What happens when modern textile design meets traditional pottery? In our new special exhibition, Magdalena Sophie Orland presents us with an exciting series of textile experiments.

For the textile artist and textile designer, who was born and raised in Erfurt, the traditional blue Bürgel ceramics with white dots are a defining feature of her image of Thuringia. It was therefore particularly appealing for her to engage with the Bürgel pottery tradition, to be inspired by it and to interpret it in her own textile works. In her work, she always moves at the interface between traditional manufacturing techniques and new technologies in the textile sector. This includes material experiments with constructive and deconstructive techniques, hand embroidery and experimental and classic screen printing.

Starting from two different but very historic crafts, Magdalena Sophie Orland succeeds in translating them into the present using new approaches to modern textile design. The focus of the exhibition is not only the results of this unusual series of experiments, but above all the creative process itself becomes understandable. For example, how can the characteristic dots that are evenly and two-dimensionally distributed on a ceramic be transferred into a textile, three-dimensional manufacturing technique? How can the ceramic design forms be further thought out and reinterpreted using different materials? To what extent can a solid form be translated into flexible fabric? And how to create "blue and white"?

Modern textiles and traditional ceramics - two different handicrafts, but connected by their characteristic blue.

. Magdalena Sophie Orland is a freelance textile designer and textile artist. She has already received several awards for her theoretical and practical work in the field of textile design. Since completing her master's degree in Conceptual Textile Design at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle (Saale) in 2019, she has lived and worked in Leipzig.

The series of works by Magdalena Sophie Orland shown in the exhibition was created with the support of a scholarship from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation. 

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