Anna Kramer 
 

Artist Statement

I am drawn to zones of intertwining, mingling and repulsion.
I work with materials as bodies and language as attunement.
Sculptures are my way of building bodies where a material’s peculiarity tips into its relationality. The places where the contradictory becomes tangible. Where glass keeps safe, liquid becomes voluptuous, and stone takes me in.
Touch is my manifesto and most trusted method of knowing.
I am infatuated with materiality for being at once irrefutable and futile.
I want to let it attest to all it has to say, while consenting to its slipping through my fingers.
My sculptural work cycles are initiated by site-responsive processes, mostly in the context of residencies. In my recent work, I am exploring intertwinings between human and stone bodies.


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Vita

born in Austria / lives and works in Leipzig (DE)

2018 - 2022  
Diploma of Fine Arts, January 2022, class of Prof Zaumseil (sculpture), Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (DE)
2016 - 2018  
Studies of Sculpture/Installation/New Media, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter (DE)
2011 - 2015
freelance projects as make-up artist and theater maker, Berlin (DE)
2011  
Degree BA Transcultural Communication (German/English/French), University of Vienna (AT)

group & duo exhibitions

 

2024
Sommerausstellung 2024, Schlossmuseum Linz (AT)
You are the drop down my spine, duo-exhibition with Maria Sophie Biehl, Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle (DE)
I've seen you in the weeds of my skin, duo-exhibition with Maria Sophie Biehl, curated by Caterina Fondelli, Leipzig (DE)
2023
Raum, group exhibition, Wackernheim (DE)
2022 
Plansch, Kunstfestival Begehungen 2022, Thalheim (DE)
2020  
Natur-Mensch, national park Harz, Sankt Andreasberg (DE)
SILVER SURFER. So Fast and So Furious, sculpture class Zaumseil, Franckeplatz, Halle (DE)
2019
Eisenmangel, sculpture class Zaumseil, annual exhibition of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (DE)
2018
ORTUNG, Künstler Gut Loitz e.v., Loitz
2017
Kunst in Sendling, community of sculptors Demenat, München (DE)
Åpen Dag, Tangen (NO)
Transformia, Lukasgasse, Alfter (DE)

solo exhibitions

2025
Lithophilic Inscriptions, residency showing, Wasserschlösschen Ismaning (DE)
2022
Hinwendungen, Kunsthalle Kleinschönach (DE)
Horizons Are My Fur, diploma exhibition, Vika e.V., Halle (DE)
2019
through surface, Burg2, Halle (DE)

residencies / symposia

2026
selected artist, Postnatural Independent Program 2026, hybrid laboratory for collective, embodied ecological thinking, Postnatural Institue, Madrid (ES)
2025-26
residency at Wasserschlösschen, supported by Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning (DE)
2023 
residency in guest studio of State Upper Austria (LandOÖ, AT) at the Egon Schiele Art Centrum, June, Český Krumlov (CZ)
2022
residency Arts Festival Begehungen - Plansch, Thalheim (DE)
residency in Kunsthalle Kleinschönach, Kleinschönach (DE)
2019
sandstone symposium, Reinhardtsdorf (DE)
2018
landart symposium, Künstler Gut Loitz e.V., Loitz (DE)
2017 
stone symposium, Tangen (NO)

scholarships / awards

2025-26
studio grant, studio program of Municipality of Ismaning (DE)
2024

work grant of province of Upper Austria  (Land OÖ, AT) 
grant, summer academy, Alfred Toepfer Foundation (DE)
2023
guest studio grant by province of Upper Austria (Land OÖ, AT) for studio at Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov (CZ)
2022
grant NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds 2022 (DE)
studio grant, Kunsthalle Kleinschönach (DE)
2020
2nd price of exhibition Natur-Mensch with work creatures among creatures, national park Harz, Sankt Andreasberg (DE)
2018/19/21 
STIBET grant, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD & Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design/Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (DE)