Anita Steinwidder

plastic art | textile art | mixed media | sustainability in art
lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Born 1973 in Judenburg, Austria

Holding a degree in architecture, she established her internationally acclaimed fashion label STEINWIDDER in 2002, focussed on the conceptual refashioning of textile waste and second-hand clothes for 15 years.
Since 2014 Anita Steinwidder creates three-dimensional mixed media artworks that show the continuation of her artistic language. Her inspiration comes from her intense involvement with the finds: found objects relating to her rural origin, as well as other items that correspond to her very unique meaning of something being “valuable”.
She reassigns meaning, form and function of these found objects by means of creative intervention and places them in a new conceptualized context.

AWARDS AND PRIZES
2012 | Winner of the Modepalast best of 10 Award
2011 | Winner of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce Fashion Production Prize; AFA AWARDS 2011 | Winner of the GREEN & CLEAN FASHION AWARD

PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
2021 | Purchase by the State of Styria, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Neue Galerie Graz; Austria 2019 | Purchase by the Costume and Fashion Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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Degree in architecture

The works of STEINWIDDER have been shown in exhibitions in Teheran, Shanghai, Beijing, Havana, Colombo, London, Paris, Rome, Ravenna, Berlin, Krakow, Graz and Vienna.