Bio Anna Bierler (*1989) works with words, typography and process based publishing. Combining graphic design methods and collective writing practices, Anna researches, designs, hosts, writes, teaches and develops community-based publishing formats, seeking to understand ways of doing and living together in times of ecological emergencies. Anna’s practice materializes in publications, radio programs, spatial set ups, reading groups, essays and poetry. Anna co-founded the research collective Stone Network and co-organizes the reading club OOOReading Clubjoin ↗ in Rotterdam. Anna is available for commissions and collaborations. To reach out, please send an e-mail, a DM or text/call🖤
∘˚°˳∘° Education 2021 MFA, Design Department, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam NL 2019 BA, Visual Communication, Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin DE 2014 BA, Comparative Literature, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich DE
∘˚°˳∘° Selected Teaching & Workshops currently Tutor, Fine Art and Design in Education, ArtEZ, Zwolle NL 2023 Publishing Workshop, BYOBfair, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with Rotting Fruits, Amsterdam NLlook ↗ 2023 Storytelling Workshop, I Mean Studio, Brooklyn, New York USlook ↗ 2023 Storytelling Workshop, IDW 2023, with María Mazzanti, Antwerp BE look ↗ 2022 Storytelling Workshop, Zone2Source, with Marit Mihklepp, Amsterdam NL look ↗ 2022 Storytelling Workshop, Field Academy, StrandLab, with Marit Mihklepp, Almere NL look ↗ 2022 Storytelling Workshop, Hackers and Designers, with Marit Mihklepp, Amsterdam NLlook ↗ 2022 Storytelling Workshop, Gemene Grond, Utrecht NL 2021 Storytelling Workshop, HetHEM, with Hannah Rose Whittle, Zaandam NL 2021 Storytelling Workshop, OT101, with Insa Deist, Pernilla Philip, Katharina Nejdl, Amsterdam NL 2019 Layout and Microtypography Workshop, Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin DE 2019 Storytelling Workshop, Department for Social Work, FHSG, St. Gallen, St. Gallen CH 2017 Graphic Design Workshop, Weissensee Academy of Art, with Fritzi Jarmatz, Berlin DE
∘˚°˳∘° Exhibitions, Readings, Talks 2023 Exhibition, Pub 5, It’s a Book, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig DE look ↗ 2023 Reading, Meltdown, Launch of PUB 5: Floating in the Abyss, Suzi Project Space, Amsterdam NL 2023 Panel, Snowblindness, Onomatopee, moderated by Anna Winston, Eindhoven NL look ↗ 2022 Radio Broadcast, Run Deep, Run Wild, Casco Art Institute, with María Mazzanti, Utrecht NLlook ↗ 2022 Reading, And to the rushing water, speak, Gemene Grond, Utrecht NL 2022 Radio Broadcast, Stone Network, with Marit Mihklepp, Good Times Bad Times, Rotterdam NL 2021 Exhibition, Graduation Exhibition Sandberg Instituut, HEMbrugterrein, Zaandam NL 2022 Exhibition, Stone Telling, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam NL and Online 2021 Reading, Meltdown, Soft Launch of Daisy World Mag #2, San Seriffe, Amsterdam NL 2021 Screening, No Touching the Horizon, Comfort and Vision, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL 2019 Exhibition, Graduation Show, Weissensee Academy of Art, Pirol Studios, Berlin DE 2017 Exhibition, 100 Years De Stijl, Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande, Berlin DE 2017 Exhibition, Landpartie, It’s a Book, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig DE 2016 Exhibition, Ping Pong, Leipzig Bookfair, with Quang Nguyen, Leipzig DE
∘˚°˳∘° Radio Broadcasts 2023 OOO Reading Club: Growing Up, Radio Echo, with Tiiu Meiner and Mara Schwerdtfeger, De Hague NLlisten ↗ 2022 Run Deep, Run Wild, Casco Art Institute, with María Mazzanti, Utrecht NLlisten ↗ 2022 Stone Network 1: Building Worlds With Stones, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NLlisten ↗ 2022 Stone Network 2: Stones Grow Like Plants, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NLlisten ↗ 2022 Stone Network 3: Stone Women, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NLlisten ↗ 2022 Stone Network 4: Holes In The Ground, Layers of Time, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NLlisten ↗ 2022 Stone Network 5: As if The Stone has Swallowed it, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NLlisten ↗ 2021 Snowblindness Radio, Radio Rietveld, with Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Amsterdam NLlisten ↗
