Tiergarten, Berlin
Anna Clegg
Hustlenomics
Schiefe ZähneAnna Clegg’s work engages with the circulatory structures of contemporary image culture, moving between photorealistic figuration and inconclusive degrees of recognisability and referentiality. Her paintings trace the life cycle of images, from their distribution and consumption to their functional role in establishing meaning, memory, and subjectivity. Hustlenomics presents a new body of work by the artist. Set across apartments, party interiors, and sites where disciplinary and domestic control is exercised, Clegg’s new paintings examine the intricacies of seemingly self-sufficient social units; the architectural and semi-public spaces where identities can be constructed, stress-tested, and performatively re-affirmed. Organised around three primary thematic sections, the works consider how gestures of self-stylisation––efforts intended to antagonise or break with conventions among peer groups, families, and figures of authority––can come to resemble a kind of self-advertisement that is liable to instrumentalisation by the same social economies from which one initially wanted out. Using processes of photographing, scanning, staging and repainting, Clegg excavates, appropriates, suspends, and ultimately compounds images through painting. Anna Clegg (b. 1998) lives and works in London. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Anna Clegg/Dan Flavin (Emalin, London, 2026), Liste Art Fair (Basel, 2025), Stainless (Soup Gallery, London, 2025). Participations in recent group exhibitions include Clarissa (Soft Commodity, London, 2025), Something where there should be nothing (Soft Opening, London, 2025), Don't worry, what happens happens mostly without you (Madame Leniou, Athens, 2025), Ten Thousand Ugly Inkblots (Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, 2024), Hidden Structures (Triangolo Gallery, Cremona, 2024). Clegg completed her studies at Chelsea College of Arts in 2020.