From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
Rediscovered weavers Else Mögelin and Johanna Schütz-Wolff Last April I was invited by friends from he Polish Art Academy in Stettin to an exhibition of Bauhaus weaver Else Mögelin, not shown for the past 30... Read more
Text by Beatrijs Sterk written for the catalog “Artwork is Cactus” – about the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst from 1945 to the Present; Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main from November, 2021 Few concepts... Read more
Online archive of TEXTIL FORUM magazines When by the end of 2013, Dietmar Laue and I, stopped publishing the magazine Textile Forum, we wrote: “a positive consequence of our magazine issues published from 1982 to... Read more
The Lodz Triennial is currently the oldest textile art event in Europe and probably the whole world. It was created in 1972 as an East European window on textile art for all those who were... Read more
I received a book that was published early 2019 by Phaidon Press, called “Vitamin F – Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art”. It did make clear that the divide between art in a craft... Read more
The 57th Venice Biennial is a feast for all those loving textiles! Visitors, who have seen it many times, are saying that never ever has there been so many textiles on show. This is not... Read more
In recent years textile has increasingly become a medium of significance in the art world. In other words, the fibre arts are now being shown in many art exhibitions. Unfortunately, the work of those... Read more