Semiose
Anne Neukamp , Germany
"Mirror"
Anne Neukamp, Diplopia, 2025. Photo Eric Tschernow. Courtesy Semiose, Paris
Anne Neukamp’s art critically examines the media environment of the time, blurring the lines. By degrading and hybridizing signs from the communications industry, her paintings empty of meaning symbols that are supposed to clarify and convey information. More mischievous than deceptive, they require the viewer to completely recondition his or her image-reading habits. Thus defamiliarized, the motifs capitulate to the almost monochromatic patches of color that surround them. Mixing very different registers and techniques – oil, tempera and acrylic – Anne Neukamp combines several traditions on a single canvas. The implicit meanings and figurative associations sown in her paintings encourage us to trust the intelligence of a conceptual approach, without giving up contemplation, in the very primary sense of the term.
Born in 1976, Anne Neukamp lives and works in Berlin. A resident of the ISCP in New York and a graduate of the Dresden School of Fine Arts, where she now teaches, her work has been exhibited at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest (2023), the Beaux-Arts de Paris (exhibition We Paint! in 2022), at the University of the Arts | Rosenwald Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia (2018), at the KW in Berlin and the Kunstverein in Oldenburg (2013), at the Palais de Tokyo for the fifth Prix Jean-François Prat (2016). His works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the Musée de Rochechouart, Société Générale, the Fonds de dotation Bredin-Prat and the Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin – Lafayette Anticipations.
Solo show of Anne Neukamp
From May 17th to June 21st, 2025
The gallery
Founded in 2007 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris before moving to Le Marais in 2011, Semiose immediately established itself in the art scene as a gallery with a programming rooted in the margins. Nourished by underground cultures, it champions forms and ideas born in political, social, or geographical fringes.
The practice of citation serves as a common thread among the artists represented by the gallery and raises complex questions related to the creation and dissemination of images, the role and meaning of archives, and visual culture at large. Semiose promotes an aesthetic based on questions of taste and, consequently, cultural hierarchies. Techniques of collage, appropriation, and détournement are shared by most artists, leading to a converging interest in representation, referencing the real and the everyday.
Young artists mingle with historical figures or those of international stature. Over time and through a patient professional network, institutions and public collections have forged unbreakable bonds with the artists promoted by the gallery. Semiose also goes beyond mere representation of artists: it fully plays its role in the art ecosystem with a scientific and curatorial approach. It ensures the production of artworks and oversees rigorous documentary and archival work around the represented artists.
Semiose further expands its activities through a publishing house, Semiose éditions. Available internationally, over a hundred titles have been published to date, including monographs, artist books, writings and essays, a magazine, and a collection of artists' coloring books.
Gallery artists
Salvatore Arancio, Amélie Bertrand, Olaf Breuning, William S. Burroughs, Hugo Capron, Anthony Cudahy, Oli Epp, Steve Gianakos, Sébastien Gouju, Otis Jones, Aneta Kajzer, Laurent Le Deunff, Anne Neukamp, Justin Liam O’Brien, Françoise Pétrovitch, Abraham Poincheval, Présence Panchounette, Laurent Proux, Stefan Rinck, Ernest T., Moffat Takadiwa, Julien Tiberi, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Philemona Williamson, Xie Lei
