Andrea van Reimersdahl

Andrea van Reimersdahl’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the medium of textiles, both in terms of materials and her personal history. Even as a child, she worked alongside her grandmother, a seamstress, on embroidery, sewing, and silk painting. Today, she primarily uses screen printing on fabric to develop an abstract, organic visual language. For van Reimersdahl, textiles are far more than just a medium for images. They are sensual, historically charged materials that carry personal, familial, and collective memories. In her creative process, she views textiles as an active force that generates resistance. Many of her works begin with simplified drawings, from which she develops forms that she enlarges, mirrors, and uses as templates for painting and screen printing. The result is a visual language of organic forms and flowing color gradients that oscillates between abstract painting and folk art. After completing her studies as a master student under Prof. Katharina Grosse, Andrea van Reimersdahl has focused on printed fabrics and canvases, which she considers a form of painting.