Anna Charlotte Frevel´s practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, and algorithmic image and form generation, investigating how form emerges through dynamic interactions between biological, material, and technical systems.
Working across digital and analog processes, she develops generative image structures that are translated into painting, where materials such as glass and ceramic paints, lacquers, and viscous substances actively shape the image through processes of pouring, drying, and reacting. These works often originate from heterogeneous image sources—including personal photographs, archives, and circulating digital imagery—and are reintroduced into iterative feedback loops between machine learning systems and manual transformation.
In parallel, her sculptural and installative works—often developed in collaboration with Maximilian Dörbecker—engage materials like polyurethane foam, textiles, and plaster as active agents. Expanding, reacting, and interacting with their environment, these materials produce open-ended, habitat-like structures that continue to evolve over time.
Her research project Sympoietic Poetics, developed at the AI Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, extends this approach into algorithmic space, using growth-based systems to simulate processes such as mutation, symbiosis, and adaptation. Resulting forms are translated into physical fragments through casting, 3D printing, and spatial installations.
Across these different strands, Frevel understands form not as a fixed outcome but as a temporary condensation within ongoing processes, where authorship is distributed across materials, systems, and contexts.