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

My work begins with the question of how we can live more relationally together in contemporary society. My slow, often ritualistic practice invites contemplation in a time marked by speed, grief, and loss—attuning to ecological processes, relational dynamics, and the unfolding rhythms of place.

Drawing on my exile heritage and material research, I see art as a space to explore alternative ways of living and belonging—through practices of sharing, care, and self-organization. I work with the physical, emotional, and material dimensions of space, especially those in-between or undefined areas that resist fixed interpretations.

Through site-responsive interventions and long-term processes of experimentation—using listening-writing, countermapping, papermaking, (cameraless) photography, and collective tending—I explore how spaces and relations co-emerge, transform, and sustain one another. Projects remain open-ended, unfolding in dialogue with site, participants, and temporal rhythms.

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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

2026
• Tending the Unfinished, Towards Non-Extractive Co-Creation – Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (31 March-30 March). Lecture-performance, exhibition & participatory presentation as somæ (with Floris Janssens) – forthcoming 30 March 2026. Combines theoretical reflection and hands-on engagement on fermentation as method and metaphor in artistic research; relational knowledge production, more-than-human collaboration, and non-extractive methodologies. Includes live ferment-making, tasting, and collective reflection. Based on a publication in Landing.
• This Holds Debris Together – Begijnhof / Hasselt University, Hasselt (26 Feb-12 Mar). Artist– researcher in a collective research program at the Begijnhof, Hasselt (funded by Hasselt University). Performative reading, participatory research session, site-specific installation, and coedited zine. Collaboration with PhD candidate Steffie de Gaetano, extending methodologies from the UHasselt Debris Spring School 2025 to which I also contributed.
• Unfinished Matter – Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (30 jan 2025). Participatory intervention developed in collaboration with artist Sjoerd Beijers, emerging from the Anti-Class Residency and realized through an invitation by Shift Gent. The work explored collectivity, memory, and unfinished matter through the shared act of kneading and inscribing dough. Drawing on ideas of preservation through activation (Henri Langlois) and collective memory practices (Shotwell), participants engaged in a tactile and relational process where touch and gesture functioned as forms of communication beyond words. The dough—temporary, unstable, and constantly reshaped—became a medium for shared reflection, appearing briefly as flatbread, dumpling, or fragment before dissolving again through collective handling and consumption.
• The Listening Academy – Practicing Breakdown - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon (19–22 January 2026). Artist–researcher contribution. Facilitated a full one-day program on counter-mapping, breakdown, and collective tending practices, focusing on polluted soils and ecological care. Theoretical grounding includes writings by María Puig de la Bellacasa. Guided and contributed to interdisciplinary dialogues on ecological relationality, planetary coexistence, and more-than-human agency. Program organized in the context of Institution(ing)s, funded by EU and Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.
• Counter-mapping Intervention – Data Centre Infrastructure Walk, Sloterdijk - the Critical Infrastructure Lab (University of Amsterdam), Amsterdam (6 March). Participatory countermapping intervention developed as part of a guided infrastructure walk examining the site of a planned hyperscale data centre near Sloterdijk station. The intervention invited participants to collectively reflect on the allocation of land and water in urban environments. Through countermapping and situated discussion, the walk explored how digital infrastructures -often invisible yet materially intensive- reshape public space, ecological relations, and local economies.
• On Solid Ground – rooted readings (self-initiated reading-research group since 2025 ongoing, with co-organizer Katerina Sidorva). Co-organizing a research-reading group exploring landscape theory and site-specific research.

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.
• Guest lecturer at the faculaty of Architecture and Art MARGES.

- 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 as part of artistic research duo somae, exploring fermentation as method and metaphor through community-based food practices.
- Anti-Class Residency, B32/Maastricht – B32, Maastricht (NL Participant in a collective, experimental peer-led residency focused on decentralised learning and community-based practice. Contributions included writing for the publication Anti-Class: A Carrier Bag of Practices (printed at the Jan van Eyck Academie), participation in community readings in Maastricht’s urban fallow spaces, the public book launch, and a performative dinner at Art au Centre/Liège. The residency brought together practitioners from diverse backgrounds to explore alternative pedagogies, collective care, and subversive forms of knowledge production.
- Kraut sessions, Stadsoase Spinozahof, The Hague – public 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