Anna Schachinger
Jennifee-See Alternate, Copenhagen, Denmark
6 September – 12 October 2025
Jennifee-See Alternate is an artist-run space in Copenhagen that focuses on curation and collaboration. It encourages risk-taking and experimentation and aims to foster conversations between emerging international artists and the local Danish art scene. Throughout 2025, Jennifee-See Alternate will present the year-long exhibition Appendix, for which different artists will conceive of experiences to expand upon their individual work through performances, publications, and /or site-specific interventions.
Vanguardium presents new paintings by Anna Schachinger and Erik Hällman that proceed mid-material: cashmere pullovers, textile prints, and found objects. Fabrics come before paint, motifs before composition, all stapled to stretcher bars, cardboard, or both. Here, working with a surface ecology is not a moral posture but simply what is left; second-hand is second nature. Inside the gallery, two large canvases face each other, while outside, in a pavilion built from train tracks on the old DSB grounds, smaller, sturdier works are read against the landscape. Vanguardium is a slow, almost spiteful reordering of familiar materials, letting surfaces carry compositions for a number of years. Anna Schachinger will present a new series of paintings repurposing found materials that investigate the strips of land between countryside roads and fields. This so-called ‘wayside’ is a space in which plants, affected by chemicals used on the fields, grow wild but are mowed regularly. The paintings reflect on the contradiction between what we perceive as natural, but which is in fact under human control.
Anna Schachinger (born 1990 in Vienna, Austria) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the independent study program maumaus in Lisbon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and SOPHIE TAPPEINER in Vienna. In September 2025, she will take up a one-year professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
