Anna Andrea Winther
Visual Artist
Born 1993 from Reykjavik, Iceland
Studio: Bankastræti 6, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
In Anna Winther's artistic practice she looks to deconstruct various phenomenon’s within Icelandic-and western food production. She explores these products through the industrial processes they are subjected to in comparison to their natural origins, materiality and their connection to human history.
Through installations and performances, Anna looks to twist the illusion of the brand and creates processes in which the viewer connects directly to the material in question. From pulverizing cream biscuits and trying to put them together again, hanging up gelatine and fizzy-tablet vitamin hot-dogs in an old salestand and sweeping industrial salt around a room so the viewer can feel it on their skin and taste it on their lips.
In these works Anna tries to bring about the question of how we can re-connect with our food and therefor nature.
2017
2015 - 2018
2014 - 2015
2009 - 2013
2019
2019
2017
2019
2018
2018
2017
2017
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2016
2016
2015
2015
2013
2016
2016
2019
2019
2017
2018 - now
Now
2019
2018
2017
2016 - 2018
2019
2019
2018
2017
2013
Education
BA, Fine Arts,
Iceland University of the Arts
Erasmus exchange,
Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
Preparatory studies,
Visual Arts, Reykjavik Academy of the Arts
Matriculation Examination,
Graphic Design and Sociology, Borgarholtsskóli
Solo exhibitions
The Pancake Production
Outvert Artspace (Ísafjörður, Iceland)
Skiljum ekki baun
Harbinger Gallery (Reykjavik, Iceland)
A part of the curated series Rólegt og Rómantískt
Curated by: Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir
Ein með engu
Sunnutorg (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Group exhibitions (selected)
Compost - Incontext
(Slănic-Moldova, Romania).
Residency and group exhibition. http://www.incontext.art/
Out in the Open
Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstaðir
(Reykjavik, Iceland)
Allar leiðir slæmar
Skaftfell - Center for Visual Arts (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland)
MERGUR
Gallery Rýmd (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Arts in the Environment Nordic Symposium
Vartiosaari island (Helsinki, Finland)
Walk This Way
West Barns Studios (Dunbar, Scotland)
Vel Gert
Brautarholt 18 (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Equality days, "The sun" in University of Reykjavik (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Co-curator
December Exhibition
Bíó Paradís (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Myndlistaskólinn
JL-house (Reykjavik, Iceland)
BRIM
Brimhúsið (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Curated exhibitions
Equality days, "The sun" in University of Reykjavik (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Co-curator
Heyrðu!, Mengi (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Co-curator
Residencies
Incontext AIR program,
(Slănic-Moldova, Romania).
ArtsIceland and Gallery Úthverfa residency (Ísafjörður, Iceland)
Arts in the Environment Nordic Symposium
Vartiosaari island (Helsinki, Finland)
Other projects
Studio b6
Artist studio and project space
Collective with artist Hillevi Högström, Svanhildur Haraldsdóttir, Agnes Ársælsdóttir, Ágústa Björnsdóttir, Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir and Þórunn Kolbeinsdóttir
Relevant work experience
Gufunesbær - Community Center for teenagers
Art club program
Neðstaland - After school center for children
Art club program
Three month internship with artist
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir
Assisted her with her artistic practice and designed the website:
(Berlin, Germany)
(Nýibær, Hólar in Hjartadal and Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik)
Internship during the exhibition "Tesur", assisting artists Ólöf Nordal and Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir
Iceland Academy of the Arts
Student council (Secretary)
Grants and awards
Muggur - Travel Grant
Straumar Culturefund - Project grant
Myndlistasjóður - Project Grant
Erasmus+ grant (for internship)
Erasmus+ grant (for exchange program)
FEKÍ national short story contest
(chosen to represent Borgarholtsskóli)
Memberships
Living Art Museum
SÍM (The Association of Icelandic Artists)
2019