Damien & The Love Guru

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), 2020, Berlin, DE
• Diploma in Painting, class of Astrid Klein, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, 2015, Leipzig, DE
• Study of Painting, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, 2015, Leipzig, DE
• Pröpädeutikum/Vorkurs, ZHDK, 2008, Zurich, CH

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

• Forever Home, Damien & The Love Guru, 2022, Zurich, CH
• Primordial Dime, Zyrland Zoiropa, 2022, Berlin, DE
• Depth Of Field, with Alessandro Carano, Castiglioni, 2022, Milan, IT
• Wine or Candy, Haus der Kunst, 2022, Oslo, NO
• Onion Chamber, with Carla Milentis, Holden Garage, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Liste Showtime, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, 2021, Basel, CH
• Für Ilse, with Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, New Home 2021, Berlin, DE
• Signs and Portents, Damien & The Love Guru, 2020, Brussels, BE
• Take My Face, Liszt, 2019, Berlin, DE
• Artissima, with Mickael Marman, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, 2019, Torino, IT
• Castle of Insolence, with Burkhard Beschow, TONUS, 2017, Paris, FR
• Filterest, with Burkhard Beschow, Real Positive, 2016, Cologne, DE
• Wind in the Willows, Galerie Tobias Naehring, 2015, Leipzig, DE
• Drywine, with Burkhard Beschow, Info-Punkt, 2012, Leipzig, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Doors, Provence, 2022, Zurich, CH
• Energy Patterns, Galerie Tobias Naehring, 2022, Berlin, DE
• 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, 2021, Brussels, BE
• Laube zur Schiefen Lage, Cabaret Voltaire, 2021, Zurich, CH
• Werkstipendien der Stadt Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich, 2021, Zurich, CH
• Sommervögel, Galerie Mark Müller, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Stay With Me - 4 Generations of Painters, Kunsthaus Zofingen, 2021, Zofingen, CH
• Nominee Exhibition for Zurich Art Prize, Helmhaus Zurich, 2021, Zurich, CH
• Sömmervögel, Galerie Mark Müller, 2021, Zurich, CH
• Casa Uovo, Sangt Hipolyt, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Berlin Program for Artists, Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2020, Berlin, DE
• No Day But Today, Bjurhomsgatan 3C, 2020, Stockholm, SE
• Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, 2020, Munich, DE
• Art Brussels, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, 2021, Brussels, BE
• True Grid, Unanimous Consent, 2020, Zurich, CH
• A Quest For Lasting Values, Galerie Tobias Naehring, 2020, Leipzig, DE
• The Late Show, Main Street Gallery, 2019, Toronto, CA
• August, Haverkampf Gallery, 2019, Berlin, DE
• Die Walz Roadshow UK, Hackney City Farm, 2019, London, UK
• Bandwagon, Pogo Bar at KW Institute, 2019, Berlin, DE
• I ain’t though, Ortloff, 2019, Leipzig, DE
• Rock The City, Root Canal, 2018, Amsterdam, NL
• Keeper Of A Fever, No Place Gallery, 2018, Ohio, US
• Featherstrokes Of A Damozel, Stadium, 2018, Berlin, DE
• Paris Internationale, invited by Tonus, 2017, Paris, FR
• Art Cologne, invited by Real Positive and Galerie Fiebach, 2017, Cologne, DE
• Der Schneckentraum, Suicidal Oil Piglet, 2017, Melbourne, AU
• Nesoddparken, 2017, Oslo, NO
• My Heliotropic Eyes, M.I/mi1glissé, 2017, Berlin, 2017
• Yey an unusual way of spelling yay, Jir Sandel, 2017, Los Angeles, US
• I Live Vicariously Through You, Low fence, 2017, San Francisco, US
• Shaving Into Hairy Dach-Pippau, Peristeri, 2017, Athens, GR
• Real Positive, Die Walz, 2017, Frankfurt, DE
• Land and Environmental Art, Art Safiental Biennale, 2016, Graubünden, CH
• Works From The Collection, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, 2016, Berlin, DE
• Gone Wrong, Kunstverein Jahnstrasse, 2016, Braunschweig, DE
• Switchers, Galerie Fiebach, 2016, Cologne, DE
• The 7th Guest, Galerie Tobias Naehring, 2016, Leipzig, DE
• Dress Rehearsal, Berlin Biennale, 2016, Berlin, DE
• HAVENSTRASSE, Info-Punkt, 2016, Berlin, DE
• The Bathhouse Show, Space Space Gallery, 2016, Tokyo, JP
• SAUERSAZOBOMB, Info-Punkt, 2016, Berlin, DE
• CRASH, New Scenario, 2015, online
• Nominee Exhibition for Student Prize of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, HGB Galerie, 2014, Leipzig, DE
• Copy & Repeat, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, 2013, Leipzig, DE
• My Sky Is The Limit, New Bretagne, 2013, Essen, DE
• Hotel Moscow, Artplay, 2013, Moscow, RU
• Festival, Leipzig & Artima Gallery, 2013, Reykjavik, ISL
• Landscapes In Transformation, Centre d’Art Passarelle, 2012, Brest, FR
• Natur 3d, Museum der Bildenden Künste, 2012, Leipzig, DE

Grants and Awards

• Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Student Prize, 2014, Leipzig, DE

Residencies

• Berlin Program for Artist (BPA), 2020, Berlin, DE

Related Activities

• Ahnung, artist talk with Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Slowrise Radio, 2022, Online
• Projection Systems, artist talk, Hochschule der Künste Bremen, 2022, Bremen, DE
• Lurker Moxie Heart, reading, Tanznacht, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Jumps & Cuts, artist talk with BPA mentors Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, KW Institute, 2020, Berlin, DE
• Art Taaalkssss, artist talk, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, 2020, Basel, CH
• Artists as Independent Publishers, artist talk, Hochschule der Künste Bremen, 2016, Bremen, DE

• Forever Home review, Frieze, 2022
• Depth of Field, GalleriesNow, 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
• ‘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
• Signs and Portents, Art Land, 2020
• Sign and Portents, Daily Lazy, 2020
• Living As, Art Viewer, 2020
• Take My Face, Critic’s Picks, Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, ArtForum, 2019
• ‘Looking back at Comedy Club’, AQNB, 2016
• ‘Crash’, AQNB, 2015
• Crash, Dis Magazine, 2015
• Crash, Art Viewer, 2015
• Crash, KubaParis, 2015
• Crash, Ofluxo, 2015