anna andrejew - artist-researcher, writer, permaculturalist.

through my artistic research, i explore the memory of matter,
creating a fluid and embodied understanding of ecology.
my work takes form in the material and immaterial: installations, photography, conversations, performances and writing. 
It often in-cludes unstable organic matter and participatory elements.

In 2019, after more than a decade as a humanitarian aid worker, I decided to fully dedicate myself to my artistic practice. 

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based in the hague, the netherlands.

I am currently researching three main themes.
One of them is the agency of matter. How non-human materials—such as soil composition, mineral structures, and water flow—actively influence the physical and cultural landscapes inhabited by humans. This project aims to understand the role of these materials in shaping spatial representations, challenging traditional notions of borders and boundaries in cartographic practices.

Another theme focuses on the physicality of the digital. Every email, every bit of data, is stored somewhere physically—in underground cables, in data centers above. These digital infrastructures consume energy, water, and space, making the digital world deeply intertwined with ecology. This project was part of the 2024 KABK graduation show.

Lastly, I am exploring fermentation as a way of being with others. This research celebrates ancestral traditions and the interdependence on microorganisms, highlighting how micro-cultures have a significant impact on our bodies, food sovereignty, and communal existence.

i employ an ecofeminist lens and multispecies perspectives. my previous researches included themes connected to soil, water bodies (commissioned by NWO), the non-binary/more-than-human, our perception of time and expanding our notion of photography (beyond its humancentric conventions).

activities

2024
- exploring the memory of matter through papermaking, artistic research workshop, part of PACR/KABK/KC/Leiden University, the hague, 22 nov.
for (artist-) researchers working in & beyond the fields of Art, Design & Music
- transactive memories- organic internet collaboration with Pamela Nelson, New York Textile Month, workshop, 26 sept. 
- the active image- political ecologies & photographic agency - online feature of The Sustainable Darkroom.
- grenzen & landschap - terra incognita & be like water, exhibition, participatory performance, provinciehuis zuid-holland, the hague 25 sept - 15 nov.
- flowing forward in closed cycles- be like water, exhibition, workshop, publication, West Paradise, the hague 1-31 july.
- the first impression on your skin, publication of my research paper included in the ‘matter does matter” exhibition of the KABK Lectorate Art, Theory and Practice, the hague - 27 june - 2 july.
- the cloud is a place on earth, exhibition, performance, publication, KABK 2024 graduation show the royal academy of art, the hague - 27 june - 2 july.
- closed cycles- be like water, exhibition, performance, workshop, publication, commisioned by NWO, closed cycles programme, egmond aan zee, 21-23 may.
- community kimchi, workshop/story telling, together with sophie krier & floris janssens, part of Urban Art Laboratories, spinozahof the hague, 20 april and 7 sept.
- 100% recycled time - essay part of the ecofeminist publication “a new world” of West the hague.



2023
- material research into paper making at Loes Schepens atelier, the hague, sept-may 2024.
- wie is hier de idioot? exhibition review published in tubelight magazine 124 and part of the exhibition- 25 jaar tubelight – kritieke kunstkritiek, tent, rotterdam (nl).
- terra incognita- exhibition part of the group exhibition ‘regenerate’, noorderlicht festival, groningen (nl), 23 juni - 10 december.
- second enlightenment, conversations and visual philosophy, ISVW.
- terra incognita - exhibition and conversations. part of ‘van bodem tot bord’, eetbaar park- permacultuurcentrum the hague (nl).
- the cameraless photographer - reading performance on mushroom radio, the hague.
- terra incognita, exhibition, workshop, reading performance and conversations.- part of ‘as above, so below’ exhibition, the greyspace in the middle, the hague.
- the activist is a white whale - exhibition at we do/are photography, international photoszene festival, cologne (de), 20-22 oct.


2022
- the activist is a white whale- part of  the exhibition of the fool group collective exhibition, motoki, cologne (de), 15 mar.
- the activist is a white whale. part of the publication ‘trickle - come, go, or appear slowly’. published with the support of the royal academy of art, the hague, 21 oct.

2021
- pr(e)ying eyes, writing about wildlife photography as a form of paparazzi intrusion, pubshlised online here.


education
- 2019 – 2024 bachelor of arts, royal academy of art, the hague
- 2022 permacultuur jaaropleiding, permacultuurcentrum, the hague
- 2002 -2007 master & bachelor of science ba, erasmus university, rotterdam