Anke Völk studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Today she lives and works in Berlin. In her conceptual idea of an expanded painting Anke Völk explores the boundaries of the painting and expands them within the image, the image carrier and the location where the painting takes place.

Project Description
In her pictorial understanding of a cross-genre painting, Anke Völk examines the pictorial boundaries and expands them within the image, the image carrier, and the place where the painting takes place. 

Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2022 | "between flow and shape," (with Anja Schwörer) Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall
2020 | "The Secret is keep going/Anke Völk," bcma-galerie, Berlin
2018 | "ON," Drawing Room, Hamburg
2017 | "CHROMAINTENSITY," Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin

Group exhibitions (Selection)
2022 | "Essence of Color-Blue," Städtische Galerie Regensburg
2022 | "Kick Line," Thaler Originalgraphik, Leipzig
2017 | "The Happy Fainting of Painting #2," Galerie Krobath, Wien
2014 | "Medium Rare," Gallery Kant, Kopenhagen

Prizes/Awards (Selection)
2022 | Working Grant Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 | Research Stipend, Berlin’s Senate Departement for Culture and Europe
2020 | Working Grant Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2004 | Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2012 | Studio funding through the studio rental program of the State of Berlin
2003 | Burgundstipendium, Ministry of Science, Continuing Education, Research and Culture, Rhineland-Palatinate, Parc Saint Léger, Center Art Contemporain, Pougues Les Eaux, France

Anke Völk is Villa Aurora Fellow of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.