Teknikk
Maleri (gouache) & tegning (blekk) | Painting (gouache) & drawing (ink)
Artist statement
-- Åpent atelier søn 20. sept kl 12-17 --
Studio 5.22
In her painting Anne Flad nowadays likes to work with aleatoric techniques, sometimes creating images in dual view (rotatable by 180 degrees). For the last years she mainly focusses on political and social / societal topics. While she works more implicitly and symbolically in her paintings, her ink drawings are more explicit regarding the political / societal content.
The approach with aleatoric techniques is to initiate happenstances, which she then incorporates into the overall topic that she is working on, and which she allows to lead her to new directions, new approaches, new ideas. So to speak: To cherish and accept the happenstance and uncontrollable and embrace, pass and forward it into a controllable and constructive way. So it stands for dealing with life itself and its events: First of all, the question of what one can influence and control – and what one cannot. “I can set or initiate impulses more or less purposefully in a certain environment – but what ultimately emerges and how this impulse reacts with the environment is not always within my sphere of influence. Other coincidences and events also ‘come as they come’. What is again within my sphere of influence, however, is how I deal with it - what I make of it, and above all, how I evaluate it. So it is not only in painting that this is literally in my hands” (Anne Flad).
Playing with that, in a sense accepting chance, (further) shaping it, thinking about these processes, has occupied her artistically time and again and this kind of work and approach offered her a certain peace of mind.
Another area of focus is minimalist quick drawing with ink in small format, especially in a cross-art context (particularly flamenco courses and events, as well as music events), the appeal of drawing in its reduction to the essential and the very special kind of encounter and contact with the person to be depicted when painting and drawing live on site. In 2018 alone, she created around 150 drawings in ink and acrylic in connection with accompanying flamenco events and courses - in addition to drawings of musicians at several music events.
Anne Flad is dedicated to integrate sustainability and ecological responsibility into her work. Since 2024, she therefore no longer works with acrylic in her paintings, but exclusively with gouache instead.
Besøksadresse
Wernersholmvegen 33
5232 Paradis
Kontakt
Telefon: 92914095
E-postadresse: info@anneflad.com
Web: http://www.anneflad.com
CV
ABOUT
Anne Flad is a visual artist (focus on painting and drawing) and art pedagogue - based in Bergen (Norway) since 2024. Her studio is situated in Gyldenpris Kunsthall (Paradis) and she joins the Bergen-based artist group ‘Habitat Artspace’.
As a trained art pedagogue and visual artist with several years of teaching experience both with children, adolescents and adults, she offers (group) courses, workshops as well as individual lessons, both in presence and online in German, Spanish, English and Norwegian.
She was born in Germany, grew up in Tenerife (Canary Islands) and majored in visual arts in her academic teaching degree (University of Education Freiburg in Germany). During and after her studies she worked as a gallery assistant in galleries for modern and contemporary art both in Freiburg and in Hamburg (Germany).
Alongside her principal studies, she completed the first two years of additional studies in curative and socio-pedagogical art therapy at the Institute for Scientific Advanced Training in Freiburg (obtaining the intermediate certificate). About 2 years after her studies and her work in the school sector and in the socio-pedagogical field in Hamburg and Lower Saxony (Germany), during which she worked part-time as a visual artist, she became self-employed in Hamburg in 2018 and has been working full-time as a visual artist and art pedagogue ever since.
From 2018 until her departure from Germany at the beginning of 2022, she had her studio in the ‘Atelierhaus23’ (Hamburg), was a member of the artist group ‘Kunstkreis2012’ and collaborated with, among others, a culture center in Hamburg, boesner GmbH and the Hamburg’s artotheque in the context of various artistic and art educational projects, as well as with Kidstime Germany e.V. .
In 2022, she lived and worked in southern Germany, Colombia and southern France before moving to the latter for 1 year in 2023, while maintaining above-mentioned collaborations and working on and offering online-based formats in art education.
Since autumn 2025, she resumed her studies in psychology at the University of Bergen, and since autumn 2026, she undertakes the integrated Master’s programme ‘Profesjonsstudiet i psykologi’ (degree in clinical psychology and psychotherapy (cand. psychol.)) in parallel to her self-employed work as an art pedagogue and visual artist.
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO, DUO & GROUP
02.2022 | “Anne Flad | Encounters“, solo exhibition | cultural center “Kulturhaus Süderelbe”, Hamburg (Germany)
12.2021 – 01.2022 | “17 Sustainable Development Goals“, group exhibition | water tower, Lüneburg (Germany)
11.2021 | “War Children – The Shadows of the Past“, group exhibition | church St. Trinitatis, Hamburg (Germany)
08. – 09.2021 | “Climate – Art”, group exhibition | culture house “Haus des Gastes”, Salzhausen (Germany)
01. – 06.2021 | “Gallery in the Window”, group exhibition | cultural center “Kulturhaus Süderelbe”, Hamburg (Germany)
08.2020 | “Art in the Park ‘Kurpark’ “, group exhibition | Kurpark, Lüneburg (Germany)
08.2020 | “Butterfly”, group exhibition | Modecafé Aust, Lüneburg (Germany)
05.2020 | “Anne Flad & Udo Bahntje”, duo exhibition | Modecafé Aust, Lüneburg (Germany)
01. – 02.2020 | “Golden Art”, group exhibition | Modecafé Aust, Lüneburg (Germany)
12.2019 – 04.2020 | solo exhibition at Sunshine Film | Beim Schlump, Hamburg (Germany)
08.2019 | “Art in the Park ‘Kurpark’ “, group exhibition | Kurpark, Lüneburg (Germany)
06.2019 | “Art in the Garden”, group exhibition | Am Schildstein, Lüneburg (Germany)
07. – 08.2011 | “Flad & Flad – Grandfather & Granddaughter“, duo exhibition | Altkönigstift, Kronberg in the Taunus (Germany)
05. – 06.2010 | solo exhibition at Roman Engers | Colombi Hotel, Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany)
ART FAIRS & OPEN STUDIOS
09.2026 | B-open, open studio | Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen (Norway)
09.2025 | B-open, open studio | Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen (Norway)
09.2024 | B-open, open studio | Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen (Norway)
10.2023 | Parallax Art Fair London | Kensington Town Hall, London (United Kingdom)
09.2023 | Exhibition of the artist group Cros de Cagnes | Promenade de la Plage, Cros de Cagnes (France)
08. – 09.2021 | HeideKULTOUR 2021, guest exhibition at Katrin Mescheder | studio “white – blick”, Etzen (Germany)
08.2021 | 1st Harburg Art Festival | Schwarzenbergplatz, Hamburg (Germany)
09.2020 | “Hamburg Shows Art“ | Überseeboulevard – Hafencity, Hamburg (Germany)
09.2019 | 9th Elb island’s Art and Studio Days, open studio with Branimir Georgiev | studio house “Atelierhaus23”, Hamburg (Germany)
09.2019 | “Hamburg Shows Art“ | Überseeboulevard – Hafencity, Hamburg (Germany)
08.2019 | Buxtehuder Art Festival | Town Hall Square, Buxtehude (Germany)
06.2010 | “Come & See”, guest exhibition | winery Hannes Deufel, Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany)
