hannah.schmutterer@gmail.com
Instagram2025 - Das poetische Kleid, TU Darmstadt
Dressing the Bride - Poem, Dress Poetics
2023 zine with Rose Higham - Stainton: Torn apart, cast from the lands that last, forever they are, offer You anything 
2022 - 23 research: Desire Lines - Media Lab Bayern 

Hannah Maria Schmutterer is an artist whose practice combines dressmaking with painting, poetry, and performance, informed by her training in both fine art and fashion design. 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. She also investigates ways to preserve and embody memory through garments, often treating the dress as both a vessel and narrative device.

Schmutterer’s recent projects include a growing series of sculptural textile works and site-specific installations that rethink the poetic and political dimensions of the garment in space. In 2025, she initiated Dress Poetics, a collaborative exhibition and publication project that brings together artists working at the intersection of text, fabric, and body-based practices. She is currently working on her doctoral research at TU Darmstadt, focusing on the concept of the “poetic dress” and the aesthetic language of clothing as a form of feminist resistance and reflection.

Her most recent body of work includes ambiguously figurative, quilt-like panels that infuse ab- straction and memory with narrative potential. Schmutterer attended the Royal College of Art in London, UK (- 2019) and the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in Berlin, Germany (- 2017).