Media & Performance Artist

Creating systems that
develop their own behaviour.

Cologne, Germany

About

Anna Balthasar is a media and performance artist based in Cologne. She creates installations using sound, sensors, and real-time systems — exploring how spaces respond to people, and inviting audiences into systems that develop their own behaviour over time.

Practice
Selected Work
01

Interference

Immersive Installation · Light · Interaction
2024

A brutalist church transformed into a living system across three spatial layers — from individual light control to collective interaction and performative dialogue. Presented during Museumsnacht Köln 2024.

02

Quiet Drift

Light Installation · Spatial · Temporal
2025

A church façade transformed into a breathing field of shifting colour across 25 evenings — a slow choreography of light unfolding nightly for Adventszauber 2025 in Oberhausen.

03

Mazda CX-80

Real-time Visuals · Live Performance · Brand
2024

Four ink-based visual systems linked to motion tracking inside a 24-metre LED cave — a live visual performance for a four-day automotive advertising shoot.

04

Interprint — IP Code

Experience Design · AI · Immersive
2024

A mirrored black cube with LED walls where visitors entered the mind of an AI — the immersive centrepiece for Interprint Design Days, experienced by 300 guests.

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