Anne Wenzel
Born in 1972 in Germany. Lives and works in Rotterdam.
Anne Wenzel's work is thus part of a classical tradition of art history but diverts its codes. She deliberately chooses a material that is more commonly used in the arts and crafts, earth, and explores the lowest hierarchical genres in art history: portraiture, still life, ornament. Her way of dealing with these subjects pushes us to question and put into perspective all the dualities and tensions of our world: collective and individual history, figuration and abstraction, violence and beauty, construction and destruction, minor and major art.