Ana Strika. Die Vorstellung

The Swiss artist describes her working method as a procedural search for the form and the form-finding of the creative process per se.

Her installations emerge in resonance with the space, time and occasion and are sustained by the stock of materials she collects and sorts: cardboard, pieces of paper, parcel string, branches, scraps of wood, and plaster. She employs a modular principle when assigning her elements, producing constellations where objects come together in new levels of meaning. The forms created as a result are open to different readings, with the diversity of materials toying with the viewer’s memory and capacity for association.

As the conclusion of the ZF Art Foundation scholarship, Ana Strika is developing a site-specific installation entitled Die Vorstellung, which marks a new phase in her artistic work.

Ana Strika was born in Zurich in 1981, where she also lives and works. She studied fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdk). In addition to numerous awards, she obtained a sabbatical (Werkjahr) from the City of Zurich Dept. for Cultural Affairs in 2021, a fine arts work grant from the Canton of Zurich in 2019, a recognition award from the UBS Culture Foundation in 2016, and a six-month studio scholarship in Istanbul from the City of Zurich Dept. for Cultural Affairs. This year, in 2023, she has been awarded a three-month studio scholarship from the Jakob and Emma-Windler Foundation at the Chretzeturm in Stein am Rhein. Ana Strika is to be the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the ZF Art Foundation in Friedrichshafen.

Scholarship holder Ana Strika
www.anastrika.ch

Ana Strika. Die Vorstellung
ZF Art Foundation in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
22.11.2024 – 26.1.2025

We cordially invite you and your friends to the exhibition of the ZF Art Foundation in the ZeppLab of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.

Opening
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7 p.m.