Anja Spitzer works directly with her body in fresh clay. From the very beginning, she has been fascinated by the relationship between imprint, trace, and body. As a professional dancer, she quickly learned—through the feedback of moist clay—to control pressure, angle, speed, clothing, and skin as tools in such a way that she can repeat certain sculptural basic forms and deliberately inscribe them into the clay. This provides the basis for compositional work and for the possibility of working as a sculptor in much the same way as a choreographer: she places movement. To this end, she builds strictly geometric starting blocks from clay. Through the chosen basic movement (for example, turning on the heel) and its specific force profile, the clay blocks begin to deform, to shift, to crack—recording this type of movement process within themselves.

Anja Spitzer (*1982 in Berlin) completed her professional training as a state-certified stage dancer in 2000. After a permanent engagement as a dancer at Theater Altenburg/Gera, she worked freelance throughout Germany for numerous contemporary choreographers. In 2009 she began studying Fine Arts/Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein under Andrea Zaumseil, and later received both her diploma and postgraduate degree under Albrecht Schäfer and Else Gabriel at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. In 2024 she was awarded a working grant at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and received the Marehalm Art Award. This year she is the recipient of a fellowship from Stiftung Kunstfonds. Anja Spitzer lives in Berlin-Pankow.

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