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Research Project

Textiles in the Visual Arts

Project Editor: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
Starting out from modernism and the avant-garde, the research project examines the transmedial potential of textiles—both in the visual arts and as they interface with the applied arts, architecture, and design. With their soft, fragile, ephemeral properties, textiles as medium, technique, material, and metaphor stand for hybridism and artificiality. The techniques of industrial weaving were thus the model for the development of the first computer programs, and patterns of textile ornamentation are reflected in the algorithms of the Internet.
 
Thanks to the MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection, as well as its close ties with experts Gottfried Semper und Alois Riegl, the MAK possesses fundamental know-how in the field of textile research. In the creation and appreciation of textile objects, haptic qualities play a role equally as important as that played by dyes and coloration. Production processes and parameters are determinant aspects of artistic praxis. In the discourse between the visual arts and handicrafts, questions of cultural appropriation and authorship need to be reformulated. What role or function do textiles have in contemporary artistic methodology? What contribution can textiles make to futures studies? The research project examines the situation of visual artists who are working on the development of textiles as a medium and function as multipliers.
 
Project Editor: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
 

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Contemporary Art Collection

Contemporary Art Collection

Curator: Bärbel Vischer
The circa 1,500 works, work groups and bundles of documentation contained in this collection encompass the areas of fine art and architecture: from avant-garde movements of the 1920s to current artistic stances, the holdings encompass works in various media such as drawing, painting, photography video and film, as well as objects, sculptures, installations, environments and architecture-related contributions including designs, models and animations.

MAK Collection

Textiles and Carpets Collection

Textiles and Carpets Collection

Curator: Lara Steinhäußer
The holdings of the MAK’s collection of textiles, which is one of the foremost textile collections in the world, cover the time from Late Antiquity until today; they encompass the globe with works from nearly all parts of Asia and Europe, and even South America. The collection is a comprehensive material archive reflecting the artistic, technical, and economic developments of this special field throughout the last 1,500 years. This richness of the material archive gives it a unique capability of illustrating the multifaceted, international cultural interconnections that have developed over the centuries.
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