Without registration. Free entry.
7 February – 24 May 2026
Press conference: Thursday, 5 February 2026, 11 am
Opening: Friday, 6 February 2026, 7 pm
With the exhibition Wool. Silk. Resistance., the Museum Angewandte Kunst is dedicating itself exclusively to rugs, carpets, and tapestries for the first time in 45 years. This comes at a time when interest in handmade textiles of all kinds is experiencing a resurgence, reflected in a striking number of international exhibitions.
Rather than approaching rugs, carpets, and tapestries from a stylistic or art-historical perspective, the exhibition presents them within a trajectory that exists outside established Western approaches to textile studies. The title introduces a series of questions: Can resistance be articulated through textile materials? And if so, in what ways do rugs, carpets, and tapestries express an “aesthetics of textile resistance”? The exhibition centers on the perspectives of international artists working in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, who engage with different dimensions of resistance through rugs, carpets, and tapestries understood as open and evolving art forms.
Producing art within sociopolitical contexts entails positioning oneself in relation to specific social realities. This also requires a clear stance toward the concept of resistance – a relational term – that defines against whom or what resistance is directed. In this exhibition, resistance is initially understood as an experience of difference that, through subjectivity, gives rise to a wide range of aesthetic and artistic forms of expression as well as a broad range of themes. Within the artistic and emancipatory reconfiguration of rugs, carpets, and tapestries, the exhibition addresses political opposition, resilience, and material or structural endurance in individual ways. Acts of resistance may be directed against perceived illegitimate systems of power, traditionalism, discrimination, racism, trauma, or environmental destruction.
The exhibition features selected works by the following artists:
Faig Ahmed, Diedrick Brackens, Johannah Herr, Jan Kath, Alexandra Kehayoglou, William Kentridge, Baseera Khan, Noelle Mason, Otobong Nkanga, Tobias Rehberger, Erin M. Riley, Tsherin Sherpa, Rose Stach, Nasan Tur and Jeroen van den Bogaert.
Curator: Dr Katharina Weiler
Included in the admission fee. No prior registration required. For additional dates, please refer to the events calendar on our website.
Sat, 7 February, 3 pm
War Rugs From America
With artist Johannah Herr, curator Dr Katharina Weiler and junior curator Leon Lukas Plum (EN)
Wed, 25 February, 6.30 pm
Ornament und Widerstand
With curator Dr Katharina Weiler and art historian Dr Eva Linhart (DE)
Wed, 11 March, 6.30 pm
With junior curators Sofia Simeth and Leon Lukas Plum (DE)
Wed, 18 March, 6.30 pm
Teppiche und neue Kunstkonzepte zwischen freier und angewandter Kunst
With art historian Dr Eva Linhart (DE)
Wed, 25 March, 6 pm
With junior curators Sofia Simeth and Leon Lukas Plum (DE)
Sun, 12 April, 11 am and 3 pm
With junior curators Sofia Simeth and Leon Lukas Plum (DE)
Wed, 22 April, 6.30 pm
With curator Dr Katharina Weiler (DE)
Wed, 29 April, 6.30 pm
With junior curators Sofia Simeth and Leon Lukas Plum (DE)
Sun, 17 May, 3 pm
Wolle, Werte, Widerstände: zeitgenössische Teppiche zwischen Kunstmarkt und Weltpolitik
With art historian Francesco Colli (DE)
Sun, 24 May, 3 pm
Finissage
With curator Dr Katharina Weiler (DE)
With Lilian Korner, blind art historian and inclusion activist, and art educator Linda Gottwald.
Included in exhibition ticket. Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069/212 38522.
If necessary, we can assist you with planning your journey and pick you up at the “Schweizer Platz” station. Please make arrangements during registration.
Dates
Wed, 18 February, 6–7.30 pm
Sun, 12 April, 1.30–3 pm
Wed, 13 May, 6–7.30 pm
Wed, 25 March, 7 pm
Book launch
With the authors and graphic designer Sandra Doeller.
No prior registration required.
Sun, 12 April, 11 am–4 pm
Topic day as part of the European Days of Arts and Crafts
Workshops and guided tours for children aged 4 and older, families and adults. Including junior curator tours; haptic tour for blind people, people with visual impairment and sighted people; textile workshop with the Stitch by Stitch tailoring studio.
Included in exhibition ticket, prior registration only required for haptic tour.
Wed, 15 April, 7 pm
Spoken word performance
With Dalibor Marković (DE)
5 EUR, no prior registration required.
Sat, 25 April, from 7 pm
Night of the Museums 2026
Short tours and walk-in workshop.
Included in the Night of the Museums ticket, no prior registration required.
Wed, 6 May, 7 pm
„Wir weben, wir weben!“ Wie Weben zum Inbegriff des politischen Widerstands wurde
Lecture by Professor Christopher Daase, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (DE)
5 EUR, no prior registration required.
Sat, 7 March , 2–5 pm
Knotting with Sanchir Kath, Jan Kath Design GmbH
Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069/212 38522.
Workshop fee: 24 EUR
Sat, 18 and Sun, 19 April, 10 am to 3 pm each day
Tufting with Jia Write (2 days)
Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069/212 38522.
Workshop fee: 96 EU
How do we imagine museums in the future? What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?
From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.
Without registration. Free entry.
Guided tour on the topic War Rugs From America with artist Johannah Herr, curator Dr Katharina Weiler and junior curator Leon Plum.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in English.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?
From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.
Kick-off with initiator and artist Francesco Apuzzo, raumlaborberlin at the Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?
From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.
Kick-off with initiator and artist Francesco Apuzzo, raumlaborberlin at the Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
With Lilian Korner, blind art historian and inclusion activist, and art educator Linda Gottwald.
Included in the admission price. Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.
If necessary, we can assist you with planning your journey and pick you up at the “Schweizer Platz” station. Please make arrangements during registration.
The tour will be held in German.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
Guided tour on the topic Ornament und Widerstand with curator Dr Katharina Weiler and art historian Dr Eva Linhart.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.