Artists Anonymous are an art group based in Berlin and London. They founded 2001 during their studies at University of Arts, Berlin at the classes of Georg Baselitz and Stan Douglas. They finished studying 2006, when Douglas was forced to leave the UdK.
since 2005 they were showing in different international Galleries like Sommer Contemporary Art, TelaViv, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin, Goff+Rosenthal, Berlin/NY
2006 one of the big dyptichons from the series "Apocalyptic Warriors" was bought by Charles Saatchi. 2007 instead of collaborating with Art Galleries, they converted an old garage space in London, Vynerstreet to a showroom and ran their own gallery during this time several of their works were sold to the Deutsche Bank Collection. By the end of 2007 the opening of their second space in Berlin, Heidestrasse, followed, where one big installation( the gunslinger and other true stories) took place;
since then a number of different shows and project took place such as
Frieze Art Fair, VIP Lounge of Deutsche Bank Collection, London "Virus" at Haunch of Venison, "The fictitious blowing up of the Hamburger Bahnhof" at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, "Communication and Association" at A Foundation, Liverpool, as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2008, "Bioshock" at Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, "Play the City", at Schirn, Kunsthalle Frankfurt/Main, "Unconditional love" at Venice Biennial, 2009, "Rapture", White Square Gallery, Berlin, Germany/Museum for Russian Art Kiev
and others
2009 Artists Anonymous ended their working relationship with Haunch of Venison to work with
Their work is included in various private and public Collections, like Manchester City Art Gallery, UK, Deutsche Bank Collection, Saatchi Collection, UK Advaney Collection, NL, UK, Walsall Art Museum, UK, Rubell Collection, Miami, USA, Zabludowicz Collection, UK In September 2012 they are holding their first show with Banksy-Legend Lazarides
Famous quotes containing the words artists and/or anonymous:
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)