Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler took her to numerous theatres and opera houses, including Theater Basel, Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Paris and Schauspielhaus Zürich, where she was a member of the management team until summer 2004. Exhibitions of her stage design models have been shown in Rotterdam, Prague, Frankfurt am Main, Madrid, Brussels, Ghent, Avignon, Helsinki, Basel and Giessen; in 2017, the exhibition The Boat is Leaking, The Captain Lied. at the Fondazione Prada in Venice with Alexander Kluge, Thomas Demand and curator Udo Kittelmann, and in 2024 the installation at the Skulpturenhalle Neuss HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE.

Anna Viebrock was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna until 2021. She has been awarded the title of ‘Stage Designer of the Year’ and ‘Costume Designer of the Year’ a total of 17 times. She has also been working as a director since 2002. She has staged musical theatre productions at the Hanover State Opera and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, among others, and plays at the Hebbel Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zürich and Schauspiel Köln, among others.