Visiting a textile-art-exhibition, or why I prefer Hive over a museum

Museum, concept of the past or still an adequate way to discuss art?

1 Machiko Agano "no titel" and Sheila Hicks "Linen Letter to Malevitch"

Do you even still visit museums?

2 Marie Schumann "Softspace"

When it came to museum exhibitions, I was always rather critical. Is it because I am an arty person with skill and knowledge to judge art? Or is it because school and hours of extreme boring guided tours across empty halls furnished with a few in understandable, expensive, untouchable things, traumatized me? Showing relicts from the past, made and produced by people that where dead before I was even born.
Discussions weather the artist meant one thing with it or the other.

3 Magdalena Abakanowicz "Abakan 28"

Don’t get me wrong I am not having an opinion here, this is just how I feel and felt. About a side of art brought to me by others.

4 Anne Flaten Pixley "Post and Paper"

Luckily, in my eyes, now days we are surrounded by so many more options. Then going this rather one-sided road. We don’t have to show our art in museums to “be” artists. Or whatever we want to be. Just the internet itself is full of opportunities.

And we can go even further, decentralization. Just as hive offers one way to expose and share, and no one is there anymore to judge whether you are “worth” of being exposed or not.

5 Machiko Agano "no titel"

There are no walls or entrance to this museum anymore. There is not wrong or right.
Wouldn’t all those artists from the past have wished for such an opportunity?
Not having to struggle, because it happened to be that your “art” was going against someone else’s believes? Or because a museums director didn’t choose your work because it wasn’t his taste?

6 Olga de Amaral "Caligrafia especial"

What an opportunity, why should we leave it unexplored to que up for an exhibition?

7 Magdalena Abakanowicz

Now if you are about to think how ignorant I am to write bad about all the museums in general, I was in one just today. And there where many very impressive fiber artworks exposed!

I don’t think there is right or wrong in the old or the new ways, they are just different and have all sides that actually bring people further and sides that make us stuck. On everyone themselves to choose what inspires them or doesn’t.

I started this article, with the intention to just show some photos of what I have seen in this exhibition today…

8 Machiko Agano "no titel"

…where are we going now?
Well I seem to have triggered some thoughts in my brain. Which is what I ended up sharing with some impressions of the exhibition.

I generally am not a big fan of museums, but I also like to do things I least expect from myself. That’s why I visited one today.

9 Sheila Hicks "Linen Letter to Malevitch

The artworks didn’t really stick to my head until the evening. Not because they are bad, just because in order to get enthusiastic or inspired I need a story, a face an idea behind something. Only seeing the result isn’t speaking to me that much.
Nevertheless I have to say, that I was really impressed by some of the details and the techniques used.

10 Lissy Funk "Lebensbaum"

What I got instead is, making the connection once more for myself. Feeling amazed once more, that I do have the opportunity to expose my work on a platform as hive. Having the opportunity of the internet and be more in control of my own work and where I want to go with it. How I want to expose it. And what I want to say about it.

I do not depend on a museum anymore if I want to be an artist. This is inspiring me!

Thank you to stop by once again, I really appreciate you all!!
Have a lovely week!

(all photos are taken by me, of artworks, or extractions of them, that are not mine, see the names of the artists)