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(About) Anna Bierler works with the medium of writing, through publications, installations, reading groups and poetry. Her artistic practice stems from graphic design: she makes publications that explore how ecological narratives are experienced and disseminated. She focuses on the role language plays in the design of our imaginations and explores how using time as a design material can shape new perspectives that remedy fractured relationships with nature and alleviate eco-anxiety. Among various collaborations, Anna is currently working on a script following the myth of Medusa into the present and exploring the intersection of geologic timescales, human experiences and animal-human relationships.
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(Ongoing) Independent Graphic Designer, co-running OOOReading Club
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(Contact) abierler{at}gmail.com INSTAGRAM
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(Recent Activities)
(2024) performance, OOOReading: The Hour of the Star, Onomatopee, Eindhoven NL (2024) publishing project, Afloat, with María Mazzanti, Amsterdam NL (2024) performance, Grounding Exercise, during Feminist Frequencies, Echo Radio x Radio Worm, Rotterdam NL (2023) performance, Grounding Exercise, auftakt festival, gold+beton, Cologne (2023) best student books selection 2022, it’s a book, Leipzig DE (2023) exhibition, and deep deep holes, exhibited at RRRxIjskast, Nomadic exhibition, curated by Geertje Brandenburg and Marika van de Kraats, Rotterdam NL (2023) panel, Snowblindness, Onomatopee, moderated by Anna Winston, Eindhoven NL (2023) reading, story, Meltdown, published in Daisy World #2, Pub#5, performed at Suzi Projects, Amsterdam NL (2022) reading, and to the rushing water speak, performed at Gemene Grond, Utrecht NL (2022) radio broadcast, Stone Network, with Marit Mihklepp, GTBT, Rotterdam NL (2021) exhibition, Graduation Exhibition Sandberg Instituut, HEMbrugterrein, Zaandam NL (2021) publication, and deep deep holes, HetHEM, Zandaam NL (2021) online publication, stone telling, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam NL (2021) screening, No Touching the Horizon, Comfort and Vision, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL
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(Teaching, Workshops)
(2024)
guest tutor, workshop, Linking Bodies of Water, with María Mazzanti, WdKA, Rotterdam NL
guest tutor, workshop, Wet Reading Room, with María Mazzanti, University of Antwerp, Antwerp BE
(2023)
workshop, OOOReading: Confusions and Conclusions 1/2, RIB, Rotterdam NL
workshop, OOOReading: with your words of resilience, WORM, Rotterdam NL
guest tutor, workshop, OOOReading: with your words of resilience, WdKA, Rotterdam NL
guest tutor, workshop, Storytelling for Earthly Survival, with María Mazzanti, WdKA, Rotterdam NL
workshop, Fangirls Workout, BYOBfair, with Hannah Rose Whittle and Maria van der Togt, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
workshop, Now I Have Turned To Stone, I MEAN STUDIO, New York US
guest tutor, workshop, Storytelling for Earthly Survival, with María Mazzanti, IDW 2023, University of Antwerp BE
tutor, class, the wind is listening, Fine Art and Design in Education, ArtEZ, Zwolle NL
(2022)
guest tutor, Assessments, Rietveld Architecture, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
workshop, Watering the Stones, with Marit Mihklepp, Zone2Source, Amsterdam NL
workshop, Becoming a Stone, with Marit Mihklepp, StrandLab Almere, Almere NL
workshop, Built out of memory, with Marit Mihklepp, Hackers and Designers, Amsterdam NL
workshop, Shared Conditions, Gemene Grond, residency programme, Utrecht NL
(2021)
workshop, Silvias Nail Salon, OT101, with Insa Deist, Pernilla Philip, Katharina Nejdl, Amsterdam NL
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(Programming)
(2024)
event, OOOReading: Building With Words, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL
(2023)
event, OOOReading: Confusions and Conclusions 2/2, with Alaa Abu Asaad and LA Warman, RIB, Rotterdam NL
event, OOOReading: Angels, with Sherida Kuffour, Het Park, Rotterdam NL
event, OOOReading: growing up, with Mara Schwerdtfeger, Echo Collective Radio, De Hague NL
(2022)
event, OOOReading: Concrete Poetry, KIOSK, Rotterdam NL
radio broadcast, Run Deep, Run Wild, GTBT and Casco Art Institute, with María Mazzanti, Utrecht NL
radio broadcast, Stone Network, with Marit Mihklepp, GTBT, Rotterdam NL
(2021)
programming, PUB Sandberg Public Program, curated with Pernilla Philip, Guests: Sara Kamaan, Bea 1991, Andrea González, Roberto Perez Gayo, Gabriel Maher, Amsterdam NL
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(Writing)
(2024)
poem, another world for hole is opening, published by CODA, Paris FR + London, UK
poem, milk star, published by hooops, Berlin DE
poem, Glass Poem, with Tiiu Meiner, read during OOOReading: Building With Words, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL
(2023)
poem, she tells the truth, always, performed at auftakt festival, Cologne DE
poem, Grounding Exercise, performed at auftakt festival, Cologne DE
(2022)
poem, I want to change, published in Robida #8, Daisy World Magazine #5, Amsterdam NL
(2021)
essay, Construction Sites, published in Issue No 6, Sandberg Instituut, performed 2022 at Nicole, Amsterdam NL
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(Residencies)
(2023)
residency, Weeds Research Residency, hooops, Libken, Uckermark DE
residency, Reassemble Lab: Weatherscapes, Fiber, Amsterdam NL
(2022)
residency, Finis Terrae, Finistère, Brittany FR
residency, LIOS lab, arts of ecology residency programme, Bledów Desert PL
residency, Gemene Grond, residency programme, Utrecht NL
residency, CLOUD Danslab, De Hague NL
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(Selected Graphic Design Commissions) Extra Intra, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam NL), Sound Office (Rotterdam NL), Orange Tree Art Project (Rotterdam NL), Artez (Arnhem NL), transmediale (Berlin DE), Onomatopee (Eindhoven NL), Daisy World Mag #5 (Amsterdam NL), Melkweg (Amsterdam NL), Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam NL), Vleeshal (Middelburg NL), FHNW Basel (Basel CH)
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(Funding)
(2023)
Starting Grant, Stimuleringsfonds, for Afloat, Amsterdam NL
(2022)
Experimental Grant, Stimuleringsfonds, for Stone Network, Rotterdam NL
(2021)
Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos, for Snowblindness, Utrecht NL
Project Grant, Stichting Jaap Hartens Fund, for Snowblindness, Den Haag NL
Project Grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut,
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(Education)
(2021)
MFA, Design Department, Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
(2019) BA, Visual Communication, Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin DE
(2014) BA, Comparative Literature and Art History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich DE
(2017) Exchange Student, Visual Communication, Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich CH
(2012) Exchange Student, Littérature comparée, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris FR