Hannah Maria Schmutterer (b. 1990) is an artist based in Munich, Germany. Informed by her training in both fine art and fashion design, Schmutterer’s practice combines dressmaking with painting, poetry and performance. Her work explores the aesthetic shape and material nature of femininity, and how notions of womanhood have been crafted and romanticized through folklore, fairy tales and other remnants of popular culture. Schmutterer’s most recent body of work includes ambiguously figurative, quilt-like panels that infuse abstract configurations of textile and memory with narrative potential.

Schmutterer attended the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, UK and the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in Berlin, Germany. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including the Kunstverein Munchen in Munich, Germany; BBK in Berlin, Germany; Wet Green in Auckland, New Zealand and Acme in London, UK. In 2021, she was awarded an Innovation Award for artists by the Bavarian government.



hannah.schmutterer@gmail.com


Education
2019 MFA sculpture, Royal College of Arts London
2016 BFA fashion design, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee

selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions  
2023 just because something is made up, doesn’t mean that it´s not real; with Linus Schuierer, Lothringer13 Studio München
2023 dress rehearsal, Glasshouse Berlin
2022 32 Dresses, location-based AR, Inning am Ammersee; Bayern Innovativ & BBK Berlin
2021 Tall Tales for Summer, Lucky, Inning am Ammersee
2019 Mondmuschel, Wet Green, Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland

selected Group Exhibitions
2024 The Tropes for Falling in Love, Neuburg + Diessen + München
2024 A little bit of solidarity goes a long way, Zirka Space, München
2021 if wishes were horses, Jahresgaben Kunstverein München
2021 ready to wear, Peripheral Alliances Kunstverein München, Inning am Ammersee
2019 Akt 2, Beck Road Hackney Council, London

Publications/Writing
2023 Torn apart cast from the lands that last forever they are offer you anything, poetry zine with Rose Highaim-Stainton
2023 Desire Lines, Media Lab Bayern Research Fellowship
2022 32 Dresses, tarot deck with Fred Heinsohn, BBK Berlin
2016 New Romantics, clothes booklet with Franziska König & Fred Heinsohn

Press
2021 On looking at Hannah Maria Schmutterer: Prologue (A Room of ones Own); The Art Paper 01, TOUCH — The Art Paper (the-art-paper.com)