To conclude the exhibition Ingrid Wiener – Simply Making and Doing, there is an opportunity to delve into the contexts of Ingrid Wiener’s work. With Nils Röller and Thomas Brinkmann, two companions offer a multifaceted view of her work, bringing together the various media of expression, collaborations, and Wiener’s life practice.

 

4 PM: Thomas Brinkmann: The Wonderful and the Useful

In his lecture, The Wonderful and the Useful, musician and artist Thomas Brinkmann considers the relationships between weaving, computer science, politics, and music. The exchange and collaborations with Ingrid Wiener as well as Oswald Wiener come into play: from references in Wiener’s dream drawings, to punch card machines, to Brinkmann’s sonic processing of loom sounds. Brinkmann unfolds the network of relationships between these elements based on a mind map.

 

5 PM: Nils Röller: Art is when you do it anyway

Despite the criticism of mere copying and weaving.
Despite the time that weaving takes.
Despite the travels.

The lecture follows the title of Ingrid Wiener’s work Art is when you do it anyway and develops Wiener’s aesthetics of time design: how production time becomes a vehicle for radical present-day design, as in weaving.

 

About the exhibition Ingrid Wiener

Ingrid Wiener – Simply Making and Doing, her largest museum exhibition in Germany to date, shows the diverse work of the Austrian artist (*1946). Starting from her woven tapestries, to watercolor dream drawings, photographs and film, themes unfold from the view of the everyday, the cooking that accompanied her life, from confrontations with perception and technologies to the view into her own body. A correspondence between Ingrid Wiener and Nils Röller is also part of the exhibition and we encounter it again in his lecture.

 

About the speakers:

Thomas Brinkmann is a conceptual electronic musician and artist who lives in Berlin and the Eifel region. He studied Fine Arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (Oswald Wiener, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Jannis Kounellis). He also studied at the Academia delle Belle Arti in Perugia, which he left after 3 days.
Brinkmann participated in Documenta X (Hybrid Work Space) in 1997 and various other exhibitions and performances, including PS1 New York, Cité de la musique / Paris La Villette, Palazzo Grassi/ Venice, Tate Tanks / London. He also participated in the worst* Rarely Heard Music concert in Cologne. (*according to Wiener and with Ingrid Wiener)
He is known for his album Klick or his Variations – a series of performances in which he edits the endless grooves of vinyl LPs and uses them as sequencers, or plays records with two tonearms in displacement and slowed down.
Brinkmann has released more than 60 records and CDs of experimental and electronic music, including What You Hear (Is What You Hear) (2015), A Thousand Keys (2017) and Raupenbahn at Editions Mego / Vienna (2019). There are various written publications, including Non-Copyriot / Mille Plateaux.

Nils Röller lives in Zurich, where he is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Planning a poem, a book in thought, leads to perceptions that something can become coherent. It can suddenly be added. This impulse develops a tension when the factors that interact when an impulse becomes a perception are reflected. This tension is one between philosophy and poetry, which Nils Röller explores in the books Roth der Grosse (Vienna: Klever, 2013), Bittermeer – Mare amoroso (Vienna: Klever, 2017) and Alpentram (Vienna: Klever: 2021). Backgrounds that motivate this are: the collaboration with artists and poets in the Journal für Kunst, Sex und Mathematik (online), the construction of the Vilém Flusser Archive and teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts. Current publications: Philosophia – Poetik der Wahrnehmung (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 2025), Fragmente des Kanzlers des Kaisers, Idiome 18 (2025), Reine Mittel – Pure Means (German-English), in: Federico Federici, ICONIC + LOG, New York: Calamari Archive, 2025. Website: https://www.romanform.ch/

 

Ticket + Info:

5 euros, 3 euros reduced

Tickets available at the museum box office or in the online shop

Event in the Marta Forum