Context 2024 at Filter Photo
March 22 - April 27, 2024
Filter Space, Chicago IL
Juror: Sarah Kennel, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
From the juror’s statement:
“We are inundated on the daily with an ocean of images, yet the clarity, finesse, and power of the photographs in Context 2024 speak to a collective desire for making work that means something, that can cut across the blaring noise. Across portraiture, documentary, landscape, and experimental work, the artists in this exhibition show us that in these troubled and troubling times, photography retains the capacity to reveal, to connect, to delight, and to bear witness, even as the medium continues to evolve and shape-shift. “ –Sarah Kennel
2024 Members’ Juried 2 Exhibition
February 22 - March 22, 2024
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord MA
Juror: Candice Smith Corby
My image Blood Sausage was juried into the 2024 MJ2 exhibition, showcasing art based on collage, craft, drawing, graphics, mixed media, photography, and printmaking.
61st Annual Juried Competition
February 22 - May 4, 2024
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe LA
Juror: Kerry Inman, Inman Gallery of Houston TX
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States working in any medium. Included in this exhibition is the work After the Third Bomb from the series Spin Club Tapestry.
Spin Club stories | Solo Show and Artist Presentation
January 11 - March 4, 2024
Carleton-Willard Village, Bedford MA
Artist Presentation
February 21, 2024
Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023
Honorable Mention
Book | Fine Art Category, Spin Club Stories
Spin Club Stories has been awarded Honorable Mention in the 2023 edition of the Tokyo International Foto Awards. My monograph is a visual journey through tradition, memory, and identity.
Int’l Photography awards 2023
2nd Prize
Book | Monograph Category, Spin Club Stories
Spin Club Stories has been awarded 2nd Prize in the 2023 edition of the International Photography Awards (IPA). My monograph is a visual journey through tradition, memory, and identity.
24th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition
September 14 - October 22, 2023
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord MA
Open competition, juried by Lauren Szumita
Image: Future Memory | Spin Club Tapestry
Traces at Louisville Photo Biennial
September 8 - October 7, 2023
Hite Institute of Art + Design at the University of Louisville KY
Curated by Mitch Eckert
Images from my series Spin Club Tapestry are on display at the Louisville Photo Biennial exhibition TRACES at the University of Louisville. The exhibition explores the myriad ways in which photography reflects memory, from the family album to the photogram.
Prix De La Photographie Paris | PX3
Silver Winner
Juried Awards, 2023
My monograph Spin Cub Stories received a Silver placement in the 2023 PX3 | Prix de la Photography de Paris. Spin Club Stories is inspired by the old tradition of spin clubs in my village in Northern Germany, where village women met to spin wool and create needlework - and share stories while they worked. I transform this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey and explore personal and cultural memory, tradition, and identity.
Through Her Eyes: Women Photographers of Tampa BAy
August 2023 - June 24, 2024
Scarfing/Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa FL
My image “Dandelion Sculptures” is on display at the Scarfing/Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa FL. The exhibition is a combination of juried and collection show drawn from the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts collection, the University of Tampa Permanent Collection, and women Photographers from the Tampa Bay Region.
There are no strangers at Hera Gallery
July 29 - September 2, 2023
Hera Gallery, Wakefield RI
Curated by Barbara Pagh and John Kotula
There Are No Strangers | An exhibition featuring the work of ten immigrant artists. “With this exhibition Hera Gallery acknowledges that, except those of us who are Native People, all of us are immigrants and that this nation was built on immigrants.”
The Danforth Annual juried exhibition
June 24 - September 17, 2023
Danforth Museum at Framingham State University
Juried by Erin Becker, Rachel Passannante, and Leslie Starobin
J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Astrid Reischwitz
Concept Aware ® Podcast
Episode #58, May 2023
Listen to my conversation with J. Sybylla Smith about my work for Spin Club Stories. Among other things, we discuss embroidery as a connective element, rediscovering culture, and memory as a key to the future.
Episode Notes: “ Spin Club Stories is a mixed-media reintegration of history, environment, society and self in an interactive dialog spanning centuries. Reclaiming the artform and impact of women’s handiwork, Astrid assembles collages of images and textiles, perforated with hand embroidery. Sourced from family heirlooms, she figuratively empowers her ancestors—and ultimately herself—to transform the future.”
Member Artist Talk: Spin Club Stories
April 27, 2023, 6 PM
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord MA
Join me for an in person artist talk and book presentation at Concord Art on Thursday, April 27, 2023. I will discuss my body of work and my path leading to the publishing of the photo book Spin Club Stories (Kehrer Verlag, 2022).
Visual Diary | Astrid Reischwitz: Embroideries of the pinching past
ARTDOC Photography Magazine
Issue #2, 2023, Page 8-23
“In the past, people used to write down their daily experiences in diaries, but in our visual age, we use photography to record our lives.” (The Artdoc Team)
2023 Members’ Juried exhibition
April 1 - May 14, 2023
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Juror: Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, Center for Fine Art Photography
My image Kirchberg from the Inheritance portfolio will be on display at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA..
