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Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990). As of 2025, she has released four studio albums, three EPs, and two original film scores, as well as numerous singles.
Anja Plaschg grew up in the Austrian village of Katzendorf, near Gnas, in southeast Styria, where her parents had a farm. She started playing the piano at the age of six, and when she was 14, she took up violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She studied graphic design at a high school in Graz but dropped out at the age of 16 and moved to Vienna. There, she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Daniel Richter but dropped out when she was 18. Explaining the stage name Soap&Skin, she has said that "soap and skin are two substances which react on each other in different ways – not only does soap clean skin but it also protects it, and foam is as beautiful as it is vanishing rapidly".
After having played only a handful of concerts, she was already being dubbed a child prodigy. In 2008, she portrayed the German singer Nico in the play "Nico – Sphinx aus Eis", by Werner Fritsch, in Berlin and Vienna, performing several songs in it, including "Janitor of Lunacy", which appeared on her self-titled, debut EP, that same year.
Plaschg's first full-length album, Lovetune for Vacuum, was released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and earned a spot in the Austrian top ten. It also achieved notable chart positions in Germany, Belgium, and France.
Plaschg's father died in 2009 from a heart attack. During this time, Plaschg stated that she suffered from serious depression, for which she was hospitalized. The death influenced much of her second album,[citation needed] Narrow, which came out in 2012.
In 2010, she won a European Border Breakers Award for her international success.
In 2011, Plaschg debuted as an actress, playing a supporting role in the film Stillleben, which she also scored.
Her third studio album, From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend, was released in October 2018.
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Soap&Skin
Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990). As of 2025, she has released four studio albums, three EPs, and two original film scores, as well as numerous singles.
Anja Plaschg grew up in the Austrian village of Katzendorf, near Gnas, in southeast Styria, where her parents had a farm. She started playing the piano at the age of six, and when she was 14, she took up violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She studied graphic design at a high school in Graz but dropped out at the age of 16 and moved to Vienna. There, she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Daniel Richter but dropped out when she was 18. Explaining the stage name Soap&Skin, she has said that "soap and skin are two substances which react on each other in different ways – not only does soap clean skin but it also protects it, and foam is as beautiful as it is vanishing rapidly".
After having played only a handful of concerts, she was already being dubbed a child prodigy. In 2008, she portrayed the German singer Nico in the play "Nico – Sphinx aus Eis", by Werner Fritsch, in Berlin and Vienna, performing several songs in it, including "Janitor of Lunacy", which appeared on her self-titled, debut EP, that same year.
Plaschg's first full-length album, Lovetune for Vacuum, was released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and earned a spot in the Austrian top ten. It also achieved notable chart positions in Germany, Belgium, and France.
Plaschg's father died in 2009 from a heart attack. During this time, Plaschg stated that she suffered from serious depression, for which she was hospitalized. The death influenced much of her second album,[citation needed] Narrow, which came out in 2012.
In 2010, she won a European Border Breakers Award for her international success.
In 2011, Plaschg debuted as an actress, playing a supporting role in the film Stillleben, which she also scored.
Her third studio album, From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend, was released in October 2018.
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