Anna Senno
(b. 1983) 

Working between cinema and contemporary art, Anna Senno creates paintings, films, and installations that deals with the intimate experiences through which the universal can be exposed. She moves between the intimate and the political, the imaginary and the documentary. Her work seeks propositions to violence, rootlessness, and the loss of the sacred, connecting language, silence, and transmission. She uses narratives that are often non-linear, evoking memory, exile, and the fragility of belonging, inviting viewers to move between the personal, the political and the mythical. More than representation, her work are actions, rooted in the intersection of poetic form and intellectual thought that reflects a deep belief in the transformative power—and function—of beauty.

Visual artist and filmmaker, Senno’s practice spans across different media: the moving image, writing, and painting and also involves working in carpentry. Anna Senno 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 Arts, specialising in philosophy of language, from Lund University, Sweden.

Her work has been exhibited in:

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).