Anna Lena Vaney

Anna Lena Vaney is a producer and artistic director. For over 25 years, she has realized projects with artists outside traditional exhibition spaces. She produced Penelope by Jorge Pardo, an exhibition without a space. Long time collaborator of Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, she produced the series No Ghost Just A Shell, in which she was also invited to participate. Her contribution, Asleep in The Deep was exhibited at Tate Modern and Van Abbemuseum. She collaborated on the creation of Café Etienne Marcel in Paris with Huyghe, Parreno, and M/M Paris, and she developed a series, The Sun is Gone, but We’ve Got A Light where she invited artists to imagine mutant objects. She has produced numerous audiovisual works such as Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno as well as many films by Pierre Huyghe and Sophia Al Maria amongst many others. Over the years, she has also compiled and directed a series of art archives. In 2022, she co-created The Vega Foundation with Elisa Nuyten, serving as its Artistic Director for the first year. She is now focusing on feature length films and is the artistic director of The Feral.