Exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Ins Blau gehen – Artperformance / Musik feat. Textilkunst, Gilli Mühle, Eggenburg, Austria
Sturm und Drang – Textile ART AWARD 2024 of the Austrian Artist Union, Galerie am Park, Vienna, Austria
2023
„Verkündigung Mariens“ Textile Art Installation in the catholic church of the town Eggenburg in Lower Austria, Austria
ТекСтильный букет / Textilbouquet, V. internationale Festival für dekorative und angewandte Kunst, Minsk, Belarus
Zwischen:Räume, Art in open space, Eggenburg, Austria
2022
Kunst in der Natur, national contemporary art exhibition, Wachtberg, Austria
Working Our Way Home, Ongoing Conversation Chapter III, international contemporary textile art exhibition, Roswell Georgia USA
ТекСтильный букет / Textilbouquet, IV. internationale Festival für dekorative und angewandte Kunst, Minsk, Belarus
2021
Here, There and Everywhere, international contemporary textile art exhibition, Minsk Belarus
Junge Kunst in alten Räumen; contemporary art in lost spaces, art exhibition, Eggenburg, Austria
Drawn together, international textile art exhibiton, Minsk Belarus
Woori, Exhibition of weaving traditon, presentation of the Wa Loom, Nubuke foundation in Wa, Ghana
2019
PaperLAB, Papermakers Museum Alfa, Steyrermühl, Austria
2017
machArt, art exhibition with Christina Dörfler-Raab, Eggenburg, Austria
2016
Walzgespräche Holz, art exhibition and talks, Eggenburg, Austria
2015
roter faden – textileforce, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
2009
Premio Valcellina, Tapestry: Who´s the bad, exhibition in Valcellina, Italy
2005
Premio Valcellina, Tapestry: Im Schweiße deines Angesichts, sollst du dein Brot essen exhibition in Valcellina, Italy
Projects (Selection)
2023
Curator and Organizer with Christine Dörfler of the Artfestival Zwischen:Räume in cooperation with the Cultural Department of Lower Austria
Since 2021
Collaboration with the artis Aboubakar Fofana in Bamako
(Mali) and to support the buildup of an Art and Research
Centre for Textile Culture in the Central Region of Mali
Since 2018
Archive of Natural Dyes, including a local analogue
archive, a digital archive, a website and didactic
material for the new Nubuke Centre for Textiles and Clay
in Wa (Ghana)
Since 2016
Collaboration with NUBUKE Foundation in Accra (Ghana) and
the artist Kofi Setordji to support the buildup of an Art
and Research Centre for Textile Culture in the Northern
Region of Ghana
Since 2016
Handweaving and Natural Dyeing, artistic research project
and education for the new Nubuke Centre for Textiles and
Clay in Wa (Ghana)
2016 – 2022
Manufactura Eggenburg, Co-Founder of the Non-Profit Organisation supporting local craft workshops, Lower Austria
Employments
Since 2017
Senior Lecturer of Weaving and Art- Didactics,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental
Artistic Design
2017 – 2022
Senior Lecturer of Art- Didactics and Education,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental
Artistic Design
2014 – 2017
Lecturer of weaving, University of Applied Arts
Vienna, Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design
Since 2015
Teacher of Handweaving, Art School
KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse Vienna
2014 – 2015
interim Head of Department Artistic Design, Art
School KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse Vienna
2009 – 2013
Teacher of Handweaving, Printing and Dyeing, Art
School KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse Vienna
2008 – 2012
Artistic co-worker in FWF research project:
Färbetechniken der prähistorischen Hallstatt
Textilien: Analyse, Experimente und Inspiration
Awards
2024
1st Price Textile Art Award of the Austrian Artist Union
2009
Promotion Price of Lower Austria
Honorable Mention – Premio Valcellina Award/ Italy
Membership
The European Textile Network (ETN)
https://etn-net.org/aims-statutes.html
COST Action EuroWeb – Europe Through Textile
https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19131/#tabs|Name:overview
Committee member of the Krahuletzmuseum Lower Austria Eggenburg
https://www.krahuletzmuseum.at/
Publications
Wandl,M. (2023). The Wa_Loom, Loom design resonating with changing needs, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Wien
Kohl, L., Palmisano, C., Grömer, K., Wandl, M. (2020). Experimentelle
Archäologie meets Modern Art, Textildruck und Keramik als
künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem La Tène-Stil. In:
EXPERIMENTELLE ARCHÄOLOGIE IN EUROPA, Jahrbuch 2020, European
Association for the advancement of archaeology by experiment
e.V., Unteruhldingen- Mühlhofen. Pp. 212-223.
Wandl, M. (2015). Weltenweberinnen und Schicksalsfäden. In: Grömer, K.,
Mückler, H., Kritscher, H. (eds.) (2015), Mitteilung der
Antropologischen Gesellschaft, Band 145, Generalthema Symbole und
Rituale, Wien. pp. 259-272.
Wandl, M. (2014). Mit Kette und Schuss – Arbeitsprozesse beim Weben,
in: Grömer, K., Mückler, H., Kritscher, H. (eds.) (2014),
Mitteilung der Antropologischen Gesellschaft, Band 144
Hofmann de Keijzer, R., Van Bommel, M.R., Hartl, A., Grömer, K., Rösel
Mautendorfer, H., Reschreiter, H., Kania, K., Joosten, I., Proaño
Gaibor, A. N., Erlach, E., Lachner, E., Wandl, M., De Keijzer, M.,
(2013). Coloured Hallstatt Textiles (2011). 3500 Year old Textile
and Dyeing Techniques and their Contemporary Application. In:
NESAT XI, The North European Symposium for Archaeological
Textiles XI, 10-13 May 2011, Esslingen am Neckar: Germany. Verlag
Marie Leidorf GmbH. pp. 125-130.
Wandl, M. (2012). Pionierarbeit in Werkstätten. In: Hallstattfarben.
Textile Verbindungen zwischen Forschung und Kunst, catalogue
Hallstattfarben, NHM Vienna.
Wandl, M. (2009). Eine Flasche Korn für ein paar Jeans – die Aneignung
eines populären Kleidungsstücks, Vienna: Austria: Universität für
angewandte Kunst.
Education
2003 – 2009
Teacher training of Art Education / University of Applied Arts Vienna
2009
Diploma at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Diploma thesis: Eine Flasche Korn für ein paar Jeans die Aneignung eines populären
Kleidungsstücks
2000 – 2002
College of Textile Design HTL Spengergasse Vienna
2002
Diploma of Textile Design
1999 – 2000
Art History / University of Vienna
contact
email privat -> m.wandl@gmx.net
email school -> manuel.wandl@bildung.gv.at
email university -> manuel.wandl@uni-ak.ac.at
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