Anna Heydel (*1982, Guayaquil/Ecuador) is a visual artist whose works are based on experimenting with photography. She mainly works on the project  ° All That Space ° (previously ° The Blind Spot °), in which she combines visual elements with Braille, the scripture of the blind. These photographic studies enable (her) to intervene concretely into the shaping of reality, to extend her sight and vision into space.

Classical photography as well as mixed-media installations and projections are the processes she uses to create her works.

After studying Political Sciences at the University of Marburg Anna Heydel worked as an editor at the Frankfurter Rundschau, a german national newspaper, and as a Project Manager at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, organizing the Summer Academy. During this program she participated in numerous workshops with photographers, curators and theorists. At the same time she began to intensify her work as a freelance photo artist.

Throughout the past years her work has been shown on different occasions, such as the Shortfilmfestival Subrise, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt/Main; Portfoliowalk DFA (Deutsche Fotografische Akademie) at the Haus der Photographie/Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Galleria Temporary Storing, Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli Felter, Cagliari/Sardinia; Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia; Kolga Award Exhibition 2016, Le Khaindrao Production, Tbilisi/Georgia; Contemporary – Festival di musica e arte d’avanguardia, Donori/Sardinia; RAW Phototriennale Worpswede, Galerie Altes Rathaus; Art and Project Space Haus6; Galerie Mimis Erbe, Worpswede, KW/Randlage ArtSpace Berg&Tal

Anna Heydel currently lives and works in Worpswede.

Workshop

Anna Heydel offers photography workshops for kids and teenagers in organisations, associations and schools. She created differently shaped courses on a weekly basis or also as impulse workshop for two days or an entire week. If you have interest in planning a photographic project in your organisation or school, please have a look at the concept attached below.

Exhibitions

2022       Three Installations, Worpsweder Werkschau, Kunst an der Hamme, Hammehafen Worpswede

2022       Aufhebung, Group Exhibition, Galerie Mimis Erbe, Worpswede

2022       Open Studios, Art and Project Space Haus6, Worpswede

2022       MinusMinusPlus, Duo-Exhibition with Marie S. Ueltzen, ArtSpace Berg&Tal, curated by Volker Schwennen and Tatjana Rettig, Bistro Berg&Tal, Worpswede

2022       Throwing An Eye On #6 / o.T. / Beben, Haus6 zu Gast in der Galerie Altes Rathaus, Group Exhibition, Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede

2021       MinusMinusPlus, Haus 6 Group Exhibition, Art and Project Space Haus6, Worpswede

2021       Throwing An Eye On #1-7 & Throwing An Eye On #3, Haus6 Group Exhibition, Open Studios, Art and Project Space Haus6, Worpswede

2020       The Unstory Told, RAW Phototriennale Worpswede, nwwk – Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein e.V. and Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede

2019       Throwing An Eye On #3 : The Barn, Photographic Installation, Short-Exhibition, A barn, Kuhstedt/Bremen

2018       Throwing An Eye On #1, Photographic Exhibition, POLL, Cagliari/Sardinia

2017       Throwing An Eye On #3 : Donori, Photographic Installation, Contemporary – Festival di musica e arte d’avanguardia, Residency and Exhibition, Donori/Sardinia

2017       Esco Solo Quando C’è Vento (I Only Go Out When It Winds), Photographic exhibition about the experimental portrait, POLL, Cagliari/Sardinia

2017       Sperimentazione Ritrattesca, Interactive event about the experimental photographic portrait, POLL, Cagliari/Sardinia

2017       The Blind Spot #2, POLL, Cagliari/Sardinia

2016       The Blind Spot #1, Installation in public space, Parco Molentargius, Cagliari/Sardinia

2016       Space Tales – Tagliando Spazio, Roomfilling Installation Photocollage, Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia

2016       Lost Alphabet, Presentation in the category Shortlist, Kolga Award Exhibition 2016, Le Khaindrao Production, Tbilisi/Georgia

2015       Lost Alphabet, Photographic Installation, Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia

2015       The Colour Of Escaping Dogs, Experimental music and photoperformance, Multiversal EXP-OFF, Festival for electronic music, Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia

2015       La risposta a una domanda non fatta ( engl. The answer to an unposed question), Presentation Final work, Group exhibition Laboratorio 2015 of the study year 2014/2015 of Man Ray Photo School, Temporary Storing, Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli Felter, Cagliari/Sardinia

2015       The Colour Of Escaping Dogs, Experimental music and photoperformance, Contemporary – Festival di musica e arte d’avanguardia, Donori/Sardinia

2015       The Colour Of Escaping Dogs, Experimental music and photoperformance, Psyche Time, Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia

2015       The Colour Of Escaping Dogs, Experimental music and photoperformance, Current, Nuovo Panificio, Cagliari/Sardinia

2013       Participation in Portfoliowalk of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA), Annual meeting DFA, Haus der Photographie/Deichtorhallen Hamburg

2013       Deframing Light, Videoinstallation, Accompanying exhibition at the Shortfilmfestival Subrise, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt/Main

2007       Presentation Photobook and Roominstallation, Group exhibition Freie Gallerie, Cultural festival Spielraum, Waggonhallen Marburg

2006       Presentation Photosculpture, Group exhibition Tryptychon, Cultural festival Spielraum, Waggonhallen Marburg

Awards

2016       Lost Alphabet, Shortlist, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Contest, Tbilisi/Georgia

Publications

2019       The Blind Spot, in: Dodho Magazine, Online Publication, Barcelona

2016       Lost Alphabet, in: Exhibition catalog Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Photohouse Kolga, 2016

2015       Metti Un Nido In Cittadella, Catalog (contribution) for the exhibition of the sardinian artist Wanda Nazzari, IGES, Quartu Sant’Elena/Sardinia, 2015

2015       Shining, Photo object, Self publishing, Cagliari/Sardinia 2015

2015       Forgettory, Photo object, Self publishing, Cagliari/Sardinia, 2015