Anna van den Hövel

Anna van den Hövel is a German artist who was brought up between Munich, the Austrian Alps and Menorca. Since dedicating herself full-time to her art in 2019, Anna has exhibited widely, participating in shows across Europe, America and South Africa.

Spending a childhood between such varied social and geographical environments, Anna developed a thirst for adventure and a fervent desire to explore our planet. This passion for discovering every corner the world is at the heart of Anna van den Hövel’s art; travelling across continents and never staying still for too long, Anna’s journeys fuel her art, providing inspiration through the sights and emotions that she encounters along the way. Using photography to capture snapshots of her travels – often taken from above, giving a bird’s-eye view that reduces the significance of individual details of the landscape – in the studio Anna fuses these visual mementos with her own emotional responses to a landscape, creating evocative, abstracted representations of places from her explorations.

For Anna, the physical creation of her artworks is an intuitive and reactive process, using various materials to create layered, textural paintings. The artistic process is an extension of Anna’s journey, often revealing aspects of her own perceptions that were yet unknown. When painting, she enters into a symbiotic relationship with the materials, responding to the way they behave on the canvas and shaping her vision through their particularities.

Creating paintings that are highly personal, Anna shares her unique perspective while also inviting an emotional response from the viewer, hoping to encourage reflection on our own experiences and opening our eyes to the bigger picture.

Anna's works have been included in recent exhibitions at BAODT Art in St. Moritz, Frankfurt and Munich (2022); AK Galerie, Berlin (2022); Tomas Redrado Art, Miami (2022); Art House Global, Los Angeles (2021); and most recently in a solo show in Capetown (2022). Robilant+Voena is pleased to be presenting the first solo show of Anna's work in the UK.