Ingrid Wiener
Norden
2010 - 2012
Medium
Gobelin tapestries, original leather shirt of Lincoln Ellsworth, including pre- and anciallary work
Museum
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Acquisition
Acquisition
Year Of Acquisition
2021
Inventory Number
LG 2084/ 1-4
The Austrian artist Ingrid Wiener (*1942) began her tapestry-weaving in the 1960s, often making works in collaboration with others. In the course of her artistic exchange with Swiss artist Dieter Roth, she created several works until Roth’s death in 1998. The artist, who was initially based in Vienna and Berlin, lived with her husband, the poet Oswald Wiener, in Dawson City on the Yukon River in Canada’s Northwest from the mid-1980s until the 2010s. The twelve-part tapestry Norden refers to this remote location. The work is part of an installation that includes photos, sketches, and preparatory studies for the textile work, as well as the exchange with a Swiss friend who gave Wiener the original leather shirt of polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, which was also integrated into the installation.