November 12, at 6.30 pm
Technological Centre UMPRUM, Mikulandská 134/5, Prague 1
The Centre for Doctoral Studies and the Studio of Textile at UMPRUM cordially invite you to a lecture by the Berlin-based visual artist, researcher, and author Judith Raum, who will present some of her recent artistic work on Bauhaus textile designer Otti Berger.
Working in a highly interdisciplinary way located between Fine Art studio practice, historical research, material research, and writing, Raum will talk about challenges in the cooperation with academic and research institutions outside the realm of contemporary art; she will reflect on installation and lecture performance as formats to ‚exhibit' material- and process-based insight; and she will describe her research on Bauhaus functional fabrics, the complex challenge of deciphering their intended meaning in the architectural context and of re-creating selected designs.
Judith Raum, artist and author, lives and works in Berlin. Her paintings, installations and performances explore the tension between social and economic historical research and the question of the conditions and nature of artistic processes. Her work is interdisciplinary, with processes in the studio and detailed archival research going hand in hand in her practice. In addition to economic colonial themes, several works deal with the social and economic historical interrelationships of the textile medium, traditional hierarchies between craft and fine arts, and the traditional marginalisation of female creative work. Since 2017, she has created numerous installations and performances on the functional fabrics of the Bauhaus textile workshop, focusing on the work of textile designer Otti Berger, shown, among other places, as part of the ifa touring exhibition The Event of a Thread – Global Narratives in Textile, as part of My Bauhaus: Transmedial Encounters (Yale School of Architecture, 2019), Taking a Thread for a Walk (MoMA New York, 2020/21) and Pondering Provenance (Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, 2024). After several years of extensive analysis of Berger's surviving designs in collaboration with weavers and photographers, Judith Raum edited the first comprehensive monograph on Berger's.