Anna-Lena Krause
Anna-Lena Krause
Plus VAT if applicable
When does One Plus One Make One, 2020
Cycle print on Hahnemühle Paper
60x40cm
6 + 2AP
£600
80x60cm
4 + 2AP
£800
About this work
In her work The Third Entity, the artist employs large questions around the gaze, phenomenological truths and perception. She believes that we perceive ourselves only in relation to those around us; consciousness is experienced by contrast. However, ‘mixing’ is a term we rarely talk about; when we are with others, especially loved ones, we mix and it becomes harder to tell if we are still apart. The work meditates on togetherness and apartness in social spaces, looking at the fixity of borders and skin. We need borders to separate - between inside and outside, me and you, up and down, here and there, right and wrong. There are many concepts attempting to interpret the complexity of human connection and the unseen space that develops between them. How do we frame the subjects involved and where do the boundaries lie between them? Can an interaction itself be viewed as an additional entity? Or can we become one through an interaction?
About Anna-Lena Krausse
Anna-Lena Krause is a photographer and visual artist from Berlin, currently based in London. She obtained her BA of Photography at University of Applied Science in Berlin and is currently studying towards her Masters Degree at the Royal College of Art in London. Krause has had various group exhibitions including the Rencontres des Arles, France, the European Months of Photography in Berlin, ‘Sweet Harmony‘ at Saatchi Gallery in London, and ‘No Photos on the Dance Floor‘ at the C/O Berlin. Her work explores sociological and cultural phenomena in modern societies, focusing primarily on perception and memory.
By combining photography, film and sculpture the artist explores contrasting modes of representation, highlighting the differences in our shaping of concepts, suggesting that perception is not a passive but an active action, driven by intentionality. Krause’s work questions how ideas we have of ourselves are influenced through the environments we are nurtured in, attempting to interpret the complexity of human connection and the unseen space that develops between them.
Education
2021 MA in Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 BA in Photography, BTK - College of Design, Germany
Solo Exhibtions
05 / 2021 Colours We Know No Names For. Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
05 / 2021 New Futures. Kovet Art. London, UK
03 / 2021 Up all Night: Looking Closely at Rave Culture. Kumu Kunstimuuseum. Tallinn, Estonia
02 / 2021 Transcience. Siilk Gallery. Athens, Greece
02 / 2021 Milk & Honey. HW Gallery. Vienna, Austria
12 / 2020 36th Annual. Southwark Park Gallery. London, UK
02 / 2020 WIP, Royal College Of Art. London, UK
11 / 2019 Open. OK Center for Contemporary Art. Linz, Austria
09 / 2019 No Pictures on the Dancefloor. C/O Berlin. Berlin, Germany
07 / 2019 Sweet Harmony. Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
08 / 2018 Virtual Private Network. Haimney Gallery. Barcelona, Spain
08 / 2018 Platform 101. Gallerie 7. Sheran, Iran
03 / 2018 Unexisting. Voies-Off. Arles, France
08 / 2017 ABC – Art Book Fair China. Shanghai, China
06 / 2017 Talent Making Talent. Paris, France
10 / 2016 Scan Photofestival. Tarragona, Spain
10 / 2016 European Month of Photography. Berlin, Germany
07 / 2016 Bunker. Voies-Off. Arles, France
06 / 2016 SFSEX. Essen, Germany
06 / 2016 Goodforever. Düsseldorf, Germany
11 / 2015 Desire, a Double Edged Sword. Künstlerquartier Bethanien. Berlin, Germany
Publications/Press
03 / 2021 Interview. WWD China
04 / 2020 C/O Berlin Take Over
03 / 2020 Interview, Sleek Magazine
08 / 2019 Interview. Sleek Magazine.
02 / 2019 Feature: Goldenstage. Broad Magazine.
10 / 2019 Interview. Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly.
05 / 2018 Feature: Unexisting. C41 Magazine.
01 / 2017 Interview. Berliner Zeitung.
09 / 2016 Feature: The Aftermaths. Vice Magazine.
09 / 2016 Interview. C41 Magazine.
06 / 2016 Interview Berliner Zeitung.
04 / 2016 Feature: The Flesh. Vice Magazine.
Residencies
2018 Studio Vortex by Antoine D’Agata, Arles, France