Finissage of the exhibition Entanglements: On the role of textiles in art and society

Location

entrance free

Textile traditions and production are a common thread running through the region around Chemnitz. Flöha was an important textile centre until 1994, and in GDR times thousands of workers passed through the station every day on their way to the factories. Now the railway station, which has been renovated for the Capital of Culture, will become the setting for "Entanglements". On display are works of modern and contemporary art in the context of textiles: artists include Antje Engelmann, Katharina Fritsch, Hermann Glöckner, Renate Göritz, Käthe Kollwitz, Helga Paris, Judith Raum, Reinhard Mucha, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz Erhard Walther. Curated by Susanne Weiß (ifa). In an extraordinary collaboration, the ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations is cooperating with the municipality of Flöha and Deutsche Bahn to realise this exhibition, presenting artists from its own collection in dialogue with local history. Textiles not only bring together tradition and innovation, but also the cause and effect of production and material, patterns and interpretations as well as values and paradoxes that influence our economic and social conditions.

At the end of the exhibition, visitors are cordially invited to the finissage on 3 August at 2 pm.