Working across various media, my practice explores the interplay between the tangible and the intangible. Alongside my dedicated studio practice, where I focus on creating sculptures, video installations, and photographic works, I develop long-term performative projects. Engaging the public as actors through location-specific choreographies, immersive soundscapes, and wearable textile props, they address fundamental themes such as love, compassion and death, while responding to the pressing environmental, political, and social challenges of our time.
Margret Wibmer (*Austria) is an internationally renowned visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work investigates the dynamic interplay between bodies, objects, and spaces through sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance. Following formative years in New York City assisting minimalist artist Sol LeWitt alongside Kazuko Miyamoto, Wibmer developed a multidisciplinary practice grounded in material sensitivity and spatial awareness. Rooted in her upbringing in a textile-centered household, textiles remain a central medium through which she explores questions of identity, care, and collective memory.
Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including at the 18th Textile Triennial at the Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź (PL, on view until April 2026); The Merchant House, Amsterdam; Kanazawa (JP), in collaboration with NPO Tsuzuru; Fotoforum Innsbruck; Klocker Museum (AT); Capital C Amsterdam (with Amsterdam Art); Palais de Tokyo, Paris; RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy, Japan; Kunstpavillon Innsbruck; KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Lumen Travo Gallery; and Bradwolff Projects, among others.
Her participatory performance Salon d’Amour was recently acquired by the Ferdinandeum – Tyrolean State Museum. Her work is held in both public and private collections internationally and has been featured in publications including Sony Style Magazine, Vestoj, and Metropolis M.
A monograph on her work has been published by Kerber Verlag. In addition, VfmK – Verlag für Moderne Kunst released her artist book Relay, published in parallel with the eponymous video work.
Wibmer is an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore since 2021 and joined the US based Institute for Cultural Activism International as a board member and performer in 2022, reflecting her commitment to socially engaged art and cultural dialogue.