Angela Kaisers

Visual Artist

Artworks

In her practice Angela explores the intersections of care, memory, and feminist resistance through a range of media including embroidery, painting, photography, and installation. Rooted in both research and slow, meditative making, her work reimagines narratives—personal and collective—inviting reflection, disruption, and connection.

A Question of Noise

In A Question of Noise, Angela reclaims fragments of animated cartoons to confront and unravel the patriarchal scripts embedded in popular culture. Through the lens of the female gaze, she disrupts familiar narratives, dismantling their power and opening space for new, empowering stories to emerge.Building on the archive of found-footage material she began with As the World Turns, Angela isolates gestures, objects, and moments—symbols of constraint or resistance—and digitally abstracts and multiplies them. These elements are then arranged into charged, layered compositions. On large canvases, soft fields of color, veiled in translucent white, form a quiet backdrop where sharp, deliberate outlines reclaim their presence with strength and intention.These paintings are acts of resistance and reclamation: visual meditations on what it means to inhabit vulnerability, power, and possibility, all at once.

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm / 130 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm

As the World Turns

As the World Turns brings together fragments of animated cartoon scenes and photographs of the world we actually inhabit, forming painted collages that create unsettling yet deeply resonant narratives. These images hover in a tension between humor and discomfort — provoking laughter, grief, amusement, and unease — ultimately holding up a mirror to our standards, contradictions, and hypocrisies.Created during the stillness and uncertainty of the pandemic, this series became a personal act of care — a quiet ritual of grounding and self-healing. Like in Echoes, Angela begins with extensive online research, collecting and manipulating found imagery into digital collages of abstracted shapes, dots, and lines. But here, the process returns to a slower, more meditative rhythm: each detail is painted by hand, one deliberate stroke at a time. From a distance, the works appear almost mechanical, like prints; only up close do they reveal the patient, human labor of countless hours — a quiet, meditative act of care embedded in every brushstroke.

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas
Various (between 40 × 50 × 4 cm and 100 × 100 × 4 cm)

Echoes

Echoes examines structures of power in both past and present events, exploring how collective memory is formed, distorted, and manipulated over time. Angela is particularly interested in the subjectivity of information — how we choose to perceive, distribute, and remember it.Working with found photographs sourced online, she subtly alters the positions and distances between the people depicted, shifting the dynamics and, in turn, the narratives the images originally conveyed. These manipulated images are transformed into graphic collages: abstract outlines, bright color fields, and reconfigured relationships between figures.Unlike her hand-embroidered works, Echoes deliberately surrenders the intimate, meditative aspect of manual stitching. Instead, the pieces are executed by embroidery machine — a conscious decision to let technology take over. Displayed on walls like paintings, the works reflect on how easily stories and histories can be reshaped, re-embroidered, and reframed.

Machine embroideries
Rayon thread on cotton fabric
120 cm x 90 cm x 4 cm

Threads of Care

This series of hand-embroidered, cross-stitch self-portraits explores acts of feminist self-care and rituals of healing. The meditative, time-intensive process of embroidery becomes as integral to the work as the finished images themselves — a quiet form of resistance, a method of mending.Each piece is displayed freely, allowing viewers to see not only the clean, precise surface of the portrait but also the chaotic, tangled reverse: a hidden map of labor, time, and vulnerability. This duality — between the neat front and the wild back — echoes the tension between how we are seen and what remains unseen in acts of survival and care.The series draws on the radical potential of vulnerability and exposure — embracing precariousness, grief, and solidarity as sites of quiet protest. By embodying slowness and intentional making, these works transform embroidery into an intimate, embodied archive of resilience.

Hand-embroidered self-portraits
Thread on cotton canvas
Various

Bald

The installation Bald draws from six well-known fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm — The Frog Prince, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood. The work explores how stories, knowledge, and morals are passed down through time, while critically examining the ways women are portrayed within these narratives.Through close analysis, a shared thread emerges: a state of waiting — for someone, for something, for change. In Bald, this act of waiting is distilled and laid bare, exposing the moralistic and gendered stereotypes embedded in these tales.Presented inside a shipping container, the installation invites visitors to walk through a "forest" of birch trees, enveloped by large fabric panels embroidered with text. This intimate, immersive environment amplifies the tension between the familiar comfort of childhood stories and their underlying narratives of passivity and constraint.

Mixed media installation
Text stitched on fabric, typed text on paper, birch tree trunks, thread, shipping container
595 cm × 200 cm × 220 cm

Constellation (Dreams, 2007)

In Constellation (Dreams, 2007), Angela turns her observations of interpersonal relationships inward, tracing them through the unconscious. Over the course of a year, she recorded 395 dreams, carefully noting recurring characters, symbols, and narratives.Years later — with the clarity of emotional distance — she revisited this intimate archive, mapping and analyzing the 38 most prominent figures and symbols that surfaced throughout her dreams. This act of archiving the private and ephemeral transforms personal memory into shared reflection, acknowledging the intimate, often invisible labor of care that underpins our inner worlds.The resulting installation is a constellation of memory and meaning, composed of an extensive chart, written interpretations, and fragments of the dreams themselves.

Mixed media installation
Wood, nails, thread, typed text on paper
Variable

Fading In / Out

Instead of using dating apps, Angela began reflecting on her analogue love life — wondering what data she could collect that mirrored swipes, likes, and matches. What intrigued her most were the patterns of people fading in and out of her life — moments when someone unexpectedly emerged from the crowd and later dissolved back into it.This project became a form of personal data collection and emotional cartography. Over an extended period, she systematically tracked the emotional influence of particular men — lovers, ex-lovers, and potential lovers — recording their presence, intensity, and absence over time.These observations materialized as seven embroidered graphs, each translating an intimate, temporal dataset into tactile form. The act of hand-stitching became a quiet, feminist gesture — a way of reclaiming personal data from digital abstraction and turning it into a tangible archive of care, connection, and detachment.

