Ingrid Wiener
Marta Herford Museum, Germany
11 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
Marta Herford is a contemporary art museum founded in 2005. Located in a city that was a center for textile and furniture production into the early 20th century, the museum places a special focus on the relation between art and design.
The survey exhibition Einfach machen und tun looks back at the complex oeuvre of Ingrid Wiener (born 1942). Thus far, Wiener has created a good forty tapestries by time-intensive handiwork. In this medium she works with motifs from her living environment and explores possibilities of pictorial invention. One of Wiener’s central focuses is on the interplay of perception, which she addresses in drawings with watercolour that record dreams and memories. Work and life are inseparably connected in Wiener’s oeuvre. The exhibition also presents her work based on collaborative processes and artistic networks. In the circle on the post-war avant-garde in Vienna, the artist participated in the actions of the Vienna Group, gave vocal performances in Vienna under the name “Monsti”, developed documentary films with VALIE EXPORT and her partner Oswald Wiener and engaged in intense artistic dialogues with Dieter Roth and many others. Cooking is another important part of her life practice, not only in legendary Berlin restaurants such as EXIL or later in her adoptive country Canada but also celebrated in performances and the motifs in her works.
Wiener had solo and group exhibitions at Weiss Falk, Basel; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Museum Hartberg; Barbara Wien, Berlin; Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin; Jagla-Ausstellungsraum, Köln; Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz; Wien Lukatsch, Berlin; Sammlung Haubrok and Paris Bar, Berlin; Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag; Charim Galerie, Wien and the Neue Galerie Graz (2006), among others.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
