Anna-Lena Dauber is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres on sculptural assemblage and extends into photography, collage, video and sound.

Her work begins with attentive observation and the collection of found materials, discarded objects and overlooked structures. Removed from their original functions and contexts, these fragments are combined into new constellations in which familiar forms become ambiguous and distinctions between the organic and the industrial begin to shift.

Rather than treating material as passive matter, Dauber approaches it as an active participant in the artistic process. The properties, resistances and accidental encounters of individual elements influence how a work develops. Through accumulation, connection and transformation, her practice explores the relationship between human intention and the agency of materials.

Across sculpture, photography and digital media, forms and materials repeatedly migrate from one medium into another. A photograph may become the starting point for a collage or moving image; found objects develop into sculptural entities and spatial arrangements. Rather than working towards fixed forms, Dauber understands her works as temporary states within ongoing processes of transformation.

Her practice is informed by her academic background in philosophy and English/American Studies, alongside a longstanding engagement with music and composition. Anna-Lena Dauber lives and works in Berlin.