In "Selbst",[2] the artist ties up her face with tight threads of black silk, like a cocoon, of which she makes a photographic record that is subsequently stitched by following a geometric pattern that resembles a sign.
Annegret Soltau writes her story as a woman on the blank page of her face; it is a history of conflict, impulsive reactions to the family environment, to the marginal position of women in the social context, to gender pressures and discrimination.
In her Video-Performances and Phototableaus she wanted to make intimate processes like sexuality, pregnancy, birth, abortion, sickness and violence become subjects of the arts.
The most complex and elaborate series of works is "generativ" (1994-2005),[4] where she composes photographs of the naked bodies of her "female chain": her grandmother, her mother, her daughter and herself.
[7] "More than Meets the Eye", Art Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection on Tour through important Museums Latin America from 2006 until 2007 (Monterrey, Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo und Buenos Aires)[8] 2007 until 2009 WACK!
[9] 2010 "Donna: Avanguardia femminista negli anni ’70", Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy 2012 "Francis Bacon and the Existencial Condition in Contemporary Art", Strozzina Foundazione, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy "artevida: corpo(body)", 28 June – 21 September 2014, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Rodigo Maura at Fundação Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013 until 2017 "WOMAN.