ARTAPESTRY6
Vom 04.06.2022 bis zum 04.09.2022 ist im „Museum von Mittelfinnland“ (Finnish Central Museum) die ARTAPESTRY 6 zu sehen. Zwar ist keine meiner Arbeiten dabei, denn ich war Jurymitglied und fand es nicht schlüssig, gleichzeitig auch mit einer eigenen Arbeit an den start zu gehen, aber ich denke, für alle, die an dem interessiert sind, was auf den Webstühlen der europäischen Bildwirker:innen aktuell stattfindet, ist es ein kleines MUSS.
Organisiert wird diese Wanderausstellung jetzt zum sechsten Mal vom European Textile Forum. Das ETF, eine Organisation von Bildwirker:innen für Bildwirker:innen, sieht ihre Aufgabe darin, die Europäische Bildwirkerei zu unterstützen und voranzubringen.
Wie sie das tut und wer dahinter steht, findet ihr HIER
FOREWORD ARTAPESTRY6 2021 _ 22
For all of us , 2020 has been a bit strange and an unpredictable year. In beginning of 2020 we launched Call for Entries to Artapestry6 and since 11th March 2020 Denmark has been locked down and in the end of August the jury should have convene in Copenhagen to completed the jurying and selection of tapestries for Artapestry6. The jury could not meet in CPH because the corona-restrictions and instead we made a virtual jurying. Fortunately the two days virtual selection was a success and the jury found it exciting, super inspiring, powerful and they all enjoyed it .The jurors were impressed with the quality and diversity of the submissions and the works range from traditional tapestry, Jacquard weaving and decorative fabric. They decided for 43 works of 40 artists, from 16 countries. Thanks to the jury for making a strong exhibition.
With a growing wish to focus on tapestry art outside Europa, ETF decided to invite Helena Hernmarck and Nancy Koenigsberg two significant tapestry artists from USA to exhibit in an European showcase.
In a year like no other, it has been inspiring to see in the early springtime long queue outside the yarn shops of young women, to get knitting-yarn and needles, ready to knit through Covid19 pandemic.
New works of fiction about textile and weaving show how our lives are full of textiles and “woven stories”.
Textiles are such a natural part of our lives and culture and speak to our senses and memories and that makes them fascinating materials in artistic contexts. Tapestry and fiber art has become popular – as we saw it in the 1970s. We see with satisfaction young women/men has reinvented weaving and tapestry weaving and contemporary artists embraced textile in their search for new expressions in their artistic practice, without any weaving skills.
Anet Brusgaard
For ETF’s Secretariat in Copenhagen
Für alle, die es gerade nicht einrichten können, nach Finnland zu reisen, HIER ein Link zu der virtuellen Ausstellung. Nicht zu vergleichen mit einem Besuch „in echt“, aber tausendmal besser, als nichts.
Warum ich euch das jetzt
so besonders ans Herz lege?
Nun, weil die Eröffnung der Ausstellung zusammenfällt mit einem Seminar über Bildwirkerei, und zu diesem Seminar bin ich eingeladen worden, um über das KUKUmobil zu berichten. Ihr könnt euch vorstellen, wie sehr es mich freut, diese Gelegenheit zu bekommen. Und diejenigen von euch, die mich besser kennen, können sich auch vorstellen, wie nervös ich jetzt schon bin, bei dem Gedanken, vor einem Publikum zu stehen und zu reden.
Heute hab ich endlich den Text fertig geschrieben. Auf Englisch. Das ist immer noch eine kleine Hürde für mich. Gut, dass Lea immer wieder bereit ist, solch wichtige Texte in eine gute Form zu bringen. Und Anna Ruth hat geduldig ausgeharrt in Jyväskylä, um den Text ins Finnische zu übersetzen.
Das wird meine erste reise nach Finnland. Ich bin extrem gespannt. Auch, weil sich hoffentlich die Möglichkeit ergibt, zwei mir lieben Menschen wieder zu begegnen: Vilma, die bei uns in Nordspanien einige Monate gewohnt hat und Teil unserer Familie war. Und Ivana Blanco Gross, die, in den USA lebend gerade eine Künstlerresidenz in Finnland absolviert. Auch sie habe ich in Nordspanien kennengelernt, als sie die kollektive Ausstellung Un-Send im KUKUprojekt ausgestellt hat.
Es verspricht, intensiv zu werden.
Das Seminar-Programm
The seminar for the ARTapestry exhibition is on the 3rd of June, 2022 at 12 noon. The seminar is held at the auditorium of the museum and max. 80 people can participate on-site. Registration is open until Mon 30.5. at 10 am. It is also possible to follow the seminar online via the YouTube channel of the Museum of Central Finland: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfKLcxkOU8dZQfmu1jeQuxg/featured.
The opening of the exhibition, to which all participants of the seminar are welcome, is held on the same day at 6 pm. It is not necessary to sign up for the opening.
The event has been produced in co-operation with European Tapestry Forum (EFT) and funding has been received from the Moomin Characters Ltd.
The programme of the seminar
12:00 Tapestry artist Andrea Milde: Weaving along the way (45 min.)
Andrea talks about the KUKU project, the mobile weaving studio and its trop across Europe. The weaving studio is on wheels: The wagon is tall enough for a high-warp loom and small enough to travel across Europe. When making stops along the way, it functions as a temporary weaving station. The trip starts from the Atlantic coast in Portugal and continues criss-crossing Europe ending at the coast of the Black Sea.
12:45 Art history researcher Leena Svinhufvud: The Multifaceted Tapestry (45 min.)
Leena has a PhD in art history. She works as an educational curator and is in charge of the learning work at the Design Museum where her work involves design education and events for the public. Leena thinks that displaying modern tapestries is rather a challenging task. She considers the following questions in her presentation:
- How should the multifaceted and complicated manifestations of modern textile art, which carries the burden of a long tradition, be displayed?
- How is it possible to convey the special character and ‘soul’ of a private tapestry?
- What possibilities are there to support the dialogue between the surprisingly varied production methods of the field and the spiritual content of the works?
Contemporary tapestry is an expression of individuality and free creative work. The fragmenting of the basic rectangular shape of a tapestry is, in and of itself, a fascinating subject: The transition from arrangements historically done on the surface to contemporary spatial outlines is challenging – both materially and intellectually.
13:30 Break. Light refreshments at the museum (30 min)
14:00 Micala Sidore, the writer of the book “The Art is the Cloth. How to look and understand Tapestries” (45 min)
Micala participates in the seminar through the Teams platform. She talks about the content of each of the chapters in the book and specifies the details of the text. During her presentation, the writer of the book shows also photographs which she could not publish in her book.
14:45-15:15 Four Finnish tapestry artists talk about their work
Aino Kajaniemi: Seeker of Happiness (10 min)
Inka Kivalo: I See in Tapestry (10 min)
Soile Hovila: Tapestry in Spotlight (10 min)
Ariadna Donner: Shadows and Colors (10 min)
Anna Ruth interprets all of the presentations from English to Finnish and Finnish to English.
