Bernadette Anzengruber works in the fields of photography, performance, video, objects and text. Her artistic practice is located at the intersection of visual arts, design and philosophy with a focus on the corporality of language (materialised poetry – relationships of language and the body/language as a body), intimacy and the erotic of commodities, as well as the desires and power structures that come along with these topics.
Anzengruber’s work has been shown at exhibitions and festivals in numerous countries: ACF London (UK), Tanzquartier Wien (AT), MUSAC Léon (ES), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), brut Wien (AT), LENTOS Kunstmuseum (AT), Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), ACF Tokyo (JPN), Galerie Michaela Stock (AT), Wiener Art Foundation (AT), Krinzinger Projekte (AT), Galerie Lisa Ruyter (AT), Tin Sheds Gallery (AU), Toynbee Studios (GB), Stephen Lawrence Gallery (GB), Katarsis Project Space (EE), Diagonale (AT), identities (AT), FEMINA (BR), Nashville Film Festival (US), zinegoak (ES), Marfa Film Festival (US);
Awards, grants and fellowships she received include: Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien, Studio Residency in Tokyo by the Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture, Theodor Körner Prize, Startstipendium by the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria, Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Grant, Birgit Jürgenssen Prize, Organizers Award of the International Video Festival Bochum.