∘˚°˳∘° Residencies & Research 2023 Weeds Residency, hooops, Libken, Uckermark DE 2023 Reassemble Lab: Weatherscapes, Fiber, Amsterdam NL 2022 Finis Terrae, Research Residency, Finistère, Brittany FR 2022 LIOS lab, arts of ecology residency programme, Bledów Desert PL 2022 Hoe het water van Utrecht ons verbindt, Gemene Grond, residency programme, Utrecht NL 2022 CLOUD Danslab & Good Times Bad Times Community Radio, De Hague and Rotterdam NL 2023 Evening Class, Elementare Typographie, Rudolf Barmettler, Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich CH 2018 Typographic Summer Program, with Dafi Kühne, Rudolf Barmettler, Näfels CH
∘˚°˳∘° Recent & Selected Design Commissions currently Graphic Design, Extra Intra, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL 2023 Graphic Design, Sound Office, with Insa Deist, Rotterdam NL look ↗ 2023 Graphic Design, Spit City, Elio J Carranza, transmediale, Berlin DE look ↗ 2023 Graphic Design, Snowblindness, published by Onomatopee, with Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Eindhoven NL look ↗ 2022 Graphic Design, Daisy World Mag #5, in collaboration with Alix Stria, Amsterdam NL 2022 Graphic Design, Soothing Pants, Alice Slyngstad, Vleeshal, Middelburg NL look ↗ 2022 Graphic Design, Graduation Show 2022, Melkweg, with Alix Stria, Amsterdam NL look ↗ 2022 Graphic Design, PUB Journal #5, Sandberg Instituut, with Alix Stria, Amsterdam NL 2022 Graphic Design,Life After Sandberg, Sandberg Instiuut, with Alix Stria, Amsterdam NL
look ↗ 2021 Graphic Design, The Rip of Venus, Mino Buonincontri, Milano IT 2021 Graphic Design, Say You Love Me, title sequence and subtitles, DFFB, Berlin DE 2021 Graphic Design, On Isolation, key visual, FHNW Basel, Basel CH look ↗ 2020 Graphic Design, PUB Journal #4, with Michael Weber, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam NL look ↗
∘˚°˳∘° Selected Publications 2022 Poem, I want to change, featured in: Robida #8, Topolò IT look ↗ 2022 Poem, I want to change, featured in: Daisy World Magazine #5, Amsterdam NL look ↗ 2022 Short Story, Meltdown, featured in: PUB Journal #5, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam NL 2021 Publication, and deep deep holes and tracks and traces and changes, HetHEM, Zandaam NL 2021 Online Publication, Stone Telling, Rietveld Pavilion, with Insa Deist, Amsterdam NL look ↗ 2021 Essay, Construction Sites, featured in: Issue No 6, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam NLlook ↗ 2021 Short Story, Meltdown, featured in: Daisy World Magazine #2, Amsterdam NLlook ↗
∘˚°˳∘° Selected Publications on Work 2022 Article, Sensorial Heritage Field Academy Online read ↗ 2021 Article, The Sign of the Stars, Graduation Catalog 2021, Print and Onlineread ↗ 2021 Article, Metropolism Mag Onlineread ↗ 2018 Article, Novum Young Talents 05/18 Print 2017 Article, AIGA – Eye on Design Onlineread ↗ 2017 Article, Page Onlineread ↗
∘˚°˳∘˚ ° ° ∘°˳∘ img,° ° ∘°˳∘ ∘˚°˳∘˚Workshop Script, Towel for Strandlab Almere, with Marit Mihklepp, NL 2022 Snowblindness, Publication, published by Onomatopee, with Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen, NL 2023buy 🖤 ↗
Sound-Office, Online Publication, with Insa Deist, NL 2023look ↗
Stone Network, Residency at CLOUD Danslab and Good Times Bad Times Radio, with Marit Mihklepp, NL 2022 Various Publications, Extra Intra, NL 2021–ongoing Graduation Show 2022, Melkweg, with Alix Stria, NL 2022 Floating in Debris, Publication, Pub Sandberg, with Alix Stria, NL 2022 Softer Marks, felted rug, pillows and reader installation, Sandberg Instituut graduation show, HetHEM, NL 2021 Say You Love Me, title sequence and subtitles for Kirsten Brandt, DE 2021 Stone Telling, experimental publishing project, Rietveld Pavilion, NL 2021look ↗ The Rip of Venus, publication for Mino Buonincontri, IT 2021 On Isolation, key visual, FHNW Basel, CH 2021look ↗
We need to talk, workshop and publication, FHSG, St. Gallen, CH 2019
Graphic Design, PUB Journal #4, with Michael Weber, Sandberg Instituut, NL 2020look ↗
Exhibition Design, 100 Years De Stijl, Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande, DE 2017