"The Event of a Thread" Exhibition Event

May 30, 2019

Judith Raum talks about the Bauhaus Space

Istanbul Modern Cinema

The Inauguration of the curtain fabric by Gunta Stölz

The Event of a Thread - Floor -1

17:30

Bauhaus fabrics: Front and reverse sides

Istanbul Modern Cinema
18.00

The artist and weaver Gunta Stölzl was the first and only female master at the Bauhaus and directed the textile workshop during the Dessau period from 1927-1931. Berlin-based artist Judith Raum has long been planning for the recreation of a curtain fabric by Gunta Stölzl to be integrated into her installation "Bauhaus Space", part of the exhibition "The Event of a Thread". With the support of ifa, the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, it became possible to realize the re-weaving of a fabric that references a specific, quite early phase in Stölzl's work, and in which horizontal stripes played a major role. The re-weaving was executed by Katharina Jebsen in Leipzig.

In her two-part presentation, Judith Raum will officially welcome this fabric in the installation, talking about the aesthetic context and the institutional politics in which it was originally designed as well as the conflicts played out in the two realms. She will then provide insight into her artistic research on the Bauhaus textile workshop, which brought her through a number of international archives during the past three years. Her talk will be followed by the screening of two of her recent video essays which focus on the input of Otti Berger and Lilly Reich into the Bauhaus textile workshop and on Reich's ongoing exhibition design after the national socialist take-over.