Andrea van Reimersdahl is a Berlin-based artist born on the German-Dutch border, in a region with traditional textile production. Since graduating as a master’s student in Painting in the class of Prof. Katharina Grosse, she has focused on painted and printed textiles as canvases.

Van Reimersdahl’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in textiles, both materially and biographically. As a child, she worked alongside her grandmother, a seamstress, learning embroidery, sewing and silk painting. Today, her work unfolds through an abstract, organic formal language, developed on the basis of drawings, that resists static systems of order shaping our perception.

For van Reimersdahl, textiles are sensual, historically charged materials that carry personal, family, and collective memories. In her creative process, she treats textiles as actors hat generate resistance and open up amorphous spaces. Her image surfaces interact with their surroundings in ever-changing ways, aiming to articulate a fluid interplay that blurs the boundaries between body, space, and surface.

She has received grants and prizes from the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation, the Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst, and the Reclaim Award. In 2023, she received a residency scholarship from the DKB Foundation at Schloss Liebenberg. Her works are included in private collections.