Artists

Ursi Fürtler

Press release

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. Curator: Lara Steinhäußer, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection