SOPHIE TAEUBER. Textile Reformer
This cabinet exhibition showcases the inventive early textile work of the internationally acclaimed avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber, with a focus on her designs for the Swiss textile industry. Around 1915, Taeuber supported the charitable project “Klöppelindustrie” (bobbin lace industry), initiated in 1911 by Alice Frey-Amsler, a fellow teacher at the Gewerbeschule Zurich, to provide an income for women in the Lauterbrunnen Valley by reviving the local lacemaking tradition. Recently rediscovered designs show how Taeuber developed new variations on traditional bobbin lace patterns, gradually finding her way toward geometric abstraction.
The exhibition is being curated by guest curators Medea Hoch and Gabriele Lutz and takes place as part of GUNTA STÖLZL UND JOHANNES ITTEN. TEXTILE UNIVERSES in the project room enter.
With the generous support of:
Kantonsbibliothek Ausserrhoden / Erst Göhner Stiftung / Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung / Zürcherische Seidenindustrie Gesellschaft / Kulturförderung Kanton St. Gallen / Stadt Zürich / Minerva Stiftung / Kulturförderung Appenzell Ausserrhoden / Lienhard-Stiftung / Boner Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur / Dr. Fred Styger Stiftung / Erica Stiftung / Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung / Steinegg Stiftung / Hans und Wilma Stutz Stiftung / Metrohm Stiftung / Bertold Suhner Stiftung / St. Gallen