Michael Kutzner was born in Berlin (East) in 1955. After an apprenticeship as a plasterer, he worked as a stone sculptor. From 1973 to 1977, he attended evening classes at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. He then studied fulltime at the university until 1983. In addition to numerous work scholarships, he received a scholarship to study abroad at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1995. In 1996 he was also a scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and in 2000 at the Villa Romana in Florence. Kutzner lives and works in Berlin.