Anna Kling | Treasure of Seeds

Country:

Australia

Artist's Statement:

In Australia almost any plant I knew from home (that is Germany) is considered to be a weed. So I thought about how we, this intelligent species, not only mess up our planet with all the poisons and machinery we’ve got, but just by planting seeds into soil which don’t belong there.

We are the soil providing sustenance for other life forms. Will we breathe out Geraniums or could we grow Orchids in our hearts?

Biography (condensed):

German born artist, graduated in Public Art at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany in 2003.
One of her first works after arriving in Australia was a large wall design at Eden Gardens in Sydney called “Pregnant Plants”. Working with oil sticks she is not afraid of filling a ballroom with 27 trees, as recently in the Carrington Hotel Katoomba. This is her 4^th year in Australia where she also found her husband and family and she enjoys living in the Blue Mountains with its inspirational climate and nature.

Biography (full):

1969
Born in Suhl, Thueringen, Germany

1989-1996
Worked as a teacher, conservator, gardener

1996-2003
Study of Fine Arts at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Thüringen, Germany, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN, USA, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

2002
2nd prize in the competition “Childrens Hospital Erfurt” with a wall design

2003
Master of Fine Arts with a Love Swing in Public Space
Public Sculpture “Honeysuckle Flower“ at the University of Newcastle

2004
Curated a show and taught in workshop „Art Steps Beyond Gallery“ at Newcastle Uni
1st price "Digital Soup" Blue Mountains
2 digital works in Luigi Benedetti and Marco Castelli Art Collection Italy
Public Commission “Pregnant Plants” at Eden Gardens Sydney
Became Australian Resident, lives and works in the Blue Mountains

2005-2008
Represented through Lumas Berlin
Shows in Newcastle, Katoomba, Sydney
Has been selected with 70 international artists for “The Garden Eden- The Garden in Art since 1900” in the Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Commenced her own business “Fine Art Service”