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
• 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

• 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