Anja Michaela Kretz

My home is my castle, 2024
fabric
60×108×8 cm

Dearest, 2024
fabric
30×30×11 cm

Captive Voices, 2022
copper, brass
60×60×40 cm

La vie en rose, 2022
prepared fabric
23×28×16 cm

Neuschnee, 2023
prepared fabric
40×40×15 cm

Iphigenia, 2022
material of piano
140×90×60 cm

Mi-Parti, 2022
wood, prepared fabric
27×37×14 cm

Nest, 2020
Brass, copper
28×28×28 cm

Cyclope (2/2),
Cyclope brass
65×65×60 cm

Vagualame, 2019
wood, brass
138×148×10 cm

Toccata (1/2), 2019
keys, wood
78×190×20 cm

Toccata (2/2), 2019
keys, wood
78×190×20 cm

Taktilon, 2019
wood, iron, felt
130×60×45 cm

The Night of Delphonium (1/2), 2019
brass, copper
500×500×140 cm

Skiff, 2019
wood
150×162×38 cm

Exhibitions

now

Exhibition 3/2025, VfaKR (Verein für aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet e. V.), Oberhausen, Germany

Opening: May 18, 2025 at 11.30 am
Duration: May 18–June 22, 2025
vfakr-oberhausen.de

Zentrum Altenberg
Hansastraße 20
46049 Oberhausen
Germany

2024

International instrument contest, Markneukirchen, Germany

2023

Studio opening, Baden-Baden, Germany

Schrill im Idyll, Gräfelfingen, Germany

North Sea Jazz Festival, Galerie Chiefs & Spirit, Rotterdam

Undiscovered spaces, Paris

Fresh Ride, Stern-Wywiol Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

2022

Kunstweg am Reichenbach, Gernsbach (Germany)

2021

Back Float, Künstlerhaus Ortenau, Galerie im Artforum, Offenburg, Germany

Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg, Booth D4, Stern-Wywiol-Galerie

Expedition, Kunstmuseum Paderborn, Germany

2020

con_certo, Kahnweilerhaus Rockenhausen, Germany

2019

Muses, Anne+ Art Contemporain, Paris

DER_WASSER DIE_ WASSER DAS_WASSER, Stern-Wywiol Galerie; Hamburg, Germany

Exhibition for the prize of Albert Haueisen, Zehnthaus, Jockgrim, Germany

Postgraduate Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

Höhenluft #17, Kunstverein Ettlingen Wilhelmshöhe, Germany

2018

White Cube, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Gestern Heute Morgen, Stern-Wywiol Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2017

Anja Michaela Kretz and Sybille Waldhausen, Kunstverein Norden, Germany

Fluxus temporis — the performance mit Gérard Buquet, Cluny, France

Fluxus temporis — Behältnisse, Galerie in der Promenade, Fürth, Germany

art Karlsruhe, with the gallery GNG, Paris

2016

FIL-LEICHT, Artopie — Centre de Création Artistique, Meisenthal, France

Expotition of the Master Class, Kunstverein Mannheim, Germany

3 Positionen, Gallery Stern Wywiol, Hamburg, Germany

Veni, vidi, Gallery Drewes, Hamburg, Germany

Academie of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

2015

Annual exhibition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Annual exhibition 2015, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

Prize of Henry Kahnweiler, Pachen museum, Rockenhausen, Germany

Measuring of unknown spaces and spheres, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

Art Karlsruhe, Stern-Wywiol Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany

Muggensturm am Müggelsee, Gallery of the old school, Culture Centre Adlershof, Berlin

2014

Annual exhibition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Portes Ouvertes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris

Einsichten–Ansichten, Stern-Wywiol Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2013

Annual exhibition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

4 in der Orgelfabrik, Orgen factory, Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany

Impulse 24, Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2012

Annual exhibition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

4 in der Wäscherei, project space, Karlsruhe, Germany

West-Süd, projects space of Knecht-Burster Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany

Werders Wohnzimmer, different private apartments, Karlsruhe, Germany

Scheitern, University of Art and Design Karlsruhe, Germany

Curriculum Vitae

2019

Prize of the Arts and Culture Association, Offenburg, Germany

2018

Residence at the Cité des Arts, Paris (fellowship of the land Baden Württemberg)

2016

Residence at Meisenthal, France (fellowship Balkenhol)

Master of Fine Arts (sculpture) at the State Academy of Fine Arts
Karlsruhe, Germany (class Prof. Stephan Balkenhol)

2010–2016

Studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe with Prof. Stephan Balkenhol (sculpture)

2014

Study semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris with Prof. Tadashi Kawamata

Aufnahme in die Sammlung Edwin-Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany

1990–1995

Studies of jewellery design at the University of Applied Science in Pforzheim, Germany

1987–1990

Goldsmith’s apprenticeship in Coblenz, Germany

Contact

Studio Anja Michaela Kretz
Schafbergstraße 8
76534 Baden-Baden, Germany

Tel. +49 151-21231321
anja.michaela@freenet.de
Catalog on request

More information:
Jewelry collection
kleinod.eu