ANISSA TAVARA (born 1992, Hamburg) holds a degree in engineering and is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, where she will continue in the Master's program. In 2024, she studied abroad at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Her practice engages with the tension between digital abstraction and material embodiment, specifically grounded in a material-driven, form-finding approach, with a strong focus on biomaterials and their processual behavior. Central to her work are translations between analog and digital space — negotiating object- and image-based logic, control and material autonomy.
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Upcoming (Solo Exhibition), Galerie du Haut Pavé Paris, FR
2025 - Graduate Exhibition (Class Simon Denny), Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, GER
2024 - INTO THE BUBBLE (Group Exhibition), Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst München, GER
2024 - NACHLASSen (Group Exhibition), XPON-Art Gallery Hamburg, GER
2024 - ART NUMERIQUE (Virtual Group Exhibition), latlas.beauxartsparis.fr, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
2023 - DIE ZUKUNFT GEHÖRT DEN PILZEN (Group Exhibition), Künstlerhaus & Stadtgalerie Lauenburg, GER
2022 - YEARNING FOR MATTERING DIFFERENTLY (Group Exhibition), part of the NON-KNOWLEDGE, LAUGHTER & THE MOVING IMAGE-Research Project by Annika Larsson
RESEARCH & TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT
2025 - Patent pending (DPMA), technique utilizing controlled shrinkage of biopolymers to encode three-dimensional relief information into flat, translucent films — translating depth into two-dimensional visual surfaces.
2023 - FUNKEN ACADEMY - RE:SOURCING, Shaping the Invisible: folding of DNA strands and rendering structures in nano scale (Research Stipend), Klub Solitaer e.V., GER, Ars Electronica, AT, WRO Art Center, PL, and Fraunhofer ENAS & IWU, GER
WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
2024 - CRAFTING THE FUTURE (Workshop), School of Survival, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, GER
2024 - INTRODUCTION TO BIOPLASTICS (Workshop), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
2023 - AI PERSPECTIVES (Artistic Participation), during Helmholtz AI Conference & Helmholtz Imagining Conference Hamburg, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, GER
GRANTS
2025 - DEUTSCHLANDSTIPENDIUM, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, GER
WHERE IS MY SKIN, PT. II - Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, 2024
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