GETTING MYSELF A THICKER SKIN | Anita Steinwidder

Anita Steinwidder (born 1973 in Judenburg, Austria) is a Vienna-based visual artist.

After graduating in architecture from Graz University of Technology in 2000, she founded the fashion label STEINWIDDER in 2002, developing an independent approach to clothing as a three-dimensional object and a medium of social reflection. Since 2014, she has focused on visual art, extending her engagement with textiles into sculptural objects, assemblages, installations and textile tableaux. Combining textiles of diverse origins and histories with found objects, her work explores transformation, female narratives, social structures, and individual and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues and art fairs including PARALLEL VIENNA, Kunstlerhaus Vereinigung and Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome, INSA Art Center in Seoul, Galeria Domu Norymberskiego in Krakow, and Polo delle Arti di Ravenna in Italy. www.steinwidder.com Insta: @anitasteinwidder""""