Anita Groener maps the fragile architectures of memory, home, displacement, and belonging. She traces the emotional landscapes of exile and resilience through ephemeral materials and intricate forms; her practice frames remembrance as moral and political resistance against oblivion. She defiantly probes a quiet yet urgent question: What does it mean to be human in an age shaped by rupture, precarity, and migration?
Dutch Irish artist Anita Groener creates sculptural works, drawings, films, and paintings. She received her BA from the Möller Institute, Tilburg, in 1980 and her MA from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem, in 1982.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, 21c Museum Hotels in Durham, Cincinnati and Bentonville, Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, Columbia Circle in Shanghai, Riverside Art Museum in Beijing, and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Groener’s work is part of the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland, the Irish State Art Collection, VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, and 21c Museum Hotels, along with various public, corporate, and private collections in the US and Europe. From 1983 to 2014, she taught at Technological University (TU) Dublin, where she was Head of Fine Art from 2004 to 2006. In 2005, Groener was elected a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s national academy of artists. During 2018–19, she received an Arts Council Touring Award for bringing “The Past Is a Foreign Country” to various venues in Ireland.
To the Edge of Your World is her most recent exhibition, which travelled to Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and Museum Rijswijk in The Hague during 2023–24. Following the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, it will travel to the Bader & Simon Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ps. Groener is pronounced like sooner in English ;)
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