Title:Today’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Haunt Artist: Anne de Vries Year: 2025
Dimensions: Variable, immersive Materials: CGI renders, UV prints on PVC
Description: By repurposing banners typically used as visualisations, around construction sites, the work builds on the illusions embedded in development imagery—visualizing projected architecture and lifestyles for a near future.
Credits: CGI renders produced in collaboration with Leonardo Reuvenkamp. Exhibition views from: Meet Factory Prague, and Blue Velvet Projects Zürich.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Title:The Chosen Few Artist:Anne de Vries & Harm van der Dorpel Year: 2009 Materials: HD video Length: 4-minute 26-second loop Sound: Stereo About: 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.
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.
