Andrea is an artist and photographer who also teaches Media Design. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Leeds. Originally from Germany, she has lived in Munich, Hamburg, New York, and currently resides in London. Her work spans various media, including installation, sculpture, printmaking, video, and immersive experiences like virtual reality, exploring the relationships between death, memory, and photography, as well as issues concerning mature women.
Her latest work centres around an avatar named Albertina, inspired by the surreal and hallucinatory world of Angela Carter’s groundbreaking novel, “The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman” (1972). Through Albertina, Andrea explores the transient nature of life and the cyclical processes of creation, destruction, and regeneration to create a virtual world that reflects her real-life experiences and emotions, emphasising our deep connection with nature.
Andrea moves fluidly between the analogue and the digital. Her practice blends digital imagery with hand-pulled Japanese woodblock printing (Mokuhanga), often beginning with virtual creations that are translated into tactile, physical prints. This process introduces materiality, slowness, and emotional depth—qualities often absent from purely digital work. By physically cutting wood and printing multiple layers with water-based pigments, she intentionally exposes the gaps within digital visual culture—particularly its lack of tactility and embodied emotion. She believes the boundary between analogue and digital can be seamless, and that working across both can produce new forms that more honestly reflect our contemporary world.
Older works include drawings on found postcards and billboards, Conte crayon drawings of her old and forgotten negatives, and innovative folded photographs that transform into three-dimensional sculptures. Over time, she has developed a unique folding technique that highlights the character of subjects through exaggerated geometries and sharp folding lines.
