Marianne Braches-Kronenberg
grew up in Amsterdam and now lives in Amstelveen. She studied art at the Rietveld Academy, specializing in sculpture. She was involved with "Studio W139" in Amsterdam from the start. Her work at that time was mainly three-dimensional. She experimented with colours and different materials.

Characteristic then as now was her use of familiar and sometimes simple shapes to suggest a reality that is not so familiar and certainly not so simple. Some works from this period have been added to the collection of the "Stedelijk Museum" and can be found in the catalogue "Aanwinsten 1993 / 2003 Stedelijk Museum." For earlier sculptures click here.

In 2003 she began to work on the computer, which proved to be a medium for a different kind of sculpture. She was able to create a private world, just like she had done in the past with sculptures like"Pink Cloud" and "Rabbit Island". In her collages a development can be traced from experiments with shapes and textures to complex and mysterious interactions between her subjects and their surroundings.