Anna Rudolf
Drawing for me is a question of identity. I draw to get something in front of me to relate to and think about. In it’s directness it refers to my feeling and thougts.
Anna Rudolf was born and raised in Basel, Switzerland. She has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years. She studied at the School of Design in Basel and then free art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She received the Derebbel Prize for her thesis. In addition to her artistic work, she, trained as a freelance professional photographer at the Amsterdam Photo Academy, photographs works of art in the studio and exhibitions for artists and art institutions.
Drawing for me is a question of identity. I draw to get something in front of me to relate to and think about. In it’s directness it refers to my feeling and thougts. My drawings are like transparant buildings with all traces of creation visible. I challenge the viewer to read a work from the process and from results that do not necessarily lead to a conclusion.
Anna Rudolf, 2023
Drawing means being in a dialogue with myself. In a rhythm of daily artistic activity I invent on paper a unique situation or moment in time, sometimes only to doubt and dismantle it again with a rubber. I follow the lines and answer with lines as I see them as autonomous entities. I love ink, running silently almost too fast to control, just as the sound of breaking charcoal leaving challenging traces of black dust allover the paper. Before I make it, I don’t know the drawing. It evolves from my imagination in an intense interaction with what is coming up on paper.
In small formats as well as in large drawing installations, idiosyncratic animal and human figures emerge in unmistakable linework, which are related to one another.
Her work is shown internationally and she regularly exhibits in galleries, museums and art institutions in Holland, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. A selection of her exhibitions are: BIG ART, Amsterdam/NL; puntWG, Amsterdam/NL; Amsterdam Drawing/NL; Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam/NL; Art Association Diepenheim/NL; De Vishal, Haarlem/NL; Gallery Vrijdag, Antwerp/BE; Künstlerforum Forum, Bonn/GER; Ostrale, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Dresden/GER; Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/SUI.
In 2020 she won the Visarte Corona Call Prize/SUI, with the drawing installation Cell Space and received a project grant from the Mondriaan Fund/NL, in 2021.
