Playtime Is Over

Title: Playtime Is Over
Year: 2025
Artist: Anne de Vries
Actors: Timon Grau, Julien-Jakob Kneer, Anna Uddenberg, Otto Uddenberg de Vries,
Description: 22-minute video installation with sound
Resolution: 3840 × 2160 pixels (4K)

STAMP ALERT – Connecting The Dots

Title: STAMP ALERT – Connecting The Dots
Year: 2025
Artist: Anne de Vries

Description:
An immersive installation exploring themes of media and constructed realities through a combination of animatronics, video, and large-scale printed visuals.

Installation Components:

Video:
- Duration: 22 minutes
- Format: 4K with sound
- Description: A fictional news channel titled STAMP ALERT, streamed on an LCD screen and presented by Anya Demure.
  The video blends fact and fiction, creating a commentary on media narratives.
- Contributors: Mansur Suri (main actor), Leonardo Reuvenkamp (3D animator)
Banner PVC & Stretched Canvas:
- Dimensions PVC: 580 cm x 200 cm
- Dimensions Canvas: 150 cm x 100 cm
- Material: UV print on PVC and UV print, and stretched Canvas, Gesso prime, 460gram, UV protection.
- Description: A life-sized CGI-rendered virtual apartment, printed on PVC and reminiscent of architectural renders commonly seen on construction sites in urban environments.
- Contributor: Leonardo Reuvenkamp
Animatronics:
- Dimensions: 89 cm × 55 cm
  Materials: Resin, airbrush acrylic paint, lacquer, Raspberry Pi, Python, Sound (22 minutes).
- Description: An animatronic robot named Vapula watches the STAMP ALERT news channel and provides commentary, adding an additional layer of context and narrative to the installation.

Produced in collaboration with: ODYSSEY, Köln, and Blue Velvet, Zürich

STAMP ALERT – Cosmic Horde Report

Title: STAMP ALERT – Cosmic Horde Report
Year: 2024
Artist: Anne de Vries

In Collaboration With: Mansur Suri (main actor and narrator)

Medium: Video installation, 4K resolution, with audio
Duration: 22-minute loop

Description: A fictional news channel hosted by Anya Demure, covering diverse global news stories that interweave the lives of the two central characters, Mansur and De Wachter, blending their individual journeys into a shared narrative.

STAMP ALERT – Home Dweller’s Journey

Title: STAMP ALERT – Home Dweller’s Journey
Year: 2024
Artist: Anne de Vries

In Collaboration With:
Contributors: Mansur Suri (main actor), Leonardo Reuvenkamp (3D animator)
Produced in Collaboration With: ODYSSEY, Cologne

Description: Life-sized video projection of a virtual apartment inhabited by the character De Wachter. The apartment also features the video STAMP ALERT, a fictional news program presented by Anya Demure.

Resolution: 7680 × 4320 pixels, stereo sound

In Control

Title: In Control
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Fencing, prints on PVC
Description: Banners on the fencing advertise fictitious future events, featuring real locations and dates. It remains unclear whether these events signal a revolution or a party. The visuals, inspired by flyers for Tekno, Hardcore, and Bondage events, form a layered collage. Upon closer inspection, the locations reveal themselves as the headquarters of some of the world’s most environmentally destructive corporations.

Exhibited at: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Critical Mass : Pure Immanence

Title: Critical Mass: Pure Immanence
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2015
Materials: Full HD video with stereo sound
Dimensions: 300 × 135 cm (screen)
Length: 11-minute loop

Credits:
Camera, video editing, lyrics, and music arrangement by Anne de Vries and Q-dance, including AquaDome, LPIN-AX, Phill Niblock, Thomas Ankersmit, and others.

Documentation:
The 9th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nuit Blanche Paris, Cell Projects London, Fries Museum, and Foam Museum.

