Anne de Vries
*1977, lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam

Anne de Vries is an artist whose work ranges from video installations, dioramas, sculptures and mixed media collages, publications, inventions and interventions. His body of work forms a labyrinth of interrelated narratives often based on popular culture, subcultures and self-invented characters and themes. Interconnectivity between differently perceived realities play a central role in Anne’s artworks, and lends the works a hybrid appearance. It invites the viewer to re-establish a story's hidden character or object's possible function and by that illuminates the process of making meaning of a work of art.

His works have been shown at several institutions, biennials and galleries worldwide, such as KUMU Art Museum (Tallinn), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Cell Projects (London), The 9th Berlin Biennale, MOMENTUM Nordic Biennale (Moss, NO), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MAMbo, (Bologna), Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), NEST (Hague), Foam Museum (Amsterdam), Manifesta Foundation (NLD), PS1 MoMa (New York), Centre Culturel Suisse (FR), New Wight Biennial (Los Angeles), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main), The Moving Museum (Istanbul), and FRAGILE (Berlin).

Education
2017-2018 International Studio & Curatorial Program, Broolyn, New York, USA
2011-2012 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000-2002 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999-2000 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, USA
1997-1999 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected solo exhibitions
2023 Duo booth, Blue Velvet, NADA New York, US
Trauma Unclogged, TRAUMABARUNDKINO, Berlin, Germany
2022 Day Care Drill, Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich, Switzerland
Oblivion, Colli-Independent, Rome, Italy
STOMPING GROUNDS XXL installation, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
De Wachter, Secret Service, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2021 OBLIVION 22, Colli-Independent, Rome, Italy
HEAVY LOAD, FRAGILE, Berlin, Germany
2020 TRANCE IN AMSTERDAM, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Safe the World (outdoor sculpture), Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2018 Qrowd Qontrol, Friesmuseum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2017 Work on Paper, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 PUBLIC CORTEX, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands
OBLIVION, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
2015 SUBMISSION, Cell Projects, London, UK
E_MERGE, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
LISTENING' Anne de Vries & Olga Balema, Thibault, Los Angeles, USA
2014 The (s)Oil we Eat, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands
BRANDS – CONCEPT/AFFECT/MODULARITY, Salts Basel, Switzerland
2013 On Board, Grand Palais, Fiac, Paris, France
2012 Trails of the Hive Mind, Sandy Brown Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Trails Rising, The Green Room in the Composing rooms, London, UK
2011 TruEYE SurView, Anne de Vries & Yngve Holen, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rijks OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anne de Vries v.s. Billy Rennekamp, Future Gallery Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2023 On Marvelous Things, Kunsthal KAdE
2022 The rhythm of the night, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
The Fairest group exhibition ‘Open Your Eyes’, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
Installation public sculpture ‘De Wachter’, Secret Service , Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2021 Salon Hang 24/7, KUNSTVEREIN Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Cologne Online, Cologne, Germany
Up All Night, Kumu Art Museum Talin, Estonia
2020 Trance in Amsterdam, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
MOMENTUM10 Nordic Biennale 2019 The Emotional Exhibition, curated by Marti Manen, Moss, Norway
Dance of Urgency, Q21 Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria
2018 Leaps and Bounds, ISCP, New York, USA
2017 Wonderlijk Weefsel, Stedelijk Museum, Breda, Netherlands
Welcome Too Late, Museum Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 9th Berlin Biennale Curated by DIS, Berlin, Germany
2015 Asdzáá nádleehé, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Hamster Handy’ Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 Still/Life Photography, Three Shadows Museum, Beijing, China
LISTE Basel 19 DUO: Anne de Vries and Navid Nuur, Martin van Zomeren, Basel, Switzerland
2012 The Dark Cube, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
New Wight Biennale ‚Superpositions‘, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Forecast The Days Of Aquarius, Lake Placid Blue, Like Ocean bursts Stage, Max Mayer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 Lucky PDF, Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
TruEYE SurView curated by Katja Novitskova, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 Sister Sister City, Video art from Berlin, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Spring Rape, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 At least begin to make an end curated by Ann Demeester, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
NADA New York Anne de Vries & Julian Jakob Kneer 18 – 21 May 2023
Day Care Drill
24 September — 29 October 2022
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