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.
VITA
1984 born in Berlin
2011 M.Sc. Architecture, TU Berlin
2011–2019 Employed architect in Switzerland / UK / Germany
2019–2022 Studies at “Academy for Painting Berlin”
Since 2022 Abstract painting & digital art
Since 2023 Various group exhibitions in Berlin, Hannover, London, Paris, Texas
Since 2024 Member of BBK Hannover
2024 Public art installation: Public Parts II/ Municipal Gallery Kubus Hannover
2025 Solo exhibition “Chance and Machine” – Haus der Region, Hannover
2025 Discovery Art Fair Cologne & Frankfurt, Affordable Art Fair Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg (via ar-gallery Hamburg and New&Abstract Berlin)
Acquired by collections: artothek Hannover, Haus der Region Hannover, Holtmann collection Hannover, Michael Spalter collection USA, Swiss Arabian Bank Geneva
COMING SOON
// Solo-Exhibition Kunstverein Benther Berg, Apr 19 - May 03 / 2026
// BBK in KUBUS gallery, April 30 - May 31/ 2026 30
// Atelierspaziergang 2026, May 08-10 / 2026, Hanover
// 'Gelenkter Zufall', Duo-exhibition with Guido Klumpe in Kunstverein Galerie in Stammelbachspeicher, Hildesheim Sep 12 - Oct 11 / 2026
ART FAIRS 2026
// Affordable Art Fair Berlin (via ar-gallery), April 16-19 / 2026
// Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (via New & Abstract Berlin and ar-gallery Hamburg), November 05-08 /2026
EXHIBITIONS 2023-2025
// '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
// Alle Gegen Alle - Group Exhibition Kong Hanover - 12 /2025
// Group Exhibition Artothek Hanover - 12 / 2025
// Jahresgabe Kunstverein Neustadt am Rübenberge - 03 / 2026
ART FAIRS 2025
// Discovery Art Fair Köln (via ar-gallery Hamburg), 04/2025
// Affordable Art Fair Berlin (via ar-gallery Hamburg), June 13-15 /2025
// Affordable Art Fair Stockholm (via ar-gallery Hamburg), October 01-05 / 2025
// Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, via New&Abstract gallery Berlin, Nov. 06-09/2025
// Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, via ar-gallery Hamburg, Nov. 13-16/ 2025