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PRESS RELEASE:
ARTAPESTRY2 touring exhibition to open in Aalborg/Dk in November
ETF’s second Continental show features 44 tapestries
European Tapestry Forum is pleased to announce the opening of its second international juried tapestry exhibition, ARTAPESTRY2, featuring 44 contemporary tapestries, this November.
33 tapestry artists from 14 countries are taking part in this travelling exhibition, which opens
at Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg, Denmark on 7 November and continues on to other European venues.
A panel of five tapestry artists and experts met in Copenhagen in February to make the selections from a total of 186 submissions by 88 artists from across Europe. The jury was impressed by the standard and the diversity of visual content in evidence in the works, according to juror Fiona Mathison. “In our selection we wanted to demonstrate and to encourage that variety, the passion, the humour, even the craziness, and always the integrity of that combination of concept and craftsmanship that makes wonderful art in the medium of tapestry,” she added.
The jury consisted of art historian Edit András (Hungary); tapestry artists Wlodzimierz Cygan (Poland), Annika Ekdahl (Sweden) and Fiona Mathison (UK/Scotland); and Les Gobelins administrator Bernard Schotter (France).
“I think we all enjoyed and were enriched by our experience of selecting the work,” Mathison said, though the selection process was not easy. ” I think we were quite a dedicated bunch and worked hard to get it right.” Some of the top tapestry weavers from across Europe again entered their work. While the number of submissions was lower, the level of work submitted and chosen was world-class.
European Tapestry Forum which organises ARTAPESTRY2 is artist-led. Founded by tapestry weavers after a tapestry seminar in Denmark in 2000, ETF is run by a Steering Committee of tapestry artists from several European countries.
ETF defines tapestry as warp-faced works woven with discontinuous wefts. This constitutes a fairly strict focus on traditional tapestry, but leaves room open for experiments with materials. The wide range of styles and materials seen in both the submissions and the final selections highlights the variety of exciting work being made today in this medieval medium, both the jurors and the steering committee agreed.
The list of participants follows on a separate page.
ARTAPESTRY2 travels on to the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art in Bergen (1 Feb-13 April 2008) and the Musée Jean Lurcat et de la tapisserie contemporaine (15 Dec 2009 – 15 May 2010) before closing at its final venue at the Konsthallen in Lulea, Sweden (28 Aug – 26 Sept 2010).
For further info contact Anet Brusgaard at ETF in Copenhagen (
mail@tapestry.dk ); Fiona Hutchison in Edinburgh (
smallhutch@gateway.co.uk
); or Thomas Cronenberg in Hamburg thomascro@hotmail.com.
Hamburg/Copenhagen, July 2008
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Project «European Contemporary Tapestry and Textile Art »
The project “European Contemporary Tapestry and Textile Art-ECTTA”, selected in the framework
of the CULTURE programme of the EU, is dedicated to the promotion of European contemporary tapestry
from every angle. The project proposes a discovery of the art of the tapestry through several contemporary
periods, of its rebirth in the Forties with Jean Lurçat, until the current processes. The project aims at
making visible and accessible to the greatest number, the various facets of contemporary creation, around
a federative project involving cooperation and exchanges among artists, educational institutions and museums.
The aim is to continue the process of renewal and visibility of art tapestry and textile art on a European
scale, in order to develop this mean of contemporary expression, and to give the means to the artists, to
continue the transmission of a technique and an art, part of the European cultural heritage.
This emerging European cooperation brings together the following partners: the Académie des Beaux-Arts
(France), as project leader, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Latvia), the Central Museum
of Textiles in Lodz (Poland), the Municipality of Angers (Jean Lurçat Museum), the Kaunas Art Institute
(Lithuania), the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium), but also the Museum of Tapestry in Aubusson,
the Domaine de la Lice (Belgium), the Association of hungarian Tapestry Artists-MKE (Hungary), and Dovecot
Studios (UK). It is also supported by the french diplomatic posts in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania and by the
Simone et Cino del Duca Foundation. The project includes three strands of activities: a European touring
exhibition of Jean Lurçat works and a multilingual catalogue, artistic residencies for European weavers,
and a European conference on contemporary tapestry.
The European touring exhibition of Jean Lurçats’ works will be presented successively at the Museum of
Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (July-September 2008), the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz
(September-November 2008), and the Jean Lurçat Museum in Angers (from November 2008 to May 2009).
The artists’ residencies (March-December 2008) in Chars, Brussels and Kaunas aim to encourage young
artists and creation, through a European mobility grant, followed by a presentation of their works
and a catalogue.
The international conference, will take place in Paris in December 2008, over two days in order to
establish an inventory of European Contemporary Tapestry.
Download in French and English "Artists´
Residencies Programme" 
(PDF-file)
Projet « Tapisserie Contemporaine et Art Textile en Europe »
Le projet Tapisserie Contemporaine et Art Textile en Europe, sélectionné dans le cadre du programme européen
CULTURE, a pour vocation de promouvoir la tapisserie contemporaine européenne sous tous ses aspects. Il propose
une découverte de l’art de la tapisserie à travers plusieurs périodes contemporaines, de sa renaissance dans les
années 1940 avec Jean Lurçat, jusqu’aux démarches actuelles. Ce projet souhaite rendre les différentes facettes
de la création contemporaine visibles et accessibles au plus grand nombre, autour d’un projet fédérateur impliquant
la coopération et les échanges entre artistes, établissements d’enseignement et institutions muséales. Le but est
de poursuivre le processus de renouveau et de visibilité de la tapisserie et de l’art textile à l’échelle européenne
afin de permettre à cette forme d’expression contemporaine de se développer ; ceci afin de donner les moyens aux
artistes de continuer la transmission d’une technique et d’un art qui font partie du patrimoine culturel européen.
Cette coopération européenne émergente rassemble, outre l’Académie des Beaux-Arts (France), chef de file du projet,
les partenaires suivants : le Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design de Riga (Lettonie), le Musée Central du Textile
de Lodz (Pologne), la Ville d’Angers (Musée Jean Lurçat), l’Institut d’Arts de Kaunas (Lituanie), l’Académie Royale
des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (Belgique), mais également le Musée Départemental de la Tapisserie à Aubusson, le Domaine
de la Lice (Belgique), l’Association des Artistes Tapissiers MKE (Hongrie), et Dovecot Studios (Royaume-Uni).
Il est également soutenu par les postes diplomatiques français en Pologne, en Lettonie et en Lituanie et par la
Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca.
Le projet comprend trois axes : une exposition itinérante des œuvres de Jean Lurçat et un catalogue multilingue ;
des résidences d’artistes liciers européens ; une conférence européenne sur la tapisserie contemporaine.
L’exposition itinérante européenne des œuvres de Jean Lurçat sera présentée successivement, au Musée des Arts
Décoratifs et du Design de Riga (de juillet à septembre 2008), au Musée central du Textile de Lodz (de septembre
à novembre 2008), et au Musée Jean Lurçat (de novembre 2008 à mai 2009).
Les résidences d’artistes (de mars à décembre 2008) à Chars, Bruxelles et Kaunas visent à encourager les jeunes
artistes et la création contemporaine, par le biais d’une bourse de mobilité européenne, suivies d’une présentation
de leurs œuvres et de l’élaboration d’un catalogue.
La conférence internationale, se déroulera à Paris en décembre 2008, sur deux jours, afin de dresser un état des
lieux de la tapisserie contemporaine en Europe.
12.12.2007
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