^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 Club ^{join ↗} 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

∘˚°˳∘° Awards & Grants
²⁰²² Experimental Grant, Stimuleringsfonds, Rotterdam NL
²⁰²¹ Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos, Utrecht NL
²⁰²¹ Project Grant, Stichting Jaap Hartens Fund, Den Haag NL
²⁰²¹ Project Grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
²⁰²⁰ Project Grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
²⁰¹⁸ Research Stipend, Mart Stam Stipendium, Berlin 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 NL^{look ↗}
²⁰²³ Storytelling Workshop, I Mean Studio, Brooklyn, New York US^{look ↗}
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 NL^{look ↗}
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 NL^{look ↗}
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 NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Run Deep, Run Wild, Casco Art Institute, with María Mazzanti, Utrecht NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Stone Network 1: Building Worlds With Stones, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Stone Network 2: Stones Grow Like Plants, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Stone Network 3: Stone Women, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Stone Network 4: Holes In The Ground, Layers of Time, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²² Stone Network 5: As if The Stone has Swallowed it, Cloud Danslab, with Marit Mihklepp, Rotterdam NL^{listen ↗}
²⁰²¹ Snowblindness Radio, Radio Rietveld, with Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Amsterdam NL^{listen ↗}

∘˚°˳∘° 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 NL^{look ↗}
²⁰²¹ Short Story, Meltdown, featured in: Daisy World Magazine #2, Amsterdam NL^{look ↗}

∘˚°˳∘° Selected Publications on Work
²⁰²² Article, Sensorial Heritage Field Academy Online ^{read ↗}
²⁰²¹ Article, The Sign of the Stars, Graduation Catalog 2021, Print and Online^{read ↗}
²⁰²¹ Article, Metropolism Mag Online^{read ↗}
²⁰¹⁸ Article, Novum Young Talents 05/18 Print
²⁰¹⁷ Article, AIGA – Eye on Design Online^{read ↗}
²⁰¹⁷ Article, Page Online^{read ↗}

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