Biography
Anita Groener is an artist born in The Netherlands and based in Dublin, Ireland. She makes paintings, monumental site-specific drawings, film and animation that she exhibits internationally. In 2005 she was elected a member of Aosdána. For many years she has complimented her practice as a lecturer teaching fine art in the Dublin Institute of Technology where she was also the was the Head of Fine Art from 2004-2006. She has recently returned full time to her art practice.
The focus in Groener’s work is a consideration of home and displacement as situated within modern geopolitical realities. The dialogue of belonging and estrangement is inextricably situated within collective systems while it is deeply affected by our relationship to time and space. Sometimes these structures corrupt causing conflict and trauma that vary from local to global proportions affecting each individual. The current work engages with the force on the psychological tissue that constitutes the core of this argument. To capture the actuality of this experience she uses strategies and economies of drawing, as well as formal aspects of scale and monochromes.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Mesh, solo exhibition, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2006 Crossing, Royal Hibernian Academy and Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Horse Drawn, Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2014 Drawing Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 State, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2012 At the Still Point, Irish Women Artists Working in Film, Kilkenny Arts Festival
2011 Fine Lines, work from The National Drawing Collection, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Limerick
2010 Making Nature, curated by Gemma Tipton, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2010 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition invited artist, Dublin
2007 I Am Always Touched By Your Presence Dear, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005 Living Landscape, WCAC Cork and Barcelona
2004 In The Times Of Shaking, Irish Art for Amnesty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2003 Iontas Award winners, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
2001 Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2001 ART2001, London,
2001 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2001 Spectrum, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2001 International Triennial for Painting, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994 FSIA 10 years, 10 artists, Bank of Ireland, Dublin
1994 Siolru, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1994 Irish Art Of The Eighties; Myth and Mystification’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1994 Art Inc, Irish Corporate Collections, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1987 Eire-Europe/context-content, Pentonville Gallery, London