Guided tour
Weaving and Basketry
Curators' Tour / Brücke-Museum and Museum Europäischer Kulturen
3.00 – 5.30pm
Lise Gujer, Peasant Couple, after 1952, based on a working template by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner for the tapestry Life, Brücke-Museum, Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung © estate Lise Gujer
With Sofia Botvinnik (Curator, Museum Europäischer Kulturen) Ximena G. Toro and Luna Weis (Assistant Curators, Brücke-Museum)
Weaving and basketry are both techniques that involve interlacing threads, but they do so in different ways. The Brücke Museum highlights the work of textile artist Lise Gujer, who designed tapestries, while the Museum of European Cultures focuses on basketry. This event combines visits to both exhibitions, comparing the textile techniques and linking the two exhibition formats.
Sofia Botvinnik (Curator, Museum of European Cultures) and Ximena G. Toro and Luna Weis (Assistant Curators, Brücke-Museum) will introduce you to both exhibitions. They will explore the similarities and differences between the techniques of tapestry and basketry - two diverse techniques based on handcrafted precision, embodied knowledge and artistic expression.
The tour begins in the Brücke Museum with the exhibition Lise Gujer. A New Way of Painting. In Dialogue with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and continues after the joint change of location with All Hands On: Braiding at the Museum of European Cultures.
Schedule and addresses:
3–3:45 pm: Brücke-Museum: Lise Gujer. A New Way of Painting
Address: Bussardsteig 9, 14195 Berlin
Going together from the Brücke Museum to the Museum Europäischer Kulturen
4:30–5:30 pm Museum Europäischer Kulturen: All Hands On: Flechten,
Address: Arnimallee 25, 14195 Berlin
Public events are free with museum admission. No advance registration is required. Meeting point: ticket counter in the foyer