23.10.21 – 27.03.22 Italy | Biennale Internazionale di opere di carte – Palazzo Fogazzaro | The works shown in Schio, Vicenza are wearable objects designed from old books and other historic materials, mostly made from Japanese washi paper. The transparent garments function as mobile shelters of the fragile memory. Covered in knowledge they teach about the…
1.-23.10.21 Italy | Maxxi Museo Nazionale Roma | Organised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Swatch Peace Art Hotel, the exhibition was curated by Carlo Giordanetti in collaboration with Hou Hanru, the artistic director of the Maxxi Museum in Rome. Opening ceremony with Sebastio Salgado’s show Amazonia. by director Giovanna Melandri. Information about work 1 |…
March 2021 Italy | Finally we could set up six of my paper works which will be presented at the Biennale Internazionale di opere di carte in Schio, Vicenza in a couple of weeks. It was an easy ride to Italy and a very warm welcome at the Palazzo Fogazzaro. Next to some of my…
8.13.6.2021 Japan | Morioka Shoten | Selected by the Austrian Cultural Forum of Tokyo, photographs picturing three of my paper garments which I tailored in Onishi, Gunma were on display in Ginza, Tokyo. They are be shown together with the publication #JapanRevisited202x: then—now—after. From June 8-13, 2021 日本語Suzuki Building, 1-28-15 Ginza, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan Morioka Shoten, the Bookshop…
17-21.2.21 Finland | Serlachius Foundation | The two month residency in Finland was quite successful with an exhibition and feature in the newspaper. My working conditions in the studio were near perfect and the footage in the local thrift stores turned out amazing. Only the cold temperatures with mostly minus 20 degrees became a challenge…
4-26.7.2020 Switzerland | Stockalperschloss | As a guest of the Kunstverein Oberwallis (KVO) and the municipality of Brig-Glis I worked in the studio in the Fernanda of Stockalperhaus. From July 4 on, I showed what was created there under the title “Prosthetic Memories” in the KVO gallery “zur Matze”. Lothar Berchtold wrote in the Walliser…
September 2019 Japan | Kinuya | This time in my second hometown Onishi I was showing the output of my three month of work. On display were five different garments at the Kinuya building. It is a cultural hub in a former silk trader shop and about 300 metres from my own house which I…
02.03.19 Estonia | Copper Leg | Open Day at the Copper Leg Residency in March. The venue was originally an old school building which was rededicated as a cultural hub for all kind of matters. By itself the building was a little remote but the opening was well attended and a good way to learn…
13-20.04.18 Latvia | Mark Rothko Center | It was one of the shortest residencies I ever experienced and therefor quite hard for me to fulfil my standards. Mostly because the process I need to evaluate and finish a work takes some time. The occasion in Latvia was the Photography Exhibition of the 5 Year Anniversary…
03.2018 Switzerland | Künstlerhaus S11 | At the end of my four month residency in March 2018 in Solothurn, Switzerland i was able to achieve a Soloexhibition at the Gallery S11. The gallery is run by a local art collective hosted in an old building in the centre of the town it runs over four…
19-29.9.17 South Korea | Gachang Art Studio | My first time in Korea started about three month after I left Shanghai. So actually I had to come to Seoul for some visa issues before but now I was invited for a three month residency. The exhibition took place at the end of my stay in…
8.9-9.10.17 China | SwatchPeace Art Hotel | In Shanghai Anita Gratzer shows a body of work that articulates her memory of lost stories, interest in Eastern traditions and forges links between them and the world as it is experienced today. Mourning the narratives she finds, Anita Gratzer first preserves in the process of her work…