Veronika Moos Brochhagen

Veronika Moos-Brochhagen (born April 3, 1961) is a German textile artist. She was born in Bensberg, Germany and lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Audinghen, France. Moos-Brochhagen studied art at the Academy of Art in Mainz, Germany (class Prof. E. Knoche-Wendel), philosophy and German, also at the University of Mainz, Germany. In 2007, she did her dissertation/PhD ("Transparenz der Verhüllung - die Unschärfe der Wahrheit. Eine Studie zur Sinnlichkeit von textilem Material in der Kunst am Beispiel alter und neuer Hungertücher“) at the University of Cologne, Germany. Moos-Brochhagen works with or without textile materials. Often she uses a special kind of Shibori-technique. In each case her works are "textile" (The word textile is from Latin texere which means "to weave", "to braid", "to construct" or "to connect").

Contents

• Solo exhibitions selection
• Participations selection
• Art projects and collaborations
• Publications selection
• References

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1990 Gallery Smend, Cologne, Germany

1997 Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany

2003 Gallery Stracke, Cologne, Germany

2003 Gallery Unik:te, Pesch, Germany

2004 Liverpool Biennale Liverpool, England

2005 St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne, Germany

2005 Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England

2007 Gallery Contrast, Tilburg, Netherlands

2009 Textilmuseum “Die Scheune”, Nettetal, Germany

2009 ”Fadensonnen” - Textile Zeichnungen und Objekte, Haslach, Austria

2014 ”Au Bord De La Mer”, Côte de Lumiére, Salle Marcel Baudoin, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, France

Participations (selection)

2000 "Made in Koeln", Gallery The View I, Liverpool, England

2001 "Tu was Du willst", Museum Baden, Solingen, Schloss Hardenberg-Museum, Velbert, Germany

2002 "Tactile Dimensions", London, Dublin, Harrogate, Great Britain, Ireland

2002 "made in Cologne – found in Liverpool", Gallery The View II, Liverpool, England

2002 "made in Cologne – found in Liverpool", Historical City Hall, Cologne, Germany

2002 "Frau vor Ort". Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany

2002 Gallery Smend, Cologne, Germany

2003 "Iceland´s Connections", Reykjavìk, Korpúlfsstaðuir u. Hofn Hornafjordur, Iceland

2004 "Garantiert gebrauchsfrei", Niederrheinisches Museum, Kevelaer, Germany

2004 "About accidental lines and redness spots", Hope Gallery, Liverpool, England

2005 "Stille", Kloster Knechtsteden, Knechtsteden, Germany

2005 "FormART 2005" Klaus Oschmann Preis, Stuttgart, Germany

2005 "Textile Catalysts: Shibori shaping the 21st century" Tama Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2006 "A… wie Altenberg", Kreishaus, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

2007 "100 Jahre Herding: Kunst – Visionen - Geschichte", Westfälisches Industriemuseum – Textilmuseum, Bocholt, Germany

2008 "Fadenspiel und Sticheleien", Museum der Stadt, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

2008 "Papier und Textil", Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany

2008 "Shibori, teintures à réserves", Galerie: La Soie Disante, Paris, France

2008 "Shibori, hier et ajourd´hui (Shibori, yesterday and today)", Mairie du 5 Arrondissement (City Hall), Paris, France

2009 “Textil als Material & Metapher, 6 Positionen”, International Exhibition (Curator, Conception), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

2009 ”GEDOK FormART 2009, Klaus Oschmann Preis”; Hannover, Germany

2009/2010 “Le tissu dans tous ses sens", 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009/2nde biennale de créations textiles contemporaines, Musée des Tissus de Lyon, France

2010 "Skulpturale Arbeiten in Textil und Metall", Museum Edenkoben, Edenkoben, Germany

2011 "GesichtZeigen", Special Exhibition of "GEDOK" Cologne, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Cologne, Germany

2012 "Two of us", Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany

Art projects and collaborations

"Belonging and Beyond", Collaboration with Lin Holland, Liverpool, England

Art project "TX 5", Cologne

Artproject "Made in Koeln", Cologne

Artproject "eight-days-a-week", Cologne/Liverpool

Publications (selection)

GEDOK KÖLN e. V., Hannelore Fischer (Hrg.): „GesichtZeigen“ - Positionen zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen zum Portrait, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Cologne, Germany 2011

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: Das 7. Internationale Shibori-Symposium in Frankreich/ 7th International Shibori Symposium in France, Textilforum 1/2009, S. 14 -15

Knoche-Wendel, Elfriede: „Papier/Textil 1987 – 2008“. Dokumentation der Examens- und Diplomarbeiten der letzten 21 Jahre, Klasse Knoche-Wendel. Mainz, Germany, 2008

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika (2008). Die Unschärfe der Wahrheit. Transparenz der Verhüllung. Eine Studie zur Sinnlichkeit von textilem Material in der Kunst am Beispiel alter und neuer Hungertücher. PhD thesis, University of Cologne, Germany

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: Das 6. Internationale Shibori-Symposium in Tokio/ 6th International Shibori Symposium, Tokyo. Textilforum 3/2005, S. 32-33”

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika, Holland, Lin: „Collaboration“, Liverpool Hope University, ISBN 1-898749-20-5, Cologne, Germany/ Liverpool, England 2003

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “4. Internationales Shibori-Symposium in Europa/4th International Shibori Symposium in Europe”, Textilforum 1/2003 March, S. 8/9

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “Konzepte Textiler Kunst“, Textil & Unterricht 4/2003, Kallmeyerische Verlagsbuchhandlung, S. 14-17

Pohl, Walfried, Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika,"Textile Materialkunst von Veronika Moos-Brochhagen", in: Textilkunst, Bd. 27 (1999), S. 176 - 179 : Ill.

Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “Textilkunst: Ein- und Aussichten” in 25 Jahre Galerie Smend, 25 Jahre Textile Kunst. Verlag der Galerie Smend, Cologne, Germany 1998, S. 130-31