Anita Sieff

Anita Sieff’s research focuses on love as a feeling to be discovered, as a motivation for action, and as an understanding of the forces that drive humanity in its journey towards awareness. It is the act of going beyond the self to encounter the other that creates relationship. The relationship is therefore conceived as a shared space — a kind of laboratory where, without losing our identity, we aspire to communion.

Since 1985, after graduating in German Language and Literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a thesis on contemporary aesthetics, the artist has been engaged in the visual arts, working with performance, sound, photography, video, film, drawing, sculpture, and writing. She lives between Venice and New York City.

In her exploration of the nature of relationships, she has drawn upon the Beuysian concept of “Social Sculpture” and created the public artwork “Public”, presented from 1996 to 2001 at the Guggenheim Museum and from 2002 to 2004 at the Fortuny Museum in Venice — recognising its continuum and defining its conclusion.