anna andrejew - artist-researcher with a background in ethnography and permaculture.

My artistic research explores the physical, emotional, and material dimensions of spaces, giving voice to the in-between, often undefined areas that resist fixed or singular outcomes.

drawing on my exile heritage and background in ethnographic research, i examine displacement, extractivism, and more-than-human agency through mapping, cameraless photography, performance, workshops, and text. i research the traces of (post-)extractivism, reimagining landscapes as co-creators in ecological and political stories. 

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based in the hague, the netherlands.

i am currently focused on moving matters/fallow landscapes (2024–ongoing), an artistic research project that explores the potential for regeneration in post-extraction landscapes—spaces shaped by the end of human extraction activities and the return of ecological processes.

through visual work, writing, and speculative mapping, the project reconnects with these landscapes, uncovering their complex histories and cultural memories. merging ecology, anthropology, and visual arts, this research investigates how more-than-human forces—such as plant growth, material decay, and geological shifts—interact with human cultural residues.

the project includes workshops where participants collaboratively create counter-maps and narratives, revealing both visible and invisible impacts of past extractive practices. ultimately, this work envisions post-extractive futures, where landscapes serve as co-performers in ecological and political narratives, highlighting the agency of all actors—human and more-than-human—in shaping these spaces.

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

2025 (planned)
- university of hasselt debris spring school (may 19–23, vierset-barse, belgium), project passage hasselt university.

• invited to participate and lead a session in this interdisciplinary program on the concept of debris in socio-environmental challenges.
• contribution to a joint publication reflecting on debris in artistic research dynamics.

- CODA paper biennale– the cloud is a place on earth (april–november) – exhibition, performance, publication.
- west ecofeminist symposium– countermapping the garden (march 20) – workshop, west the hague.
- kunst en landschap route, enschede– Be Like Water– 6-9 juni exhibition at Museumfabriek Enschede

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.
- speculative mapping session as part of The Hmm Data Centre Tour, amsterdam, 9 nov.
- 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