Little Heralds Amendments

Title: Little Heralds Amendments
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2025
Materials: Brass pulver, Patina, Resin core, Customized 1/6 knight with aluminum armor, heart balloon.
Dimensions: 35 x 45 x 30 cm
About: This art installation consists of a unique set of components that can be collected, installed, and played with.
Where: Blue Velvet, Zürich

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:
  • 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

Fragments from: ‘To Romanticize with Indecision’

Documentation from the group exhibition ‘To Romanticize with Indecision’
Curated by Monia Ben Hamouda & Michele Gabriele.
With artworks by Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Anne de Vries, Michele Gabriele, Dorota Gawed̨ a and Eglė KulbokaiteBradford Kessler. At Cassina Projects, Milan, 2024

TRAUMA UNCLOGGED

Title: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED
Year: 2023
Artist: Anne de Vries

Dimensions: Variable
Materials: 14 fully functioning toilets on a dance floor with a light and sound system

Description: This immersive installation features 14 fully functioning toilets on a dance floor, equipped with lights and a sound system. Serving as a stage, it hosted several performers, musicians, and the club night CLUB UNCLOG throughout a one-month exhibition period.
This first incarnation has been hosted and produced by Trauma in Berlin.

Event Program:
April 29th: Opening Night: Evita Manji (live) AMNESIA SCANNER (DJset) SCHIRIN (DJset)
May 4th: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED: PRICE (live performance)
May 11th: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED: Jan Vorisek (live) SADAF (live)
May 20th: CLUB UNCLOG: 7777 の天使, Dmitra, Dasychira, Jasmine Infiniti, DJ Mantis.

Manifesto XXIII

Title: Day Care Drill – Episode 02
Artist:
Anne de Vries
Year: 2023
Description: This art installation features infantile but not innocent scenes, that include toy-like sculptures that can be played with.
Location: The headquarters of the ‘Parti Communiste Français’, inside the ESPACE building designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Paris.
Curated by: Kaleidoscope.

Stomping Grounds

Title: STOMPING GROUNDS
Artist: Anne de Vries (in collaboration)
Curators: Adriano Rosselli, Odessa Evelyn Malke
Researcher: Sven von Thülen (der Klang der Familie)
Sand Carvers: Bouke Atema, Jeroen Advocaat
Sound Designers: Rowan Ben Jackson, Odysseas Constantinous
4D Sound Programming: Usomo
Location: Kraftwerk Berlin
About: The art installation Stomping Grounds is a 1:1 replica made from sand of the giant gold vault underneath the Jewish-owned Wertheim building, which after a turbulent history and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 became the cradle of techno music from Detroit, Chicago, the UK, and Germany, known as Tresor.

Trance in Amsterdam – RETURNS

Title: Trance in Amsterdam – RETURNS
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Size: 201 x 151 x 3.5 cm
Materials: 380 g linen canvas, gesso, acrylic paint, oil paint, photography, AI-script, Epson UltraChrome K3 archival print, aluminum stretcher, aluminum artist frame with coating.

T.A.Z.

Title: T.A.Z.
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2018
Dimensions: 85 x 56 x 5.5 cm / 33.5 x 22 x 2.2 inch
Materials: Chinese ink, acrylic paint, laser print transfer, gesso, narkotek logo, and hard polystyrene (XPS).



Windy

Title: Windy
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 200 × 150 cm
Materials and Techniques: Linen canvas (380g), gesso, acrylic paint, UV print.
Includes a photograph of trees near the Chelsea Piers, visual elements from The Rat God by Richard Corben (specifically, hands), and a rendered image of a Paris apartment by Bertrand Benoit. Mounted in an oakwood artist frame.

Homo Machina

Title: Homo Machina
Artist: Anne de Vries
Material: Canvas 380g, Gesso, Paint, Photography, CGI, UV-print, aluminum artist frame.

Title: Homo Machina
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 166 x 126 x 4 cm
Materials: 380g canvas, gesso, paint, photography, CGI, UV-print, aluminum artist frame.

Anarchy in the Hive Mind

Title: Anarchy in the Hive Mind
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 191 × 141 × 4.5 cm
Materials and Techniques: Linen canvas (380g), gesso, photographic imagery of flowers, cartoon bees and hornets, CGI, UV print.
Mounted on a double wooden stretcher with an aluminum artist’s frame.

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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GILLETTE, IDEAL CITY PROPOSAL


Title: GILLETTE’S, IDEAL CITY PROPOSAL
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: Various
Materials: Double-sided UV prints on Photo Forex, PVC, mirror, coated metal hanging system, screws, Gillette razors, clothing.

Conceptual Background:
This body of work draws inspiration from The Dream of King Camp Gillette and his radical proposal for a future urban society. Before becoming known for inventing the safety razor and establishing a major industrial enterprise, King Camp Gillette (1855–1932) authored several books and pamphlets outlining his vision for a transformed economic and social system.

In his first major tract, The Human Drift, Gillette proposed the creation of a single, highly organized, technologically advanced megacity called “Metropolis.” Designed to house the entire population—excluding agricultural and rural labor—this urban complex would be constructed using cutting-edge materials and systems. Gillette envisioned this society as being administered by “The United Company,” a unified organization responsible for producing, manufacturing, and distributing all necessities of life.

Although often grouped with utopian literature such as Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, Gillette’s proposal reads not just as speculative fiction, but as a sincere (if eccentric) urban and social engineering plan. As both an inventor and idealist, Gillette’s “Metropolis” functions as a kind of verbal prototype—an industrial-era working model of a unified and optimized future city.

Artistic Approach:
Through precision photographs of Gillette’s shaving products, used as the basis for sculptural forms and visual layering, this work explores the intersections of utopian architecture and the refined industrial design of Gillette’s iconic shaving systems.



Air Gap Hold On

Title: Air Gap Hold On
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2012
Dimensions: 117 × 60 × 8 cm
Materials: Stainless steel, digital print on towel, digital print on plastic

About:
The title refers to the concept of an air gap in both plumbing and networking contexts. In plumbing, an air gap is the unobstructed vertical space between a water outlet and the flood level of a fixture, preventing contaminated water from flowing back into the potable water system. In networking, an air gap is a security measure isolating secure computer networks physically from insecure ones, such as the public internet, to prevent unauthorized data flow. This work reflects on these ideas of separation, protection, and control.

The Dike Story

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