Artist
Anna Lisei Math
About Anna Lisei
Anna Lisei Math — Patterns of Growth
Born in 1990 in Borken (NRW), Anna Lisei Math creates paintings that weave organic materiality with stylised forms from nature. Her works open up quiet, imaginative spaces where pattern, rhythm and rupture hint at the limits of our shared habitat.
Math builds botanical fictions from layered pigments and tactile grounds. Repetition and “regular irregularity” generate thickets, fields and lattices that recall growth processes without depicting any one plant. Shadowy breaks inside these floral systems become apertures—moments of pause or shelter—that invite viewers to project their own narratives.
This pared‑back visual language emerged during a decade at the Kunstakademie Münster, where Math completed her studies in 2021 as Meisterschülerin under Prof. Michael van Ofen. Exhibitions across Germany have since traced her interest in the symbiosis between human life and the more‑than‑human world, as well as questions of sustainability and the boundaries of the spaces we inhabit.
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Education
Kunstakademie Münster — Meisterschülerin (Prof. Michael van Ofen), 2021
Kunstakademie Münster — Fine Arts studies, 2011–2021
Exhibitions, Events & Showcases
Math’s exhibitions span institutions and art associations throughout Germany, foregrounding material sensitivity and the ecological imagination.
Selected Exhibitions
Everyone but Caspar — Kunsthalle Niendorf (2024)
Friends of the Kunstakademie Münster Award Exhibition — Kunsthalle Münster (2022)
Art Prize of the NRW State Parliament — Landtag Düsseldorf (2022)
Selected Solo Projects
Nachtteppich — Emsdettener Kunstverein (2025)
gleich einem Igel — dst.galerie (2024)
das weite Feld — District Court Münster (2021)
Awards & Grants
VR‑Bank Westmünsterland Scholarship (2022)
Kickstarter Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022)
Did you know?
Many of Math’s paintings stage “opaque forests” of patterned marks. Tiny fractures in the motif act like pockets of darkness—gateways to alternate realities—so the image reads both as refuge and as a reminder of ecological limits. Through this tension, Math reflects on the mutual dependencies of humans and nature.
