Anna McCarthy
Anna McCarthy’s (*1981, lives and works in Munich) 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.
Works
Anna McCarthy, Car crash (b/w), 2024, pigment print, 230 × 160 cm
Anna McCarthy, Shattered glass will glitter, 2024, Car mirror, pen on paper, 45 × 21 × 2 cm
Anna McCarthy, Fiamma, 2024, watercolor on newspaper, 45 × 33 cm
Anna McCarthy, Melt (dancer), 2024, bronze, 23.7 × 23 × 11.5 cm
Anna McCarthy, Melt (paperweight), 2024, bronze, 5.5 × 10 × 11 cm
Keychain, 2023, Mixed media, wood, wax, jewellery, snail shell, moss, plastic hairclip, sink sieve, keyrings, present from suse, silver spoon, leather, gold & silver pigment, 260 x 25 x 10 cm
Keychain, 2023, Mixed media, wood, wax, jewellery, snail shell, moss, plastic hairclip, sink sieve, keyrings, present from suse, silver spoon, leather, gold & silver pigment, 260 x 25 x 10 cm
Anna McCarthy, Origin of the World, 2023, jute, water, aluminium, brass, acrylic, wood, wire, stainless steel, string, gypsum, pendelum, battery, ceramic, 200 x 120 x 120 cm
Anna McCarthy, Untitled, Glazed Ceramics, 2023, Anna McCarthy Untitled, 2023, 62 x 26 x 8 cm
Anna McCarthy, Untitled, 2023, Glazed ceramic, 58 x 19 x 8 cm
Anna McCarthy, Vision Times (Ghost Birds), 2023, charcoal, acrylic, paper, fake pearl earrings, newspaper, wire, stainless steel, debris on vinyl, 270 x 135 cm
Anna McCarthy, Shackles / Kitchen, 2022, stainless steel, chrome, leather, coins, glue, bolts, wire, keys, 145 x 44.5 x 26.5 cm
Anna McCarthy, Evergreens Cemetery (Overgrown), 2022, acrylic, ink, permanent marker, Old Man’s Beard, stainless steel, brass, pencil on canvas and vinyl, 250 x 136 cm
Anna McCarthy, Black & Blue-Eyed Beauties, 2021, acrylic and crayon on canvas, 60 x 80 cm
Anna McCarthy, The Crying Series (Peaches), 2022, watercolour on paper, 35.56 x 27.94 cm
Anna McCarthy, Hairy Hermitess, 2021, ink, pencil and crayon on paper, 30 x 21 cm
Anna McCarthy, Via Mueli, 2021, indian ink, watercolor on newspaper, 35 x 25 cm
Anna McCarthy, Good Bad Boots, 2020, acrylic on Leather Boots, 20 × 23 × 30 cm
Anna McCarthy, Hüttenbesetzer, 2020, indian ink, crayon and pencil on paper, framed, acrylic on glass, 70 × 50 cm
Anna McCarthy, Neocave, 2020, mixed media, dimensions variable
Anna McCarthy, Angel Alpinista, 2020, plaster, wood, acrylic, oyster shells, mixed media, 165 × 40 × 43 cm
Anna McCarthy, Fisherwoman’s Fingers, 2019, acrylic on wood and on glass, 40 x 30 cm
Anna McCarthy, Fred and Toody '67, 2018, oil on canvas, 212 x 121 cm
Anna McCarthy, Fat Moon Fairytale, 2018, video, 24:53 min
Anna McCarthy, Königin der Nacht, 2018, crayon, gouache, Indian ink on paper, 29.5 x 21.7 cm
Anna McCarthy, D-I-A-L A M-O-O-N, 2018, mixed media, dimension variable
Anna McCarthy, Detroit Flag, 2017, acrylic on fabric in artists frame, 77 × 58 cm
Anna McCarthy, Westwood Crumbs, 2017, paper and mixed media collage on canvas, 200 × 80 cm
Anna McCarthy, Fleischmantel, 2017, paper collage on leather, 145 × 100 cm
Anna McCarthy, Girlie Tetris, 2017, paper and mixed media collage oil cardboard framed, 200 × 35 cm
Anna McCarthy, DRINK COLD, PISS WARM I, 2016, dispersion, lacquer, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 194 x 196 cm
Anna McCarthy, Drink Cold, Piss Warm (film), 2016, SD-Video
Anna McCarthy, Fassbinder in Lalaland, 2015, HD video, 15 min 54 sec, 3 + 2 AP
Exhibitions
Carrying the Earth to the Sky, VO Special, curated by Magdalena Wisniowska, Schillerstr. 38, Munich, DE 2024
Carrying the Earth to the Sky, VO Special, curated by Magdalena Wisniowska, Schillerstr. 38, Munich, DE 2024
Carrying the Earth to the Sky, VO Special, curated by Magdalena Wisniowska, Schillerstr. 38, Munich, DE 2024
Volatile, Diana Gallery, Milan 2024
Volatile, Diana Gallery, Milan 2024
Volatile, Diana Gallery, Milan 2024
