. Helmhaus, Zürich, 2021
- Stay with Me, publication, Ed. Kunsthaus Zofingen, Zofingen, 2021
- The Present in Drag: 9. Berlin Biennale, exhibition catalog, Ed. Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2016
- Studienpreis 2014, exhibition catalog, Ed. Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, 2015
- We Outsourced Everything and Now We Are Bored, publication, Ed. l’Atelier kSR, Berlin, 2013
- Copy & Repeat, exhibition catalog, Ed. Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, 2013
- Inbox Allstars, publication, Ed. Inbox93, Leipzig, 2013
- Birds & Flowers, artist book, with Burkhard Beschow, Ed. Anne Fellner & Burkhard Beschow, Leipzig, 2012
- Natur 3D, exhibition catalog, Ed. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 2012
- Texts, editions, other print contributions
- Autumn, collaboration with Studio Pandan, Edition for Frieze Focus, London, UK, 2023
- “The Grid is the Backdrop”, text for The End Surprised Me exhibition by Cosima zu Knyphausen, Weiss Falk, Basel, 2023
- “Curtains & Hot Ice”, text for Curtains exhibition by Lewis Miller, Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2022
- Poster for Poster Issue, Provence Magazine, Zurich, 2021
- The Bellermann Hypnotist, radio play for Montez Press Radio, 2020
- Signs & Portents, collaboration with Studio Pandan, edition for Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
- Complex Taste, with Burkhard Beschow, texted-archive, online, 2020
- Illustrations for Schlüssel is Key, Benedikt Bock, Zurich, 2019
- FOPU @fookbair, Info-Punkt, artistic intervention, Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2015
- Growing Up is Changing, with Burkhard Beschow, Gauss PDF, online, 2013
- Aargauer Zeitung, “Neue Bilder auf alten Leinwänden”, Anna Raymann, June 28, 2023, p. 14
- “Anne Fellner’s Paintings Flirt with Ugliness”, Mitchell Anderson, Frieze, 2022
- ‘Invocations And Impressions Of A Place That Is Not A Place’, Spike’s Monthly Picks For Liste Expedition, Leila Peacock, Spike Magazine, 2021
- ‘Okka-Esther und Anne und Lotti und Ilse’, Laura Helena Wurth, Monopol, 2021
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, “Nachbarinnen,” May 16, 2021, No. 19, p.46
- ‘What Five Years of the Berlin Program for Artists Taught Us’, interview with Carina Bukuts, Willem De Rooij, Simon Denny and Sofia Duchovny, Frieze, 2020
- ‘Anne Fellner “Signs and Portents” at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels’, Mousse Magazine, 2020
- Take My Face, Critic’s Picks, Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, ArtForum, 2019
- ‘Looking back at Comedy Club’, AQNB, 2017
- Crash, Dis Magazine, 2015
- Spiegel Kultur, “Hier spricht der Lippenbär”, 2012
