Anna Bierler is a visual artist exploring the materiality of language through performance and installation. In her work, Anna draws from lived experience, myth, conversations, fragments of memory. Central to this exploration are queer-feminist temporalities, nonlinear, cyclical, resistant to acceleration, that offer ways to rethink our relationship to bodies, environments, and futures, while addressing ecological anxiety, transformation, and the traces we leave behind.

Anna likes to work with words and sounds as materials, shaping them over time and letting them shape time too. Poetic work, for her, is like making a small stone that holds traces of deep time inside. She also thinks of it like making a sculpture with words, where the pauses and quiet moments are just as important as the words themselves.

She has shown work at BRUTUS (Rotterdam), HetHEM (Zandaam), RIB (Rotterdam) and Kunstforening (Tromsø). Her sound work was recently aired on Worm Radio (Rotterdam) and Kiosk Radio (Brussels).

Next to her own practice, she co-organizes the poetry collective OOOReading Club in Rotterdam since 2022, a community platform for writers and readers to experiment with language as a material – and the publishing platform afloat that explores the boundaries of climate catastrophe, storytelling, survivalism and worldmaking. 

Anna works as a tutor providing thesis and graduation guidance at DesignLab, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (ongoing). She has also taught workshops at institutions including the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2025, 2023),  ArtEZ (2025), Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam (2025, 2024, 2023), TU Delft (2024), Hochschule für Künste Bremen (2024), and the University of Antwerp (2024, 2023), among others.