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

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

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.

Hold on, Auto Future

Title: Hold On, Auto Future
Artist: Anne de Vries

Year: 2013
Size: 250cm x 450cm x 300cm
Material: stainless steel, solvent-printed bath towels with data.
About:
In and around the handrail we find towels hanging, like leftovers from physical activity. On these towels, computer-generated data is printed, describing events scheduled 100 to several 1000 years from today. The texts are results of random web-based searches unveiling an existing auto-generated future.

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.

The Opening

'The Opening' an event, performance and installation by artist Anne de Vries and Alberto de Michele, 2003

Title: The Opening
Artists: Anne de Vries, Alberto De Michele
When: May 22-27th, 2000
About: An art performance, installation, and event occurred over the course of one ‘work-week’ at the Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion in Amsterdam. During this event, two artists confined themselves within a black cube, equipped with only essential amenities: a bed, food, a toilet, and a single small pocket camera whose flash served as their sole source of light.