Note: Every Thursday from 14:00 to 17:00, the workshop return is supervised by Kristina Hopp. On request, she assists with braiding.
Braiding is one of the most widespread techniques of humankind. In many parts of the world, pliable materials are interlaced – grasses, palm leaves, willow rods, bast, bamboo splints or hair. From these arise baskets and mats, garments, accessories and hairstyles.
The museum's collection also contains numerous examples of different braiding techniques, materials and forms. In return, braiding becomes a collective work. Many people continue working on a shared braided structure that grows and changes over the course of the exhibition.
Individual threads are joined together; connections can be continued or newly knotted. In this way, collective braiding takes up a question that runs through the exhibition: How can something new emerge from separation and breaks?