Anna Lucia

Thread #103 - Anna Lucia

Anna Lucia is an artist from The Netherlands based in Berlin, working with computer code and textile.

Participations
{yes, yes, no, yes} (2026)
Oefenstof (2024)

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{yes, yes, no, yes}
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Patched Paradise
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Bio

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.

Project: {yes, yes, no, yes} (Responsive Dreams 2026)

The project began spontaneously when Anna and Kyra sought a unique design for a tattoo. What started as a personal sketch evolved into a comprehensive algorithm capable of generating a wide array of glyphs, suited for tattoos. The project utilizes the NFT platform fx hash, specifically its ‘params’-feature, allowing participants to explore the algorithm and discover their personalized tattoo design.

The project has grown significantly since its inception, Anna and Kyra have hosted tattoo sessions in various locations, including an impromptu studio in a rooftop apartment in Venice. Each tattoo produced through this generative system carries a unique story, creating meaningful connections between the recipient, the algorithm, and the artist. The tattoos are placed using the stick and poke technique, embodying Anna's dedication to merging technology with traditional craft.

Getting your tattoo

Project: 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.