Volatile, Diana Gallery, Milan 2024
Creatures in the Soap, Liste Art Fair Basel 2023
Creatures in the Soap, Liste Art Fair Basel 2023
Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken, Westfälischer Kunstverein 2022
Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken, Westfälischer Kunstverein 2022
ADVENTURE ROOM, Sperling, Munich, DE 2020
Bloodless Boutique, Fleischereimuseum Böblingen, Böblingen, DE 2019/2020
What are people for?, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE 2017
What are people for?, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE 2017
Anna McCarthy, Favoriten III, Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE 2016
Anna McCarthy, Favoriten III, Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE 2016
DAS HAT SICH DOCH GELOHNT, lAB, Bielefeld (DE) 2016
DAS HAT SICH DOCH GELOHNT, lAB, Bielefeld (DE) 2016
DAS HAT SICH DOCH GELOHNT, lAB, Bielefeld (DE) 2016
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Volatile, Diana Gallery, Milan, IT
2024
- WASHING CYCLE, Sperling, Munich, DE
2022
- BLOODLESS BOUTIQUE, Deutsches Fleischereimuseum, Böblingen, DE
2019
- WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR?, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE
2017
- DAS HAT SICH DOCH GELOHNT, lAB, Bielefeld, DE
2016
- HOW TO START A REVOLUTION: the Musical, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
- II : NA-EN-DE-NA-EN-DE-NA-WI-DA : II, Schaustelle Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
2013
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Über Wasser und Pflanzen, Kunsthalle Rostock, DE
2022
- Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
2021
- FASSBINDER IN LALALAND II, Fassbinder Tage, Munich, DE
2020
- Kunst und Revolte an der Frankfurter Goethe-Universität in den 60er Jahren, Frankfurt, DE
2018
- FAVORITEN III, Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE
2016
Publications
- Anna McCarthy: How to Start a Revolution, 2019 ↗
- Anna McCarthy: What are people for?
- Anna McCarthy: Drink Cold Piss Warm ↗
- Anna McCarthy: How to start a revolution - The Musical, 2016
Press
- Flash Art: Anna McCarthy: Volatile, 2024 ↗
- Weltkunst: „In den letzten Tagen telefonieren wir auffällig häufig.“, by Laura Storfner, 2020
- Kunstforum International Band 268: München - Ein Shutdown und zwei Münchner Galerien, by Heinz Schütz, 2020
- Monopol Magazin : Weniger ist mehr, by Beate Scheder,, 06/2020
- Bayerischer Rundfunk: Die erstaunliche Anna McCarthy zeigt uns die Kunst der Zukunft, 2019 ↗
- Bayern 2: Musikrundfahrt mit Anna und Nick McCarthy, 2019 ↗
- Bayerischer Rundfunk: Was ist die Kunst der Zukunft, liebe Anna McCarthy?, Südlicht, 2019 ↗
- WELTKUNST: Anna McCarthy über ihr München, 2018 ↗
- Bayerischer Rundfunk: Parade of the W(e/a)k" von Anna McCarthy und Gabi Blum, by Maria Fedorova, 2018
- Deutschlandfunk: Pizza als Antwort, by Andi Hörmann, 2017 ↗
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: Irritierend schön, by Evelyn Vogel, 2016 ↗
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: Mach dein Ding!, by Wolfgang Hörl, 2016 ↗
- art Das Kunstmagazin: So rebelliert man heute!, by Cornelia Gockel, 2014
- Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Der Rebell als Antiheld, by Andi Hörmann, 2012 ↗
- Deutschlandfunk Kultur: „Global Angst“ – Julian Warner kuratiert künstlerische Konferenz , Tobias Krone, 01.11.2021 ↗
Anna McCarthy & Paulina Nolte, BLOODLESS BOUTIQUE, 2019, digital video, 4 min 20 sec
Anna McCarthy, WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR?, musical, 2019
Anna McCarthy, Drink Cold, Piss Warm (film), 2016, SD-Video, 25 min, 3 + 2 AP
Anna McCarthy, Fassbinder in Lalaland, 2015, HD video, 15 min 54 sec, 3 + 2 AP
Anna McCarthy, Hijack (HTSAR TV), 2016, HD Video (16:9), 7 min, 3 + 1AP