The favoured tools of Anna Witt (*1981, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany) are performance and video. The artist uses them to examine socio-political subjects and how the body, its sphere of action and its movements also always carry a message. In St. Gallen, Witt is showing two of her most recent works, amongst them the project Durch Wände gehen (Going through Walls, 2015). On the basis of two individual experiences of fleeing she looks for analogies between current and historical events that have significantly changed the lives of the protagonists – one a Syrian who fled to Saxony, and one a German who fled from the former GDR. In the video work Gemeinschaft ohne Eigenschaften (Community without Properties, 2015) the artist observes a group who has coincidentally gathered in a room and the behaviour of the participants in this enforced community over time. Especially for the exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, the artist produced the new video work Die Suche nach dem letzten Grund (Infinite Regress, 2016). It was realised in collaboration with the debating club of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and examines the sensitive question:"Why not talk about the truth?"
Anna Witt (*1981, Wasserburg am Inn/DE) lives and works in Vienna. Until 2008 she studied with Asta Gröting, Magdalena Jetelova and Monica Bonvicini in Munich and Vienna. Solo exhibitions (selection): Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt; 8. Salon, Hamburg (2015); Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin; Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo (2014); Marabouparken, Sundbyberg (Stockholm/SE)(2013); Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, AT (2011). Group exhibitions (selection): Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; West Space, Melbourne; 1. Vienna Biennale, MAK, Wien; OFF-Biennale, Budapest; Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev, UA (2015); Kunstverein Wolfsburg, DE; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2014); Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; MoBy – Museums of Bat Yam, ISR; NGBK, Berlin (2013); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH; Salzburger Kunstverein. AT (2012); 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010); Manifesta 7 (2008).