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Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker and video artist whose work focuses on the body and its relationship to architecture and space.

Her photography and film work has been exhibited in group and one-person shows, and screened at film festivals throughout Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. She has created video and photography installations that have been presented in galleries and theaters as part of live performances around the world. She studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, where she is now on the faculty and teaches Personal Vision photography classes.

She has completed residencies in Rome, Paris, Warsaw and Beijing and has received numerous grants, among others a Swing Space grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York, to create “Changing Room,” a site-specific photography installation with live performance (”The most bewitching part of the evening was the dance created by Ms. Hitzenberger’s camera” — The New York Times).

Besides a variety of small video projects, she completed two short films together with composer/filmmaker Edward Ratliff: “Barcelona in 48 Hours,” about the choreographer David Zambrano; and “The Paris Film,” a fiction short featuring the performer Jimena Paz.

Originally from Salzburg, Austria, she divides her time between New York and Vienna, Austria, and she enjoys collaborating with artists from different disciplines on site-specific architecturally-aware pieces.