Barbara Rapp

Barbara Rapp (also known as Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp) (born 1972) is an Austrian multi-media artist. She makes paintings, collages, and sculptures that examine women's sexuality, queerness, gender and heteronormativity, often using humor.[1][2][3]

Barbara Rapp
Born1972
Klagenfurt, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Websitewww.barbara-rapp.com

In 2014, Rapp was selected by the curatorium of the Fashion Art Institute Barcelona (Designer Manuel Fernandez) to represent Austria for "Fashion Art EU" at the European Parliament Brussels 2015[4] and European Museum of Modern Art MEAM Barcelona 2016.[5] For Barbara Rapp fashion does not only bear a social responsibility but also reflects the current socio-cultural developments. After receiving the white dress in folkloristic "dirndl-style" from the fashion art institute it was immediately clear for her that she has to withdraw its automated categorization. Her general artistic focus is on the critical questioning of gender role models. Accordingly she tried to create the artistic design of her dress called "Trapp 3.0" not only by contemporary re-engineering the traditional mapping of folklore but also to encourage new perspectives on female and male forms of appearance.[6]

References
  1. "Work of the Week". Gesellschaft FreundeDerKunste. HBS Media Group Ltd. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  2. Simbürger, Manuel. "Die Künstlerin Barbara Rapp im relevant-Gespräch". Relevant. Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  3. "Ich kann dieses Gender-Gelaber nicht mehr ab". Die Standard. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. theneweuropean.eu FASHION ART EU at the Parliamentarium in Brussels 15. January 2015
  5. Fashion Art EU MEAM Barcelona June/July 2016
  6. Catalogue Fashion Art EU released 2014


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