Anna Tellgren is a committee member of the Nordic Network for the History and Aesthetics of Photography and is the Associate Editor of Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History. She produced the Arbus, Model, Strömholm exhibition and was the editor of the catalogue with the same title, published in 2005 by Steidl. In spring 2007 Anna Tellgren was in charge of installing the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines at Moderna Museet. In autumn 2007 she was in charge of the exhibition Lars Tunbjörk Winter/Home and in the autumn 2008 Moderna Museet Now: Inta Ruka.
Anna Tellgren also heads a research project on the history of Moderna Museet in its fifty years of existence, which was published in 2008.