The principle of collage characterizes Manfredi’s working method.
She produces photographic tableaus which play
with images within images, creating concentrations and evoking associations. During her early years, her material
comprised extensive staging and figures of her own body; in the meantime, she also draws upon image and text reproductions
from various printed sources as well as photographs of re-enactments. With these re-creations and
interpretations, executed by people from her artistic and scientific circle, Manfredi reflects historic body concepts
and social conventions.
– Rebekka Reuter
Born in 1978 in Lienz, Anja Manfredi graduated from the School of Artistic Photography in Vienna where she studied with Friedl Kubelka, and also studied art and photography with Prof. Eva Schlegel at the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna. Since 2010 she has been the director of the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna. Her work has won the Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Art (2010) and the Encouragement Award for Contemporary Art of the State of Tyrol (2007); she has been awarded scholarships for foreign travel by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture; her work has been featured in numerous collective exhibits, e.g. at the Winterthur Museum of Photography, Switzerland (2009), and solo exhibits, most recently at the Galerie OstLicht, Vienna (2013) and at the Rupertinum Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (2012). Anja Manfredi lives and works in Vienna.