Veronika Moos-Brochhagen (born April 3, 1961) is a German

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artist. She was born in Bensberg,

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and lives and works in

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, and

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. Moos-Brochhagen studied art at the Academy of Art in

Mainz, Germany Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

(class Prof. E. Knoche-Wendel), philosophy and German, also at the University of

. In 2007, she did her dissertation/PhD ("Transparenz der Verhüllung - die Unschärfe der Wahrheit. Eine Studie zur Sinnlichkeit von textilem Material in der Kunst am Beispiel alter und neuer Hungertücher“) at the University of

Cologne, Germany Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

. Moos-Brochhagen works with or without textile materials. Often she uses a special kind of

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-technique. In each case her works are "textile" (The word textile is from Latin texere which means "to weave", "to braid", "to construct" or "to connect").

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 1990 Gallery Smend,

* 1997 Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany * 2003 Gallery Stracke, Cologne, Germany * 2003 Gallery Unik:te, Pesch, Germany * 2004 Liverpool Biennale

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* 2005 St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne, Germany * 2005 Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England * 2007 Gallery Contrast,

Tilburg, Netherlands Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...

* 2009 Textilmuseum “Die Scheune”,

Nettetal Nettetal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated in the Lower Rhine region. History Nettetal was founded on January 1, 1970, when the former townships Leuth, Breyell, Hinsbeck and former to ...

, Germany * 2009 ”Fadensonnen” - Textile Zeichnungen und Objekte, Haslach,

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* 2014 ”Au Bord De La Mer”, Côte de Lumiére, Salle Marcel Baudoin,

Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie () is a commune in the Vendée department, region of Pays de la Loire, western France. It is situated on the Côte de Lumière. The community originated in 1967 from the unification of two communities on either side o ...

Participations (selection)

* 2000 "Made in Koeln", Gallery The View I,

* 2001 "Tu was Du willst", Museum Baden, Solingen, Schloss Hardenberg-Museum, Velbert, Germany * 2002 "Tactile Dimensions",

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor at ...

, Great Britain, Ireland * 2002 "made in Cologne – found in Liverpool", Gallery The View II, Liverpool, England * 2002 "made in Cologne – found in Liverpool", Historical City Hall,

* 2002 "Frau vor Ort". Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany * 2002 Gallery Smend, Cologne, Germany * 2003 "Iceland´s Connections", Reykjavìk, Korpúlfsstaðuir u. Hofn Hornafjordur,

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

* 2004 "Garantiert gebrauchsfrei", Niederrheinisches Museum, Kevelaer, Germany * 2004 "About accidental lines and redness spots", Hope Gallery, Liverpool, England * 2005 "Stille", Kloster Knechtsteden, Knechtsteden, Germany * 2005 "FormART 2005" Klaus Oschmann Preis,

Stuttgart, Germany Stuttgart (; Swabian German, Swabian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fe ...

* 2005 "Textile Catalysts: Shibori shaping the 21st century" Tama Art Museum,

Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

* 2006 "A… wie Altenberg", Kreishaus,

Bergisch Gladbach Bergisch Gladbach () is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district). Geography Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx. 10 kilometers east of ...

, Germany * 2007 "100 Jahre Herding: Kunst – Visionen - Geschichte", Westfälisches Industriemuseum – Textilmuseum, Bocholt, Germany * 2008 "Fadenspiel und Sticheleien", Museum der Stadt,

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, Germany * 2008 "Papier und Textil", Walkmühle,

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, Germany * 2008 "Shibori, teintures à réserves", Galerie: La Soie Disante,

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* 2008 "Shibori, hier et ajourd´hui (Shibori, yesterday and today)", Mairie du 5 Arrondissement (City Hall), Paris, France * 2009 “Textil als Material & Metapher, 6 Positionen”, International Exhibition (Curator, Conception), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany * 2009 ”GEDOK FormART 2009, Klaus Oschmann Preis”;

Hannover, Germany Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany a ...

* 2009/2010 “Le tissu dans tous ses sens", 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009/2nde biennale de créations textiles contemporaines, Musée des Tissus de

Lyon, France Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...

* 2010 "Skulpturale Arbeiten in Textil und Metall", Museum Edenkoben, Edenkoben, Germany * 2011 "GesichtZeigen", Special Exhibition of "GEDOK" Cologne, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum,

* 2012 "Two of us", Quartier am Hafen,

, Germany

Art projects and collaborations

* "Belonging and Beyond", Collaboration with Lin Holland, Liverpool,

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* Art project "TX 5", Cologne * Artproject "Made in Koeln", Cologne * Artproject "eight-days-a-week", Cologne/LiverpoolArtproject between Cologne and Liverpool
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Publications (selection)

* GEDOK KÖLN e. V., Hannelore Fischer (Hrg.): „GesichtZeigen“ - Positionen zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen zum Portrait, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum,

2011 * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: Das 7. Internationale Shibori-Symposium in Frankreich/ 7th International Shibori Symposium in France, Textilforum 1/2009, S. 14 -15 * Knoche-Wendel, Elfriede: „Papier/Textil 1987 – 2008“. Dokumentation der Examens- und Diplomarbeiten der letzten 21 Jahre, Klasse Knoche-Wendel. Mainz,

, 2008 * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika (2008).
Die Unschärfe der Wahrheit. Transparenz der Verhüllung. Eine Studie zur Sinnlichkeit von textilem Material in der Kunst am Beispiel alter und neuer Hungertücher
'. PhD thesis, University of

* Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: Das 6. Internationale Shibori-Symposium in Tokio/ 6th International Shibori Symposium, Tokyo. Textilforum 3/2005, S. 32-33” * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika, Holland, Lin: „Collaboration“, Liverpool Hope University, ,

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

2003 * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “4. Internationales Shibori-Symposium in Europa/4th International Shibori Symposium in Europe”, Textilforum 1/2003 March, S. 8/9 * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “Konzepte Textiler Kunst“, Textil & Unterricht 4/2003, Kallmeyerische Verlagsbuchhandlung, S. 14-17 * Pohl, Walfried, Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika,"Textile Materialkunst von Veronika Moos-Brochhagen", in: Textilkunst, Bd. 27 (1999), S. 176 - 179 : Ill. * Moos-Brochhagen, Veronika: “Textilkunst: Ein- und Aussichten” in 25 Jahre Galerie Smend, 25 Jahre Textile Kunst. Verlag der Galerie Smend,

1998, S. 130-31

References

External links

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Shibori

International project with Lin Holland

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