Fanny Kranz
Biography
Fanny Kranz (born 1983) works at the intersection of art, design and architecture. She loves developing participatory projects that move between the kitchen table, exhibition spaces and public spaces – from Karlsruhe to South Korea and Japan. Her main areas of interest are fermentation, media art and feminism.
Together with Max Kosoric, she founded Kitchen_Ferm_Lab in 2020. Inspired by contemporary thinkers Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, the lab invites participants to engage in practice-oriented dialogue, bringing togethertraditional, forgotten and contemporary culinary knowledge in new ways. At its heart is the art of fermentation, understood as a symbiosis between human and non-human organisms: bacteria, fungi and yeasts are just as much co-researchers as we are.
Her research interests lie in the theory and practice of art education and mediation, artistic research, as well as collaborative-educational and performative approaches in contemporary art. As part of the project@mediating_media_arts, she is exploring media art education and mediation practices in South Korea and Japan together with Barbara Kiolbassa.
After studying Cultural Design (University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Hall), Printmaking (School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, UK), and Art Studies, Media Theory, and Exhibition and Communication Design (HfG Karlsruhe), Fanny Kranz directed the youth art school kiku at the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim from 2005 to 2008.
In 2012, she was one of the founding members of the art education collective www.fort-da.eu. From 2016 to 2025, she worked as a research associate at the Chair of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).