Selected Projects
2026
THE WAY THINGS GROW, GH36 Berlin
Solo Exhibition, 18–26 September 2026
In The Way Things Grow, Anna-Lena Dauber presented a new body of sculptural works at GH36 in Berlin. The exhibition transformed the gallery into a spatial environment in which individual sculptures appeared as parts of a larger, evolving system. A site-specific sound installation by composer Sascha Dragicevic extended these relationships into the acoustic space.
The works were assembled from found and discarded materials collected largely within the urban environment. Through processes of joining, layering, repetition, and accumulation, Dauber transformed these fragments into sculptural formations that seem to develop according to their own internal logic. Rather than imposing a predetermined form, her working process responds to the properties, resistance, and unexpected possibilities of the materials themselves.
At the centre of the exhibition was Mother, a large suspended sculpture whose scale and physical presence established a point of reference for the surrounding works. Smaller assemblages appeared throughout the space like individual entities, creating relationships of proximity, dependence, and exchange. In this way, The Way Things Grow explored growth not as a linear process, but as something produced through connection, accumulation, transformation, and continuous change.
SUMAC SPACE × ART & DIALOGUE, Berlin
Future Frequencies Lab and Exhibition, July 2026
Anna-Lena Dauber participated in the Future Frequencies Lab, a multi-day interdisciplinary programme developed by SUMAC Space in collaboration with Art and Dialogue. Originally founded as a digital platform, SUMAC Space has since expanded its activities into physical exhibition and project spaces. For the Future Frequencies Lab, artists and cultural practitioners from Germany and Italy came together, including the Milan-based collective Laboratorio Silenzio, whose practice engages with silence, non-verbal communication, the body, gesture, and relational forms of artistic exchange.
The programme brought together different artistic perspectives through an intensive period of collective work, culminating in a group exhibition at Art and Dialogue.
Within her working group, Dauber explored questions of listening, communication, and collective meaning-making across different languages and artistic practices. Shared materials, gestures, conversations, and periods of working alongside one another became part of a process in which individual approaches continuously influenced and transformed each other.
Her contribution was an illuminated sculptural assemblage made largely from objects found in the surrounding neighbourhood. Beginning with a discarded component of a ventilator that resembled the top of an apple, she developed the work through repetitive weaving, transparent foil, colour, and light. The process connected her ongoing engagement with found materials and transformation with reflections on labour, consumption, memory, and the shifting meanings objects acquire through personal experience.
The project concluded with a public group exhibition at Art and Dialogue. An accompanying catalogue is scheduled for publication in early 2027.
CROSSROADS, Soho-House Berlin
Artist Talk, January 20
As part of Crossroads, a conversation series curated by Lukas Feireiss, Anna-Lena Dauber spoke at Soho House Berlin about her artistic practice and its current development. The series brings together artists from different disciplines, focusing less on finished works than on the thought processes, ruptures, and transitions that shape artistic practice.
Together with the other speakers, Dauber reflected on her engagement with material transformation, fragmentation, and the formation of systems. Her contribution focused on the shift from large-scale spatial installations toward more condensed, small-scale sculptures conceived as autonomous, layered micro-systems.
The evening offered insight into her working processes and conceptual framework, as well as into questions of scale, space, and perception within her current practice.
Gallery GH36, Berlin
Group Exhibition, November 29-30
As part of a group exhibition at Galerie GH36, Anna-Lena Dauber presented a selection of recent works, including Gitti and Oktopus. Both sculptures transform found urban materials into dense, layered formations, exploring biography, perception, and material relationships.
The works reflect key aspects of Dauber’s practice: fragmentation, transformation, and the formation of systems.
© Eleonora Rettori
2025
Solo-exhibition PLASTIK IM SYSTEM
(Plastic in the System)
September 26 - 30
Plastik im System explored plastic as a defining material of the present: a symbol of short-lived mass production and, at the same time, an enduring component of our ecological and material environment. In a former retail space in Berlin, the exhibition unfolded as a large-scale installation comprising sculptures, photographs, digital collages, and a site-specific sound installation by composer Sascha Dragicevic.
The sculptural works were created from hundreds of plastic fragments collected throughout the urban environment. Through processes of gathering, sorting, layering, and compression, these industrially produced remnants were transformed into new, organically suggestive constellations. Plastic appeared not merely as waste, but as an active element within a material network in which human and non-human actors are deeply entangled.
Photographs and digital collages took up urban surfaces and traces of use, time, and decay, translating them into ambiguous pictorial spaces. The exhibition examined how new orders emerge from fragments, how material configurations shift and transform, and what role humans occupy within these systems.
Plastik im System was realised with the support of Culterim and funded by the Lions Club Berlin Savigny.
Gallery Heinz Galinski, Berlin
Group Exhibition
September 13 – December 2025
From 13 September through the end of the year, works by Anna-Lena Dauber were presented in a group exhibition at the Heinz Galinski Galerie in Berlin. The exhibition featured a selection of her collages, which explore fragmentation, surface, and the reconfiguration of heterogeneous visual material.
In these works, found and combined elements are arranged into dense pictorial spaces in which layering, superimposition, and visual tension play a central role. The collages form an important strand within Dauber’s practice, extending her engagement with materiality and the formation of systems into a two-dimensional form.
