About

NOT NOT Atelier makes collaborative projects in Vienna. We develop books, prints, and research. (We also host a dinner club for Einzelkinder i.e. people who don't have any siblings in Vienna). Contact us for inquiries or new collaborations.

Aki Namba (born in Japan, living in Vienna since 2005) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who combines architecture, graphic design, and art to transform abstract concepts into visual narratives. Her practice spans typography design for film to community-oriented dinner performances to fermenting all sorts of things in her kitchen.

Andrea Catherine Steves (born in Michigan, USA, living between Vienna and NY) is an artist, researcher, curator, and organizer whose interdisciplinary work examines the intersections of capitalism, climate change, ecology, and museums.

Why Not Not?

Why not? Working with itadori aka knotweed in Okayama, we kept saying >>it's not not<<, a funny double negation; in German, the word Not is already a doubling (distress, adversity, material); It's not not art. It's not not research. the gesture of refusal itself, negation as practice a chance to create something new, being something through what we resist being named.

NOT NOT Atelier is the collaborative studio of Aki Namba and Andrea Steves, two not not Auslanders working + living in 1050, Vienna, Austria. • • • NOT NOT Atelier is the collaborative studio of Aki Namba and Andrea Steves, two not not Auslanders working + living in 1050, Vienna, Austria. • • • NOT NOT Atelier is the collaborative studio of Aki Namba and Andrea Steves, two not not Auslanders working + living in 1050, Vienna, Austria. • • •