Anna ANDREJEW + Floris JANSSENS
Anna Andrejew is an artist, researcher and care worker who specialises in ethnography and permaculture. In an era characterised by speed, grief and loss, her work focuses on slowness, attention and care. She investigates porosity by tracing the meeting points, overlaps and transformations between people, materials and environments. Through site-responsive and often ritualistic interventions, she explores how art can create relational spaces, while also critically examining how systems of exclusion dictate who and what receives care. Drawing on her heritage of exile and material research, she engages in practices of listening, collecting, countermapping, writing and collective activities that unfold over time. Recent projects include Be Like Water (funded by the Dutch Research Council, 2025); The Memory of Matter (ACPA/KABK, 2025); Embracing Breakdown – On Elemental Collaboration (Listening Academy, Lisbon, 2026); and the publications How to See Rivers in Cracks (2026) and The First Impression on Your Skin (2024). She is also involved in numerous community-based and commons-oriented initiatives.
Floris Janssens is an archival expert at the Dutch National Archives, with a background in macrobiotics and literary studies. Intrigued by what seems lifeless but is actually alive — ferments, archives, and the digital afterlife he explores the intersection of these liminal life forms with memory, culture, and knowledge. In his work, he investigates unconventional archiving approaches and models, highlighting post-custodialism, cultural memory, and more-than-human storytelling. In his artistic practice, Floris uses food as a medium to explore the interconnected themes of memory, politics, and mental health. Through participatory cooking sessions and curated events, he creates spaces that nurture food sovereignty and community connections. The joint preparation of food becomes a metaphor for rethinking time, hierarchy, and productivity within a capitalist framework. He recently participated in the Non-Linear Narrative programme at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), in collaboration with the Dutch National Archives.
His recent project, The Anti-Class Ferments, forms part of the Anti-Class residency and is a curated series of community events at B32 in Maastricht.
Together, Floris and Anna form the artistic-research collective somæ, exploring the interconnectedness of land, food, digestion, and emotion. Their collaborative practice frames fermentation as both a method and a metaphor — an attuned, relational approach to knowledge-making that resists extraction and embraces transformation. As somæ, they organise community sessions that integrate artistic research, food practices, and ecological thinking into collective, hands-on experiences. Recent activities include Community Kraut sessions at Stadsoase Spinozahof, the Anti-Class residency at B32 in Maastricht, and ongoing participation in the Volkskeuken/Nachtschade community kitchen in The Hague.
