Anne Neukamp

Anne Neukamp’s art befuddles the viewer’s gaze through its critical interrogation of the media scene of our times. In obfuscating and hybridizing the symbols employed by the communications sector, her paintings empty them of any capacity to clarify or convey information. More playful or mischievous than deceptive, they oblige the viewer to reconsider his or her image-reading habits. Thus, removed from their original sense, these motifs seem on the verge of capitulation in the quasi-monochrome swathes of color that surround them. Anne Neukamp draws on a great variety of registers and techniques—oil, egg-tempera and acrylic—and is at ease bringing together diverse traditions on the same canvas. The implicit meanings and figurative associations scattered across her paintings encourage us to place our trust in the intelligence of her conceptual approach, without ever abandoning contemplation, in in its most fundamental sense.

Born in 1976, Anne Neukamp lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Dresden, where she now teaches, and has also taken part in the international residency program of the ISCP in New York. Her works have been widely exhibited at the Léopold Hoesch Museum in Düren and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest (2023), at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (as part of the exhibition We Paint! in 2022), at the University of the Arts | Rosenwald Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia (2018), at the KW in Berlin and the Kunstverein in Oldenburg (2013), as well as at the Palais de Tokyo for the fifth Jean-François Prat Prize (2016). Her works figure in numerous private and public collections, most notably at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, the Rochechouart Museum, the Société Générale Collection, and those of the Bredin-Prat Endowment Fund and Moulin Family Endowment Fund – Lafayette Anticipations.