An exhibition by Karin Altmann, lecturer in the Textiles
Department and project manager of the INTRA project ‘Spinning Stories – Living Archives’, together with Nana Opoku aka. AFROSCOPE.
The exhibition marks the conclusion of the INTRA project SPINNING
STORIES – LIVING ARCHIVES, Continuity and Innovation of a Vanishing Textile Heritage at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna.
On display are artistic and research-based works by Karin Altmann and Nana Opoku, who combine
traditional spinning practices in Ghana and Austria with the life stories of women, with the aim of creating a transcultural
learning community that intertwines traditional craftsmanship and knowledge with new technologies and designs sustainable
visions for the future of textile art. Archives are understood not as closed repositories, but as spaces of knowledge, as
living, constantly changing structures that unite relational, performative and collective practices and processes. Storytelling
functions as a method of knowledge production in which memories, life stories and materialities are spun together, interwoven
and shared, and remain in motion even after the project has ended.
This exhibition will open on 25 February 2026 at
the Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy in Ghana.
Contact:
Mag. art. Dr. phil. Karin Altmann – University of
Applied Arts Vienna – Department of Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design – karin.altmann@uni-ak.ac.at
