Anne Fellner

Works

Installation view
*Here On Earth*, Zurich, 2025

*Sleep Script -IV*
2024
Graphite on paper
42 × 59.4 cm
54.5 × 72 × 4.7 cm (framed)

*Violette*
2023
Oil, egg tempera, flashe, pigment on textile
80 × 120 cm

*Brook*
2023
Oil, acrylic, wood stain, spray paint, ink on textile
90 × 70 cm

*Dawn*
2022–2023
Oil, spray paint, ink on textile
125 × 80 cm

*Clay*
2023
Oil, spray paint, egg tempera on textile
135 × 80 cm

*Meadow*
2023
Oil, flashe, oil stick, egg tempera, wood stain on textile
140 × 220 cm

*Savannah*
2023
Oil, oilstick, spray paint, egg tempera, pigment, wood stain on textile
200 × 140 cm

Installation view
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023

Stadt
2023
Oil, ink, vinyl paint, pigments on textile
200 × 120 cm

Land
2023
Oil, ink, acrylic, oilstick, pigments on textile
180 × 120 cm

Fluss
2023
Oilstick, ink, pigments on textile
180 × 110 cm

Relic
2023
Oil, acrylic, spraypaint, vinyl paint on textile
120 × 90 cm

*Forever Home 1*
2022
Oil, vinyl paint, pigment, ink, spray paint on textile
180 × 135 cm

*Forever Home 2*
2022
Oil, pigments on textile
95 × 65 cm

*Forever Home 5*
2022
Oil, vinyl paint, acrylic, spray paint on textile
140 × 125 cm

*Forever Home 6*
2022
Oil, pigment on textile
130 × 120 cm

Exhibition view
*Forever Home*
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022

*CLOUD*
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
40 × 55 cm

*FLIGHT*
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
60 × 45 cm

*WEB*
2022
Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth
50 × 40 cm

Exhibition view
*Wine Or Candy*
Haus der Kunst, Oslo, 2022

*Window Studies 3*
2021
Oil and enamel on synthetic textile
63 × 112 cm

*Window Studies 5*
2021
Oil and enamel on synthetic textile
63 × 112 cm

Exhibition view
*Point No Point*
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020

*Point No Point (White)*
2020
Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric
140 × 205 cm

Exhibition view
*Signs and Portents*
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020

*Red Sign*
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
135 × 80 cm

*Yellow Sign*
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
150 × 110 cm

Blue Sign
2020
Enamel on synthetic fabric
160 × 118 cm

*Authority Figure*
2019–2020
Oil, spray paint, acrylic and enamel on synthetic fabric
135 × 110 cm

*School Building*
2019–2020
Oil, spray paint, enamel and marker on synthetic fabric
80 × 150 cm

*Self Portrait*
2019
Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric
90 × 60 cm

*Soft Cat*
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

Install view
Artissima art fair, Torino, 2019

*Crime Scene*
2018
Oil and spray paint on polyester
120 × 90 cm

*Last Night at Chateau Marmont, Paris*
2019
Oil and lacquer on polyester
90 × 50 cm

*November Return*
2025
Acrylic, graphite, charcoal on canvas
257 × 225 cm

Statement

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
Diploma in Painting, class of Astrid Klein, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2015
Study of Painting, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2015

Solo & duo exhibitions

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
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
Drywine, with Burkhard Beschow, Info-Punkt, Leipzig, 2012

Selected group exhibitions

Bbberlin, Systema, Marseille, 2023
Sapore di Mare 3, Forte di Marni, 2023
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023
Doors, Provence, Zurich, 2022
22 Women Artists, Stations, Berlin, 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
Nominee Exhibition for Zurich Art Prize, Helmhaus Zurich, 2021
Stay With Me - 4 Generations of Painters, Kunsthaus Zofingen, 2021
Sömmervögel, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, 2021
Berlin Program for Artists at Gropius Studios, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020
Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, Munich, 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
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
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
CRASH, New Scenario, online, 2015
Nominee Exhibition for Student Prize of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, 2014
Copy & Repeat, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, 2013
My Sky Is The Limit, New Bretagne, Essen, 2013
Hotel Moscow, Artplay, 2013
Festival, Leipzig & Artima Gallery, Reykjavik, 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
Frieze London, solo presentation Damien & The Love Guru, 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 and awards

