Do Stuff! Textile Creations in New Dimensions

Textiles shape our everyday lives: they clothe, protect, decorate and conceal. They can also bear images and communicate through the interweaving of legible signs and visual narratives.

“Do Stuff!” presents current works by the renowned Swiss textile creators Stéphanie Baechler, Christoph Hefti and Sonnhild Kestler, all three of whom previously focused on textile design for fashion fabrics. In recent years, however, their individual paths have led them away from fashion and into wider spaces as they explore larger formats and other dimensions of textiles.

The exhibition delves into the world of large-format textile pictures that move between functionality, art and spatial experience. These printed, woven, knotted and embroidered works illustrate the different working methods of the three textile creators, demonstrating their technical sophistication as they seek to create expressive imagery through the effective use of materials. In this impressive show, the three artists explore textiles in new dimensions and tell stories, each using their own characteristic visual language.