Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Anna Oppermann: Künstler sein at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 23 March–28 July, 2019.
Anna Oppermann (1940–1993) is best known for her “ensembles”—expansive and complex assemblages of drawings, photographs, notes, and found objects that she developed, often over the course of years, in idiosyncratic creative processes. The fruits of an approach that was both intensely visual and tenaciously reflective, her ensembles are explicitly open works.