Ingrid Wiener Boeken

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted oeuvre of Ingrid Wiener, who rediscovered tapestry weaving as a contemporary medium. Her Gobelins tapestries--which started out as collaborations with VALIE EXPORT for Friedensreich Hundertwasser and were later realized in long-term cooperation with Dieter Roth--addressed her everyday surrounding, encompassing everything that came into her view. At the same time, she thematized her weaving as a nomadic, mobile, and intellectual practice. The book also focuses its attention on the artist's dream watercolors--and her work as a singer, cook, and filmmaker. Ingrid Wiener studied Textile Design, participated in performances with the Wiener Gruppe, acted in the film Sun stop! (Ferry Radax, Konrad Bayer), and realized cooking concerts and performances. With her husband, Oswald Wiener, she managed several eateries in West Berlin, including the EXIL, before moving to Canada. Today, Ingrid Wiener lives and works in south-eastern Styria, Austria.

Between 1974 and 1998, the legendarily prolific, contrarian and super-experimental printmaker and mixed-media artist Dieter Roth worked with Austrian artist Ingrid Wiener (and initially also Valie Export) to produce five woven wall tapestries-presented here together for the first time, alongside 25 years worth of drawings, photographs, letters and "flat trash" like receipts and packing material. The tapestries can be interpreted in many ways. Whether seen through the lens of concept and implementation or idea and interpretation, they portray private lives and everyday objects while also making communication concrete. They supply narratives "woven" in time. They are witnesses to an artistic process. And, of course, they are symbols of an especially powerful joint creativity.