Anna-Lena Dauber is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, painting, photography and sound art. Born in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, her deep connection to nature has influenced her artistic practice from an early age. The countryside and the sea continue to shape her creative perspective.
In addition to her visual art, Dauber has been performing as a singer, songwriter, and musician since childhood. She pursued a Bachelor's degree in English and American Studies and Philosophy, focusing much of her academic work on topics rooted in the fine arts. During her studies, she engaged in literary activities and dedicated her thesis to the emergence of New Nature Writing, a genre blending fictional and poetic elements with a critically informed perspective.
After completing her degree in 2021, she shifted her focus to writing and painting. In 2022, she moved to Berlin to immerse herself in the city's vibrant art scene and refine her artistic voice. For one and a half years, she worked across various art sections at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, contributing to exhibitions, cultural events, and publications alongside renowned artists from Germany and beyond.
Currently, Dauber is fully dedicated to her multidisciplinary practice, exploring the interplay of sculpture, drawing, photography, and digital media.
At the core of her practice are hybrid figures, assembled from found objects that have lost their original function and are recombined into new forms. The act of collecting is just as crucial as the construction itself. Through layering, organizing, and connecting, she derives a shape that often takes on a figurative presence.
This approach extends to her drawings and photography. Surface structures shaped by time, weather, and human influence serve as a recurring motif. Her photography is not documentary; instead, she carefully selects fragments to open new perspectives on materiality. Through both digital and analog reworking, she creates transformations that reveal processes of change and decay.
Theoretical and literary influences from ecology, ontology, and cultural studies inform her work. Her pieces challenge the boundaries between subject and object, human and non-human, and the transition between natural and artificial materiality. The coexistence of organic and industrial elements is reflected both in her choice of materials and in the arrangement of her works, which dissolve hierarchies and emphasize process.
Her recent projects explore the use of digital media to further enhance the sense of transformation in her work. Through digital collages, sound compositions, she is creating new hybrid forms that make the interplay between stasis and movement, fragility and permanence tangible.
