anna mields // Profile
'falling lettuce' `(set up), 2007
Anna- Katharina Mields works with fragmentary moments of the everyday. In the video falling lettuce architectural elements control and direct the movement of the organic shape of a lettuce head. It rolls, falls and gets smashed on top of a perfect, shiny white staircase: staircase to heaven just populated by lettuce, rythmically and repetitively falling down. Mields work generates humorous and absurd questions: Is it a kitchen surface? Why is lettuce falling? Is it a rolling head?
She investigates moments when controlled or constraeined actions occur. States of mind are projected onto banal objects. The object loaded up with meaning and value is almost too weak to carry its given weight. Either captured with the camera or forced into the stillness of a sculptural state, the object itself is trapped in its narcisstic cycle.
Artist's CV
1976 born in Berlin, Germany lives and works in Glasgow and Berlin Education:
2005-2007 Master’s of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2005 Meisterschueler, UdK, Berlin, Germany
2001-2004 Diploma Fine Art with special success, Universitaet der Kuenste 2004 five-month exchange, school of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Award:
2007 Glasgow Sculpture Studio Scholarship
2006/07 DAAD Scholarship for postgraduate studies in Glasgow
2004 NICA Scholarship, exchange with SAIC, Chicago
2002 First Prize for design of the Calligari Place Weissensee, Germany
Selected Exhibitions:
2007
-‘poppingpixels’,shortfilm festival Orkneys,
-‘stop over’ with students of the german academic exchange
-service, Ada gallerie, London, UK
-‘I like to move it’, group show, Heidestrasse 50, Berlin
-Graduation show ‘Further more”, Tramway, Glasgow, UK & travelling to Berlin, artnews projects and metro, Germany
-S.A.W. Show with FINN collective, Glasgow, UK -Transmission Member show, Glasgow, UK
-Video show, Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg city airport, Sweden
-‘flying saucer’, with Jona Hlif Carolina café, Akureyri, Island 2006
-‘waist up waist down’, Jona Hlif Anna Mields, Loft 3, Berlin -Group show, Kunstvlaai 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands
-Hiscox MFA Interim Degree Show, Glasgow, UK
2005
-‘Meisterschueler’ exhibition, UdK, Berlin, Germany -‘drinnen’, solo show Brotfabrikgalerie, Berlin, 2004
-structure&egg, solo show, Gallery1f, Chicago, USA -preview, SAIC, Chicago, USA
2003 -‘Absolventenausstellung’, UdK, Berlin, DE
Projects:
2002 -design of display window of the Buchhandlung Walther Koenig & exhibition design of ‘radical architecture III /‘processing uncertainty’, Museum fuer angewandte Kunst, Koeln, DE (with Oliver Ackerschewski, Thomas Rentmeister, Stephan Schorn, Sim&Nic, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Anna Zarge) Upcoming: residency in Akureyri, Island Juli 2008
contact/webinfo: annamields@yahoo.de, artnews.org/annakatharinamields