Barbara Rapp, born 1972 in Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Austrian mixed media artist, lives and works in Velden am Woerthersee, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and Germany. Her work has been exhibited all over the world since 1994, she is involved in several international art projects. Barbara Rapp deals intensively with socio-political and socio-cultural developments. She interprets her observations about these topics with a critical wink of the eye but no finger wagging. Important matters of her work are the development of the role of women in today's society, gender and individualism. She is also engaged with the protest against female genital mutilation

Female genital cutting

Female genital mutilation , also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons."FGM...

 and supports corresponding art-projects.

Membership Artists Associations

• IG Bildende Kunst Oesterreich | International Association of Art (IAA Europe)
• LaborFuerNeueKunst/Projekte
• Kunstschalter Berlin e.V.
• VG Bild Kunst

Selected art projects

• "Beim Dinner. Mit ..." Maks Dannecker & Barbara Rapp (with Maks Dannecker).
• Artists against FGM (with Isabel Henriques)
• BROTKATZE collaborations (with Kommissar Hjuler
  Kommissar Hjuler
  Kommissar Hjuler works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making...
  
   and Maks Dannecker)

Selected exhibitions

• "Deja-Vu", Kunstquartier Wien, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  , Austria, 2005
• "Migration", Artproject with Vlado Franjevic, Bishkek
  Bishkek
  Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to...
  
  , Kyrgyzstan
  Kyrgyzstan
  Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
  
  , 2007
• "Labor", BBKL.LI, Vaduz
  Vaduz
  Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of the national parliament. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants , most of whom are Roman Catholic. Its cathedral is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop....
  
  , Liechtenstein, 2008
• Burning Man Artfestival, Nevada
  Nevada
  Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
  
  , USA, 2008
• The Tile Project, TransCultural Exchange, India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  , 2008
• "Rotkäppchen nimmt die Fäden in die Hand", Barbara Rapp, Galerie am Gierkeplatz, Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
  
  , February 2009
• Atlanta Airport Atrium Gallery, Atlanta, USA, 2009
• "6 Richtige", Gallery Hexagone, Aachen, Germany, 2009
• KiC NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2009
• "Heute ist die Krone fällig", Barbara Rapp, Galerie Rimmer, Velden am Woerthersee, Austria, October 2009
• stARTup 2010 emerging artists, Sala Birolli, Verona, Italy, 2010
• Brotkatze Collaborations, Gallery Kargel, Welver-Vellinghausen, Germany, 2010
• Human Rights 2010, Colle di Miravalle, Rovereto, Italy, 2010
• "Beim Dinner. Mit ...", Maks Dannecker & Barbara Rapp, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, 2011
• Cabaret Voltaire
  Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
  Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland. It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings on February 5, 1916 as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, and Jean Arp...
  
  , Zürich
  Zürich
  Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
  
  , 2011
• Seven Sins, Villa Vannucchi, San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy, from 2010 to 2013

Catalogues

• Exhibition-catalogue KiC NordArt 2009 | Page 76 (236 Pages) | 2009
• the canvas project v2: encyclopedia | art house co-op | Page 77 | 2009
• "Heute ist die Krone fällig" Barbara Rapp | published by Gallery Rimmer | 2009
• self portrait project | art house co-op | Page 24 | 2010
• Exhibition-catalogue "world-of-art" Berlin | kultur-netzwerk | 2010
• Exhibition-catalogue "Dialog Selbstbild-Abbild" | Peter Trauntner | 2010
• Catalogue "Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen" art & dialog | Page 80 (224 Pages) | published by BBK Germany | 2010
• kunst!post!karten! catalogue mail-art 25 years Tuchfabrik Trier | Page 74 | editions treves, publisher: verlag kleine schritte | 2010
• Exhibition-catalogue "7 gula gluttony gola" | by Spazio Tempo | Page 106 | 2010
• artbook edition "Beim Dinner. Mit ..." Maks Dannecker & Barbara Rapp | 20+3EA | Vienna 2011

External links

• Barbara Rapp | official artists website
• Barbara Rapp at Gallery Rimmer, Austria
• Barbara Rapp at Gallery Offenes Atelier D.U.Design, Austria
• Gallery Hexagone, Germany