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Visiting Artist CNRS - Centre Biophysique Moléculaire Orléans, France
Artist in Residence CNRS - Centre Biophysique Moléculaire Orléans, France
Visiting Artist German Archaea Centre at the University of Regensburg, Germany
My artistic practice is transdisciplinary, combining performance, installation, and scientific collaboration, with a focus on microbiology, neurology, and a growing passion for astrobiology. With a background in theatre, my work centres on the staged, the performative, and the mise-en-scène.
My projects are epistemological and ontological investigations, seen through the lenses of differing motifs, creating and uncovering narratives.
Education
2023 Diploma with Distinction, Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE)
2020–2023 Study at Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE), Prof. Jochen Flinzer, Meisterschülerin (Master Student)
2018– 2020 Study at Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE), Prof. Michael Sailstorfer
2015–2018 Study at Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE), Prof. Ottmar Hörl, Meisterschülerin (Master Student)
2000 National Diploma
of Acting, NCDT accredited, Arts Educational Schools London (UK)
1997–2000 School of Acting, Arts Educational Schools London (UK)
Research / Arts & Science
2024–2025 BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Their Extraterrestrial Counterparts.
In Collaboration with CNRS-CBM (Centre Biophysique Moléculaire) Orléans (FR)
2023–2024 Performing Beyond the Human: Investigating the Intersection of Halobacterium salinarum and Human
Performers in Multispecies Assemblages. Live Art in the Anthropocene.
In collaboration with the German Archaea Centre, University of Regensburg (DE)
2021 Aeros: Air in Times of Covid and Climate Change. Installation with scientific fog, silver textile and weather
balloons. In collaboration with Tintschl Group (Fluid mechanics) (DE)
2015 – current Brain Songs: Mappings of Mind, Memory and Space.
With the support of the Institute of Pathology, the Hospital Bruderwald Bamberg and the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Erlangen (DE)
2020 Sono: Experimental Music Theatre Exploring ASMR and Opera.
Scientific advisor: Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon, Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Institute of Psychology, University of Bamberg
Funded by Leonardo – Zentrum für Kreativität und Innnovation Nuremberg (DE)
Selection Work / Exhibitions
2024 LOOK – Ecology and Technoloy (Group show). National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (BGR)
2024 PULL WHIP PUSH (Solo show). Kreis Galerie, Nuremberg (DE)
2023 Live Acts (Group show.) Kunstbunker Nuremberg (DE)
2023 Performing Beyond the Human (Lecture performance). Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Sofia (BGR)
2023 LUCA – Installative Research (Diploma exhibition). Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE)
2022 trilogy56nord. Pparticipatory film project and open air cinema. City of Erlangen (DE)
2022 Digital Air (VR & hybrid exhibition). Edel Extra Nuremberg (DE) & Fabrika Moscow (RUS)
2022 Geldbeichte (Film performance “Arbeit?”). Sound of the City Festival, Oper Wuppertal, Wuppertaler Filmproduktion WUPPERwerft (DE)
2021 Thriller (Group show). Kesselhaus, Kunstverein Bamberg
(DE)
2021 Aeros (Performance and installation). Representing Edel Extra, RathausArt, Nuremberg (DE)
2021 Strips (With Max Weisthoff). Lost Weekend meets Young Art, Lost Weekend Munich (DE)
2021 Zooomworld Video (Interactive dance video). Fonds Darstellende Künste (German Federal Performing Arts Fund) (DE)
2021 Zooomworld App (AR dance theatre app). Internationales figuren.theater.festival Erlangen (DE)
2021 Auf der Leitung stehen. Unterwanderungen intelligenter Infrastrukturen (Intervention curated by Paul Feigelfel). Military training town Schnöggersburg (DE)
2020 Der River (Group show curated by Michael Sailstorfer, Anselm Reyle, Gregor Hildebrandt). Alte Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
2020 Sono (experimental music theatre). Leonardo – Zentrum für Kreativität und Innnovation Nuremberg & Kulturforum Fürth (DE)
2020 Insane in the Membrane (With Eva-Maria Neubauer). Lost & Found Kunst-Parcours, City of Nuremberg (DE)
2020 Dynamisches Objekt (With Martina Kändler, Joanna Maxellon). Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop
(DE)
2020 Cherry Dreams (Solo show). Edel Extra Nuremberg (DE)
2019 Church of Money (With Heinz Gubler (CH)). Mediathek Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Media Centre Federal Agency for Civic Education), (DE)
2019 The Incarnation and the Becoming (Solo show). BBK Galerie Nuremberg Mittelfranken (Vocational Association of Fine Artists) Nuremberg (DE)
2019 Space time (Guest artist of Sebastian Tröger). Kunstwettbewerb Blaue Nacht, Staatstheater Nuremberg (DE)
2019 The Fifth Orbital (Ritual performance @Open Studio curated by Ei Arakawa, Sarah Chow). Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg (AT)
2018 Heavy Metal Erntedank (Group show curated by Amely Deiss). Kunstpalais Erlangen
(DE)
2018 Kopftuch-Debatten (With Monika Dobrowlanska. A Multimedia theatre installation and monologue). BTT-Extra Bayerische Theatertage (Bavarian Theatre Festival), Jewish Museum of Franconia, Fürth (DE)
2018 Don’t you blame anyone (Future comes quickly) (Group show curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu) Akademie Galerie AEG Nuremberg (DE)