Online Artist Talk: Spin Club Stories
April 20, 2023, 3 PM Pacific | 6 PM Eastern
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA
Join me for an online artist talk on Thursday, April 20, 2023. I will discuss my body of work and my path leading to the publishing of the photo book Spin Club Stories (Kehrer Verlag, 2022).
Boston Globe review: At the Griffin, layers upon Layers
By Mark Feeney
Ties That Bind | Threaded Narratives at Griffin Museum of Photography
Show runs March 2 - April 16, 2023
Ties that Bind stitches together three unique visions looking at the idea of family and the rewriting of history, myth and personal narratives - Corolle Benitah, Astrid Reischwitz, and JP Terlizzi. These artists work with images and objects, including various materials, with the addition of stitching on found images, personal family photos. Each artist finds ways to change the script, rewrite what has been lost and gain clarity of vision.
ARTIST TAlk: Ties that BiND | ThREADED NARRATIVES
Join me for an online artist talk on Thursday, March 23, 7PM EST. I will discuss work from my series Stories from the Kitchen Table and Spin Club Tapestry, on view at the Griffin Museum of Photography .
March 2 - April 16, 2023
Griffin Museum of Photography
Ties that Bind stitches together three unique visions looking at the idea of family and the rewriting of history, myth and personal narratives - Corolle Benitah, Astrid Reischwitz, and JP Terlizzi. These artists work with images and objects, including various materials, with the addition of stitching on found images, personal family photos. Each artist finds ways to change the script, rewrite what has been lost and gain clarity of vision.
Review by What will you remember? | Lost and Found
By Suzanne Revy and Elin Spring, March 8, 2023
Ties That Bind | Threaded Narratives at Griffin Museum of Photography
Excerpt from the review:
“In her series Spin Club Tapestry, Reischwitz skips back generations to craft something akin to family quilts that honor her origins in rural Germany. In each work, she pieces together vintage pictures of her ancestors and their embroidered domestic fabrics handed down through generations with her own evocative imagery, connecting their stories to hers.”
Ties that BiND | ThREADED NARRATIVES
Carolle Benitah, Astrid Reischwitz, JP Terlizzi
March 2 - April 16, 2023
Griffin Museum of Photography
Ties that Bind stitches together three unique visions looking at the idea of family and the rewriting of history, myth and personal narratives. These artists work with images and objects, including various materials, with the addition of stitching on found images, personal family photos. Each artist finds ways to change the script, rewrite what has been lost and gain clarity of vision.
Lucie Photo Book Prize Finalist
Finalist, 2022
Traditional Category, Intersectional, Spin Club Stories
Budapest International Foto Awards
Silver, 2022
Amateur Category, Book/Fine Art, Spin Club Stories
ARTE TV, Segment for TWIST
November 2022
The European cultural channel ARTE filmed a segment about Spin Club Stories for the TV magazine Twist, titled "Erzählstoffe: Wie textile Kunst die Welt erklärt”. The segment also includes the book signing for Spin Club Stories at Paris Photo Fair.
The feature aired on Sunday, November 27, 2022 on ARTE.
Watch here
(Segment starts at minute 8:50)
Paris Photo Book Signing with Kehrer Verlag
November 12, 2022
Book Signing for Spin Club Stories with Kehrer Verlag
Reversed at the Bedford public library
July 14th – September 7th , 2022
View this small group exhibition with works by Carol Rissman, Astrid Reischwitz, and Jean Hammond.
Portfolio 2022
May 18 – June 18, 2022
Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
Juried by Karen Haas
LensCulture Winners Exhibition
Caelum Gallery, New York, May 2022
After having to delay exhibitions for 2 years because of Covid, LensCulture showed works in New York City to celebrate of 2 years of Winners and Juror’s Picks. My series Spin Club Tapestry received a Juror's Pick in 2021 and was included in this exhibition.
Reconstructed at fpac gallery, BOSton
April 17 - June 4, 2022
Curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis, RECONSTRUCTED at fpac gallery located at 300 Summer Street features the work of five artists: Astrid Reischwitz, Eleonora Ronconi, Hugo Teixeira, Iaritza Menjivar, and Yorgos Efthymiadis.
2022 Members’ Juried Exhibition
April 9 - May 8, 2022
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Juried by Crista Dix
30 over 50: In Context 2022
Online Portfolio
Center for Fine Art Photography c4fap, Fort Collins, CO
Juried by Gordon Stettinius
Conversations with the archive
April 1 - 20 , 2022
SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Juried by Aline Smithson
Crossing Cultures: Family, Memory, & Displacement
March 9 - April 1, 2022
A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA
Juried by Claudia Ruiz Gustafson
Crossing Cultures is an art exhibition about family, memory, displacement and identity from the point of view of six artists with roots in five regions: Asia (India and Iran), South America (Peru), North America (Mexico) and Europe (Germany. Participating artists are Astrid Reischwitz, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Nilou Moochhala, Vivian Poey, Shabnam Jannesari, Nicolas Hyacinthe.
The Fabric of Memory | Solo Show
September 24, 2021 - February 16, 2022
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL
“In this artistic retelling, Reischwitz reflects on her past while ensuring that her legacy and this often overlooked way of life is never forgotten.”
The Fabric oF Memory | Solo Show
September 4 - October 17, 2020
Gallery Kayafas, Boston MA