Opening URSI FÜRTLER: Textile—Abstract

For the first time, the MAK dedicates a solo exhibition to award-winning Austrian textile artist Ursi Fürtler (* 1939). Her work is characterized by a fondness for pleated fabrics and geometric patterns, which attest to her intensive disquisition with the (decorative) artistic canon of classical modernism—from the Wiener Werkstätte to the Bauhaus. Her fascination with Japanese printing and dyeing techniques is especially noticeable in her bold use of three different silkscreen stencils patterned with dots and stripes, which, in combination, give rise to complex layered motifs. The exhibition will present a cross-section of her entire oeuvre, ranging from textile designs on paper from the 1970s and 1980s and folding screens to textiles at the intersection of sculptural objects and wearable garments. 
 

Tue, 17.3.2026 7 pm9 pm
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
On the exhibition 
Lilli Hollein, General Director, MAK 
Lara Steinhäußer, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection  
 
The artist will be present 
 
Admission to the opening is free. 
A ticket is required to visit all the other exhibitions (e.g. HELMUT LANG).
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