Anja Manfredi
Anja Manfredi (*1978 in Lienz) lives and works in Vienna at the interface of photography and installation. Her artistic focus is on the visualization of emancipatory gestures, bodies and stories that are often overlooked in a social or historical context. She prefers to work with analog photographic techniques.
Since 2010, she has been the artistic director of the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography, which she graduated from herself (1998/99). Further studies in fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1999-2005) under Eva Schlegel. In 2022, she completed her doctorate with the thesis “Geste im Bild” under Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art and Cultural Studies. From 2004 to 2010 she worked in the collective of Fotogalerie Wien. Member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Vienna Secession since 2016.
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Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2023 Transgression, Charim Galerie Dorothergasse, Vienna, AT
2023 Atlas, Kunstforum Vienna, Tresor, AT
2022 Atlas, capter 1, LUMEN - Museum of Mountain Photography, Plan de Corones, IT
2020 Raum gewordene Blicke in die Sterne, new yörk, AT
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023 DZ Bank Kunststiftung, Frankfurt, DE
2022 Fotohof Salzburg, AT,
2022 Bildraum Bodensee Bregenz, AT
2021 Fotogalerie Wien, AT
2018 Kunst Haus Wien, AT
2017 Galerie Charim
Publications
Anja Manfredi, Atlas, with contributions by Lisa Ortner-Kreil, Astrid Peterle, Anna Fliri, Nicole Haitzinger und Massimo De Giusti, Verlag Fotohof edition, 2023
Anja Manfredi, Gesture and Analog Photography, with contributions by Jürgen Tabor, Verlag Fotohof edition, 2020
Glimpses into the Stars Became Space, Anja Manfredi with Nicole Haitzinger, Verlag Fotohof edition, 2020
Anja Manfredi, The South Tyrolean Housing Estate or the Memory of the Houses, the Plants and the Birds, with contributions by Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Hannes Obermair, SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR, 2021
