Anna Lucia
Anna Lucia is an artist from The Netherlands based in Berlin, working with computer code and textile.
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Oefenstof (2024)
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Born in 1991 in Wageningen, the Netherlands, Anna Lucia studied Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology. After a short career as an engineer in Cairo, Egypt, she shifted her focus to her artistic practice in 2021 and currently lives and works in Berlin.
In 2025, she presented her debut solo exhibition at Galerie Met in Berlin. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Art Basel, Untitled (Miami), Francisco Carolinum (Linz), and Art Basel Miami. She participated in The First 15 Artists launching the MoMA Postcard Project, and her work has been acquired by Spalter Digital. Her notable collaboration Generations translated the Gee's Bend quilts into an algorithm, generating digital quilts that echo the formal language of the originals while remaining unique and surprising in their own right.
Ranging from browser-based animation, generative systems on the block-chain, textile works, and tattoos, Anna Lucia's practice explores the relationship between traditional craft and algorithmic systems. Her mediums include computer code and textile, and always integrate randomness, establishing a mediumistic dialogue between the artist and the computer.
Installation: Oefenstof | Responsive Dreams 2024
This project is a further exploration of embroidery samplers. Originating as early as the 2nd century BC and found across diverse cultures, embroiderers and lacemakers used samplers as a practical record of motifs and stitches – for creative expression and for educational purposes. Samplers often featured scattered motifs, bands of decorative borders, animals, floral motifs, and alphabets. The project builds upon both the patterns and representations found in embroidery samplers and the act of recording embroidery work as a form of creative expression.
Oefenstof considers the relationship between automatization and alienation through code and craft. Throughout the project, Anna Lucia will use an embroidery machine and custom code to build her own library of embroidery samples, reinterpreting traditional embroidery patterns and motifs with computer algorithms thus complementing automated and manual processes in the creation process.
oefenstof translates from Dutch to “practice fabric” or “practice material” and is borrowed from the book Oefenstof by Joke Visser , a history of embroidery samplers from The Netherlands.
Perpetual Oscillations #15 - Anna Lucia
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Anna Lucia’s practice unfolds at the intersection of craft and computation, where code, textiles and systems of constraint become tools for poetic experimentation. Through rules, randomness and material translation, her work reveals the beauty of controlled chaos and the fragile dialogue between the digital and the handmade.
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