The exhibition highlights the multiple complex ways in which the participating artists work with textiles. They link personal and aesthetic narratives with the social and economic configuration of a globalized world. In 1965, Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described "the event of a thread" as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it signifies constant scope to rethink relations and to restructure connections and contexts.
The artist Judith Raum developed "The Bauhaus Space" for the exhibition, an installation dedicated to the Bauhaus weaving workshop. We encounter rewoven fabrics and historic materials in a specially designed display that unfolds its extraordinary success story in six chapters.
Building on the concept of the original exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina also exhibits works of art by the artists from Serbia, who deal with the specific socio-political context of their own environment. They emphasize the importance of emancipatory practice, activism and community as important characteristics of the use of textiles in local historical and contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition will feature works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, the National Museum of Užice and the "Atelje 61" from Novi Sad.
Artists: Atelje 61 / Nada Adžić Poznanović, Ulla von Brandenburg, Milica Dukić, Noa Eshkol, Andreas Exner, Uli Fischer, Zille Homma Hamid, Heide Hinrichs, Olaf Holzapfel, Ivana Ivković, Christa Jeitner, Elisa van Joolen & Vincent Vulsma, Kolektiv Škart, Marinela Koželj, Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, Karen Michelsen Castañón, Tanja Ostojić, Judith Raum, Rene Redle / Vladan Jeremić, Franz Erhard Walther, along with the “Bauhaus Space”
Curators: Sanja Kojić Mladenov (MoCAV), Susanne Weiß und Inka Gressel (ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
In cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (MoCAV) und the Goethe Institut Belgrad
The ifa agora is the central platform for the network, collection and archive of ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in the field of art. It is a place of transcultural exchange – just as the agora in ancient Greece was a city’s most important meeting place and marketplace. It shows ifa’s relationships and brings them together online.
With over 20 touring exhibitions currently travelling across the globe and with its diverse event programmes on contemporary art, the ifa links the German art scene with internationally active cultural creators and forms cooperations and networks. The projects, many of which were developed in co-creation with local partners, cover the various disciplines of modern and contemporary fine arts – from current themes in architecture, photography and design to Bauhaus and monographic exhibitions such as Rosemarie Trockel or Marcel Odenbach. These projects generate local meeting platforms and allow international perspectives on topics of global relevance. The ifa also provides loan exhibits to interested museums.
ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen promotes a peaceful and enriching coexistence between people and cultures worldwide. ifa supports artistic and cultural exchange in exhibition, dialogue and conference programmes, and it acts as a centre of excellence for international cultural relations. It is part of a global network and relies on sustainable, long-term partnerships. ifa is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital Stuttgart.
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