Book launch Textile Practices, March 18, 2025, 7 pm.
HIER— Store, Innere Wiener Straße 24, Munich (DE)
Textiles are one of humankind’s oldest forms of cultural expression, and women have been and remain pivotal players in this multifaceted and exacting field. In Textile Practices, designer and author Stephanie Kahnau presents forty outstanding european female textile designers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their individual methods of engaging with this fascinating medium at the intersection of craft, design, and art.
With support from the Curt Wills Foundation, textile designer and author Stephanie Kahnau invites you to the HIER– Store—a gallery for female creators she founded—on March 18 to present Textile Practices.
A special focus of the evening is on Karen Modrei, one of the forty artists profiled in the book. In a sound performance, she uses a household knitting machine as a rhythmic sound source—through repetition, movement, and tension in the material, a multi-layered acoustic structure emerges that translates textile practice into a performative, audible experience. In addition, the artist Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias will be present and will display samples of her textile work—she, too, is one of the artists featured in the book.
Katrin Modrei, Das Floss der Medusa, 2024, installation with performance
photo © Regine Heiland
