\n\tViennese Actionist artist Ingrid Wiener<\/a> died at the age of 83, just shy of her 84th birthday, Charim Gallery announced in an Instagram post<\/a>. The gallery did not state a cause of death. <\/p>\n \n\tFor decades, Wiener shaped the Austrian art scene with her combined textile, photography, painting, and collage works, as well as through notable collaborations with the likes of Valie Export and Dieter Roth.<\/p>\n \n\tWiener\u2019s tapestries integrate objects and fragments of her everyday life, among them, cutting boards, old shopping lists, newspapers, cables, and even cucumbers. Handwritten texts are often interwoven into visual compositions, further embedding her emotions, thoughts, and personal observations directly into the fabric. She is also renowned for her dream-inspired watercolors or \u201cTraumzeichnungen,\u201d wherein she records dreams, thoughts, and narratives into strange reinterpretations of daily life. <\/p>\n \t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\tAs with other members of Viennese Actionism, active in the 1960s and \u201970s in the Austrian capital, Weiner\u2019s work sought to rebel against the country\u2019s conservative society in the decades following World War II. <\/p>\n \n\tBorn Ingrid Schuppan on October 2, 1942, she befriended Waltraud H\u00f6llinger, who later became known as Valie Export, during her training at a textile school. Here, Wiener not only learned the art of weaving but also found coconspirators and developed her own signature style.<\/p>\n \n\tAs early as the 1960s, Wiener and Export created tapestries using the designs of another friend Friedensreich Hundertwasser, which were exhibited and sold under his name. This collaboration spurred others and, by the mid-1970s, Wiener completed her first large-scale tapestry in collaboration with Export and fellow Swiss artist Dieter Roth. Together, they sought to invent a new form of tapestry by only weaving what could be seen behind the warp threads. Though the idea proved nearly impossible to fully realize, the concept of a more fluid, non-rigid weaving style became central to Wiener\u2019s practice. <\/p>\n \n\tBetween 1974 and 1997, Wiener and Roth again came together to create an additional five collaborative tapestries together. Weiner\u2019s collaborative spirit also extended beyond mediums and to others in her circle as well, including such artists as Konrad Bayer and Ferry Radax. Weiner, with Bayer, participated in Radax\u2019s surreal film Sonne halt!<\/em> in 1959.<\/p>\n \n\tShe later married Oswald Wiener, a writer and artist who was also a Viennese Actionist; he died in 2021. In 1969, the couple moved to Berlin, where Wiener opened several establishments, including the restaurant Exile to which Ingrid lended her culinary skills. Exile quickly became a well-known meeting place among the art crowd, with such guests as David Bowie and Peter O\u2019Toole.<\/p>\n \n\tLater, the couple moved to Canada, whose landscapes inspired inner and surreal images from Wiener\u2019s dreams that she captured in watercolors. Wiener not only leaves behind a richly complex body of work straddling textiles, painting, photographs, and collages, but also a career intricately connected to one of the most important chapters of Austrian art.<\/p>\n \n\tWiener\u2019s career received renewed attention in Austria at the turn of the new millennium. Charim Gallery first showed her work in its 2001 exhibition \u201cDiesseits und Jenseits des Traums: 100 Jahre Jacques Lacan\u201d (This Side of the Dream and the Other: 100 Years of Jacques Lacan). \u201cWhile searching for artistic positions for the exhibition, August Ruhs introduced us to Ingrid\u2019s dream drawings, and we were immediately captivated by them,\u201d the gallery wrote in its Instagram post. <\/p>\n \n\tSoon after, Charim Gallery began formally representing her work, mounting several solo- and two-person shows featuring her art. It is currently planning a major exhibition of Wiener\u2019s work and her historical collaboration with Export for early next year.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the passing of Ingrid Wiener,\u201d Miryam Charim, owner of Charim Gallery, said in a statement. \u201cOver the years, our artistic collaboration with Ingrid developed into a close personal friendship. Ingrid was far more to us than an artist represented by the gallery. It is painful to lose Ingrid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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