
With DONE!, Anna Fasshauer presents a gesture: a direct confrontation between body, tool, and material. Her work begins in impact, in a repeated strike that becomes a language transforming both the material it touches and the person who works on it. The hammer, an archaic instrument, is no longer just a tool: it becomes an extension of the arm, a conduit for energy, anger, and intent. Those are transferred into the aluminium. What might look like damage becomes the first step toward a form. Each dent, fold, and mark is evidence of a decision rather than an accident, a record of persistence and confrontation.
In this new body of work, Fasshauer introduces elements that signal a shift in her practice. Primary colours and shapes that hint at mechanical components, gear-like cuts, folded panels, twisted edges, expand her sculptural language. These choices make the work more direct and visually assertive, connecting the physical force of her process with a vocabulary drawn from modernism and industry. The gesture remains central, but the presence of color and these new forms gives the objects a broader, more outward-facing impact. These additions denote an expansion of her visual language: a turn toward a more declarative and outward-facing visual field. The work retains the immediacy of the strike, but its visual impact now extends beyond gesture alone, engaging with iconic color systems and symbolic forms.


Anna Fasshauer (*1975 in Cologne) graduated from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London in 2001. She has exhibited her work in group and solo shows around the world, including venues such as the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, Kunstverein Offenburg and Kunstverein Arnsberg in Germany, as well as the Goethe Institute in Beirut. She lives and works in Berlin.




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