Was born in 1984, in Nuremberg, Germany.

Anna Dorothea Klug studied ceramics in art colleges in Nürtingen, Halle and for a guest

semester also in Ohio. Therefore her works are made of clay. Her interest is not the

self-expression of this material. Material is for her only a means to an end when she

tries to find images for emotional states. Her beautiful sketchy drawings serve as

models for the sculptural works. That is the exciting task: translating a two-dimensional

representation into the spatial.

Anna Dorothea Klug is concerned with the visualization of her own elementary emotions -

fear, pain, joy, sadness, longing, pity, security - and their transfer into the universal.

In doing so, she makes use of fairy-tale-like images from mythology and their stereotypical

contemporary interpretations. It is the narrative of the relationship between mental and

physical states, the narrative of the relationship between body and mind, the narrative of

the ambivalence of human states of being.

The actors of this bizarre world theater are humans and animal-like beings. In the series

entitled «The Feeling Behind,» they always appear as a pair: a small human and an oversized,

fantastic-looking animal being. Their relationship remains mysterious. Their interaction

seems to follow a ritual that remains hidden from the viewer. Visibly borne by empathy,

they consistently exclude third parties.

Works in collection :
Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf
Naspa Wiesbaden
Grassimuseum Leipzig
City of Gmunden, Austria
City of Kempten

Selected exhibitions :

2021 The other view, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf
25th Anniversary of the Ceramics Award in the Pulverturm, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg
Creatures and Bodies, City Museum Hüfingen
Art from the Allgäu, Alpine Museum, Kempten
From the dark forest, solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Kempten

2020 72nd Great Swabian Art Exhibition, In the H2- Center for Contemporary Art

2019 10th Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Korea