DE/CODING TEXTILE
Contemporary Art
Reflecting Textile Traditions
Vienna Exhibition
Opening: 13 September, 7pm
14.09. – 15.10.2024
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 Kiraly, Zoya Laktionova, Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Iza Tarasewicz, Christina Zurfluh
Curated by Maria Christine Holter
More about the venue, here
DE/CODING TEXTILE. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions brings together works by fifteen artists from nine nations that were created during the residencies organized by AFAR (Artists for Artists Residency Network) in Mulhouse (F), Maramures (RO), Bucharest (RO) and Zagreb (HR) in 2023/2024. Referring to the historically influenced environment of the four production sites, the selected artists respond with their individual artistic expression and in a wide variety of media. Virtual meets analogue, smooth meets fluffy, tradition meets deconstruction, “typically male” meets queer and feminist, deadly serious meets pop humor.
In addition to the exhibition, the VIENNA TEXTILE TALKS on September 20, 2024, with top-class guests, will explore, among other things, 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 Association will also be included in the discussion.
Megan Dominescu
Yana Bachynska
Tanja Boukal
Tanja Boukal
Aurora Kiraly
Kamruzzaman Shadhin
Bernhard Frue
Željko Beljan
Christina Zurfluh
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Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik & Jos Van der Pol)
Iza Tarasewicz
Larisa Crunteanu
The exhibition DE/CODING TEXTILE. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions will continue after Vienna in an adapted form in Zagreb (curated by Josip Zanki) and Bucharest (curated by Anca Poterasu).
Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR) is an EU co-funded and co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, project and residency program, aiming to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators in Romania, Germany, Croatia, and Austria. The project is led by the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art (ARAC) with its three consortium partners – Goethe Institute Network, Croatian Association of Fine Artists, and Künstlerhaus Vienna.
Institutional Partners: Forumul Cultural Austriac, Isntitutul Francez din România
The AFAR Network project is co-funded by the European Union: ”Views and opionions expressed are however those of the autohor(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsable for them.”