Annakatrin Kraus is a fine artist, living and working in Berlin, Germany with a secondary studio in California. Sculpture, mixed media, installations and works for public spaces are her forms of expression.

Born to a German mother and American father in Sacramento California in the winter of 1984, Kraus grew up spending the summers in the black forrest region of Germany.

While receiving a Bachelor of Art at Humboldt State university in northern California, Kraus was a teachers assistant, worked for two university art galleries and taught ceramic sculpture at the local Fire Arts community art center. She was awarded the Martin Wong Ceramics Scholarship in 2009.

In 2011, she moved to her mothers native country and completed an MFA at the Institute for Fine Art in Ceramics in Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany. During her masters studies, Kraus lead a summer workshop at the European Art Academy in Trier, and was awarded a three month residency at the Kunsthaus 19/21 Fellowship in Pforzheim, Germany.

Her studio works consist of installations and abstract sculptural forms. She primarily uses clay as her working material but combines compositions with mixed materials.

In Berlin since 2015, Kraus further develops her work and collaborates on projects for public spaces. She has recently participated in the Latvian Ceramics Biennale 2016 and built an art suit at the ICE HOTEL No. 26 in Sweden.