2018 Guten Abend, gute Nacht (with Joanna Maxellon. A multimedia installation). Kunstwettbewerb Blaue Nacht, Herrenschießhaus Nuremberg (DE)
2017 Brot und Spiele (Solo show). House of Finance, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
(DE)
2017 Best Of (Group show), AEG Halle, Nuremberg (DE)
2016 Die Pracht der Arbeit (Guerilla performace @Manifesta 11). Public spaces Zurich (CH)
2015 Moneybrain (Participatory action). Lange Nacht der offenen Museen, Münchner Bank Museum
, Munich (DE)
2015 GELDspuren (Solo show). Münchner Bank Museum
, Munich (DE)
2014 Geld-Pilgerreise (Durational performance). From Zürich to Frankfurt
(CH), (AT), (UK), (DE)
2013 Batseba (Recital and theatre installation). Kulturforum Fürth (DE)
2012 Ofrenda II (Live streamed performance & ebay auction). Lichtspiel Kino Bamberg (DE)
2012 Ofrenda I (Procession). Waste incineration plant, Bamberg (DE)
2012 No Sentimental Suicide Note (Solo show). Badstrasse 8 Fürth (DE)
2011–2012 Sleeping King (Decomposing sculpture). In the king’s forest, Landkreis Herzogenaurach (DE)
2011 The First Time I Pick a Persimmon (Interactive performance). Neuenburger Kunstwoche (DE)
2009–2011 ¡Manos! (Intimate theatre). Public spaces, i.a. Feldkirch (AT), (DE)
200 –2011 Dobrowlańska & Poetter Performing Arts Platform (Co-founder). Berlin (DE)
2008–2010 M & B – Songlines (Traditional song project). Funded by Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt (DE)
2008–2011 Die Kathrina (Sitespecific mysteryplay,). Cemeteries, i. a.. Ostfriedhof München (DE)
2007–2011 Kleiner Fuchs (Physical theatre). I. a. Performance Art Depot Mainz (DE), (AT)
2006–2008 International Arts Resource (Company member). Grotowski Institute (PL), (UKR)
Selection Grants / Scholarships / Residencies
2024–2025 Art-Science Residency: The École supérieure d'art et de design d'Orléans (ESAD Orléans), the CBM research institute (Centre for Molecular Biophysics) of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, Orléans (FR)
2024–2025 Grant: Atelierförderung (studio funding) Stadt Fürth (DE)
2023–2024 Scholarship: Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (Equal opportunities for women in research and teaching), Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the
Arts) (DE)
2023 Award: Max und Rita Körndl Förderpreis für junge Kunst (Sponsorship award for young art), Kreis Galerie Nuremberg (DE)
2022 Artist in Residence: Stadt Erlangen, Kunstpalais Erlangen (DE)
2022 Grant: Junge Kunst und neue Wege (New art and new paths), Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts) (DE)
2021 Grant: Fonds Darstellende Künste (German Federal Performing Arts Fund) (DE)
2021 Grant: Internationales figuren.theater.festival Erlangen (DE)
2020 Residency: Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop
(DE)
2016 Grant: maecenia – Frankfurter Stiftung für Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst (Frankfurt Foundation for Women in Science and Art) (DE)
2014 Grant: maecenia – Frankfurter Stiftung für Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst (Frankfurt Foundation for Women in Science and Art) (DE)
2011 Residency: 28. Neuenburger Kunstwoche
(DE)
2005 Symposium: Internationales Forum Junger Bühnenangehöriger Theatertage Berlin (DE)
Selection Teaching
2024/25 Teaching assignment “Live Matter and New Materiality in Bio Inspired Art”, Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE)
2020–2024 Teaching Assignments “Aesthetic Forms of Play”, Academy of Fine Art Nuremberg (DE)
2019 Workshop “Money Games: Performing Having and Not-Having”, Hochschule Luzern (CH)
2013 Intensive workshop “Body, Language, Voice” Fremdspracheninstitut (Foreign Language Institute) Munich (DE)
2012 Intensive training “Physical and Spatial Awareness in the Performer”, Fundacja Centrum Solidarnosc,
Gdansk (PL)
2011 “Storytelling” Fortbildung Priesterseminar (vocational training for the priest seminary), Erzbistum Bamberg (Archdiocese of Bamberg) (DE)
Selection Bibliography
2025 Steward, Gfellner, Pifferi, Sforna, Aucagne, Réfrégiers, “BioQuantum Record: Chiral Handshakes Between Terrestrial Extremophiles and Extra-Terrestrial Counterparts” – submitted for BEACON 2025
2022 Film “Arbeit?”, Sound of the City Festival, Wuppertaler Filmproduktion WUPPERwerft
2021 Introduction “Thriller” by Nora Gomringer, Video (introduction work Anna Steward min 11:45–min 14:20), YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGXtRODtp8k
2021 Catalogue, “Der River – Stones are Forever in Youth”
2021 9. bpb:salon “Auf den Spuren des Geldes – Über Geldschöpfung und Ungleichheit”, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbzQ1JS82U
2021 Interview, O-Magazin 01, Leonardo Zentrum Nürnberg, p. 51–63
2020 Documentation Ahrenshooper Seiten, Edition Hohes Ufer, p. 6–7
2019 Film “Church of Money”, Mediathek Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung: https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/video/319146/church-of-money-auf-den-spuren-des-geldes/
2019 Film “Church of Money”, Artfilm; https://www.artfilm.ch/de/church-of-money
2019 Catalogue “Rroooaaarr!”, VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst /Wien, p. 26 –27
2018 Catalogue “Ansbach Contemporary 2. Biennale”, Stadt Ansbach
2017 Cover “agora 42 – Das philosophische Wirtschaftsmagazin”, issue 01/2017
2014 Interview, “agora 42 – Das philosophische Wirtschaftsmagazin”, issue 04/2014 p. 50–60
Contact
anna(at)anna-steward.com
PHOTO
Laila Auburger