Anna Witt, born in 1981 in Germany, lives and works in Vienna.
Her artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. She creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power structures as well as conventions of speaking and acting. Passers-by in public spaces, or specifically selected people and groups, are drawn into her experimental arrangements, usually in a directly physical way. The tasks range from repeated imitation of specifically coded gestures to the development of
complex choreographies, and give the participants opportunities for individual articulation and authorship.

In the last years, she took part in numerous exhibitions in Austria, Germany and internationally. Her work had been shown at Museum Bern; Secession Vienna; 1st Vienna Biennale at MAK; Gallery of Contemporary Art Leipzig; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Austrian Cultural Forum New York and at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, among others and she had solo exhibitions at Museum Belvedere, Vienna; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, and Gallery Tanja Wagner, Berlin, at Marabourparken Museum Stockholm and Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo. She took part in Emscherkunst Biennale, 13; Lux/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, London; 6. Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art and Manifesta 7 in North Italy and is the winner of the Otto Mauer Prize, the Art Prize ‘Future of Europe’ in 2015; BC21 Art Award in 2013 and Art Prize Columbus Art Foundation in 2008.