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Healing Power

33 Artworks

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This new series of work was scheduled to be exhibited at cre8ery gallery in May 2021 as Anja's solo exhibition titled "Healing Power". Due to COVID the exhibition was postponed to September 2021. These works are Anja’s response to the worldwide pandemic, ongoing environmental crisis, and the increased human divide. They explore the beauty of nature and wildlife, the relief this beauty provides during tough times, and the hope it symbolizes for humans to live in peace with each other and nature.

Home Sweet Home

11 Artworks

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A series exploring the meaning of Heimat (home) and the discovery of how deeply connected my identity is to Switzerland.

Layers

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A series of portraits exploring human existence and identity. We are all complex beings with different layers to our personalities. We put on masks for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment, and some experiences can cause cracks in our layers. Some layers are visible and some are hidden, but at the core we are more alike than different. To truly see somebody for who they are, do we chip away at those layers or is this accumulation of layers what truly makes us into who we are - complex and beautiful.

Papercuts / Scherenschnitte

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A body of work consisting of paper cuts portraying wildlife, highlighting the urgent environmental challenges they face. These challenges threaten their survival, leading to a gradualdecline in their populations until they vanish completely. 

In November 2024 Anja unveiled for the first time an edition of papercuts as a homage to this old Swiss tradition and since then her art practice has solely focused on papercutting wildlife. The artist has had a love for traditional Swiss papercuts ever since her childhood and her illustrations have long been inspired by this artform. A workshop in Switzerland in 2018 gave her the confidence to explore papercutting within her art practice. Anja’s delicate papercuts depict wildlife in her distinctive graphic style using patterns. The patterns unravel into lines, echoing the message of wildlife being in danger of becoming extinct and disappearing in front of our eyes.

Perception

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A series showing the continued exploration of human existence and the role perception plays. Curiosity about how perceptions of the same events, situations, people and the world differ.

Protect What You Love

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This newest series of work is a call to humanity to protect our planet and its wildlife. Plants and animals are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, the oceans are full of plastics and the air we breathe is increasingly polluted. In response to this environmental crisis, Anja has created a series of encaustic paintings of animals native to Manitoba. Each painting combines an abstract landscape, an animal illustration and a graphic pattern. The graphic pattern represents one of the reasons why the featured animal’s survival is increasingly challenged, such as deforestation, global warming or loss of habitat. The ancient form of encaustic painting with melted beeswax, resin and pigment helps to elicit a sense of connection to the nature we need to protect. The gravity of the climate crisis can seem overwhelming, but we can all make a difference by placing a climate action lens over everyday choices such as what we buy, what we eat and who we vote for. Anja’s hope is to inspire others through her art to take action and protect our home. The artist and the gallery will be donating 10% of all sales from this show to the Winnipeg-based Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (PWRC). PWRC’s main goal is to treat injured and orphaned wildlife and to successfully release them back into their natural habitat.

The Vanishing North

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The series "The Vanishing North" is part of the larger body of work, The Ghosts We Create, conceived during the summer of 2023 at the Venezia Contemporanea Residencies Program in Venice, Italy. Inspired by the artist's second home-Canada-and its diverse wildlife, The Vanishing North features papercuts and mixed-media paintings that portray Canadian wildlife, highlighting the urgent environmental challenges they face. These challenges threaten their survival, leading to a gradualdecline in their populations until they vanish completely. The series was on exhibition at Pulse Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada from February 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025 as well as June 3 to 27, 2025 at the Little Art Boutique in Winnipeg, Canada.