Karin Altmann

Karin Altmann is an artist, researcher, art educator and since 2008 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design at the Angewandte, where she teaches three subjects: dyeing with natural dyes, textile printing and textile production fields. Since 2004 she has also initiated a number of interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and transcultural projects with partners from Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Japan, Ghana and Mali, as well as art projects with children, people with disabilities, refugees and women in psychological and social crisis. Her work and research are centered on the practical and theoretical exploration of textiles as a unique medium, examining their aesthetic and cultural significance as well as their potential as networking models. Through artistic and reflective practices, Altmann fosters spaces for encounters, knowledge exchange, the disruption of established knowledge structures, and the exploration of cultural diversity at various interfaces.

Karin Altmann studied at the Angewandte (Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Contextual Design) and the Wimbledon School of Art London (Theater and Costume Design). After her diploma thesis on Kyrgyz Felt Art in the context of nomadism and shamanism, she wrote her dissertation Fabric of Life - Textile Arts in Bhutan, which was published by De Gruyter in 2015.

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