Photo Shooting Spring 2017 | A brief sample of the analogue photographic portraits I could realize in Shanghai. The many other artist who also had a guest residency were on hand to model for me.
The residence at the Swatch Peace Art Hotel was exciting beyond anything I could have imagined. I knew Shanghai before, when I was about five years ago for a street photography project. The residence experience started with a limousine at the airport and a most luxurious apartment and separate large studio in the historic building…
The studio was located at the compound of the Austrian embassy. Therefore I could not invite any visitors. On the other hand I was allowed to use the pool of the ambassadors mansion. Turned out to be a good deal by the daily rise of local temperatures.
Most of these photographs represent not only some wonderful friends but also the vivid community of the town of Onishi. When I first met the people and the setting in rural Japan in 2015, I immediately fell in love. The host of the residency, American born Kijel Hahn became a very close friend over the…
11.6. – 23.10.2016 Austria | A scenic tour of the Botanical Garden after Raymond Roussel’s novel “Locus Solus”. In seven stations Anita Gratzer refers with her works of organic art to the surrealist author and his novel from 1914. So what is “Locus Solus” about? It’s about a walk through a park that has the…