Anja Kaiser is active in the independent art scene as well as within pop culture, seeking spaces for social participation. In collaboration with subcultural spaces and feminist groups, she has contributed to projects and their graphic design through various partnerships.

In self-initiated projects, she addresses feminist themes and researches undisciplined narratives and tools in graphic design. In doing so, she explores the intersections between graphics, design, art, music, and forms of digital self-empowerment. Through posters, animated digital images, hand-printed editions, and related, deliberately fluid media, she gives visibility to the themes she explores and her collaborators.

Kaiser worked in the Department of Type and Typography at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle from 2014 to 2018.⁠ ⁠From April 2021 to March 2023, she served as a visiting professor of typography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. She is regularly invited to give lectures and workshops both in Germany and abroad, most recently at the Biennial of Graphic Design in Chaumont and the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival in Lucerne.

She has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 2013.⁠ ⁠She began developing the project Sexed Realities – To Whom Do I Owe My Body? as part of her master’s studies at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam (Gerrit Rietveld Academie).

The work was honored at the International Design Biennial in Brno and acquired by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony in June 2017.⁠ ⁠That same year, she received the INFORM Prize from the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, an award for conceptual design at the intersection of graphic design and art.

In 2019, her work Whose.Agency was nominated for the shortlist of the prestigious Beazley Design of the Year award and exhibited at the Design Museum London. In 2020, Le Signe – Centre National du Graphisme in France presented a solo exhibition on her independent and commissioned practice.

In 2021, Kaiser co-published the symposium and publication project Glossary of Undisciplined Design with designer and professor Rebecca Stephany.