“When I was 13 years old, my family visited the summer exhibition at the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle. I found the old castle ruins with their rose garden and the sculptures in them so romantic and beautiful that I didn’t want to think of anything else than learning and studying in this place. Like every teenager, I wanted to be part of something that transcended the boundaries of everyday life and offered great freedom of personal expression”
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Gentleman’s Hat, H20 x W45 X D50 cm, Collection of the Zepter Museum, Belgrade (the author is not allowed to reveal the price).
About Anna's Work
Enveloped in the rich blues of the vast universe and the outstretched arms of the galaxies, Berlin-based artist Anne Wölk transports us through the nebulae to introduce us to an extraordinary foreign world that is eerily similar to our own.
As we stare out into the darkness, Earth itself has become a microscopic element lost in the cosmic void.
Wölk brings these intergalactic scenes to life in an interdisciplinary manner that provides familiarity to the viewer. While an inherent painterly romanticism looms over each work it becomes clear that Wölk draws from astronomical
photography, such as from the Hubble telescope, and imagery from science fiction that are prevalent throughout modern culture. She builds upon these elements by creating scenes that blur the line between fiction and reality to question the relationship between man and nature.
The fictional settings she presents depict neon and LED lights that seem to illuminate the planet’s surface, as a community of space travelers colonizes the land. While immersed in the distant worlds of outer space a digital glow still hovers over the planet’s landscape confronting the viewer with the human need to conquer, develop, and brutalize new environments for their own pursuits highlighting the vulnerability of our home planet. While the viewer of Anne Wölk´s paintings has seemingly traveled from the universe’s furthest limits, they are forced to question the interactions held here on Earth. Wölk’s ability to provide intricate detail in tandem with seemingly immersive fields of color consumes the viewer generating a revelatory experience about the way humans inhabit our world.
Her works transport us from the comfort of our home on Earth, through the cosmos, and touch down on planets unknown.
Anne Wölk Live
“I love the cultures of Mesopotamia. I am thinking of the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians with their legacies in cuneiform. My favorite subject is the hanging gardens of Babylon.”
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Deep Space Exploration
Artwalk Artspring Festival
Berlin, Germany
Astral
Tête Gallery Space
Berlin, Germany
Tripple Nebula
Galerie Asterisk
Berlin, Germany
Group Shows & Fairs
Signale
Museum im Verwalterhaus
Berlin, Germany
The Future we want
D10 Art Space
Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Landscape
CICA Art Museum
Gimpo, South Korea
Studio Visit
ABOUT ANNE WÖLK
Anne Wölk was born and raised in former East Germany. She is a figurative painter whose artistic work stands in the tradition of realistic contemporary artists Vija Celmins and Russel Crotty. Committed to an attitude of reskilling, Wölk uses traditional methods and materials. Her paintings predominantly show us night sky scenes with deep and open galaxies.
During her childhood, Wölk saw an infinite number of simulations of stellar skies and demonstrations of planetary runs at 360-degree shows at the planetarium in her hometown Jena. Jena was the center for laser and optics technology in the former GDR. This formative experience continually influenced her interest in science fiction and space travel.
In 2006, the young artist entered the international art world at the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, when the collector Can Elgiz bought one of her large-scale paintings for the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul. Her painting Doggirl was shown in several thematic group exhibitions next to famous artists Cindy Sherman, Tracy Emin, and Sarah Morris. Later on, Anne Wölk received an MFA from the School of Art and Design Berlin and was a BFA student at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. After graduating from art school in 2009, the painter became known for beautiful large-scale landscape paintings and was selected and shortlisted for several international competitions and scholarships.
Her awards include the national Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes scholarship; the Alpine Fellowship grant at Aldourie Castle, Scotland, UK; a residency at Bodensee Art Fund; and an artist-in-residence grant in Goriska Brda, Slovenia, awarded by the German Embassy, Ljubljana. She has exhibited at international institutions, including the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey; the CICA Art Museum South Korea; the Zeiss-Planetarium Berlin, Germany; the Accra Goethe-Institut Ghana; and the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik.
Wölk has exhibited her work alongside artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Johannes Wohnseifer, Azade Köker, and Stephan Balkenhol.
She has exhibited and sold on the international art market, including the Swab Art Fair Barcelona in Spain; Viennafair in Vienna, Austria; KIAF Seoul in South Korea; and Contemporary Istanbul in Turkey. In October 2021, Wölk will show her paintings at Art Fair Art Innsbruck.
Wölk has since shown her work in private gallery shows, including Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain; Arebyte Gallery, London, UK; Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark; Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China; Alfa Gallery Miami, USA; and The Residence Gallery, London, UK.
In October 2013, Anne Wölk won the Category Award for the ArtPrize competition ‘Art Takes Paris’, judged by directors from The Andy Warhol Museum in New York, Lisson Gallery, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery. In 2017, Wölk was announced as the Showcase Juried Winner in the painting category of the 9th Artslant Prize. Her painting ‘Virtual light’ was selected by a jury consisting of Natalia Zuluaga (Artistic Director of ArtCenter/ South Florida), Nathaniel Hitchcock (co-organizer of the Bass Museum of Art) and Malose Malahela (co-founder of Keleketa! Library).
from an interview WITH anne
Q: How did you develop your paintings in capturing the human form?
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