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

van Reimersdahl’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the medium of textiles, both materially and biographically. Even as a child, she worked alongside her grandmother, a seamstress, on embroidery, sewing, and silk painting. Today, she primarily uses screen printing on fabric to develop an abstract, organic formal language.

For van Reimersdahl, textiles are much more than just a medium for images. They are sensual, historically charged materials that carry personal, family, and collective memories. Many of her works begin with drawings of her own shadow silhouette, from which she develops forms that she enlarges, mirrors, and uses as templates for painting and screen printing. The result is a visual language of organic forms and flowing color gradients that thematizes movement, change, and physicality.

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.