Born in 1973, with a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Strasbourg, Anne Zimmermann combines different practices: photography, writing, video, ceramics and performance.
Born in 1973, with a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Strasbourg, Anne Zimmermann combines different practices: photography, writing, video, ceramics and performance.
In 2003, she created Paula Orpington, a half-woman, half-chicken character made from 50 stuffed chicken skins. She inhabited this character until 2008. It was finally in 2010 that Paula Orpington symbolically died: the character was autopsied during a performance at the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse.
Anne Zimmermann's reflections on our relationship with the organic and animal have continued ever since. In 2016, in partnership with La Filature de Mulhouse and Coal with the Stuwa project, she installed a series of outdoor works featuring beehives and butterflies, and continued in 2018 with Homsweet Home, in partnership with the Swiss National Forestry Office, a residency that marked the beginning of a series of photographs of forest animals.
