Barbara Graf

Barbara Graf is a visual artist and senior lecturer. She studied Experimental Visual Art - Painting and Graphics in Maria Lassnig's class at the Angewandte. Her work focuses on investigations of body representations, body perception and flexible sculpture as a second skin in the media of textiles, drawing, sculpture, photography and film. Since 2004 she has been working on artistic research projects in the field of medical humanities. From 2018-2024 she developed the PhD project in artistic research Stitches and Sutures - Phenomenological Archive of Body Sensations.

In her artistic work, Barbara Graf explores forms of bodily expression, the visualization of bodily perceptions, and the body's transformative processes. She examines the role of textiles as protective and communicative coverings, as well as their function as projection surfaces for embodiments.

Artistic research as a team member in projects under the direction of Christina Lammer: 2004-2009: CorpoRealities (Embodying Knowledge, Objects and Images in the Biomedical Context) (WWTF/ Science for Creative Industries). 2009-2013: Surgigal Wrappings (WWTF / Art and Science). 2015-18: Performing Surgery (FWF - PEEK).2019-2023: Visceral Operations/Assemblage (FWF - PEEK).

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