OBLIVION

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Title: Oblivion
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2016 and 2018
Dimensions: 380 x 200 x 60 cm
Materials: Sand, stones, wood, plastic, aluminum, paint, PVA, styrofoam, miniature advertisement campaign, miniature graffiti, miniature truss system, miniature LED projector, miniature Hi-Fi system.

About:
Oblivion is a hardstyle event diorama at a scale of 1:87, featuring several texts produced specifically for this installation.

Exhibition views from:
The 9th Berlin Biennale at KW in Berlin; Fries Museum in Groningen; KUMU Museum in Tallinn.

Read more about this project HERE in Flash Art Magazine.
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SUBMISSION

Title: Submission
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2015
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: 4-track audio, video live streams, fiberglass, wood

About:
Inside the first gallery, Submission pulls together threads of the human psyche by exploding the concept of a head into a variety of architectural structures and symbolic representations—paired with the very technologies we use to stimulate thought and communication. Live-streamed screens of global locations transport viewers from the bustling streets of Times Square, New York City to the tranquil stillness of a South American birdwatching site. Time zones shift to accommodate the viewer’s perception of presence.

Each makeshift architectural shelter contains conversations between a mediator—commissioned by the artist—and representatives from a range of disparate global institutions: monasteries, shelters, detention centers, swingers clubs, and meditation retreats. Through interviews that explore each institution’s philosophy and mission, a layered soundscape emerges. The resulting audio simulates overlapping codes, rituals, and beliefs that begin to blend into one unified sonic texture.

Technology assumes an anthropomorphic form, and the dialogue reveals the merging of psychological, institutional, and technological environments. Language fragments into AI-like loops, suggesting the human mind as both subject and extension of the automated tools it creates.

Exhibition views from:
Solo exhibition Submission at Cell Project Space, London
Solo exhibition Public Cortex at Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Hybrid Layers at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Nightwatch at the parking lot

Title: Nightwatch at the Parking Lot
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: Variable, large-scale installation
Materials: Metal eyeglasses, walls, furniture, surveillance camera systems, LCD screens, fabrics, and other props
Documentation: The Moving Museum, Şişhane Autopark, Istanbul

FORECAST

Title: Forecast
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011
Materials: HD video projection
Dimensions: 300 × 135 cm (projection screen)
Length: 5-minute loop
Sound: James Whipple (aka M.E.S.H.)
Text: Excerpts from Bertrand Russell’s A.B.C. of Relativity: Philosophical Consequences

About:
Forecast is a computer-generated video featuring a camera panning through photographs of a blue sky with clouds over Amsterdam. A slow voice guides the viewer through selected passages from Bertrand Russell’s A.B.C. of Relativity, explaining distinctions between actuality and perception and addressing relativity theory and concepts of space-time. Midway through the work, the spoken text transitions into music, leading the viewer into a more associative and immersive experience.

Documentation: Views from Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Denmark, Max Mayer Gallery in Dusseldorf, and E_MERGE at Foam Museum

Watch the preview version of FORECAST here

The Chosen Few

May 16, 2009

This gallery contains 5 photos.

Title: The Chosen FewArtist: Anne de Vries & Harm van der DorpelYear: 2009Materials: HD videoLength: 4-minute 26-second loopSound: StereoAbout:The Chosen Few is a computer-generated video in which the camera pans through a large batch of photographs capturing the shape-shifting crowds at Hardcore parties organized by ID&T in the Netherlands.

The Dike Story

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Title: The Dike Story
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Dimensions: 117 × 70 × 85 cm
Materials: Video projection on laminated wooden sculpture

Stick and Plant

Title: Stick and Plant
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Dimensions: 2.5 × 3 × 14 m
Materials: 2-channel video installation; wood; kentia plants; roofing; clothing hangers; clothing; bench.
About:
Stick and Plant is a 2-channel video installation that reconstructs a rehabilitation center. Various treatments unfold inside and outside the video projections, which are integrated into the physical installation. Viewers witness participants changing in and out of camouflage suits and hiding within the kentia plant jungle behind the wooden wall.