Current projects
“Ans Licht” (“Brought to Light”), 2017-2021
Since 2017, the German Textile Museum Krefeld has received funding from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Krefeld. Thanks to the generous support, four areas of the collection are being examined by proven external textile researchers and each made available to the public in an exhibition and a publication.
The aim is to find out more about your own collection, to get to know its cultural and historical value and to place it in an international comparison.
Project 1:
The costume collection
by the painter and graphic artist Paul Prött, examined by Dr. Uta-Christiane Bergemann. See also
List of publications.
-> completed
Project 2:
East Asian textiles
, examined by Walter Bruno Brix. See also
List of publications
.
-> completed
Project 3:
Pre-Columbian textiles
, examined by Katalin Nagy.
-> completed
Project 4:
Early Islamic textiles
, examined by Giesela Helmecke.
The conclusion of this research series is project 5, in which an online selection catalog for one's own collection is compiled. -> ongoing processing
Parvenue - Civil advancement as reflected in the object culture of the 18th century, 2018-2023
Research association of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the Hochschule Fresenius Berlin, the German Textile Museum Krefeld, the Museum Burg Linn and the Hetjens - German Ceramic Museum Düsseldorf, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Objects and their identity-creating and self-assuring attribution of meaning - the language of these objects - play a prominent role as instruments of vertical social mobility that have so far been neglected. The association between the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Hochschule Fresenius Berlin and the museums Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld, Museum Burg Linn and Hetjens - Deutsches Keramikmuseum researches questions of collection history from an art and social science perspective with a focus on the artistic commitment of "Parvenüs" at Lower Rhine, in Hamburg and in Copenhagen in the 18th century. The aim of the joint project is the genesis of an interpretation scheme that can show social processes from other epochs on the basis of a specific use and handling of objects.
This use and the value of the objects are changed considerably by mechanisms of taste formation in rising societies.
The research will lead to several exhibitions in Krefeld and Düsseldorf in 2023. The exhibition of the German Textile Museum is also a contribution to the city anniversary.
FABRIC - Fabric of my Life, 2018-2021
The cooperation project with the Center for Textile Research (CTR) of the University of Copenhagen and Artex Athens is dedicated to the highly topical issue of the integration of migrants into our societies. The main focus is on communication using clothing and textiles as an example. Numerous projects deal with migrant groups and document their traditions and their stories and ensure a better understanding of dress codes.
The German Textile Museum works closely with the Akademie Mode und Design (AMD), the KI Krefeld and others.
https://ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-programmes-and-projects/the-fabric-of-my-life/
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