Biography

Through the feedback loop of consumerist culture, Anna Uddenberg investigates how body culture, spirituality, and self-staging are intertwined with the mediation and production of subjectivity by new technologies and circulation of forms. Her practice integrates approaches to gender while acting as a space for reflecting on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, pushing these questions into new material territories. Uddenberg’s work continues to confront feminine identity in consumer culture and explores performativity by using sculpture and performance as visual platforms. The use of automobile skeletal structures and other utilitarian structures in her latest abstract and figurative works refers to the concept of comfort zone and proxies for architecture. The 'furnituresque' outlook is a result of multiple rearrangements of everyday objects and materials, which are set in a new dialogue with one another.

 

ANNA UDDENBERG born 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden, lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions with the artist have taken place at TANK, Shanghai (2025); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2024); KINDL, Berlin (2024); Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2024); Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck (2023, solo); The Perimeter, London (2023, solo); Kunsthalle Mannheim (2023, solo); Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2023, solo); Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2023); Kiasma Museum, Helsinki (2023); Centre Pompidou Metz (2023); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2023); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2022, solo); Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022); Cylinder, Seoul (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021, solo); Berghain Panoramabar, Berlin (2020); Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles (2019); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2019, solo); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2019); Powerlong Museum, Shanghai (2019); 14th Fellbach Trienniale (2019); the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018); Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2018, solo); nGbK, Berlin (2018); Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitaine, Sète (2018); Splendid Cleaners, New York (2018); Athens Biennale (2018); Evoluon, Eindhoven (2018); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2018); Gaga, Mexico City (2017, solo); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); Kiasma–Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017), Kamel Mennour, Paris (2017) and at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2017, solo). Uddenberg was the 2020 artist fellow for Black Cube Museum in Denver, CO.

 

 

Her work is in the collections of:

 

Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich

Havrlant Art Collection, Prague
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Kiasma Museum, Helsinki

Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Bonn
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Boros Collection, Berlin
Stavanger Art Museum
K11 Foundation, Shanghai

Anna Uddenberg is the recipient of the Hector Kunstpreis, 2022 and Overbeck-Preis für bildende Kunst, 2023.

Works
  • Premium Economy
    Premium Economy
  • Premium Economy V
    Premium Economy V
  • SUB-D (INFLATION)
    SUB-D (INFLATION)
  • T-Top Tummy Tuck
    T-Top Tummy Tuck
  • BIG BABY
    BIG BABY
  • Silver Edge I (in collaboration with Juan Alvear)
    Silver Edge I (in collaboration with Juan Alvear)
  • CLIMBER (Angel Kiss)
    CLIMBER (Angel Kiss)
  • CLIMBER (Pierced Rosebud)
    CLIMBER (Pierced Rosebud)
  • 01
    Cuddle Clamp
  • Death Drop
    Death Drop
  • Disconnect (airplane mode)
    Disconnect (airplane mode)
  • FOCUS #2 (pussy padding)
    FOCUS #2 (pussy padding)
  • 2019_03_25_IMG_7769
    FOCUS (Padded Purpose)
  • _MG_0977_cc_shrp
    Journey of Self Discovery
  • MONT BLANC
    MONT BLANC
  • 2017_11_04_8040 2
    Pockets Obese
  • 190403_BA_Anna_Uddenberg_Bild-Kraftwerk_016
    Precarious Patricia
  • 2019_03_01_IMG_7030
    Psychotropic Lounge (I)
  • 2019_03_01_IMG_7082
    Psychotropic Lounge (II)
  • Savage #3 (camo cozy sock)
    Savage #3 (camo cozy sock)
  • Savage #4 (quilt queen)
    Savage #4 (quilt queen)
  • 3768-170329pm-5019
    Savage #7 (zero g)
  • Sisterunit on Fly
    Sisterunit on Fly
  • 2016_12_10_1942
    Transit Mode - Abenteuer, 2014–16, TM
  • _MG_0753_cc_shrp
    Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique
  • Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique #2
    Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique #2
  • 3642-170321pm-3761
    Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Swirl
  • Tribal Tramp Stamp #2 + #3
    Tribal Tramp Stamp #2 + #3
  • Booty Dummy Demo
    Booty Dummy Demo
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