KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Künstler*innen

Kristina Müntzing

Sweden

Palimpcity, Cut and woven photocollages, 140 x 130 cm, 2013

The works of Kristina Müntzing uses arts and crafts techniques to create a visual language of radical political movements. Images from various eras and geographies are spliced and woven together, forming both image and pattern, map and archive. Müntzing’s current work investigates the history of textile industries and the emergence of early socialist movements. Drawing on the practice of mee-mawing, a secret language used by textile workers that combines mime and sign language, Müntzing is developing a choreography for radical weavers, in which working bodies speak through movement and entanglement. As part of her practice, Müntzing is also a founding member of the Sunshine Socialist Cinema, a solar-powered outdoor cinema which screens art videos to provoke debate on the coming together of leftism and environmentalism.

STAY
15.10.2015 – 15.04.2016