ANNELIES ŠTRBA
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Annelies Štrba, Aus Pema, 2016-2020, Pigment print and paint on canvas, 20.2 x 30.3 cm.
Annelies Štrba, Aus Pema, 2016, pigment print and paint on canvas, 20.2 x 25 cm
Annelies Štrba, Nyima 577, 2013, Pigment print on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, Ed. of 6
Annelies Štrba, Untitled, 2020, pigment print and paint on canvas, 20.2 x 30.3 cm
Annelies Štrba, Sonjas Geburtstag, 1980, pigment print on photopaper mounted under glass, 125 x 165 cm, Ed. 3 of 6
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ABOUT
A photographer since the age of 15, Annelies Štrba has found the material with which she would build her visual language and extraordinary artistic career within the domestic realm. Her three children—Sonja, Linda, and Samuel—photographed while sleeping or in everyday moments, become the protagonists of a world with a frozen, suspended atmosphere, somewhere between real subjects and archetypes.
Starting in the 2000s, the artist moved increasingly toward painting and began regularly printing her photographs on canvas. More recently, she has also started painting over some of these photos directly on canvas. Her subjects include landscapes—sometimes inhabited by long-haired women or children in perfect harmony with nature—Madonnas, and flowers.
Like lyrical or esoteric visions, her vibrant, unstable, timeless, and mysterious images, often saturated or overexposed in color, offer enchanting scenes where the outer and inner worlds converge.
Annelies Štrba was recently awarded the prestigious Willy Reber Kunstpreis (2020).
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1947, Zug, Switzerland
Lives and works in Richterswil, Switzerland
Selected Awards & Honors
2020 Willy Reber Kunstpreis, Valbella, Grisons Mountains, Switzerland
1997 Studio Residency in Paris, Cité des Arts
1996 Studio Residency in London, Landis & Gyr
1991 Studio Residency in Canary Island, El Cabrito La Gomera
1971–73 Swiss Federal Grant for Applied Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Annelies Štrba, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy
2023 Annelies Štrba. Bunt entfaltet sich mein Anderssein, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland
2021 Annelies Štrba – Mystik des Alltags, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
2021 Annelies Štrba. Aya, Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2021 Annelies Štrba – Noonday, with Kunsthaus Chur, Villa Garbald, Castasegna, Switzerland
2020 Annelies Štrba, Anton Meier, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 New York 2001, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
2020 Galerie weisser Elefant and Galerie EIGEN+ART Berlin/Leipzig, Germany
2019 Galleria Saccetti Berno Ascona, Switzerland
2019 Museo Villa Die Cedri Bellinzona Memoria del Sublime, Switzerland
2019 Palazzo Liestal Carl Spitteler Frauenbilder
2019 Fotografie Triennale OSCMOSCOSMOS Geneva, Switzerland
2018 Heilige Retter in der Not, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Forum Schweirzer Geschichte, Schwyz, Switzerland
2018 Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2017 ALICE verdrehte Welt, OK Oberösterreichisches Kulturquartier, Linz
2017 Muse Biography Strba PDF en Böttcherstraße, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Deutschland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Domesticity, GOWEN, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 Video Kunst, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Zofingen, Switzerland
2023 Between art and nature, Lake Como Design Festival, Como, Italy
2023 Next, GOWEN, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 La Beauté du Diable, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
2023 Sweet Smell of Utopia, Nomadic Art Space, Olten, Switzerland
2022 Alles und Nichts. Japan und die moderne Kunst bis heute, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
2022 Grenzenlos. Einblicke in eine unbekannte Privatsammlung, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Zofingen, Switzerland
2022 Chosen Family. Less alone together, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2022 Art Paris Art Fair, with GOWEN, Paris, France
2021 photo basel, with GOWEN, Basel, Switzerland
2021 Annelies Štrba & Bernhard Schobinger Photographs and Jewels, GOWEN, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 ZuZug aus Osteuropa, Artworks from the Collection, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
2020 Autour d’un café (Over Coffee), GOWEN, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 Nonnen. Starke Frauen im Mittelalter, Landesmuseum Zürich, Switzerland
2020 Kunstmesse Karlsruhe, with Galerie Sacchetti Ascona, Switzerland
2020 Fantastisch Surreal die Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
2019 Im Spiegel, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland
2019 Memoria del Sublime, Il paesaggio nel secolo XXI, Museum del Cedri Bellinzona, Switzerland
2017 We are Family, Gbert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2017 ALICE verdrehte Welt, OK Oberösterreichesches Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
2017 SCHLAF, Museen Böttcherstaße. Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
2016 Im Rausch - Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland
Selected Collections
Selected Collections
France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Collection de la caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris
Fondation NSM VIE, Paris
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Les-Rouen
Collection Premiere Heure, St. Cloud
Great Britain
Great Britain
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Celebrity Cruises, London
Leeds City Art Gallery, England
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
Sammlung HVB Group, Munich
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Switzerland
Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Kunstzeughaus (Sammlung Bosshard)
Bundeskunstsammlung, Bern
Kunstmuseum Bern
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva
Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Geneva
Kartause Ittingen
Kleemuseum, Bern
Kunsthaus Zug
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunsthaus Winterthur
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne
Sammlung Credit Suisse, Zürich
Sammlung der Schweizer Post
Sammlung Ricola Laufen
Sammlung der Stadt, Zürich
Sammlung der Stadt, Luzern
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich
Swissre Art Collection
UBS Art Collection, Zürich
Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zürich
ZKB Private Banking, Zürich
USA
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
The Margulies Collection, Florida
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Bibliography
Annelies Strba, Madonna, with contributions by Simon Baur & Ilma Rakusa, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, 2019
Simon Baur, Annelies Strba, in Kuenstler, Kritisches Lexicon der Gegenwartskunst,Kunstmedien, Neu-Isenburg, 2017
Annelies Strba, Moonday, Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich, 2015
Madonna, Annelies Strba, with an essay by Ilma Rakusa, Edition Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva, 2014
Véronique Mauron, Annelies Strba: Frances et les Elfes, Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland , 2010
Ralf Christofori, Annelies Strba: Frances und die Elfen, Ilma Rakusa Stuttgart, 2005
Emily Bronte, Annelies Strba, Edition Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2008
Simon Maurer, Annelies Strba: NYIMA, Zürich: Helmhaus Zürich / Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, 2003
Annelies Strba: AYA, Scalo, Zürich, Berlin, New York, 2002
Annelies Strba: ÅN 1–ÅN 11. Richterswil: Annelies Strba, 2001. (Publikation zur Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zug / Publication
accompanying the exhibition at Kunsthaus Zug), 2001
Ilma Rakusa, Annelies Strba: Shades of Time, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, 1997
Roman Kurzmeyer, Strba, Annelies: Ware iri ware ni iru, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern,1994
Annelies Strba, texts by Bernhard Bürgi, Georg Kohler Exhibition catalog Kusthalle Zurich, Edition Howeg, Zurich, 1990
