Anna Beller

MATERIAL AGENCY

In her 'Lacquer Works' Anna Beller develops a form of painting in which color simultaneously becomes image carrier, material event, and atmospheric space.

Her color paintings enter into a contemporary dialogue with positions of Abstract Expressionism, in particular with the pouring and staining techniques of Morris Louis (1912–1962) and Paul Jenkins (1923–2012), in whose work the physical autonomy of color is programmatically rendered visible.

Beller’s practice is radically reduced: she dispenses with traditional tools and allows the paintings to emerge from a repeated ritual of pouring and directing viscous lacquer. Gravity, flow dynamics, and the viscosity of the paint become active co‑agents in the process of creation.

The untouched white ground functions as a resonant space for these chromatic interventions. It maintains distance and creates an optical suspension in which emptiness and mass, surface and space, stillness and movement overlap.

Since 2023 'Lacquer Works' have found their way into both local and international private and institutional collections.

• 2008 B.Sc.Arch. TU Berlin
• 2011 M.Sc.Arch. TU Berlin
• 2011-2019 Employed Architect in CH / UK / GER
• 2019-2022 Student at the 'Academy of Painting Berlin'
• Since 2022 Experimental Painting, Digital Art, Creative Coding
• Since 2024 member of the association of visual artists Hannover (BBK)

// 'Generative Abstraction and Beyond' - Expanded Art + Verse,Berlin, 01/2023
// 'Generative Architecture. The Making of a Room.' ​Collaboration with Alejandro Campos - Verse, London, 06/2023

// 'Analog goes Digital' / 26. Zinnober - Trafolab / Franz Betz, Hannover, 09/2023
// 'FEMGEN' Generative systems - Glitch Gallery, Texas / Marfa, 09/2023
// Art Salon Paris ‘Node to Node’ - 10/2023 Kate Vass Gallery, Paris
// 'ON/ OFF SCREEN' - VERTICAL Gallery Show, London, 11/2023
// 'Honigschleuder' - Lichtschutzbunker Weidendamm, Hanover, 05/2024
// 'Neues aus Hannoverschen Ateliers - Spiegelung' - Kubus Gallery, Hanover, 06/2024
// Digital artist resident at Gazelli.io London, 06/2024
// 'VERTIKAL' Solo at Buge Schäfer Galerie, Hanover, 07/2024
// BBK 'Die Neuen', Hanover, 08/2024
// Public Parts II (Installation of 'Shades 01') - Kubus Gallery, Hanover, 10-12/2024
// Alle Gegen Alle Group Exhibition Kong Hanover - 12 /2024
// Group Exhibition Artothek Hanover - 12 / 2025
// 'Zufall und Maschine' - Solo Exhibition at Haus der Region, Hanover, 02-05/2025
// Group Show #12 in Berlin via New&Abstract, Berlin - 08/2025
// BBK.KUNST.JETZT - Garage Nord 08/2025
// Group Show #14 in Berlin via New&Abstract, Berlin - 12/2025
// Al...