Anna McCarthy

Born in: 1981
From: Munich, Germany
Lives and works: Munich, Germany
Represented by: Sperling
Website: https://annamccarthy.de/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_McCarthy

UN goals

Biography

Anna McCarthy constantly seeks new forms to express topics that have collective relevancy as well as personal urgency. Her work is quick and dirty. Improvised and raw, charged with personal experience as a reflection of wider topics. Her sharp observation and wit challenge the status quo, always laughing, together with the viewer, in the face of fear. Her methods of production mirror the content – cheap materials, reusables, always in flux. She possesses a talent to astutely comment on societal ongoings whilst refraining from preaching, subtly dismantling power constructs as she goes. Her work is a modern-day amalgam of multilayered readings that take the viewer into a narration that weaves in and out of thought patterns in those similar to one’s own.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2024, Diana Gallery, Milan, Italy: Volatile
2022, Sperling Munich, Germany: Washing Cycle
2017, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany: What Are People For?

Group shows

2022, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany: Über Wasser und Pflanzen
2021, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany: Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken
2016, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany: FAVORITEN III