Anna Franke, born in 1980 in Erlangen, Germany, graduated in 2007 with a degree in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. She pursued additional international studies in Vienna and Salamanca.

After gaining experience as an art director at major advertising agencies in Hamburg, she founded the collage collective „Collagitos“ in Hamburg and Berlin, working as an editorial illustrator. She has participated in various exhibitions and intercultural projects in Hamburg.

Currently, she lives and works between Germany and Spain. She frequently travels in her motorhome, spending time in Costa da Morte (Galicia), Portugal, and Cabo de Gata, seeking inspiring landscapes to set up her outdoor studio.

In the process of creating, moving, changing and destroying, she feels the traces of transience in the fast-moving world. Outdoor practice and travelling respond to the need to be more in touch with nature.

Anna Franke challenges the boundaries of painting and expands them. Her approach to landscapes defies conventional formats, taking a physical and experimental stance. Organic forms, primal elements, colour, light, matter, and the body take centre stage in her art.

Her penchant for experimenting extends to unconventional materials such as earth, mud, collected natural objects, beach debris, and text fragments.

Painting serves as a research field for the artist, where she explores experimental techniques, natural materials, and the interplay between outdoor work and studio refinement. This cyclic process of creating seeks equilibrium between the internal and external, nature and humanity, body and mind, and idea and material.