Anna Franke is a German visual artist whose practice traverses painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Working with natural pigments, fabric, and found materials, she develops process-based works that unfold through prolonged contact with elemental environments—immersing textiles in rivers, oceans, and soil, exposing them to erosion, decay, and transformation. Her gestures are rhythmic, durational, and embodied, positioning the artist’s body within ecological processes as both agent and witness.

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Originally trained in Communication Design, Franke worked as an art director and editorial illustrator in Germany before shifting her focus fully toward her artistic practice. She has lived between Germany and Galicia (Spain), where her work has evolved through deep engagements with place, ecology, body and movement.

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Her practice engages the material and affective tensions between human and natural systems. Rather than seeking harmony, she foregrounds friction—the ways in which movement, matter, and weather co-produce form. Through this, she questions inherited romantic imaginaries of nature, situating her work within contemporary discourses on ecology, feminism, and material agency.

Franke has deepened this trajectory through residencies at Joya AiR (Almería, 2023), PADA Studios (Lisbon, 2023), Ras de Terra (Extremadura, 2024), and AADK Spain (Murcia, 2025). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Crossing Water at Monterroso Gallery (Houston, 2025), SFA Art Galleries (Texas, 2024), and Ras de Terra (Spain, 2024), as well as Art Creates Water at Millerntorgallery (Hamburg, 2023 & 2019). She currently lives and works between Galicia, southern Spain, and Germany.