Entry: Immersion
ANJA KIRSCHNER is an artist living and working in Berlin and London. In her films and video installations she attends to the phantasmatic and material aspects of media practices and their role in the production of knowledges and bodies. She was the winner of the Jarman Award (2011) and has exhibited widely internationally. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, working on immersion from queer feminist and decolonial perspectives.
Selected exhibitions include: Secession, Vienna; Benaki Museum, Athens; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Artists Space, New York; Extra City, Antwerp; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; ICA, Chisenhale Gallery, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London. Her work has also been screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, the 66th Berlinale, the 60th BFI London Film Festival, the Glasgow Film Festival ’15 and the 57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, amongst others, and is in the LUX and BFI Artists’ Moving Image collections.
