Lilith Raftl was born in Vienna in 1998. Thematically, she contextualises herself somewhere between the anthropocene, socialisation and civilisation and works consistently conceptually. In the form of installations, she interrogates the fluidity, variability and vulnerability of everything that appears and its figurativeness in an interdisciplinary manner. In doing so, she defines her own field of study and gives her objects a multifaceted patina. By means of excavations, as in the case of "ARTEFACTS?", Raftl asks what historical grave goods might look like in the 21st century, borrowing from ethnography, ethnology and archaeology. Preserve and conserve, then, memory is responsibility. In this way, the artist again positions herself somewhere between the past and the future, while she conducts negotiations in the present and examines the things that surround her and thus our culture. Raftl's "process of accumulation" is unmistakably a critique of capitalism.
Text by Bettina Landl, 2021
EDUCATION
2021-2025 BA, Ceramics, The Royal Danish Academy, Bornholm (DK)
2019-2021 Masterclass for Ceramics, HTLVBA Ortweinschule Graz (AT)
2018-2019 Kunstschule Wien; Focus in Ceramics and Printmaking (AT)
2017-2018 BA Japanese Studies, University of Vienna (AT)
INTERNSHIP
2025 Asger Kristensen, Copenhagen (DK)
2024 Shiro Shimizu, Shiga Prefecture (JPN)
2023 Viktoria Ceramic Studio, Copenhagen (DK)
GROUPEXHIBITIONS
2024 Shared Soil, Gojozaka Shimizu, Kyoto (JPN)
2024 Bachelor Exhibition, CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark (DK)
2024 Bachelor Exhibition, Bornholms Center for Arts and Crafts (DK)
2023 Matter of Making, Bornholms Center for Arts and Crafts (DK)
2021 Membrane, History Museum, Graz (AT)
2021 Claydays, Graz (AT)
2021 Dekodierung, Galerie Centrum, Graz (AT)
RESIDENCIES
2025 (upcoming) Project Network, Guldagergaard - International Research Ceramic Center, Skælsør (DK)
ILLUSTRATIONS
2022 Illustration/ Design for Childrenbooklet for exhibition “Dust & Silk. Steppe & Silk Roads“, Weltmuseum Wien
2020 Commissioned illustrations, Milène C. Rossi: Kunst, Kreativität und Innovation.
2018 Commissioned illustrations, Lucia Mennel: Roter Nagellack. Schundheft, unartproduktion
GRANTS
2024. Miss Marie Månssons's Grant and Hotel Owner Anders Månson and Wife Hanne Månsson's Memorial Grant (DK)
2021 Ortwein Scholarship, Land Steiermark (AT)