Dress Poetics

Dress Poetics brings together local and international artists and designers to explore the dress as a powerful artistic and poetic form. Through textiles, sculpture, installation, and design, the exhibition considers the dress as more than something we wear; a vessel for stories of identity, memory, labor, care, and transformation. Working across diverse materials and approaches, participating artists reimagine the dress as a site where craft, the body, and imagination intersect.

Dress Poetics is a group exhibition featuring local and international artists and designers who explore the dress as a powerful artistic and poetic form. Expanding upon Munich-based artist Hannah Maria Schmutterer's interdisciplinary project, the exhibition considers the dress as more than something we wear–it is a vessel for stories of identity, memory, labor, care, and transformation.

Working across textiles, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, and design, participating artists reimagine the dress as both object and metaphor. Some engage traditional textile techniques,…