Rebekka Kronsteiner

Each of the six unique works SM Olympia I-VI by Rebekka Kronsteiner consists of a knitted or crocheted typewriter ribbon, created using a different stitching technique. She previously used the ribbon to write the six texts from her work who cares (2023), which is part of her presentation at the gallery of Künstlerhaus Bremen. Knitting, sewing and weaving, just like typing as a secretarial task, are activities with feminine connotations – and to this day are often poorly paid. The artist has formed a surface from the ribbon by processing it by hand. Clamped between a colored sheet of paper as a picture carrier and a glass, the paint remaining on the tape leaves traces, runs down and paints shadows. Kronsteiner is interested in the typewriter ribbon as a carrier of diverse expressive possibilities, but also in the random moments in the editing process of the ribbon and the impossibility of correction.

The typewriter the artist worked with came from her grandmother, who worked with it all her life as a secretary until the first computers were introduced, which made digital correction and the blurring of traces possible.

Rebekka Kronsteiner was nominated into the Künstlerhaus as an artist in the fall of 2023 and was awarded a Bremen studio grant in 2023.

 Rebekka Kronsteiner
SM OLYMPIA I–VI, 2023
knitted/crocheted typewriter ribbon, lacquer, frameless picture holder 
28 x 20 cm 
6 unique works
400 €
SM OLYMPIA IV & VI sold