TALK ABOUT THE TEXTILE MUSEUM AND WITH NNENNA OKORE (ZOOM).
The conversation focuses on exhibition and programme planning at the Textile and Industrial Museum (TIM) in Augsburg, as well as the museum’s impressive social objectives. Since 2009, Dr Karl B. Murr, the founding director of the Textile and Industrial Museum in Augsburg (TIM), has been advocating the explicit inclusion of works or exhibitions on current topics within the museum’s collection. This commitment is being realised once again with the planned exhibition of the large-scale sculpture “Between Earth and Sky”, 2025 by the leading Nigerian-American environmental artist and professor Nnenna Okore, which is on loan from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London and is scheduled for May this year. Okore is passionate about fostering dialogue on ecological issues. Her monumental glass and textile installations shape global discussions in contemporary art.
Since 2009, Dr. Karl B. Murr, as Director of the State Textile and Industrial Museum in Augsburg (tim), has been committed to integrating current topics into the museum’s collection. With the exhibition of *Between Earth and Sky*, a work by the Nigerian-American artist and professor Nnenna Okore, this commitment is once again being realized.
Dr. Karl B. Murr, born in 1966, studied modern, Bavarian, and medieval history, philosophy, and ethnology at the University of Philosophy (Munich), Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich), Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, England), the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA). In 2005, he received his doctorate from LMU Munich with the dissertation “Das Mittelalter in der Moderne. Die öffentliche Erinnerung an Kaiser Ludwig den Bayern im Königreich Bayern”. From 2005 to 2009, he was employed as a research assistant at the State Textile and Industrial Museum in Augsburg, which he has directed since 2009.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the European Museum Academy’s (EMA) Pool of Experts; he has served on the Executive Board since 2015 and has been its Chair since 2019.
The conversation builds a bridge to the current solo exhibition:
NNENNA OKORE THE WAY THINGS ARE EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 8TH, 2026
Bildcredit: ©️Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum in Augsburg
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