Ananda Serné is a Dutch writer and visual artist based in Norway. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and has been awarded several research and studio residencies, such as the Jan van Eyck Institute in Maastricht supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei supported by the Mondriaan Fund, and a long-term recurring residency at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard through the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists.
Solo presentations include: Nightblooming, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen; Insect sing-along, puntWG, Amsterdam; Liquid Whistle, The Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo; A Long Hum, Bergen Kunsthall's Live Studio; A caterpillar is curled in a green ring, at Galleri 54 in Göteborg and Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei; hour, flower, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung. Selected group exhibitions include: Tenderflix Film and Video Prize, Tenderpixel, London; Art Rotterdam, 14th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje; Dancing through (un)common worlds, De Vishal, Haarlem; Feral Tongues, The University Museum of Bergen; Vårutstillingen, Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Mesh, Galleri CC, Malmö; Fra balkongen, Stavanger Art Museum.
Set in a society struggling with sleeplessness, her debut novel Nachtbloeiers (2022) was longlisted for the Libris Literature Prize. Her second novel IJsberenprotocol will be published by Cossee Publishers in the Netherlands in May 2026.
