About me

“In my work, it`s not about depictions of the world, but about what happens in the encounter with it – both within and without.”

The Artist

Theresa Kraft is a visual artist whose work explores the delicate interplay between structure and dissolution, between what is visible and what lies beneath the surface. Her paintings are quiet compositions of layered textures, natural pigments, and intentional spaces — inspired by earth, stone, light, and silence.

She works in layers — scratching, breaking, erasing, revealing. In an often intuitive process, she adds, removes, disturbs, and rearranges, as if searching for traces of what hides below. Her surfaces carry marks of time, depth, and inner movement.

At the heart of her practice lies a deep sensitivity to emotional and relational currents. Human encounters, tensions, and unspoken dynamics enter her paintings as atmospheric traces — not as literal representations, but as inner landscapes. Her work does not aim to depict the world, but to give form to what happens in the encounter with it — both inwardly and outwardly.

Theresa’s paintings invite slowness. Each piece becomes a space for resonance — for the quiet, the unspoken, and the undefined. With muted tones and poetic density, her art offers a gentle resistance to the superficiality of quick perception, inviting the viewer to pause, feel, and read between the layers.

Biography

Born in 1983 in Tübingen, Germany, Theresa Kraft lives and works in a small town near Stuttgart.

From 2005 to 2011, she studied at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart, with a focus on painting, sculpture, and graphic design. She was a master student under Professor Olga Schiefer, with painting as her primary discipline.

Since 2011, she has been working as an upper school art teacher and as an independent artist.

She is married and a mother of three.

Exhibition History (Selection)

2009

Group Exhibition
Freie Hochschule Kassel

2012

Linie zur Fläche
Freie Hochschule Stuttgart

2016

Farbschatten
Lebensgemeinschaft Münzinghof e.V., Velden

2017

Der Mensch wird am Du zum Ich
Café Artes, Leipzig

2018

Menschsein
Lebensgemeinschaft Münzinghof e.V., Velden

2019

SILENT SHIFT
Galerie, Antwerp, Belgium

2020

Group Exhibition
Galerie Salou, Basel

2022

Dialoge

2024

Der andere Blick
Galerie Norbert Nieser, Stuttgart

2025

New&abstract
Group Exhibition, Berlin