Claudia Merx

Claudia Merx (* 1957 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German textile designer .

education

Merx studied textile design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences from 1977 and graduated in 1983 with a degree in engineering . During this time in 1982 a stay abroad in Kyoto and Tokyo to study traditional Japanese textiles fell.

Merx has been working as a freelance textile designer since 1983, primarily in the field of felt and textile collages. In 1997 she moved into her own studio in Aachen - Brand , which she moved to Stolberg two years later, only to return to Aachen in 2006. In 2010 Merx made a Lenten veil for the Roman Catholic parish church of St. Augustin in Coburg , in 2012 she won the Ars liturgica competition supported by the Holy Cross Foundation and created a lent veil for the Holy Cross Church in Gladbeck , which since then, Gerd Brüx's crucifixion group has been veiled during the 40-day fasting period .

1998: Prize of the International Textile Art Exhibition Dialog 98 in Chișinău

2003: State Prize for Crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia

2004: Guaranteed free of use - textile installations and objects , Niederrheinisches Museum für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschgeschichte , Kevelaer .
2004: Thee, made of the hair of sheep , felt art exhibition with artists from 22 countries, National Gallery Budapest .
2005: red! , Craft form Hanover .
2005: Silence , Knechtsteden Monastery , Dormagen .
2005: Fadenscheinig - Positions of Modern Textile Art , German Textile Museum , Krefeld .
2006: Annual exhibition of GEDOK Cologne, Textile Museum Aachen in the Komericher Mühle , Aachen-Brand.
2007: Temporary work , Galerie Haus Vier, Nürtingen .
2007: Retropsektiv manu factum 1963 - 2005 , District Museum Zons , Dormagen.
2007: 100 years of Herding - art.visions. History. , LWL-Industriemuseum Bocholt .
2007: dialog felt. objects and installations , Städtisches Museum Engen .
2008: procedere - project + documentation , Aachen art route.
2008: Art al vent V - Art in the Wind , Gata de Gordes (Spain), Aachen, Toulouse , Mexico a . a.
2009: Coming and Going , InMemoriam Funeral Home, Aachen
2009: INDIJA MADE BY , room installation in the Franz Pfanner Huis , Arcen .
2009: lived life - TÜCHER, a sacred installation , City Church , Mönchengladbach.
2010: Wrapping , Deanery Center St. Augustin, Coburg.
2010: lived life - TÜCHER, a sacred installation , Propsteikirche St. Adalbert , Aachen.
2013/14: Fastentuch modern , German Textile Museum, Krefeld

Filz / Felt.Kunst, Kunsthandwerk und Design , Quadratischer Katalog in Filzhülle, Arnold'sche Art Publishers, 2000.
Imaginations in wool , in: Kunsthandwerk & Design, 2002/6.
Connection of material and spirit , in: Textilkunst international. Information for creative design , 2004/2.
Only the others die , art project by Claudia Merx and Hildegard Zieger, documentation. Text: Silke Alexandra Bosetti, editing and text: Ingrid Leifgen, Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943748-12-3 .

Georg Minkenberg : The Secret of Wrapping - A Studio Visit to Claudia Merx , in: Art and Church, Textile Issue, Springer-Verlag, Vienna New York, 2010/04.
Ricarda Aßmann, Hans König: Filzfrauen , MaroVerlag Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-87512-756-0 .