Anika Schwarzlose is an artist, researcher, and lecturer whose visual arts practice involves collaborative production cycles, focusing on archives, the repurposing of images, and reproduction techniques. Through photographic installations, video, and film, she examines lens-based recording media—specifically how the dispersion, adaptation, and composition of images shape the political narratives they promote.

Her research investigates the interconnections of biosphere, geosphere, and technosphere; kinships between humans and minerals; machines as technogenic impulses on evolutionary development; and metabolic connections between life and non-life. Currently, her work centres on the relationship between military activity, warfare, and environmental crisis.

Venues where her work has been exhibited include Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Zollverein Essen, ARoS Museum, Cornell University Art Gallery, Ural Industrial Biennial, Fotomuseum Winterthur and FOAM. Presently, she teaches photography and artistic research at HKU Utrecht.