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)
Playtime Is Over
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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.
- Dimensions: 89 cm × 55 cm
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 vinyl
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
Video: Full HD
Screen 300cm x 135cm
Duration: 11 min loop
Camera, Video edit, Lyrics and Music arrangement by:
Anne de Vries and Q-dance including AquaDome, LPIN-AX, Phill Niblock, Thomas Ankersmit, a.o.
Video stills and Documentation from the 9th Berlin Biennale at KW, Nuit Blanche Paris, Cell Projects London, Fries Museum and Foam Museum
OBLIVION
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: Hardstyle event diorama in a scale of 1:87, presenting several texts produced for this installation.
Exhibition view from the 9th Berlin Biennale at the KW in Berlin, Fries Museum in Groningen, KUMU Museum Tallinn.
Read more about this project HERE in Flash Art Magazine
SUBMISSION
Title: Submission
Artist: Anne de VriesYear: 2015
Material: 4-track audio, video live streams, fiberglass, wood.
Dimensions: Variable
“Inside the first gallery, De Vries pulls together the human psyche by exploding a head into a variety of architectural structures and representations alongside the technology we use to feed thought and communication. Live-streamed screens of global locations take us to faraway places, from the congested streets of Times Square, New York City, to a tranquil bird watch in the South American jungle. Time zones are switched to accommodate the viewer’s desire. Each architectural make-shift shelter harbors conversations between a mediator, commissioned by Vries, to investigate and interview various representatives from special unrelated global institutions ranging from monasteries, shelters, detention centers, swingers clubs, and meditation centers. Via a series of discussions and questioning, focusing on the philosophy and mission of each institution, the audio reveals a simulation of codes and rules, which seem to merge into one. Technology takes an anthropomorphic form and the audio gives shape to distinct places and states of mind that can potentially be entered and fade into each other. The caller’s phrases and vocabulary simulate fragmented codes of artificial intelligence where humans become part of the automated tools they use.”
Documentation from the solo exhibition:Submission at Cell Projects in London, and solo exhibition Public Cortex at Onomatopee in Eindhoven and at Hybrid Layers at ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe
Nightwatch at the parking lot
Nightwatch at the parking lot
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Size: Large Scale Installation
Material: Eye Glasses made out of metal, walls, furniture, surveillance camera systems,
LCD screens, fabrics and other props.
Documentation from The Moving Museum at Shishane Autopark in Istanbul
FORECAST
Title: FORECAST
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011
Material: HD video projection
Size: 3 meter x 135 cm projection screen
Length: 5 minute Loop
Sound: James Whipple (aka M.E.S.H.)
Text: Parts from Bertrand Russell’s ‘A.B.C. of Relativity’ Philosophical consequences.
About: ‘Forecast’ is a computer-generated video in which the camera is panning through photographs of a blue sky with clouds photographed over Amsterdam. There is a slow voice that takes us through specific segments of Bertrand Russell’s book “ABC of Relativity” in which Russell explicates the differences between actuality and perception. Addressing relativity theory and concepts of space-time. Halfway through the video, the reading of Bertrand Russell’s text turns into music, leading the viewer into a more associative experience.
Documentation views from: Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Denmark, Max Mayer Gallery in Dusseldorf, and E_MERGE at Foam Museum.
The Chosen Few
Title: The Chosen Few
Artist: Anne de Vries & Harm van der Dorpel
Year: 2009
Material: HD video
Length: 4:26 minute Loop
Sound: Stereo
About: ‘The Chosen Few’ is a computer-generated video, in which the camera is panning through a
large batch of photographs taken of the shape shifting crowds at Hardcore parties by ID&T in The Netherlands.
The Dike Story
Title: The Dike Story
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Materials: video projection on a laminated wooden sculpture
Size: 117 x 70 x 85 cm
Stick and Plant
Title: Stick and Plant
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Materials: 2-channel video installation, wood, kentia plants, roofing, clothing hangers, clothing, bench, etc.
Dimensions: 2,5 x 3 x 14 meter
About: ‘Stick and Plant’ is a 2-channel video installation that reassembles a rehabilitation center. Different treatments take place inside and outside the video projections integrated into the installation.
We witness participants changing in and out of camouflage suits and hiding in the kentia plant jungle behind the wooden installation wall.
Welcome Home
Welcome Home
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Material: PAL Video with audio
Duration: 5 minutes loop
Undercover Material
Title: Undercover Material
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2002
Material: PAL Video with audio
Duration: 5 minutes loop