Hand-embroidered graphs
Fabric, thread
300 cm × 100 cm

Christel

Christel is grounded in extended historical, social, and feminist research, exploring the intersections of memory, identity, and gendered experience. The project reimagines the life and inner world of a fictitious character, Christel Rosenberg, whose story emerges from a set of found photographs of an unnamed woman from the 1960s.Through a multi-layered practice spanning photography, video, sound, writing, performance, embroidery, and found objects, the work reconstructs and re-enacts fragments of Christel’s imagined biography. It reflects on the position of unmarried women in the 1960s, the political and social structures shaping their lives, and the silences and erasures within dominant historical narratives.As an immersive, participatory installation, Christel invites viewers to step into this speculative archive — to not only witness but also to inhabit a re-constructed life, raising questions about care, agency, and the act of remembering.

Photographs, performance & multi-media installation
Variable

About

Angela is a conceptual artist and researcher whose work moves through questions of care, memory, and resistance, grounded in a feminist perspective. Working across media—hand and machine embroidery, painting, photography, installation, video, and performance—she explores how personal narratives intersect with collective histories.Through slow, meditative processes and acts of archiving, her practice examines how stories are told, inherited, and transformed: from reclaiming intimate inner worlds to questioning structures of power and reimagining narratives of vulnerability and strength. Whether through the quiet precision of embroidery, the abstraction of found images, or immersive installations, her works create spaces of reflection, disruption, and connection.Angela studied photography in San Francisco and Amsterdam (B.F.A., Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and completed her M.A. in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has frequently collaborated with the queer feminist collective Coven Berlin, and her work has been exhibited in Berlin and across Europe. Angela lives and works between Munich and Vienna.

Contact

Angela Kaisers+49 176 98592042
angela.kaisers@gmail.com

A Question of Noise

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas

Episode 1
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 2
180 cm x 130 cm x 4 cm
Episode 3
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 4
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 5
180 cm x 130 cm x 4 cm
Episode 6
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 7
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 8
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 9
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 10
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm

As The World Turns

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas

Nip It in the Bud (Aristocats feat. Tin Foil Hat)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
Wild Accusations (The Sword in the Stone feat. Wildfire)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
I Can't Believe I Still Have to Protest This Shit (The Jetsons feat. Protest Sign)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
White Trash (The Jetsons feat. Confederate Flag)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Paint It Black (The Pink Panther feat. Robert E Lee Monument)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Three Strikes, You're Out (Looney Tunes feat. Drone)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
The New Normal (Rabbit Fire feat. Cop)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
BTDT (The Yogi Bear Show feat. Neo-Nazi)
60 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Hasenfuss (Rabbit Fire feat. Cologne, 1945)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
The Very Moment You Realize This Was a Bad Idea (Robin Hood feat. Resistance Fighter)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Down the Rabbit Hole (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh feat. Statue of Liberty)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Old White Men (Alice in Wonderland feat. Greta Thunberg)
70 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
Freedom Chicken (The Looney Tunes feat. KFC)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
Trick or Treat (The Jungle Book feat. Julian Assange)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Every Breath You Take (Lady and the Tramp feat. Security Cameras)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
A Mother's Pride (Cinderella feat. Child Beauty Queen)
50 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
In the Comfort of Your Home (101 Dalmatians feat. 9/11 Rescue Dog)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
How Not to Be Responsible for Anything in Your Life. Ever. (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh feat. Magic 8 Ball)
70 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
The Californians (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Maid)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Hypocries (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Cecil the Lion)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Dystopia (Robin Hood feat. Syria)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
The Disadvantages of a 100 Year Long Sleep (Sleeping Beauty feat. Bill Cosby)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
Lost (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Shopping Cart)
100 cm x 100 cm x 4cm
Linda's Changing the World (The Jetsons feat. Chicken Coop)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
The Advantages of a 100 Year Long Sleep (Sleeping Beauty feat. Pandemic)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
2020 Went Rather Well (Mickey Mouse feat. Pandemic)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Intimacy in the Times of Distance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Pizza Delivery Guy)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
If Women Ruled the World (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. RBG)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
Neue Männer Braucht das Land (Robin Hood feat. Bernie Sanders)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
Freedom Fries (The Jungle Book feat. Fast Food)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Wut (Aristocats feat. 10 Downing St)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
The Side Effect of German Manufacturing (The Road Runner Show feat. The Berlin Wall)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm

Threads of Care

Embroidery
Thread on cotton canvas

Self 1
40 cm x 50 cm x 2cm
Self 2
30 cm x 40 cm x 2 cm
Self 3
30 cm x 40 cm x 2 cm
Self 4
40 cm x 50 cm x 2cm
Self 5
40 cm x 50 cm x 2cm

Constellation (Dreams, 2007)

Mixed media installation
Wood, nails, thread, typed text on paper

Variable dimensions

Christel

Self-Portraits (selection)
C-Prints

Variable dimensions

Multi-media installation
Labyrinth filled with photographs, video, sound, embroideries, handwriting, furniture, books, etc.

400 cm x 300 cm x 250 cm

Bald

Mixed-media installation
Text stitched on fabric, typed text on paper, birch tree trunks, thread, shipping container

595 cm × 200 cm × 220 cm

Imprint

Angela Kaisers
Kramerstrasse 31
82061 Neuried
Germany

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