Title: ‘Bottom’s just another floor – Today’s Day Care‘
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2025
Dimensions: Variable
Exhibition: ‘Bottom’s just another floor’ is curated by Noemi Purkrábková and Jiří Sirůček at Meet Factory, Prague
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
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:
Produced in collaboration with: ODYSSEY, Köln, and Blue Velvet, Zürich
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
Artworks by: Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Anne de Vries, Michele Gabriele, Dorota Gawed̨ a and Eglė Kulbokaite,̇ Bradford Kessler.
Curated by: Monia Ben Hamouda & Michele Gabriele.
Location: Cassina Projects, Milan, 2024
Documentation: from the group exhibition ‘To Romanticize with Indecision‘
Title: Manifesto XXIII – Day Care
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2023
About:
This installation features infantile—but not innocent—scenes, including toy-like sculptures that can be played with.
Location: The headquarters of the Parti Communiste Français, inside the ESPACE building designed by Oscar Niemeyer, Paris
Curated by: Kaleidoscope.
Title: Safe Space – Choco Relief
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Brass coating, patina, resin core, semi-customized 1/6 action figures
About: This art installation consists of a unique set of high-quality components to collect, install, and to be played with.
Title: Day Care Drill
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: 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.
Exhibition views from: Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
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.
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: 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.
Documentation:
The 9th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nuit Blanche Paris, Cell Projects London, Fries Museum, and Foam Museum.
Title: Salsa
Artists: Anne de Vries and Alberto De Michele
Year: 1999
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Dancefloor with a sound sequence, and 5,000 packages of Mustard, Duck, and Soy Sauce placed on the floor to walk and dance on.
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: Hold On, Auto Future
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2013
Dimensions: 250 × 450 × 300 cm
Materials: Stainless steel; solvent-printed bath towels with data
About:
Towels hang from the handrail like remnants of physical activity. Printed on these towels are computer-generated texts containing data about events scheduled from 100 to several thousand years into the future. These texts are the result of random web-based searches, revealing an auto-generated vision of the future.
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.
Title: The Opening
Artists: Anne de Vries, Alberto De Michele
Date: May 22–27, 2000
About:
The Opening was an art performance, installation, and event held over the course of one workweek at the Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion in Amsterdam. During this time, the two artists confined themselves inside a black cube furnished with only essential amenities: a bed, food, a toilet, and a single small pocket camera whose flash served as their sole source of light.