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
2023 The Past is a Foreign Country, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2019 The Past Is A Foreign Country, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, The Lab Gallery, Dublin; and West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2018 The Past Is A Foreign Country, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2017 Dialogues, curated by Miguel Amado, London Art Fair, London, UK
2016 Citizen, curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2014 Somewhere Else, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; .
2014 Becoming / Unbecoming, PARK, Tilburg, The Netherlands (two person with Simon Benson)
2013 State, drawing installation RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Land, drawing installation, Dublin Contemporary Circle Programme, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2011 Somewhere Else, (animated drawing), Sub-Urban Video Lounge Rotterdam,
2010 Province, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021/22 The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2020/22 Refuge, 21c Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2019/20 Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China
2019 Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2019 Drawing Now Paris, France
2018 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2018 Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde, The Netherlands
2018 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2018 Volta Basel
2018 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Seattle Art, Seattle, USA; Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2017 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2017 Human Chain, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Ireland
2017 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2016 Taboo, Poggiali & Forconi Gallery, Florence, Italy; Context New York with Gibbons & Nicolas, NYC, USA
2016 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2016 A Knowing Nature, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, Ireland
2015 18 x 8, Point B, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, USA
2015 Cosmic Dust, Visual Carlow, Ireland
2015 Veldwerk, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2015 Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, New York, Atalanta, Miami, Austin, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fransisco, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto
2015 Postscript, The Russell Gallery and The Gallery at Burren College of Art, artists respond to Seamus Heaney’s poem
2014 Amsterdam Drawing Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boyle Arts Festival; TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland
2013 The Future Perfect | We Are Here, Rubicon Projects Brussels, Belgium
2013 Art’s Work Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2013 Diversity in Drawing, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands