Anna Senno
(b. 1983) 

Anna Senno is a visual artist and filmmaker. In various expressions and materials, she explores the fragility of belonging. By researching transmission, silence and the loss of the sacred, she seeks forms of kinship within the conscious-unconscious relation in body, hand, objects and language. She moves between the intimate and the political, the imaginary and the documentary. Through playful associations, rooted in the poetic form, her work reflects a deep belief in the transformative power, and function, of beauty. 

Senno’s practice spans across different media and processes of research: the moving image, writing, painting and also involves working in carpentry and curation. She has been a guest teacher at the Stockholm University of the Arts, Dramatic Academy, Sweden; Oberlin Art College, Ohio, USA; Science Po, Paris, France; University of Caen Normandie, France; The School of Political Studies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo on behalf of the Council of Europe. She was born in the south of Sweden and lives and works between France, Mexico and Sweden. She holds a Master of Science, specialising in conceptual language, from Lund University, Sweden.

In 2025, the Public Art Agency in Sweden made the acquisition of her and duodji artist Fredrik Prost’s work “Tidstrumman" (The Time Drum). The work was created alongside her search for two stolen Sámi ceremonial drums, found in the archives of MUCEM in Marseille, now repatriated. Tidstrumman emerged from Senno’s exploration on silence (The Return of Silence), first shown in the exhibition Juxtaposing Craft that she also co-curated at the World Culture Museums of Sweden (2022-2023). She is currently painting “Chemin de Croix”, an exhaustive series of 15 paintings on raw split leather that began in Mexico 2019. She is also developing her first feature length documentary “The Wedding Dress”. The film is an exploration of transmission and (female) kinship through the act of embroidery to overcome histories of violence. The Wedding Dress is produced by Auto Images and has received development support from the Swedish Film Institute, Swedish television (SVT) and Film i Skåne.

Anna Senno's work has been exhibited in:

Public Art Agency Sweden (2025), Stockholm, Sweden
Institut suédois (2025), Paris, France  
Sámi Center for Contemporary Art (2024), Karasjok, Norway
Southern Sweden Design Days (2024), Malmö, Sweden
Kin Museum of Contemporary Art (2024), Kiruna, Sweden
National Museums of World Culture - The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (2022-2023), Stockholm, Sweden
Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft (2019), Gothenburg, Sweden
Institut suédois (2018), Paris, France  
Serra dei Gardini - Venice Biennale of Architecture (2018), Venice, Italy
Nordisk Panorama Film Festival (2018) Malmö, Sweden
The BogArt (2018), New York, USA
National Museums of World Culture (2018), Stockholm, Sweden
Svensk Form (2018), Stockholm, Sweden
Øksnehallen (2017), Copenhagen, Denmark
Malmö Museum (2016), Malmö, Sweden
Palais de Tokyo (2015), Paris, France

Her early documentary works have been broadcasted on ARTE, France and RTBF / VRT, Belgium (2010-2012).