Biography
Klara Vith is an Austrian contemporary artist (born 1993) who works principally in letterpress and book arts, with a practice that has come to include relief printing and contemporary woodblock. She completed a BA in Information Design and worked in graphic design before relocating to London for an MA in Visual Arts: Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London), where she developed the commitment to letterpress that now anchors her work. She works as a letterpress printer at New North Press, the long-running Hoxton letterpress workshop, and as a specialist letterpress technician at the London College of Communication (LCC).
Her studio practice is principally letterpress, built around type-and-text projects that engage with found language fragments and ideas of archiving, re-contextualization, and what she describes as languages of power. The woodblock and mokuhanga component of her work is more recent, growing out of her broader engagement with relief printing. She participated in the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) juried international exhibition in Echizen, Japan, where she was listed as a participating artist from Austria — the entry point through which her work has become visible within the international mokuhanga community.
Beyond the IMC exhibition, her recent and upcoming exhibition record includes Internet Cafe (Bregenz, May 2026), Liegt das Gute doch so nah (Wangen, May 2026), and a MAP Galerie exhibition in Schruns (November 2026), alongside a series of project-based works dating from 2018 onward, among them The Weather Room, HOME IS A FAILED IDEA, The Chair, the Play, the TV is a Place for Dreams, and her selection for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Her work is documented through her own studio site (klaravith.com) and in the Artsy and ArtRabbit databases. Within the mokuhanga circuit she is best understood as a letterpress and book-arts practitioner whose engagement with the Japanese woodblock method is a recent extension of an already established type-and-text practice.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1993
- Nationality
- 🇦🇹Austria
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Theater
- Works Indexed
- 2
Frequently Asked Questions
Klara Vith is an Austrian contemporary artist (born 1993) who works principally in letterpress and book arts, with a practice that has come to include relief printing and contemporary woodblock. She completed a BA in Information Design and worked in graphic design before relocating to London for an MA in Visual Arts: Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London), where she developed the commitment to letterpress that now anchors her work. She works as a letterpress printer at New North Press, the long-running Hoxton letterpress workshop, and as a specialist letterpress technician at the London College of Communication (LCC).
Klara Vith was active born in 1993. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Klara Vith's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Klara Vith's prints frequently feature theater.
