--- type: press_release title: Anni Albers language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/press/anni-albers" --- # Anni Albers ### Constructing Textiles 30 April 2026 – 16 August 2026 The exhibition *Constructing Textiles*, whose title is taken from an essay by the artist written in 1946, is devoted to Albers’s wide-ranging œuvre. It shows numerous works from all of her creative periods, from the beginning at the innovative Bauhaus and her time at the legendary Black Mountain College to the 1980s. It features all aspects of her career: textiles and architecture, weaving and building, past and present. [Press Kit Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles (EN)](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/Press%20Kit_Anni%20Albers_EN.pdf) ![Anni Albers mit ihrer Arbeit Two, New Haven, Connecticut,1952 — Anni Albers with her weaving Two, New Haven, Connecticut,1952 — Photograph by the New Haven Evening Register. Image courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. — © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Wien 2026](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-07/Anni%20Albers_1976-28-890_edit_web.jpg) Press release General Director Stella Rollig: *Anni Albers’s work, which places textiles, architecture, and design in a lively dialog, continues to offer inspiration for a new generation of artists, architects, and designers. She was a pioneer who blurred the boundaries between free and applied art—an approach that has become established in contemporary art, not least thanks to pioneers like her.* Anni Albers’s creative and experimental approach began in the 1920s at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1933 she emigrated to the USA and established herself there as a multifaceted designer and artist. She developed complex weaving structures and used new types of fiber. Apart from decorative weavings, works of art in their own right, she also explored new textiles for buildings and interiors, in other words functional objects. She regarded weaving as the most advanced form of modern architectural thinking. Through her profound understanding of the material and its refined processing, Albers’s work is of great contemporary relevance in the light of today’s challenges relating to energy and material resources. *In this exhibition, we focus particularly on Anni Albers’ role as a textile designer, her deep understanding of the central importance of materials in the design process, and her precise and forward-thinking collaborations with architects and other creators.* Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles *highlights the diversity of materials, techniques, and applications that characterize her experimental approach, and shows how she considered textiles as part of architecture, while also exploring her artistic practice. This opens up a broader perspective on the multifaceted work of this extraordinary artist,* say curators Fabienne Eggelhöfer and Brenda Danilowitz. With numerous works from all of her creative periods, from the beginning at the innovative Bauhaus, Dessau, and Berlin, and her time at the legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina to the 1980s, the exhibition features all aspects of her career: textiles and architecture, weaving and building, past and present. It includes material studies, textile samples, and designs, and also decorative weaving, large-format room dividers, carpets, and curtain materials. ## Press Images ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/Camino%20Real_1968_Glenstone%20Museum.jpg) Anni Albers, Detail of Camino Real, 1968 Designed for Camino Real hotel, Mexico City, Mexico, executed by Abacrome Inc., New York Glenstone Museum / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/Wandbehang%20Nr.%20175_1925_Courtesy%20Die%20Neue%20Sammlung%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Design%20Museum.jpg) Anni Albers, Wallhanging No. 175, 1925 Courtesy Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo) © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Schreinverkleidung%20f%C3%BCr%20die%20Kongregation%20B%E2%80%99nai%20Israel%2C%20Woonsocket%2C%20Rhode%20Island_1962.jpg) Anni Albers, Ark panels for Congregation B’nai Israel, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1962 Photo: Tim Nighswander / Imaging4Art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Knot_1947.jpg) Anni Albers, Knot, 1947 Photo: Tim Nighswander / Imaging4Art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Red%20Meander_1954.jpg) Anni Albers, Red Meander, 1954 Photo: Tim Nighswander / Imaging4Art, Private Collection © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-03/Anni%20Albers%20und%20Alexander%20Reed_Halskette_ca.%201940_The%20Josef%20and%20Anni%20Albers%20Foundation%2C%20Bethany%20CT.jpg) Anni Albers and Alexander Reed, Necklace, c. 1940 Photo: Tim Nighswander / Imaging4Art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Sheep%20May%20Safely%20Graze_1959.jpg) Anni Albers, Sheep May Safely Graze, 1958 The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, gift of Karen Johnson Boyd, through the American Craft Council, 1977 © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Wien 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Code_1962.jpg) Anni Albers, Code, 1962 Photo: Tim Nighswander / Imaging4Art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-12/Anni%20Albers_Olan%20Sanctuary%2C%20Tempel%20Emanu-El%2C%20Dallas%2C%20Texas%2C%20fertiggestellt%201957.jpg) Olan Sanctuary, Tempel Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas, completed in 1957. Ark panels by Anni Albers, stained glass windows by György Kepes © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 © György Kepes Estate (Imre Kepes and Juliet Kepes Stone) ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-03/Anni%20Albers_Studie%20f%C3%BCr%20einen%20Kn%C3%BCpfteppich_1959_The%20Josef%20and%20Anni%20Albers%20Foundation_Bethany%20CT.jpg) Anni Albers, Study for a hooked rug, 1959 © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2025-07/Anni%20Albers_1976-28-890_edit_web.jpg) Anni Albers with her weaving Two, New Haven, Connecticut,1952 Photograph by the New Haven Evening Register. Image courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Bildrecht, Wien 2026 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-02/1937_AA%20at%20loom_BMC_photo%20Helen%20M%20Post_crop.jpg) Anni Albers at the loom, Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1937 Photo: Helen M. Post, Courtesy of the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-01.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-15.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-12.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-11A.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-11.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-10.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-09.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-06.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-05.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-04-03.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-03.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-04/UB_Anni_Albers_PR-02.jpg) Installation view "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", Lower Belvedere Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna [ Download all Images ](https://www.belvedere.at/en/media_download_all/paragraph/2840/field_images) The texts, images, and documents provided here are copyrighted and are made available exclusively for the purpose of reporting on the exhibitions mentioned. 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