Regine Kafeder, born in Judenburg in 1967, graduated in stage design and costume design from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During her studies, she designed the costumes for Witold Gombrowicz's production of "The Wedding" at the Theater im Palais Graz under the direction of Polish director Mikolaj Grabowski. After her studies, she worked in a stage design workshop in Trieste with artists from the film studios of the Cine Cittá of the Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini on the sets "Beauty and the Beast" for the Schauspielhaus Leipzig. Since 1992 she has dedicated herself to the visual arts. In Mexico City, she focuses on the life and work of Frida Kahlo and Mexican popular art, and in 1998 she moved to Vienna and exhibited her paintings at national and international exhibitions. Since 2018, Regine Kafeder has been combining painting with lighting technology and sees her work as a bridge between analogue and digital art, and since 2021 she has been expanding her projects with animated short films. In October 2020 she will show her experimental short film "CoronaAbisso" at the group exhibition "Things that dance" in Zurich at the gallery "Window of Fame". At the beginning of 2021, the music video "Wunderwelt – Bella Ella – Masta Huda Remix" with pictures of the painter will be released. In April 2021, on behalf of the municipality of Knittelfeld, she is planning the concept for a temporary interactive light exhibition in public space for the main square in Knittelfeld. Since spring 2021, the artist has been producing animated short films, including "Dirac Sea" and "Frida and Sisi partner in crime" in 2022, "THE AVATAR STAGE GIG" and "Daydreamers" in 2023 and "Trip – The climate crisis will not be canceled" in 2024.

In 2023, the animated short film "Frida and Sisi partner in crime" will be screened at the international animated film festival Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2023 for the Austrian Panorama at the Metrokino in Vienna and at the summer cinema SOTTO LE STELLE DELL' AUSTRIA of the Austrian Cultural Forum at the Cultural Center in Rome.

Regine Kafeder lives and works in Vienna.

ARTWORK

Regine Kafederis committed to figurative painting and presents an aesthetic of the imperfect through precisely constructed lines and coarse color surfaces. In her works, she focuses on women who pose between reality and appearance in the context of painting and lighting technology. The focus is on physicality and addresses the process of detachment from socially rigid structures of the conventionally socially attributed characteristics of women. Presented sensuality is not an invitation to sexualize or exploit women, but a sign of unconditional self-determination over one's own body.