DE/CODING TEXTILE. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions
Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
14.09. — 13.10.2024

The exhibition brings together works by fifteen artists from nine nations, created during residencies organized by AFAR (Artists for Artists Residency Network) in Mulhouse (F), Maramureș (RO), Bucharest (RO) and Zagreb (HR) in 2023/2024. The selected artists respond to the historically influenced environment of the four production sites with personal artistic expression and a variety of media. The virtual meets the analogue, smooth meets fluffy, tradition meets deconstruction, "typically male" meets queer and feminist, deadly serious meets pop humour.

Accompanying the exhibition, the VIENNA TEXTILE TALKS (20 September 2024) will feature outstanding guest speakers who will explore the question of why textiles are increasingly gaining ground in contemporary art and what contribution the positions represented in the Factory can make to the current art discourse. Works by five members of the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung will be included in the discussion.

Artists: Yasmina Assbane, Yana Bachynska, Željko Beljan, Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik & Jos Van der Pol), Tanja Boukal, Anetta Mona Chișa, Larisa Crunțeanu, Megan Dominescu, Bernhard Frue, Aurora Király, Zoya Laktionova, Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Iza Tarasewicz, Christina Zurfluh

Curator: Maria Christine Holter

Free entry, no registration required

More information: www.kuenstlerhaus.at