«World Observation and World Discovery.»
The human ability to recognize and interpret our own and others’ feelings is called emotional intelligence. In interaction with our cognitive abilities, it enables us to evaluate a respective concrete situation correctly and to react to it appropriately. Anna Dorothea Klug uses this ability, which is inherent in human beings, for orientation and self-understanding. As for all artistically active people, the observation of the world also means for her the discovery of the world.
Anna Dorothea Klug studied ceramics at 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, se- curity - 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 rela- tionship 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 ap- pear as a pair: a small human and an oversized, fantastic-looking animal being. Their relationship remains mysterious. Their interac- tion seems to follow a ritual that remains hidden from the viewer. Visibly borne by empathy, they consistently exclude third parties. The performance is a surreal piece with little action. As if frozen for all time, the movements of the performers. «There is a long dream, and there are short dreams that interrupt it. Otherwise, there is really nothing,» says writer Daniel Kehlmann. Anna Dorothea Klug’s individuals are trapped in their dream, in a dream from which they cannot awaken without damage to body and soul.
Dr. Renate Luckner-Bien
BIO
July 2014 diploma in the field of sculpture/ceramics Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
2010 exchange semester in the department of ceramics with the professors Brad Schwieger and Tom Bartel Ohio University, Athens, USA
2008-2014 Studies in the department of sculpture/ceramics with Prof. Martin Neubert Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany
2004-2008 Studies at the Freie Kunstakaemie Nürtingen e.V. in the department of vascular ceramics and narrative design 2004 A-levels at the Gymnasium Weikersheim
|Awards|
2020 art award of the city of Kempten
Special prize of the Franz Schmid Foundation Marktoberdorf
2018 Winner art on building competition, outdoor sculpture for the Karlsruhe Zoo
2014 Prize of the city of Oldenburg «Ceramics in the Powder Tower», solo exhibition and catalog 2013 Richard Bampi Prize, winner 1st prize, Grassimuseum Leipzig.
2013 Naspa Prize Ceramics, laureate promotional prize, Westerwald Ceramics Museum.
2012 Special show «Talents 2012», IHM, Munich
|Scholarships & Artist Residencies|
2020 INTONATION Deidesheim Art Days
2018 Scholarship Kinderleicht, Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt
2018 «Terra Arte» Symposium Hundisburg
2017 Working scholarship, Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt
2015 Ceramics Symposium Gmunden, Austria
2013-2018 Annual artist residency at the Majolika Keramik Manufaktur Karlsruhe, Germany 2010 DAAD scholarship for an exchange semester at Ohio University, Athens, USA.
|Works in collections|
Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf Naspa Wiesbaden
Grassimuseum Leipzig
City of Gmunden, Austria
City of Kempten
|Exhibitions|
2021
Une âme d'enfant, Galerie Géraldine Banier, Paris
The other view, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf
Funny types, Gallery 23 Gießen
25th Anniversary of the Ceramics Award in the Pulverturm, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg Creatures and Bodies, City Museum Hüfingen
Art from the Allgäu, Alpine Museum, Kempten
Southern, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf
From the dark forest, solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Kempten
2020
72nd Great Swabian Art Exhibition, In the H2- Center for Contemporary Art in the Glass Palace, Augsburg Ostallgäu art exhibition, Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf
Kempten art exhibition 2020, Kempten
INTONATION, Deidesheim Art Days, Deidesheim
2019
10th Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Korea Ostallgäuer art exhibition, artist house Marktoberdorf Artistic playful art, gallery craft, Munich
2018
Frechen Ceramic Award, Keramion, Frechen, Germany
Artistic toy-playful art, gallery handicraft, Munich
Ceramic Now, 60th Premio Faenza, MIC, Faenza, Italy
From the depths, scholarship exhibition of the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany NVK Triennale, CODA Museum, Appeldoorn, Netherlands
On the eighth day of sound, Deutschvilla Strobl, Austria