Barbara Rapp

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

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]

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]

In 2024, the public broadcaster ORF visualised the interdisciplinary work of Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp in a tv-portrait in which the artist's focus on human rights is mentioned.[1]

  1. ^ Ambrusch, Marcel (26 August 2017). "Werk der Woche: Weibliche Figuren, nackt, in expressivem Rot - die Österreicherin Barbara Rapp nagt am Zahn der Zeit" [Work of the week: Female figures, naked, in expressive red - the Austrian Barbara Rapp gnaws at the ravages of time]. Gesellschaft FreundeDerKunste (in German). HBS Media Group Ltd. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  2. ^ Simbürger, Manuel (30 July 2012). "Die Künstlerin Barbara Rapp im relevant-Gespräch" [The artist Barbara Rapp in a relevant interview]. Relevant (in German). Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Ich kann dieses Gender-Gelaber nicht mehr ab" [I can't stand this gender talk anymore]. Die Standard (in German). 17 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Diversity à la mode: Fashion, art and the idea of Europe in 28 outfits". The New European. 16 January 2015. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Fashion Art EU - Art & Fashion by Fashion Art Institute". MEAM, European Museum of Modern Art. 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  6. ^ "LibroFashionArt 4". Fashion Art Institute (Exhibition catalog with pages on separate pages from Flash version of website.). p. 10. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.