Laureate Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Student Prize, Leipzig, 2014

Residencies

Berlin Program for Artists (BPA) at Gropius Studios, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2020

Related activities

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

Press

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

Installation view, Here On Earth, Zurich, 2025

Sleep Script -IV, 2024, Graphite on paper, 42 × 59.4 cm, 54.5 × 72 × 4.7 cm (framed)

Installation view, Frieze London, 2023

Violette, 2023, Oil, egg tempera, flashe, pigment on textile, 80 × 120 cm

Brook, 2023, Oil, acrylic, wood stain, spray paint, ink on textile, 90 × 70 cm

Dawn, 2022–2023, Oil, spray paint, ink on textile, 125 × 80 cm

Clay, 2023, Oil, spray paint, egg tempera on textile, 135 × 80 cm

Meadow, 2023, Oil, flashe, oil stick, egg tempera, wood stain on textile, 140 × 220 cm

Savannah, 2023, Oil, oilstick, spray paint, egg tempera, pigment, wood stain on textile, 200 × 140 cm

Installation view, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2023

Stadt, 2023, Oil, ink, vinyl paint, pigments on textile, 200 × 120 cm

Land, 2023, Oil, ink, acrylic, oilstick, pigments on textile, 180 × 120 cm

Fluss, 2023, Oilstick, ink, pigments on textile, 180 × 110 cm

Relic, 2023, Oil, acrylic, spraypaint, vinyl paint on textile, 120 × 90 cm

Forever Home 1, 2022, Oil, vinyl paint, pigment, ink, spray paint on textile, 180 × 135 cm

Forever Home 2, 2022, Oil, pigments on textile, 95 × 65 cm

Forever Home 5, 2022, Oil, vinyl paint, acrylic, spray paint on textile, 140 × 125 cm

Forever Home 6, 2022, Oil, pigment on textile, 130 × 120 cm

Exhibition view, Forever Home, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022

CLOUD, 2022, Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth, 40 × 55 cm

FLIGHT, 2022, Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth, 60 × 45 cm

WEB, 2022, Oil vinyl and pigments on oil cloth, 50 × 40 cm

Exhibition view, Wine Or Candy, Haus der Kunst, Oslo, 2022

Window Studies 3, 2021, Oil and enamel on synthetic textile, 63 × 112 cm

Window Studies 5, 2021, Oil and enamel on synthetic textile, 63 × 112 cm

Exhibition view, Point No Point, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020

Point No Point (White), 2020, Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric, 140 × 205 cm

Exhibition view, Signs and Portents, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020

Red Sign, 2020, Enamel on synthetic fabric, 135 × 80 cm

Yellow Sign, 2020, Enamel on synthetic fabric, 150 × 110 cm

Blue Sign, 2020, Enamel on synthetic fabric, 160 × 118 cm

Authority Figure, 2019–2020, Oil, spray paint, acrylic and enamel on synthetic fabric, 135 × 110 cm

School Building, 2019–2020, Oil, spray paint, enamel and marker on synthetic fabric, 80 × 150 cm

Self Portrait, 2019, Oil and enamel on synthetic fabric, 90 × 60 cm

Soft Cat, 2019, Oil, spray paint, enamel on velvet, 100 × 80 cm

Install view, Artissima art fair, Torino, 2019

Crime Scene, 2018, Oil and spray paint on polyester, 120 × 90 cm

Last Night at Chateau Marmont, Paris, 2019, Oil and lacquer on polyester, 90 × 50 cm

November Return, 2025, Acrylic, graphite, charcoal on canvas, 257 × 225 cm