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:
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice—with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.
Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart,
Sick in whole and every part,
And yet sicker thou art still
For thinking that thou art not ill.”
—Thomas Henry Anonymous (1825–95)