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