Graduated from Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in 2011. After that, Anja moved for several years to China where she took part in exhibitions, giving lectures, teaching workshops, co-curating exhibitions and writing about the Chinese contemporary jewellery scene for Art Jewelry Forum. Back in Germany, she established her workspace in Berlin and continued working on jewellery, objects and drawings.
She attended an artist in residence at the Academy of Art in Cranbrook and kept on co-curating exhibitions