The artist Anke Feuchtenberger has been on the international stage for years with her drawings and graphic narratives.
Be it the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo d' Arte in Ravenna, galleries in Kyoto or Helsinki, the comic festival in Angoulême or the Leipzig Book Fair... The artist Anke Feuchtenberger (born 1963 in Berlin, GDR) has been on the international stage for years with her drawings and graphic narratives. Her autofictional graphic novel "Genossin Kuckuck" was even nominated for the 2024 Leipzig Book Fair Fiction Prize and awarded the prestigious "Grand Prix Artémisia" in France in 2025.
This fall, the Kulturforum der State capital Schwerin is not only showing many of the original drawings from "Genossin Kuckuck", but also drawings from the three-volume book project "Die Hure H" (together with the writer Katrin de Vries), which were exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2024. Many color screen prints and very early works will also be on display: Posters that established the reputation of "Feuchtenbergerowa" in the 1990s.
Exclusively for the Schwerin exhibition, the artist has reissued the poster with which she first attracted the greatest attention in 1989 as a screen print. "All women are courageous, strong and beautiful!" accompanied the founding of the Independent Women's Association (UFV) at the time. It will be printed in an edition of 125 copies and can be purchased at the exhibition for 70 euros.
Anke Feuchtenberger studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee from 1983-88. In 1988 she founded the collective "PGH Glühende Zukunft" together with Henning Wagenbreth, Holger Fickelscherer and Detlef Beck. Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the artists entered the public space with an expressive, unmistakable visual language.
After her first graphic works for the theater, Anke Feuchtenberger came into contact with the world of comics at the turn of 1989. With her vision, her perspective and her artistic expression, she set in motion a veritable revolution in German comics in the 1990s.
She has been Professor of Drawing and Graphic Storytelling at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences since 1997. Her books have been translated into French, English, Italian, Finnish and Chinese. Anke Feuchtenberger has received numerous international awards for her work. She lives and works in Hamburg and Vorpommern.
