Explorations in Textile Art
Project information
submitted by
Lisa-Maria Hermes
Co-Authors
Maja Baz, Greta Bindrum, Luisa Bringmann, Maika Cetin, Vanity Dörr, Josefine Sarah Dransfeld, Frida Förster, Anna-Maria Görnandt, Nele Jackszis, Mona Lea Kerntke, Zakhar Komarov-Zelinskii, Lavinia Möller, Miriam Pelizzari, Sophie Anna Perks, Federica Pisacreta, Anna Schäfers, Lina-Sophie Schilling, Nicole Schulz, Anne-kathrin Stöckel, Lara Traub, Soo-Ah Youn, Shan Shan Wang
Mentors
Lisa-Maria Hermes
Faculty:
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Fine Art (Diploma),
Productdesign (Master of Arts (M.A.)),
Visual Communication (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Visual Communication (Master of Arts (M.A.)),
Teaching Qualification (Secondary Education) in Art Education - First or Dual Subject (1st state examination),
Media Art and Design (Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2026
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 - Van-de-Velde-Bau
(Raum 119)
Donnerstag 09.07: 16-20Uhr / Freitag 10.07.: 16-20Uhr / Samstag 11.07.: 12-16Uhr
Project description
The exhibition »Explorations in Textile Art« approaches the question of textile art and textile craft practices in art and visual culture from a variety of perspectives:
What can textile art be? Why do artists employ textile craft practices? And how have art and craft been distinguished, both historically and today?
To explore these questions, the exhibition presents textile experiments, negotiations of artworks, and reflections on textile art. These projects were developed by students as part of the seminar »Textile Revivals? – Textile Media in modern and contemporary Art« (Scientific Module) and emerged through a process of theoretical engagement with textile art.
The seminar focused, among other things, on processes of canonization in art, which have traditionally separated textile craft practices—often regarded as feminine and amateur—from so-called »high art«.The examination of feminist and subversive textile works, in turn, provided a starting point for critically questioning these processes and for making alternative perspectives tangible.