Anna Virnich’s practice centers around textile based tableaus which surfaces must be understood as membranes and as such in a state of constant inter-penetration. The manipulative and oftentimes fetishising treatment of materials and a latent presence of the corporeal manifests in objects, whose formal composition spans from symbolic exotism to stringently calculated image construction.
Artist Talk with Dominikus Müller
Reiter, Leipzig
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Untitled #133, 2022
Fabrics on wooden fame; 120 × 160 cm
Untitled #131, 2022
Gauze, sieve nettle, polyester and satin, oil paint and yarn on wooden frame; 160 × 120 cm
Langes Fädchen Faule Mädchen
Reiter Galleries, Leipzig, 2022
#3 (Siebenundzwanzig Nervenkostüme), 2022
Furs, latex, mesh, yarn; 49 × 48 cm
Langes Fädchen Faules Mädchen
Reiter Galleries, Leipzig, 2022
Langes Fädchen Faules Mädchen
Reiter Galleries, Leipzig, 2022
#2 (Siebenundzwanzig Nervenkostüme), 2022
Cotton lace, fur, leather, sequin on synthetic velvet; 60 × 33 cm
Untitled #130, 2022
Latex, cotton, tulle, sequins, satin, lining fabric and thread on wooden frame; 160 × 120 cm
Langes Fädchen Faules MÄdchen
Reiter Galleries, Leipzig, 2022
Untitled #129, 2022
Thermacolon, stretch fabric, gouache on bed sheet, yarn on wooden frame; 160 × 223 cm
Untitled #110, 2021
Printed silk fabric, stretch satin, viscose, cotton and sequin fabric, thread on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Untitled #118, 2021
Faux leather, nettle with pigment, cotton, printed silk, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Untitled #114, 2021
Sieve nettle with pigments, polyester, silk, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Frieze London, 2021
Untitled #107, 2021
Polyester, tulle, cotton, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Dreams, 2021
Screen nettle with pigment, woven velvet, bleached stretch satin and organza on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Untitled #96 (lila-gelb-licht), 2020
Nettle with pigment, linen, silk, polyester, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 × 3 cm
Geflüster
Drei, Cologne, 2020
Untitled #86 (Kaldron), 2020
Tulle, cotton, polyester, bleached cotton, patent leather, sewing thread on wooden stretch frame; 175 × 275 × 5 cm (detail)
Untitled #95, 2020
Screen nettle with pigment, gauze, silk, lining, patent leather, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 × 3 cm
Untitled #97, 2020
Silk, gauze, bleached polyester bleached, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 × 3 cm
Untitled #97, 2020
Silk, gauze, bleached polyester bleached, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2020)
Geflüster
Drei, Cologne, 2020
Untitled #92, 2020
Bleached polyester, lining, polyester, silk, nettle, raw silk, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 160 × 120 × 3,5 cm
Geflüster
Drei, Cologne, 2020
Untitled #93, 2020
Silk, chiffon, velvet, satin, lining, polyester, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 160 × 120 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2020)
Untitled #93, 2020
Silk, chiffon, velvet, satin, lining, polyester, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 160 × 120 × 3,5 cm
Untitled #94, 2020
Tulle, silk, plastic net, gauze, satin, polyester, yarn on wooden stretch frame; 160 × 120 × 3,5 cm
Untitled #78, 2020
Tulle, stretch satin, silk, jersey on wooden stretch frame; 40 × 30 cm
Untitled #75, 2019
Bleached stretch silk, footprints on cotton; wooden stretch frame; 41 × 33 cm
Hyperdrüse
Schering Stiftung, Berlin, 2019
Hyperdrüse
Schering Stiftung, Berlin, 2019
Hyperdrüse
Schering Stiftung, Berlin, 2019 (detail)
Insane in the Membrane
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, 2018
Untitled #30
