Angharad Williams
Scarecrows (2022)
“Welsh artist Angharad Williams’s eclectic practice encompasses diverse forms—from painting to sculpture, as well as video, installations, and performances. These expressions are informed by questions around authority, speech, and class. Due to the constraints of the pandemic, Williams’s work has become more static and materially concerned, yet her strongly performative nature is still palpable, hinting at a will to escape from the structures of the establishment. Influenced by popular culture, literature, and current events, her works explore the unstable nature of humankind, its intrinsic wildness, and the sensuality and violence embedded in the most banal, seemingly unspectacular situations”.
(an excerpt from “Who Cracks the Whip” by Gabriela Acha, Mousse Magazine)
photography: courtesy of Schiefe Zähne
Angharad Williams Biography
Angharad Williams (b. Ynys Môn, Wales, lives in Berlin, Germany) is an artist working across various media. Her latest solo shows include: Berlin Strasse at Schiefe Zaehne (Berlin, 2024), Life and Times at Kantine (Brussels, 2023), NEW TECHNOLOGY at Fanta (Milan, 2023), Eraser at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2022), Picture the Others at MOSTYN (Llandudno, Wales 2022), High Horse at Kevin Space (Vienna, 2021), among others. Recent collaborative projects that Williams lists include The Wig, Drei: Mönchengladbach, Germany; with Gianmaria Andreetta, Jason Hirata and Megan Punkett (2021) and Hergest: Trem, Swiss Institute, New York, USA; with Mathis Gasser, the same year. Her works have recently been shown as part of the following group shows: I like a view but I like to sit with my back to it, Fanta (Milan, 2024) What Kind of Us Does Painting Need?, MadeIn Gallery (Shanghai, 2023) Interests at Schiefe Zähne, (Berlin, 2023), Liste Art Fair (Basel, 2023), We Smell Gas at Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York, 2023), time, please at Kunst Raum Riehen (Basel, 2023) unto dust at Fitzpatrick Gallery (Paris, 2023). She is the co-founder of The Wig, an artist run space in Berlin, organized and curated by Gianmaria Andreetta, Richard Sides and Angharad Williams.