Anja Priska

Anja Priska, lives and works in East-London.
She received her MA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.
Since 2009, monkeys occupy an increasingly important role in the paintings and sculptural work of the artist.
Within the latest works more and more cartoon-based imagery has been interacting with the works' main characters. Technically the sleek, flat vinyl parts stand in flashy contrast to the realistically painted parts in oil.
The comical elements resemble the infantile aspects and the desire for simplification in our culture and in a widely spread aesthetically perception.
However their superficial humour is being undercut as soon as you get a closer, more alert look at the works.

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany

Selected Exhibitions (2010 - 2014)

2014

Chinese Whispers (group), Karin Janssen Gallery, London, UK

Need you 100 % (group), Display Gallery, London

KOD – Up and Coming, art-prize shortlist (group),
Hoxton Gallery London

Welde Art Prize shortlist (group), Town Gallery, Mannheim, Germany



2013

The Future Can Wait & Saatchi New Sensations (group),
Victoria House, London, UK

Fundamental Ephemeris (group), Bronx Art Space, New York, USA

100% DOE (solo), george contemporary art & design, London

Art the Ape of Nature (group), Universitaets-Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

Viecherei (group), Galerie Grabsdorf, Munich, Germany

Saatchi-Art (group), Hyatt Regency Hotel, London



2012

PRIDE (group), Clifford Chance, London, UK

The New Happy (solo), Galerie Grabsdorf, Munich, Germany



2011

One Way or Another (group), Galerie Grabsdorf, Munich, Germany



2010

Rhizomatic (group), Departure Gallery, London, UK

Ueber-Kitsch - German contemporaries (group), Vynerstudio, London, UK

Jungles (group), Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

PRIDE (group), Clifford Chance, London, UK

Blasphemias (group), Plato Pamplona, Barcelona, Spain