Rita Sammer (*1993, Graz, Austria) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She is currently participating in an art school alliance (ASA) exchange year in Hamburg, where she is a member of Jutta Koether’s painting class at the HfBK. She has a degree in graphic design from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (2019) and presently studies fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her process-oriented work shifts between drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture in order to explore various materials, forms and their abounding webs of association.
Education
2023 Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, DE
Painting, Class of Jutta Koether
2019 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
Graphic and Printmaking, Class of Christian Schwarzwald
2013-2019 University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
MA Design: Graphic Design, Class of Oliver Kartak
Awards and Grants
2023 HFBK Hamburg, art school alliance (ASA) Stipendium
2022 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Emanuel und Sophie Fohn Stipendium
2022 Ö1 Talentebörse Stipendium, Ö1 Grafik des Monats
2021 City of Graz, Galerienförderung
2020 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Projektförderung
Exhibitions
2023 ASA Open Studios, Karolinenstraße, Hamburg, DE
2023 Von der Donau an die Alster, collectors room/Dorotheum Hamburg, DE 2023 Rundgang 2023, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2022 PARALLEL VIENNA, Institutions, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna, AT
2022 Masterclasses Sommer.Frische.Kunst, Kraftwerk, Bad Gastein, AT
2022 Out of my Head, Galerie Transit, Graz, AT (solo)
2022 Rundgang 2022, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2021 Bureau Veritas – Laboratory, Bureau Veritas Exhibition Container, Schillerplatz, Vienna, AT
2021 PARALLEL VIENNA EDITIONS, DAS EDITH – Edition of the graphic and printmaking department, Semperdepot, Vienna, AT
2021 POSTER21 – Taking the dog for a walk, Kluckyland, Vienna, AT
2020 closed, Bureau Veritas Exhibition Container, Vienna, AT
2020 EDITIONALE Wien, Künstlerbücher Editionen Buchobjekte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2020 Rundgang 2020, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2019 All Paper Show, Semperdepot, Vienna, AT
2019 Fokus Angewandte, Abschlussarbeiten Wintersemester 2018/19, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
Publications
2020 1. EDITIONALE Wien - Künstlerbücher Editionen Buchobjekte, published by Sibylle Hentze, Library of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
2013 Finding something bad about Mickey Mouse. Über die Arbeit im Studio d(13) für Kids und Teens auf der dOCUMENTA (13), published by Claudia Hummel, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin, DE