14.9.—13.10.2024
DE/CODING TEXTILE.
CONTEMPORARY ART REFLECTING TEXTILE TRADITIONS

CURATED BY
Maria Christine Holter

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

The exhibition DE/CODING TEXTILE. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions brings together works by fifteen artists from nine nations that were created during residencies organised 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 react with personal artistic expression and a wide 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.

The Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR) is an EU co-funded project, aiming to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators in the four European partner nations — Romania, Germany, Croatia, and Austria. The project is led by the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art (ARAC) with three consortium partners — the Goethe-Institut network, the Croatian Association of Fine Artists, and the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung Vienna. An associate strategic partner of the project is La Kunsthalle Mulhouse which is also the Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Intérêt National de la Ville de Mulhouse.

Following Vienna, new exhibitions in Zagreb (curated by Josip Zanki) and Bucharest (curated by Anca Poterasu) will follow.

More information on the websites of AFAR www.afarnetwork.com.

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HDLU part of AFAR project is supported by:

  

Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]

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