About Anna
Anna Kling is happy to describe herself as romantic. Sometimes she even acts as the „Spring Fairy“ (Bruehl-Project). Her early works can be qualified as the exploration and ascertainment of her own body as well as the masculine body by means of very direct artistic application within an emphatically sexual context. Robed in a ball gown in later performances, the artist smashed concrete with the brute force of a construction worker in order to bed plants in the newly won soil (Aufbruch I – III). Her fiberglass sculpture at the campus of Newcastle in Australia is of an oversized honeysuckle flower, which hangs like a giant vagina turned church bell. On the historic playground behind the Belvedere summer residence in Weimar, Anna Kling recently installed her Masters Thesis Work in public space a love swing for two people.
However, Anna Kling practices neither gender studies via Body Art nor renaturation or the consequent system-criticism in a rationally concrete, pseudo-scientific way. And yet her art is everything other than fabulous and even much less nostalgic/anachronistic and naive as one might like to believe. Rather, it reflects the romanticist desire and intermittent despair that drove the artist at the beginning of the 21st century to split concrete slabs in the hard rain while wearing a light-green evening gown. In order to move publicly within the field of painting, sculpture and drawing, in performance and video with such vehemence and in such a non- disguisable way, a kind of energy that demands an internal drive is required. Only this can explain the adjuration of the ultimately and permanently lost paradise expressed within Anna Kling´s works and their origins.
Dr. Silke Opitz, 2003
Anna Kling is an accomplished internationl artist who is constantly tasting the beauty of nature. Since 5 years she is enjoying the Blue Mountains and their creative climate and community. In her paintings she celebrates the life and uniqueness of trees, vegetables and women.
In 2003 she graduated from the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany with an installation of a love swing in the beautiful romantic gardens of Belvedere. Her Australian paintings measure up to 3 meter in width, as can be seen at the Dragonfly Cafe’ at Eden Gardens In North Ryde, where 2 of er artworks are permanently installed. For the Wintermagic Festival in 2008 she decorated the Katoomba Carrington Hotel Ballroom with 27 large Tree Banners measured to the size of the alcoves.
At the moment Anna Kling is working on a new series of banners showing spring impressions at Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens which will later be shown at this location.
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