ANJA LANGER
about
Anja Langer translates signs of transience into contemporary gestures. Her works reflect processes, encouraging dialogue and participation from the viewer. Langer's formal starting point is experimentation with painterly and craft techniques, aiming to wrest them from oblivion and to turn contemporary materials into formable image media. She transforms her material research into experimental painting, which can manifest as an installation. Thematically, she explores various ways of passing down traditions, whether inherited or newly emerging, and their effects on cultural conditioning.
Behind the artist duo JESCHKELANGER are Marie Jeschke and Anja Langer. All of their works are created as paintings with and on glass. Being mostly functional artworks the material and production residues or production processes of others are brought into focus. In 2019, they founded their own company as artists with their material development BASIS RHO. In parallel, they negotiate their newly created artistic identity and their experiences as entrepreneurs in courses and publications.
solo exhibitions
w/ Jeschkelanger
- 2022
- Fragmented ID, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen
- Golden Taste of Glass, Studio 4 Berlin, Berlin
- 2020
- Polymere Entspannung, Solo Showcase, Luzia, Berlin
- Confetti But Forever, Direktorenhaus Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Berlin
- 2019
- Washing Elements (constantly looping), Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop
- #siostrzane_odbicie / #sister‘s_reflection, SIC! - BWA Museum, Wroclaw
- empty_glass_05, Ca ‘Sagredo, Venice
- empty_glass_04, bbk Atelierwohnung, Berlin
- 2018
- After Eight (midlife crisis grey chambers), Burg Klempenow, Klempenow
- empty_glass_03, Le Wonder, Paris
- empty_glass_02, Holzmarkt, Berlin
- 2017
- empty_glass_01, Studio Jeschkelanger, Berlin
- Washing Elements, The Others, Turin
- Contact Zone - airblob no bones, L‘etrangerè, London
- Don‘t dance it down boys, Clovis XV, Brussels
- Enrico - Autoaction in rehearsals, Display, Berlin
group exhibitions
w/ Jeschkelanger
- 2022
- Positions Berlin, Anahita contemporary
- STILWERK @Kantgaragen, curated by Anahita contemporary, Kantgaragen Berlin
- P.O.C., Brussels (collection/permanent exhibition)
- Collectible, Brussels
- 2021
- S*HEROE S, Anahita contemporary, Berlin
- Small Sculptures, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen
- We Melt Before It Forms, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
- Avalanche, PAL Project, Paris
- Material Matters, The Platte, Berlin
- Edit No. 3 @ Vico San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
- Startbahn, Genezarethkirche Neukölln, Berlin
- Positions Berlin, Material Matters
- 2020
- New Traditions, curated by William Bagnoli for Adorno (online)
- Edit No. 2 @ Vico San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
- 2019
- Anecdotes on Origin, A plus A gallery, Venice
- Open art competition for public art, BMI expansion, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Berlin
- Widerkunst, Holzmarkt, Berlin
- ...
publications
w/ Jeschkelanger
- 2022
- Uncanny Entrepreneurship, hg. Hänsch. K, Nelke, L., Planitzer, M., Hamburg, Textem Verlag
- AD MAGAZIN, Best of Germany, talent section
- 2021
- KUNSTASPEKTE, We Melt Before It Forms
- ARTVIEWER, We Melt Before It Forms at Galerie Britta Rettberg
- 2020
- Handmade in Germany - Manufaktur 4.0, Deutscher Meisterrat (Hrsg.), Arnoldsche Verlag
- STIRWORLD, Jeschkelanger on Basis Rho, a design material created from leftover glass
- AD MAGAZIN, Jeschkelanger schenkt Glasresten von Olafur Eliasson & Co. ein zweites Leben
- 2019
- SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, Von der Kunst zu leben
- FAD, interview with JESCHKELANGER & Hayk Seirig for empty_glass_05
- MAGAZYN SZUM, #siostrzane_odbicie
- TAGESSPIEGEL, Kunst als Geschäftsidee: Malen mit Glas
- ...