Bosna quilt workshop

The Bosna Quilt Workshop (internationally also Bosna Quilt Workshop ) is an Austrian - Bosnian textile art project that was created in a refugee home and gives work to Bosnian women.

Organization and history

Bosna quilts are abstract textile works of art . The workshop, in which twelve Bosnian women are involved, goes back to the initiative of the Austrian painter Lucia Feinig-Giesinger and is managed by her.

The first Bosna quilts were made during the Bosnian War in 1993 in the Caritas refugee home Galina in Vorarlberg . More than 190 exhibitions have now taken place and the ceilings are in public buildings and private homes across Europe.

The painter Lucia Feinig-Giesinger composes them; the steppe is left to twelve women in Goražde on the Drina, one of the cities in Bosnia that to this day suffers most from the consequences of the war. Each of the women designs the unique pieces ručno (by hand) in their own handwriting and thus contributes to the livelihood of their family.

Exhibitions

• 2000 Bosna quilts , Hittisau Women's Museum , Hittisau
• 2000 Sewn Time - The Bosna Quilt Workshop , Badisches Landesmuseum , Karlsruhe
• 2001 Sewn Time - The Bosna Quilt Workshop , German Textile Museum , Krefeld; State Museum for Prehistory Dresden , " Japanese Palace "
• 2002 The Bosna Quilt Workshop , Zons District Museum
• 2002 Sewn Time - The Bosna Quilt Workshop , Lower Rhine Museum for Folklore and Cultural History , Kevelaer
• 2011 Bosna Quilts , Cardinal König Haus , Vienna

literature

• Lucia Feinig-Giesinger (quilts), Nikolaus Walter (photography), Willibald Feinig (text) Sewn Time / Sasiveno vrijeme / Time Sewn Up - The Bosna Quilt Workshop. Otto Müller, Salzburg, 3rd edition, 2007 (with translation into Bosnian and English) ISBN 978-3-7013-1139-2 .
• Katharina Thomas: Textile Forum. German Textile Museum Krefeld; Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 2001. ISBN 978-3-89790157-5 , p. 45 ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bosnian National Gallery, Sarajevo ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
2. ↑ Kevelaer according to the exhibition guide : Sewn time: the Bosna quilting workshop. Niederrheinisches Museum für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte eV Kevelaer, July 14th to September 15th, 2002.
3. ↑ Alexandra Palace, London .

Web links

• bosnaquilt.at