The Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation will inaugurate, on November 9, 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the artist Manuela Bieri, whose practice is rooted in visual communication. After an initial approach to graphic design, she gradually moved closer to textile language, which in her hands becomes a tool of connection and memory, inquiry and meaning. It is a dialogue that unfolds between nature, human experience, and reflections on space and time.
It is precisely within this field that her distinctive expressive freedom emerges: the technique she employs stems from a process of exploration, developed over time and continually nourished by study and direct experience with materials. Bieri transforms her fascination with materials into a mature and self-aware artistic language, in which the act of “making” becomes an ongoing investigation into techniques and traditions, forming the core of her work.
Through patient gesture, materials reveal their aesthetic essence; they are elevated to works of art and dissolve the boundary between nature and art. Her works—often composed of elements such as fabrics, beads, gems, and various kinds of wool collected during numerous travels, as in her Talismans, but also of vegetal and ephemeral materials—leaves turned into suspended cocoons or dried flowers transformed into a Herbarium—take shape as installations that engage in dialogue with the surrounding space.
The exhibition stands not only as a testimony to Manuela Bieri’s artistic journey, but also as a synthesis of the dialogue between her personal vision and the values shared by the Foundation: an interweaving of art and applied arts, where the creative process becomes a place of encounter and reflection. From this curatorial attention emerges the new editorial series Sguardi, which complements the established Approfondimenti series, dedicated to artists already presented by the institution and conceived as a platform for critical exchange.
With Sguardi, the spirit of openness and research is renewed, expanding the Foundation’s commitment to documentation and critical discourse on contemporary art. Through an ongoing dialogue between artistic practices, exhibition space, and critical writing, the Foundation reaffirms its mission: to promote new readings of the present, to support the growth of artists, and to provide tools capable of conveying the richness, complexity, and uniqueness of every creative experience.
The Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation will inaugurate, on November 9, 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the artist Manuela Bieri, whose practice is rooted in visual communication. After an initial approach to graphic design, she gradually moved closer to textile language, which in her hands becomes a tool of connection and memory, inquiry and meaning. It is a dialogue that unfolds between nature, human experience, and reflections on space and time.
It is precisely within this field that her distinctive expressive freedom emerges: the technique she employs stems from a process of exploration, developed over time and continually nourished by study and direct experience with materials. Bieri transforms her fascination with materials into a mature and self-aware artistic language, in which the act of “making” becomes an ongoing investigation into techniques and traditions, forming the core of her work.
Through patient gesture, materials reveal their aesthetic essence; they are elevated to works of art and dissolve the boundary between nature and art. Her works—often composed of elements such as fabrics, beads, gems, and various kinds of wool collected during numerous travels, as in her Talismans, but also of vegetal and ephemeral materials—leaves turned into suspended cocoons or dried flowers transformed into a Herbarium—take shape as installations that engage in dialogue with the surrounding space.
The exhibition stands not only as a testimony to Manuela Bieri’s artistic journey, but also as a synthesis of the dialogue between her personal vision and the values shared by the Foundation: an interweaving of art and applied arts, where the creative process becomes a place of encounter and reflection. From this curatorial attention emerges the new editorial series Sguardi, which complements the established Approfondimenti series, dedicated to artists already presented by the institution and conceived as a platform for critical exchange.
With Sguardi, the spirit of openness and research is renewed, expanding the Foundation’s commitment to documentation and critical discourse on contemporary art. Through an ongoing dialogue between artistic practices, exhibition space, and critical writing, the Foundation reaffirms its mission: to promote new readings of the present, to support the growth of artists, and to provide tools capable of conveying the richness, complexity, and uniqueness of every creative experience.
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