Art in the Evening: Artist Talk with the Artist Gertrud Riethmüller
as a part of the exhibition SPITZE!

For the Saarland-based artist Gertrud Riethmüller, lace is far more than a delicate structure of threads. She understands lace as a carrier of memories, a silent witness to lived lives, and a trace of human stories. In her work, she follows the hidden narratives behind intricate patterns: the hands that created them, the hopes woven into them, and the worlds they reflect.

In this artist talk, Gertrud Riethmüller will join curator Dr Maria Spitz in discussing the two works featured in the exhibition, while offering insights into the ideas, research, and stories that inspire her artistic practice.

The artist will also present her current work The Lost Dream. Drawing on personal memories and the life experiences of women in the post-war era, she explores aspirations, fulfilled opportunities, and paths never taken. As a symbolic relic of these experiences, the lace-trimmed handkerchief appears in Riethmüller’s work transformed into lead combined with lace, creating fragile objects of memory suspended between weight and lightness, loss and preservation.

This artist talk invites visitors to view lace not merely as a material, but as a poetic archive of human experience and as a medium through which past and present enter into a rich and multilayered dialogue.

The event is free of charge; only regular museum admission is required.
The number of participants is limited to 12 people.
Please register by March 29, 2027 via +49 (0)5452.9168-3500 or anmeldung@draiflessen.com.

Interested participants may join the curator’s tour of SPITZE! at 6 p.m. beforehand.

The museum will be open until 9 p.m. this Thursday.