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» 27/06/2023: Anna Kristensen's 2017 painting Dip is currently on exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia as part of the exhibition Spacingout, curated by Robert Cook and Bahar Sayed. The exhibition presents works from the permanent AGWA collection and "considers aspects of the affective dimension of contemporary life with particular interest to sensations of emotional and perceptual ambivalence." Exhibition until 17.09.23.
» 01/06/2022: Mitch Cairns, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen, Nigel Milsom, Jude Rae and Tim Schultz are exhibiting in the group exhibition, Zombie Eaters, at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, Zombie Eaters looks to celebrate the strengths in recent Australian figurative painting.17.06.2022 — 16.10.2022
» 23/12/2021: The Commercial is closed for the summer recess from Friday 24/12/21 until Friday 21/01/22 inclusive. Our first exhibition for 2022 is a solo show of Gunter Christmann's early 1980s rubbish paintings opening Saturday 22/01/22. We look forward to presenting a group exhibition of works by Gunter Christmann, Patrick Hartigan, Yasmin Smith and Amanda Williams at Melbourne Art Fair (Booth E2) at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 17/02/22 - 20/02/22.
» 27/11/2021: Anna Kristensen's exhibition Sets opens today and continues regular gallery hours (Thursday - Saturday, 11 - 4 and by appointment) until 23/12/21 with special hours final week: Tuesday 21/12/21 - Thursday 23/12/21.
» 01/09/2021: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 11/11/21 - 14/11/21 (revised dates). We are presenting an exhibition of figurative painting by Mitch Cairns, Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae. Concurrent with the art fair at nearby Carriageworks will be a solo exhibition at The Commercial by New York-based Anna Kristensen. Click here to receive advance preview of works for Sydney Contemporary and Anna Kristensen's exhibition.
» 12/04/2021: Bonita Bub and Anna Kristensen are participating in the group exhibition Out of Place at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, curated by Oscar Carpezio. Bub is exhibiting two major sculptural works, two paintings by Anna Kristensen have been lent by private collections. "Reflecting on our increasingly precarious notions of place and belonging, this exhibition examines ways in which contemporary artworks embody, transpose and reconfigure a sense of locality in a globalised world." Artists in the exhibition include Hany Armanious, Boyle Family, Bonita Bub, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Fiona Connor, Thomas Demand, Dale Harding, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Anna Kristensen and Jasper Jordan-Lang. exhibition 17/04/21 - 13/06/21. Documentation now on The Commercial website.
» 17/04/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Anna Kristensen’s 2014 painting, Desert Window, exhibited last year in the group exhibition Certain Realities, has been acquired by Murray Art Museum Albury.
» 24/08/2019: Anna Kristensen and Archie Moore are presenting works in Certain realities, a group show at Murray Art Museum Albury. The exhibition of sculpture, painting, installation, and performances recognises artists as agents of social investigation and cultural articulation. On Saturday 31 August Archie Moore is giving an artist talk in conversation with artists Spence Messih, Brian Fuata, and Lizzie Thomson. The closing event features a live performance of Archie Moore fronted art rock band, ∑gg√e|n. Opening: Friday 30/08/19, 5:30-7:30pm. Closing: Friday 8/11/19, 5:30-6:30pm. Exhibition dates: 30/08/19 - 10/11/19.
» 26/07/2019: Anna Kristensen is undertaking a four-week Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Residency, commencing early August. Founded in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists' and writers' residency program in the United States.
» 24/05/2019: It is a pleasure to announce that Anna Kristensen's Dip (2017) has been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
» 17/05/2019: Anna Kristensen is undertaking a coveted residency at MASS MoCA, USA, during June.
» 25/02/2019: Anna Kristensen is included in Still Life Pt. II curated by Adam Stone opening Thursday 28/02/19, 6-8pm at Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney. Artists include Colleen Ahern, Alan Constable, Lauren Dunn, Anna Kristensen, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanne Mestrom, Tully Moore, Toby Pola, Jake Preval, Kieran Seymour, Jackson Slattery, Lydia Wegner. Exhibition dates 28/02/19 - 06/04/19.
» 28/01/2019: Congratulations to Anna Kristensen on her appointment as Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Anna will be teaching Painting 1: Introduction to Painting.
» 28/11/2018: Anna Kristensen has paintings included in Obsession: Devil in the Detail, curated by Danny Lacy at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. A number of major works by Kristensen have been lent from private collections. Artists include: James Gleeson, Sam Jinks, Jess Johnson, Anna Kristensen, eX de Medici, Callum Morton, Jan Nelson, Sandra Selig, Ricky Swallow, teamLab, Eugene von Guerard. Opening Friday 30/11/18. Exhibition continues until 17/02/19.
» 23/04/2018: Anna Kristensen has been shortlisted for the 2018 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, along with 36 other leading and emerging artists. The recipient of the $30,000 acquisitive award will be announced 08/06/18. Exhibtion dates: 09/06/18 - 19/08/18, at Geelong Gallery.
» 10/01/2018: Anna Kristensen, Bonita Bub and Mitch Cairns are included in a group show, Unreal City, curated by Sarah Rees at Firstdraft, Sydney. “Unreal City is an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Australian contemporary artists. The exhibition traces art and architecture back and forth through historical and social associations. Artisanal traditions are conflated with contemporary modes of practice to create a new vernacular. Classical iconography is juxtaposed with mass-produced, industrial materials. Lyrical imagery and whimsical forms morph into utilitarian objects and vice-versa. The title of the exhibition (after Mario Merz) describes the absurdity of these confounding elements. Unreal City references traditions of Minimalism and Arte Povera in its examination of objects, structures and spacial relationships. In the context of the virtual contemporary, it is an elegy to the material world.” Opening Wednesday 10/01/18, 6 - 8 pm. Exhibition dates: 10/01/18 – 28/01/18
» 17/07/2017: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks, 7-10 September, 2017. We are presenting our largest art fair stand to date with all new works by Bonita Bub, bonMitch Cairns, Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen and Oscar Perry. Please contact the gallery to receive a preview of works in the lead up to the fair. Stand E06
» 29/06/2017: Anna Kristensen is currently undertaking an International artist Residency at Art Omi in Columbia County, New York.
» 21/10/2016: Interview with Anna Kristensen in Two Thousand by Del Lumanta on Cover, Kristensen's first solo exhibition at The Commercial, opening Saturday 22/10/16, 5-7pm
» 22/09/2016: Anna Kristensen's solo exhibition, Cover, will open Saturday 22/10/16, 5-7pm.
» 16/07/2016: Video interview with Anna Kristensen in her studio at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, in 2013.
» 23/06/2016: Anna Kristensen and Robert Pulie have works in the exhibition Blind, curated by Shane Haseman at the Sydney artist-run inititiative, KNULP. Exhibition dates 23/06/16-10/07/16.
» 18/12/2015: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial now represents Anna Kristensen. Kristensen (b. 1983) is a painter who navigates pathways and boundaries between painting, photography and various forms of photo-reproduction within the disparate dimensions of actual surface flatness and illusory pictorial depth. Painting is sometimes brought into the sculptural round. Recent work is informed by two residencies undertaken in the USA: the Australia Council for the Arts’ Greene Street Studio in New York and the prestigious Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (both 2013). An overview of key works is now viewable on The Commercial’s website. Kristensen’s first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in the second half of 2016.