In the cabinet of the Museum Franz Gertsch, the German drawer and printmaker Anya Triestram (*1977), who lives in Vienna and Leipzig, showcases her current works on paper and sculptures. The floral motifs and geometric-ornamental shapes of her pastel and coloured pencil drawings and resin-coated linocuts are combined with pill bugs and canopic jars.
In the cabinet of the Museum Franz Gertsch, the German drawer and printmaker Anya Triestram showcases her current works on paper and sculptures. Various works come together here to form a journey through shapes and fragments.
The large-format, finely crafted pastels and delicate coloured pencil drawings hanging on the walls depict plants and ornaments that the artist has composed into a complete picture. They move between abstraction, geometry, and figuration. Her linocuts, coated with resin, consist of small forms that are repeatedly varied and recombined. Triestram’s picture titles, entire sentences, or names evoke multi-layered associations.
In the centre of the room stands a mythical roundel with five figures that resemble Egyptian canopic jars. The modelled and partially gilded animal heads on wooden pedestals seem to whisper stories – stories of transitions, farewells and reunions, transformations. This carousel of time could start spinning at any moment. Around the roundel on the floor are arranged casts of pill bugs, small creatures that live in the shadows and yet enrich our living space. Their tiny bodies, captured enlarged in plaster, appear like artefacts, like modern fossils, indicating the cycle of nature and transience.
Everything in the exhibition seems to seek balance, a balance in the interplay of nature and culture, of past and future. The show becomes a place that invites us to perceive the quiet connections in things – and to see yesterday with new eyes tomorrow.
Anya Triestram was born in 1977 in the district of Eichsfeld, Thuringia (Germany), where she also grew up. After studying art and German for teaching at the University of Erfurt, she studied graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2011, she completed her training as a master student of Annette Schröter in the painting class. Since 2015, Triestram has held the position of Senior Artist at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), with artistic and technical management for woodcut and linocut. Since the late 1990s, she has mostly exhibited in Germany and Austria. The artist lives and works in Vienna and Leipzig. The exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch is Triestram’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The show was curated by Anna Wesle in collaboration with the artist.
The exhibition catalogue is published by Modo Press, Frankfurt am Main.
The large-format, finely crafted pastels and delicate coloured pencil drawings hanging on the walls depict plants and ornaments that the artist has composed into a complete picture. They move between abstraction, geometry, and figuration. Her linocuts, coated with resin, consist of small forms that are repeatedly varied and recombined. Triestram’s picture titles, entire sentences, or names evoke multi-layered associations.
In the centre of the room stands a mythical roundel with five figures that resemble Egyptian canopic jars. The modelled and partially gilded animal heads on wooden pedestals seem to whisper stories – stories of transitions, farewells and reunions, transformations. This carousel of time could start spinning at any moment. Around the roundel on the floor are arranged casts of pill bugs, small creatures that live in the shadows and yet enrich our living space. Their tiny bodies, captured enlarged in plaster, appear like artefacts, like modern fossils, indicating the cycle of nature and transience.
Everything in the exhibition seems to seek balance, a balance in the interplay of nature and culture, of past and future. The show becomes a place that invites us to perceive the quiet connections in things – and to see yesterday with new eyes tomorrow.
Anya Triestram was born in 1977 in the district of Eichsfeld, Thuringia (Germany), where she also grew up. After studying art and German for teaching at the University of Erfurt, she studied graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2011, she completed her training as a master student of Annette Schröter in the painting class. Since 2015, Triestram has held the position of Senior Artist at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), with artistic and technical management for woodcut and linocut. Since the late 1990s, she has mostly exhibited in Germany and Austria. The artist lives and works in Vienna and Leipzig. The exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch is Triestram’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The show was curated by Anna Wesle in collaboration with the artist.
The exhibition catalogue is published by Modo Press, Frankfurt am Main.