Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Anna Oppermann: Ensembles at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 17 April 17 – 12 August, 2007 and the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 28 August – 16 December, 2007.

In the late sixties German artist Anna Oppermann (1940–1993) began creating installations, which she called Ensembles, containing references to Pop Art, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art. Assembled using found objects, photographs, sketches, personal texts, quotations, and coloured photographic screens, these installations were often misinterpreted by contemporaries as purely biographical statements.

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.

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.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.