Anna Franke is a painter and sculptor from South Germany, graduated in Communication Design. She worked as an art director at major advertising agencies and as a editorial illustrator in Germany. Alongside her commercial work as a designer, Anna has always worked on her personal experimental practice. She has participated in various exhibitions at the Affenfaust Gallery, the „Art creates Water“ – Festival and intercultural projects like „Faces of Resistance“ for the German-Syrian Assosiation in Hamburg / Germany.

2019 she decided to leave Germany to travel in a motorhome through Andalucia to South Morocco, and ended up (during covid time) in Galicia, North Western Spain.

From then, she participated in several ecological art residencies like Joya AiR, which led to the JOYA AIR. Hiking every day, she explored the possibilities of connecting her painting practice with nature and her body in movement. There she teamed up with 3 artists and a curator to launch the Crossing water project. This project addresses the transformative act of crossing water from different perspectives – and nods to their literal journeys across oceans and rivers to meet and work together.