© Elena Maxemciuc
© Elena Maxemciuc

Mirror Me

Nives Widauer presented by /SAC
Bronzecast of the artist's father's Super 8 camera, Bronzenipples; variable dimensions
RAD 2025

''Transforming my father's Super 8 camera into bronzecasts also meant an act of letting go of my childhood memories and creating a new and fresh view of our family. Nothing is like what the memory of it will become.'' Nives Widauer, March 2025

about the artist

Nives Widauer

Nives Widauer was born in 1965 in Basel, Switzerland. In 1990 she graduated from the class of Audiovisual Arts at the Basel School of Design. In parallel with her first exhibitions (video installations), she created video sets and films. She has won various art awards, and scholarships and has exhibited in numerous shows. In her most recent artworks, the artist has experimented with the interface between analog and digital and has expanded her practice to painting and sculpture. Widauer's works have recently been exhibited at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, and the SPSI in Shanghai. Nives currently lives and works in Viena.