As a student at the radical Bauhaus art school, Anni Albers, like other women, was discouraged from becoming a painter. Instead she enrolled in the weaving workshop and made textiles her means of expression. Albers (1899–1994) rose to become an influential figure, exploring the technical limits of hand-weaving to pioneer innovative uses of woven fabric as art, architecture and design. Tate Modern’s full-scale retrospective explores this influential but rarely seen trailblazer for a new interdisciplinary art form. It brings together the most important examples of her work, from beautiful small-scale creations to wall hangings, as well as exploring the textiles she designed for mass-production and her use of new technologies and synthetic fibres.
Organised by Tate Modern and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Anni Albers Epitaph 1968 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation © Estate of Anni Albers; ARS, NY & DACS, London 2018
Anni Albers Card Weaving at Black Mountain College Black Mountain College Photograph Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, N.C.