Design is not a masterplan – it’s a dialogue with what already exists. Because design doesn’t begin in the head, but in the hand: with the resistance of a thread, the fracture of a structure, the weight of a stone. At IP25, we ask how decors can emerge when material is not just a carrier of ideas, but their driver. Maybe it’s time we stop designing patterns – and start discovering them.
Should patterns grow instead of being designed?
VERONIKA MOOS
(*1961 in Bensberg)
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Mainz
Studied Philosophy and German Literature, PhD, Cologne Ongoing national and international exhibitions, teaching activities, NRW State Prize "Manu Factum" (2019)
Lives and works as a freelance artist focusing on Environmental Art, performative interaction, and sculpture, with studios in Cologne and the Eifel region.
Veronika Moos works with textile and natural materials, often incorporating found objects. She says: "By grasping material with my hands, I shape thoughts. The substance is, first and foremost, a question about my attitude towards the world."
Why Material? Why Veronika Moos?
Veronika Moos regards material as a counterpart, not merely as a tool. Her work demonstrates that every material has a life of its own – with traces and resistance. The Itajime Shibori technique makes this visible: wherever the fabric is bound, it remains white – not as a flaw, but as part of the artwork. For Veronika Moos, creation is a process of listening. Her attitude shows: a design doesn’t have to be perfect to be meaningful. It can have edges, gaps, structure. That is exactly what inspires Interprint. Because good design arises when material is taken seriously – not just as a surface, but as a starting point for new ideas.
OVER THE RAINBOW (since 2009)
12 dyed flags, each 260 x 30 cm
Bourette silk / chiffon silk
Dyed using the Itajime Shibori technique