The colloquium
Tracing Wiener Werkstätte Textiles is organized by the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center with the Institute
of Art History and Museology of the University of Neuch tel, Switzerland, and the Collection and Archive at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
The international three-day colloquium Tracing Wiener
Werkstätte Textiles encourages research, facilitates critical discussion and supports the next generation of scholars
and artists. Established specialists, emerging professionals and students share their recent research and discoveries on Wiener
Werkstätte textiles from the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection, Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts
Vienna and related collections in Austria and Switzerland.
The Wiener
Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshop (1903–1932), brought together artists and designers dedicated to the artistic production of
utilitarian items in various media, including metalwork, ceramics and textiles. The workshop was a key participant in the
development of modernism, especially with its textile and fashion divisions and the establishment of branches in Berlin, New
York and Zurich.
Tracing Wiener Werkstätte Textiles brings together different disciplines,
including art and fashion history, gender and museum studies, as well as archival and social sciences.
Organizers
Régine
Bonnefoit, Ph.D., professor of art history and museology, Institute of Art History and Museology, University of Neuchâtel
Marie–Eve
Celio–Scheurer, Ph.D., academic head, Cotsen TextileTraces Study Center at The George Washington University Museum
and The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
Stefanie Kitzberger, senior scientist
and head of the collection of fashion and textiles, Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Speakers
and Moderators
Régine Bonnefoit, Kara Braciale, Megan Brandow-Faller, Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer, Caitlin
Condell, Verena Dengler, Elliot Gilligan, Sharon Gertsel, Ursula Graf, Cecilia Gunzberger, Rebecca Houze, Michelle Jackson-Beckett,
Markus Kristan, Monika Mähr, Wolfgang Ruf, Johannes Schweiger, Janis Staggs, Lara Steinhäusser, Angela Völker, Eva Klimpel,
and many more
