In 1989–1990, she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD-scholarship) for New York, where she attended the Independent Study Program (ISP) of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 2000, Sander was part of a group of 15 artists and architects who bought a complex of buildings, where the Prussian army had once manufactured its uniforms, in Berlin's Moabit.
In a 1994 Projects show at the Museum of Modern Art, Sander polished painting-sized squares of wall throughout the building to a porcelainlike high gloss.
From 1999 to 2007, she was professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and from 2007-2023 she held the chair for architecture and art at the ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
[9] Sander's work has been exhibited worldwide, particularly in Europe and the United States, notably in solo exhibitions at Museion, Bozen (2020), Kunst Museum Winterthur (2018), the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2011), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2010), K20 Kunstsammlung North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf (2010), Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2009), Kunstverein Arnsberg (2008).