The Salamander Room, curated by Martina Venanzoni - For the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Arbon, Annina Arter has created a site-specific installation that references Anne Mazer's parable "The Salamander Room" (1991). Freely suspended, semi-transparent strips of wallpaper traverse the space, reorganizing it and shifting our usual perception of inside and outside. Through layering, a multi-layered panorama emerges, interweaving natural and constructed realities. The visual worlds developed by Annina Arter explore transitions between artificial and natural spaces and address themes such as appropriation, utopia, and care. With the kind support of: Ernst Göhner Foundation, Thurgauer Kantonal Bank, Dr. Heinrich Mezger Foundation. Special thanks to Carmen Tobler, Luca Beeler and Cédric Eisenring for generously making their childrens book collection available for the exhibition. project pictures: Ladina Bischof

Design Biennale Zurich, curated by Gabriela Chicherio and Andreas Saxer, old botanical garden 5. - 14.9.2025 Zurich: Tales & Tails - This project presents a series of textile images that engage with entries from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, also known as the “Thierbuch” – one of the earliest encyclopedias of the animal world, published in the 16th century. In this work, Gessner systematically compiled all available knowledge from ancient, medieval, and contemporary sources. Alongside real animals, he also documented mythical creatures such as the unicorn or basilisk. The depiction of these hybrid beings reveals how, in the 16th century, the boundaries between observation, myth, and inherited narrative were still fluid—between the visible and the told, between documented fact and imagination.“Tales & Tails” reflects on this theme through a contemporary, textile interpretation. Selected original illustrations from a hand-colored version of the Thierbuch are highlighted and embedded in narrative compositions. The series positions itself as an artistic exploration of collecting as a cultural practice—both historical and contemporary. The textile works explore the influence of social imagination, visual interpretation, and collective labor on how we perceive nature. The materials themselves follow the logic of collecting: fabrics, fragments, and materials from diverse sources come together in collage-like compositions with a quilt-like aesthetic, referencing various forms of collecting, ordering, and interpreting.The Thierbuch used as a source was kindly provided by the University of Amsterdam: Gessner-Platter albums, Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, Library of the Remonstrant community of Amsterdam, Hs. III C 22–23. project pictures: Alexa Weiss

For the new Kaiserhaus, Annina Arter created a collaged narrative for downtown Bern. In the tradition of the historic panorama wallpapers from the 19th century, an opulently staged transition from day to night paves the way for the viewer to a place of longing. Building blocks of these worlds are botanical illustrations from natural history archives, silhouettes and photos.

One moon that's bright, another that's blue, A fish in the grass, and a small moth, too.

Digital print on PES fleece, 2021

Curtain designs for the exhibition "Bauernkunst? Appenzeller Möbelmalerei 1700–1860" Zeughaus Teufen, 2012

Wallcoverings for retrospective Silvia Sleigh, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, 2011. Exhibition design concept: Giovanni Carmine, Martin Leuthold. Curator: Giovanni Carmine.

Wall designs for the exhibition "Gunta Stölzl and Johannes Itten - Textile Universes," Kunstmuseum Thun, August 17 - December 1, 2024. Director: Helen Hirsch, Co-curators: Helen Hirsch, Christoph Wagner, Exhibition organization: Cornelius Krell, Chiara Ottavi, Simon Stalder, supported by Celina Berchtold (University of Regensburg) and Mirjam Deckers (Gunta Stölzl Foundation Groningen). The five wallpaper interventions were created in response to the exhibited objects. Sublimation printing on PES fleece. Installation by Daniel Rieben, Mirjam Sieber, and Raffaella Chiara. Images: Till Forrer

Print designs for Jakob Schlaepfer - please contact Jakob Schlaepfer for requests.

Swiss Design Award 2024 in the category Fashion and Textile Design. Jury Report: "Annina Arter, freelance textile designer, presents her compelling work "Castles and Carpets," which captivated the jury with her printmaking. The spatial presence, the playful mastery of the surface, and the break with the classic pattern are impressive. Annina Arter's humorous use of form and color transforms a space with narratives from nature, the animal kingdom, and historical architectural elements into a magical, atmospherically designed world."

Print design Sara, created as part of a capsule collection for Collectif mon Amour, Zurich

Window design for the new building at the Cantonal Hospital in Chur Switzerland, commissioned by Staufer and Hasler Architects, 2018. Completion of the building in summer 2019. In collaboration with Astrid Staufer, Martin Leuthold, Patrik Meng.

Print design with side repeat, print design collection Annina Arter – please ask for project based application

Print design Arniko, developed for ARNIKO concept store in Zurich Europaallee

Print design with side repeat, print design collection Annina Arter – please ask for project based application

Panorama wallpaper with side repeat, wallpaper collection Annina Arter – please ask for project based application.

The project “Off the Wall” expands Annina Arters product range with woven murals. The scenes and the narratives depicted set unique accents in the room, convey sensuality and respond to the current need for more comfort and warmth. The murals take up the present longing for strange worlds in which one can lose oneself and discover things. They create a surreal exile, a projection surface through which the viewer can escape reality for a moment. Botanical hand paintings, cyanotypes, paper cuttings and photos are digitally collaged in images. Peculiar, hidden details, naive and absurd combinations are particularly noticeable. - Textile pictures, a little "off the wall"! Thanks to the digital jacquard weaving on a fine polyester warp, an almost photo-realistic implementation of the designs achieved possible. The project was nominated for the Swiss Design Awards in 2021.

Video installation for the theatre „die Liebe zu den drei Orangen“ from Sergej Prokofjev at Staatstheater Mainz, 2019.

For one summer, the „Drachensegel“ served as a shade roof on the Goumoënswiese, in addition to the water-spouting dragon figure in the nearby playground.

Print design with side repeat, created as part of the group exhibition „Cambiare Aria“ 2019 with Valentina Stieger and Hannah Raschle. Please ask for project based applications.