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…
The Copper Leg Art Residency in Estonia was such a lovely experience with all this warm and nice people in this cold winter. The residency was located in an old school building which was transformed into a cultural hub for the area. I used to get the firewood early in the morning to heat my…
The residency in Solothurn was one of a kind. Situated in the castle midtown I was facing the Aare and still was most of the time for myself alone. Starting in Dezember my family came to visit me for some weeks and soon enough I found some very interesting people I got friends with. For…
Photo Shooting Summer 2017 | The experience in Daegu was shared with some Korean artists and Adam, a very gifted visual artist from Ireland. Under all the circumstances which some times made it not always easy for me as a foreign woman in Korea, Adam was my rock I always could hold on. The portrait…
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…
The residency at Gachang Art Studio in Daegu in the middle of Korea was a most exciting experience. I stayed there in the summer at a former school which was designated as cultural hub for Korean and international artists. The residency was funded by the government so I received a monthly pocket money. Adam, an…
Photo Shooting Summer 2017 | In the summer of 2017, for the first time I had the possibility to work in a retirement home with some elderly people. The setting was quite a challenge within a tight time schedule. In my memory I think they all had quite a good time giving them a kind…
What started out in the attic of my house turned in a full size studio located in an old house which was kind of frozen in time. The interior had not changed for a couple of decades, which made it very unique but also not to practical. After being out of the country for most…