Irene Anton

I'm Irene Anton from Berlin. Well, I was born in the south of Germany in 1966, grew up in the west of Germany, went to the netherlands for two years and finally moved to the east of Germany - Berlin - in 1989, just before the wall was coming down. In between of my lifetime in Berlin, I had an intermezzo of two years, living in Barcelona-Spain. Berlin always used to give me a lot of inspiration, because it's an eternally changing and moving city, where you need to look for and discover it's very special and partly pretty rough beauty. In Berlin, you are not living in a nice "postcard"-city and are confronted with a lot of daily realities. This keeps me awake.

I consider myself as a multifaceted artist. The variety of my work consists in design, painting, stained glass, object, installation and landart.In my recent work I use to create in- and outdoor installations and objects for fields, forests and lakes, mostly playing with the power of the elements by mainly using textile materials. After having worked with glass and metal trash materials, another recent development in my work is the creation of small textile objects or those that are in context with textile materials and technics. Im working with various textile technics like...

Irene Anton, * 27.04.1966 in Darmstadt - Germany
Member of BBK Berlin, BVBK Brandenburg, AININ and sculpture network

University education:

2002 - 2005 University of fine arts Berlin-Germany (UdK), master-degree of art in context, specialisation in
exhibition organisation and community arts - art in public spaces
1989-1994 University of the arts Berlin(UdK), degree in fashion and textile design
1988 -1989 University of Wuppertal (U-GH) - Germany, basic year of industrial design
1986 - 1988 Academy of the arts (AKI) Enschede - Netherlands
2008 - 2011 3 years of teaching at Kurt-Schwitters-Highschool in Berlin - Germany
Since 2005 workshops of land art and textile art for adults and children at schools
Since 1994 working as a designer and artist

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2017 "al I sobre I todo", Sala de Arte Agüimes, Gran Canaria - Spain
2016 "intervention invading network", Kunsthal vARTe, Varde - Dinamarca
2014 "textile topographics", Abu Dhabi ARTHUB - United Arab Emirates
2013 „Rauminszenierungen“, Kunstverein Bobingen - Germany
2012 Galerie „Konvex 99“ in der Kauffahrtei Chemnitz - Germany
2011 “...denn nichts ist wie es scheint!“, Niederlausitzmuseum “ Luckau - Germany
2010 “intervención”, Museo Islita Guanacaste - Costa Rica
“new textile connections”, Bildungszentrum Raiffeisenhof Graz - Austria
“Topographiques Textiles”, Galerie La Girafe in Brussels - Belgium
“Benetzungen”, Miope Galerie Berlin - Germany
2009 “Conectate”, Museum of contemporary art(MACUF), La Coruña - Spain
2008 „TextileTopoGraphics“, Miope Galerie Berlin - Germany
2007 “conTextil 2”, Galerie La Girafe in Brussels - Belgium
2006 “Zweifelhafte Objekte”,Galerie K Berlin - Germany
2005 “conTextil” 1, Galerie “La Girafe” Berlin - Germany
“errare humanum est”, Galerie Zeitzone Berlin - Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

2017 "ALA", Landart Andorra
2016 "Miniartextil - tessere sogni", Chiesa S. Francesco, Como - Italy
"Sehnsuchtsort", Botanical Garden Erlangen -...