Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist who explores storytelling from a personal perspective. Her projects include intimate views of private spaces, and reflections on her own history and values. Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home. Her current work incorporates embroidery and explores personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.
Reischwitz has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries including solo shows at The Center for Fine Art Photography, the Danforth Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 555 Gallery, Davis Orton Gallery, and Soho Photo Gallery. Her portfolios were also shown at the Newport Art Museum, the Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge Art Association, Sohn Fine Art Gallery, and FotoNostrum.
She is being represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA.
Compositions—comprised of old family photos, living plants, and fabric that was passed down through generations—tell the story of the photographer’s childhood farmhouse in Germany.
