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)
Material: 7680 x 4320 pixels with stereo sound.
Description: A life-sized video projection of a virtual apartment from the character ‘De Wachter’ brought to life.
The apartment also features the video ‘STAMP ALERT’ a fictional news program presented by Anya Demure.
Produced in collaboration with ODYSSEY, Cologne
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 Kulbokaite,̇ Bradford Kessler.
At Cassina Projects, Milan, 2024
Title: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED
Year: 2023
Artist: Anne de Vries
Dimensions: Variable
Material: 14 fully functioning toilets on a dance floor with a light and soundsystem.
Description: This “immersive” installation consists of 14 fully functioning toilets on a dancefloor, with lights and a soundsystem.
The installation serves as a stage, hosting several performers, musicians, and the club night, ‘CLUB UNCLOG’. All took place over the course of the one-month exhibition period.
This first incarnation has been hosted and produced by Trauma in Berlin.
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.
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.
Title: SAFE SPACE – Choco Relief
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Materials: Messing coating, patina, resin core, and semi-customized 1/6 action figures.
About: This art installation consists of a unique set of components to collect, install, and to be played with.
Dimensions: Variable
Where: Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
Title: Day Care Drill
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Material: Archive for ‘Special Weapons and Tactic tools’ in the bathroom cabinet, 150 rolls of toilet paper
About: This art installation consists of a unique set of components to collect, install, and to be played with.
Dimensions: Variable
Where: Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
Group exhibition curated by: Adriano Rosselli, Sven von Thülen, Edessa Evelyn Malke.
With artists: Anne de Vries, Arthur Jafa, Andreas Gursky, Bahar Noorizadeh,
DeForrest Brown, Jr. + Abdul Qadim Haqq, Hito Steyerl, Jenn Nkiru,
Joe Namy, John Akomfrah, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Otolith Group, and others..
Kraftwerk Berlin
Title: Salsa
Artists: Anne de Vries and Alberto De Michele
Year: 1999
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Dancefloor with a sound sequence you can dance to, and 5000 packages of Mustard, Duck, and Soy Sauce on the floor to walk and dance on.
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
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
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.
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.
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.