Anna Carina Roth (b. 1993, in AT) is an Austrian-based artist working across sculpture, installation, kinetic objects, text, works on paper and expanded photographic processes. Her practice evolves around the trace and investigates the intersection of material agency, post-digital infrastructures and embodied communication. Roth is examining how the apparent immateriality of digital communication shifts back into physical encounters and can be translated into concrete bodily and material processes. Working with a range of materials like ceramics, metals, natural rubber and light-sensitive materials, Roth constructs responsive systems in which transformation, oxidation and temporal change become primary sculptural gestures. Her work often unfolds as a relational environment where visitors leave traces and become co-authors of subtle shifts in form and atmosphere. Drawing on poetic language and spatial choreography, Roth treats material as an active agent that records friction between bodies, architecture, and time.
Roth studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Her work has been presented at Parallel Vienna, Galerie 52 in Essen, Kunstverein Baden, Foto Wien, La Ira de Dios (Buenos Aires), ARD Art Institution (Cairo), Open Art Link (Athens), and in multiple solo exhibitions in Vienna, Austria. She has received the START Scholarship for Photography (Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria) in 2022, the Project Grant for Literature (City of Vienna) in 2025, the Emanuel & Sofie Fohn Scholarship (2022), several working grants and international mobility grants supporting residencies and research abroad.
PART OF
Calliope (Project of BMEIA) here
EDUCATION
University of Applied Arts Vienna
2023–2026 Site-Specific Art with Paul Petritsch
2018–2022 Fine Art Photography with Gabriele Rothemann
Degree: Mag.art / Master of Fine Arts (January 2026 with distinction)
Hfbk Dresden University of Fine Arts
2024–2025 Three-dimensional design with Alicja Kwade (Erasmus+ Semester)
Schule Friedl Kubelka
2016–2017 Class for Artistic Photography with Anja Manfredi Degree: Diploma
University of Vienna
2014–2019 Mass Media and Communication Science Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Scholarships / Grants
2026 // Project Grant, Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport Austria (BMWKMS), Austria
2026 // Project Grant, Bildrecht, Austria
2024 // Erasmus + Scholarship & EfM Scholarship at Dresden University of Fine Arts (DE)
2024 // Project Grant, State of Burgenland
2024 // District Funding, City of Vienna
2023 // Project Grant for Buenos Aires (AR), Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) Austria
2023 // Artist Mobility Grant for Buenos Aires (AR), State of Burgenland
2023 // Foreign Exchange Grant for Cairo (EG), University of Applied Arts Vienna
2023 // Mentoring-Program, AkBild & Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport Austria (Mentor: Rainer Iglar)
2022 //START-Scholarship for Artistic Photography, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport Austria (BMKÖS), Austria
2022 //Working Grant, State of Burgenland
2022 // Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship
2021 //Working Grant, State of Burgenland
2021 // Grant for Young Art, State of Burgenland
2020 // Project Grant, State of Burgenland
PRIZES
2026 // Shortlist, Krupa Art Foundation Young Art Prize, Wrocław, Poland
2017 // Recognition Award, Culture and Arts Department, Burgenland
Residencies
2025 // Artist in Residence at St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
2023 // Artist in Residence at La Ira de Dios in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 // Artist in Residence at Cselley Mühle Oslip, Burgenland, Austria
2018 // Artist in Residence at Domus Artium in Paliano, Italy
TEACHING / Lectures / Workshops / Artist Talks / PANEL TALKS
2026 //(upcoming) Artist Talk, Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg, Austria
2026 // Artist Lecture, Project Kulturimpuls SIAT, Schloss Retzhof, Steiermark, Austria
2024 // Panel Talk „Wie wir uns bewegen und kommunizieren“, Reihe Zukunftstalk, OHO Oberwart, Austria
2023 // Artist Lecture & Workshop „Re-thinking the medium of photography“, Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, Egypt
2023 //Artist Lecture, invited by Oslo Fotokunstskole and German University Cairo at Studio Xenia Nikolskaya, Cairo, Egypt
Collections
Landesgalerie Burgenland
Private Collections
Literature
SCHOLARSHIPS / GRANTS
2025 // Project Grant for Literature, MA7 City of Vienna, Austria
2025 // Artist Mobility Grant for Salzburg (AT), State of Burgenland
LITERARY PUBLICATIONS
2024 // Poetry in Junge Literatur Burgenland (Anthology), Vol. 8, edition lex liszt 12
READINGS
2024 // Reading “Junge Literatur Burgenland, Vol 8”, Literaturhaus Mattersburg, Burgenland, Austria
2024 // Reading “Junge Literatur Burgenland, Vol 8”, Weingut Oswald am Csaterberg, Burgenland, Austria