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Anne Wenzel

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Since 2000, Anne Wenzel (1972, Schüttorf) has been working on a strong and distinctive oeuvre of ceramic images and installations that place her sculptures in a landscape setting, in combination with murals. Her works occupy an intermediate position between historical tradition and modernity, and Anne Wenzel consciously chooses a traditional medium: clay. Her sculptures are often of gigantic size and, in recent years, are dominated by a fascination with violence: dying stags, fighting dogs, cars wrecked by bomb attacks and monuments as requiems of heroism. Anne Wenzel draws heavily on the rich seam of art tradition, but also collects television images of the tsunami, the Madrid bombings and photos of Hurricane Katrina. She combines these sources, using her memory and intuition, into the final working process. These are statues with a sense of urgency, which respond directly to violence in the media. Instead of desensitizing, their beauty invites us to contemplate and reflect on the modern world.

Wenzel studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Enschede. She had solo shows at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010), AKINCI, Amsterdam (2009), Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch (2008), Kunstevereniging Diepenheim (2007), Buro Leeuwarden (2006), The Agency, London (2006). Wenzel participated in group exhibitions at Fondation Ricard, Paris (2011), Shepparton Art Gallery (award) (2010), Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2008) and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007). Upcoming: solo presentation at Villa Roth, Germany.