anna andrejew - artist-researcher with a background in ethnography and permaculture.

my artistic research explores the physical, emotional, and material dimensions of spaces, giving voice to the in-between, often undefined areas that resist fixed or singular outcomes.

drawing on my exile heritage and material research, i explore how the impacts of extraction and capitalist disruption can transform into openings for reimagining other-than and more-than-human, relational temporalities of care.

through countermapping, deep listening, papermaking, writing, and (cameraless) photography, i treat making as a form of research and collaboration with place. my slow, often ritualistic practice aims to create room for contemplation in a time of speed, grief, and loss—foregrounding reciprocity, ecological attunement, and collective imagination.

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based in the hague, the netherlands.

i employ an ecofeminist lens and multispecies perspectives. my previous researches included themes connected to soil, water bodies (commissioned by NWO), the non-binary/more-than-human, our perception of time and expanding our notion of photography (beyond its humancentric conventions).

alongside my independent practice, i collaborate with floris janssens, an archival specialist and artist, as an artistic-research duo. together, we explore the interconnectedness of land, food, digestion, and emotion, using fermentation as both method and metaphor—a relational, attentive approach to knowledge-making that resists extraction and embraces transformation. we organize community sessions that weave together artistic research, food practices, and ecological thinking into collective, hands-on experiences. recent activities include sessions at stadsoase spinozahof, the anti-class residency (b32/maastricht), and ongoing participation in the volkskeuken community kitchen in the hague.

activities

2025
- university of hasselt debris spring school (may 19–23, vierset-barse, belgium), project passage hasselt university.

• invited to participate and lead a session in this interdisciplinary program on the concept of debris in socio-environmental challenges.

- CODA paper biennale– the cloud is a place on earth (april–november) – exhibition, performance, publication.
- west ecofeminist symposium– countermapping the garden (march 20) – workshop, west the hague.
- kunst en landschap route– Be Like Water– 6-9 juni exhibition at Museumfabriek Enschede.
- On Solid Ground - co-organizing and hosting open-air reading and research groups exploring land, memory, and power through texts in ecology, queer-feminism, Indigenous knowledge, political ecology, critical cartography, and artistic practice. Designed as a slow, reflective space for collective thought and dialogue (monthly gatherings).
- mapping margins - countermapping borders (3 august) - intervention, time is the new space, rotterdam.
-  The Active Image: Political Ecologies & Photographic Agency, part of group show, the sustainable darkroom, online.
- Tuin is the message, group show after artist in residence at NoR Rotterdam, 14-16 aug. included the site-responsive work “fallow forms”. 
- Kraut sessions, Volkskeuken, The Hague – ongoing collaborative sessions with Floris, exploring fermentation as method and metaphor through community-based food practices.
- Anti-Class Residency, B32/Maastricht – collaborative workshops with Floris, bringing together artistic research, food, and ecological thinking.
- Kraut sessions, Stadsoase Spinozahof, The Hague – public duo sessions on fermentation, relational knowledge-making, and ecological attunement (ongoing).

2024
- exploring the memory of matter through papermaking, artistic research workshop, part of PACR/KABK/KC/Leiden University, the hague, 22 nov.
for (artist-) researchers working in & beyond the fields of Art, Design & Music.
- speculative mapping session as part of The Hmm Data Centre Tour, amsterdam, 9 nov.
- transactive memories- organic internet collaboration with Pamela Nelson, New York Textile Month, workshop, 26 sept. 
- the active image- political ecologies & photographic agency - online feature of The Sustainable Darkroom.
- grenzen & landschap - terra incognita & be like water, exhibition, participatory performance, provinciehuis zuid-holland, the hague 25 sept - 15 nov.
- flowing forward in closed cycles- be like water, exhibition, workshop, publication, West Paradise, the hague 1-31 july.
- the first impression on your skin, publication of my research paper included in the ‘matter does matter” exhibition of the KABK Lectorate Art, Theory and Practice, the hague - 27 june - 2 july.
- the cloud is a place on earth, exhibition, performance, publication, KABK 2024 graduation show the royal academy of art, the hague - 27 june - 2 july.
- closed cycles- be like water, exhibition, performance, workshop, publication, commisioned by NWO, closed cycles programme, egmond aan zee, 21-23 may.
- community kimchi, workshop/story telling, together with sophie krier & floris janssens, part of Urban Art Laboratories, spinozahof the hague, 20 april and 7 sept.
- 100% recycled time - essay part of the ecofeminist publication “a new world” of West the hague.


2023
- material research into paper making at Loes Schepens atelier, the hague, sept-may 2024.
- wie is hier de idioot? exhibition review published in tubelight magazine 124 and part of the exhibition- 25 jaar tubelight – kritieke kunstkritiek, tent, rotterdam (nl).
- terra incognita- exhibition part of the group exhibition ‘regenerate’, noorderlicht festival, groningen (nl), 23 juni - 10 december.
- second enlightenment, conversations and visual philosophy, ISVW.
- terra incognita - exhibition and conversations. part of ‘van bodem tot bord’, eetbaar park- permacultuurcentrum the hague (nl).
- the cameraless photographer - reading performance on mushroom radio, the hague.
- terra incognita, exhibition, workshop, reading performance and conversations.- part of ‘as above, so below’ exhibition, the greyspace in the middle, the hague.
- the activist is a white whale - exhibition at we do/are photography, international photoszene festival, cologne (de), 20-22 oct.


2022
- the activist is a white whale- part of  the exhibition of the fool group collective exhibition, motoki, cologne (de), 15 mar.
- the activist is a white whale. part of the publication ‘trickle - come, go, or appear slowly’. published with the support of the royal academy of art, the hague, 21 oct.

2021
- pr(e)ying eyes, writing about wildlife photography as a form of paparazzi intrusion, pubshlised online here.


education
- 2019 – 2024 bachelor of arts, royal academy of art, the hague
- 2022 permacultuur jaaropleiding, permacultuurcentrum, the hague
- 2002 -2007 master & bachelor of science ba, erasmus university, rotterdam