Silk and twine on wooden stretch frame; 116 × 95 cm
Lightning Visible, no Thunder Heard
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2019
Lightning Visible, no Thunder Heard
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2019
Untitled #64 (My Body tells me my Story), 2019
Silk, polyester, viscose on wooden frame; 90 × 60 cm
Untitled #69, 2019
Viscose, satin and tulle on wooden frame; 90 × 60 cm
Untitled #61 (Deep Night, flickering Lights, heavy Perfume), 2019
Velvet, raw silk, silk, leather, viscose on wooden frame
90 × 60 cm
Warm Milky Acid, Silver Slip
Drei, Cologne, 2018
Warm Milky Acid, Silver Slip
Drei, Cologne, 2018
Parts Glazed #3, 2018
Glazed ceramic, beeswax essential oils, oil, stainless steel wall fixing; Dyptich, top part: 7 × 28 × 25 cm
Parts Glazed #3, 2018
Glazed ceramic, beeswax essential oils, oil, stainless steel wall fixing; Dyptich, bottom part: 6 × 26 × 24,5 cm
Parts Glazed #1, 2018
Glazed ceramic, truffle, truffle oil, essential oils, oil, stainless steel wall fixing, 6 × 23,5 × 19 cm
Untitled #52 (Warm Milky Acid, Silver Slip), 2018
Fabrics, threads, on wooden stretch frame; 220 × 190 cm
Warm Milky Acid, Silver Slip
Drei, Cologne, 2018
Untitled #56 (Iso E Super), 2018
Fabrics, threads on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Untitled #55 (CK Be, Sweat, Tonka, Plastic), 2018
Fabrics, threads on wooden stretch frame; 95 × 60 cm
Wärme
Arratia Beer, Berlin, 2017
Untitled #44, 2017
Silk, oil, satin, tulle, lining, raw silk, nettle on wooden stretch frame; 177,5 × 305 cm
Untitled #46, 2017
Silk, oil, satin, tulle, lining, raw silk, nettle on wooden stretch frame; 177,5 × 305 cm
Wärme
Arratia Beer, Berlin, 2017
Leather #4, 2017
Coloured beeswax, oil, calf skin, stitching, wooden stretch frame; 172 × 109 cm
Leather #5, 2017
Coloured beeswax, oil, calf skin, stitching, wooden stretch frame; 172 × 109 cm
Wärme
Arratia Beer, Berlin, 2017
Untitled #45, 2017
Silk, oil, satin, tulle, lining, raw silk, nettle on wooden stretch frame; 177,5 × 305 cm
Sticky Note
Nathalie Halgand, Vienna, 2017
Sticky Note, 2017
Waxed and perfumed leather glove, plastic arm, steel frame; 147 × 15 × 15 cm (installation view: Nathalie Haugland, Vienna, 2017)
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Nervous Moments Membranes #1, 2016
Bleached satin, raw silk and snakeskin on wooden stretch frame; 310 × 230 cm
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Untitled (Mexico Blue), 2016
Bleached textile and polyester on wooden stretch frame; 200 × 140 cm
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Nervous Moments Membranes
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2016
Body Electric
Drei, Cologne, 2015
Body Electric (#1), 2015
Ox leather, nails; 318 × 107 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2015)
Body Electric
Drei, Cologne, 2015
Body Electric
Drei, Cologne, 2015
Body Electric (#2), 2015
Digital print; 20 × 29,5 cm
Body Electric (#3), 2015
Aconitum napellus, Artemisia abrotanum, Artemisia cana, Asparagus racemosus, Banisteriopsis caapii, Brunfelsia uniflora, Cedronella triphylla, Circaea lutetiana, Cyperus scariosus, Epimedium grandiflorum, Fabiana imbricata, Gratiola officinalis, Gynura aurantiaca, Hedichium coronarium, Heliotropium arbores-cens, Hierochloe odorata, Hygrophila spinosa, Ipomoea sepiaria, Jasminum multiflorum, Jasminum sambac, Lonicera japonica, Mentha x piperita v., Pelargonium species, Pelargonium x citrosmum, Plectranthus coleoides, Pogostemon cablin, Polianthes tuberosa, Psychotria viridis, Salvia apiana, Sceletium totuosum, Sida cordifolia, Silene capensis, Solandra maxima, Tanacetum balsamita, Valeriana officinalis, Vetiviera Zizanioides, Viola suavis, potting compost, sound; Various dimensions (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2015)