Anita Gratzer

Paint & Object

  • Gyotaku – Fishprints | Tokyo 2015

  • Parasite | Krumlov CZ 2015

  • Onishi | Japan, Summer 15 Spring 16

    It was not my first visit to Japan, but my first residency in Asia so far. Onishi turned out to be in a rural area about one hour north from Tokyo. Soon I fell in love with the neighbourhood and the people living there. I stayed for three month in the summer, which turned out…

  • Cesky Krumlov | Czech 06-07.15

    Egon Schiele Art Center | Despite being in Czech Republic is less than a one hour drive from my hometown. For a long time this was my first residency after years of maternal leave. Being in Paris, Krakau and New York a decade ago, it was this little picturesque town when I started all over…

  • Wax Models | Krumlov CZ 2015

  • Palimpsest – Anatomic Studies | Krumlov CZ 15

  • Private View | Cesky Krumlov CZ

    June 2015 Czech | My first show since a couple of years with a set of new works. Although the residency was on the short side, I was well prepared and could process some new ideas. Set on the backside of the Egon Schiele Art Centre the studio was gorgeous and huge, the apartment cosy…

  • Portraits | Cesky Krumlov

    The picturesque town of Cesky Krumlov has long history into medieval times. Due the short months of the the residency I worked on some sculptures made out of wax and taxidermy. One weekend in June there happened to be a historical festival in town. At this occasion I could persuade some of the medieval actors…

  • Second Last World

  • Vanitas | Linz

    The beginning of my approach to work as artist again startet in 2014. After art university I had a good run with black and white photography and a very special project in Vienna, Krakow and Berlin. But this was more than ten years ago and now digital photography took over. My idea was to work…

  • The Last World – Metamorphoses

  • Drag Queen 01

    It was Summer 2001 when I arrived in New York with my new born son who was 17 month old at the time. We stayed in new jersey most of the time but I was happy to catch up to a Christopher street parade as I did the years before when we stayed in the…