Anna Anders was born in Munich and has been making video films, projections, installations and objects since the late 1980s, with which she has been represented at numerous international festivals, exhibitions and art fairs. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Anna Anders first worked for three years in the cultural editorial department at Bayerischer Rundfunk-Fernsehen before completing postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne from 1992 to 1995. She was then employed there as an artistic assistant from 1997 to 2001. Freelancing again, she founded an agency for media art together with colleagues and realized video productions for cultural institutions, including the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn and the Cologne Opera. Since 2005 Anna Anders has been teaching the fundamentals of the design of the moving image at the Berlin University of the Arts in the courses "Visual Communication" and "Art and Media" and is a member of the Institute for Time-Based Media.