Anna Zuber

born in Wroclaw (PL)
lives and works in Brussels (BE)


The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon



videos about my work:

(KAIR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keXZVGGvxjY&feature=youtu.be





I use various techniques such as video, installation, photography gilding and silkscreen to delay immediate perception. Placing in the observers’ vision obstacles in form of objects, places or persons I aim to evoke viewer's reflection on reality and misconceptions hidden in clichés deeply rooted in the society.

My artwork questions common perception of everyday life. Everybody keeps images of persons, feelings or situations from the past, which blur their vision. These disturbing images influence our reactions and behaviors in certain situations, they impact our perception of things happening around. We are all products of our past, our culture, the context, which condition our ability to understand. There is no one absolute truth, but as many truths as there are perceptions.

As a painter I always look for concrete pictorial aspects. My artwork is based on overlapping layers (wha...

2009-2010
Institut Diderot - interior design, Brussels (BE)
2008-2009
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - silkscreen, Brussels (BE)
2006-2007
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts, Bourges (FR)
2003-2008
Academy of Fine Arts - painting/ specialisation in mural painting, Wroclaw (PL)

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2016 Solo exhibition " All that glitters is not gold" Frederic Collier Gallery, Brussels,Belgium

2016 Solo exhibition " graffiti de luxe" UGC ARTBOX, Brussels, Belgium

2015 Solo exhibition " See if you can remember to forget", Sopa Gallery, Koscie,
Slovakia
2015 Collective exhibition "Why is the Universe so Large, Flat and Full of Structure?"
DE LICEIRAS 18, Porto, Portugal
2015 Solo exhibition “ca va aller” AHAHA open atelier, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Collective exhibition “(un)defined” Photo Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Affordable Art Fair / Common places gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Parcours/ParKunst, landart exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Collective exhibition, “ Vis-à-vis”, BogArt gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Solo show, “iCons & Underground”, BogArt gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Solo show, Graffiti de luxe, in Grey House Gallery, Krakow, Poland

PRICES
2011 First Prize Winner at the Grey House Foundation Competition (Krakow, Poland)
RESIDENCIES
2015 KAIR ( Kosice Artis in Residence) AirWro ( Wroclaw Capital of Culture 2016),
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