photo: Jaclyn Locke
Artist Statement
Dörte Bundt Dörte Bundt (b. 1983) is a Berlin-based textile artist whose work is rooted in ecological care and ancestral craft.
For over a decade, Bundt has cultivated an eco-sensitive practice shaped by slow processes - plant-based dyeing, weaving, knotting and stitching - reuse, and deep attention to natural resources. Each work carries reflections on material memory, knowledge transmission, and poetic ways of inhabiting the world. For Bundt, textiles are forms in constant recomposition - metaphors for the living, for its fragility, and its symbolic resistance.
Her approach is intuitive and research-driven, exploring what traditional techniques can still teach us, and where they might be pushed further.
photo: Jaclyn Locke
Bio
Dörte Bundt is an artist whose work spans visual art, design, and craftsmanship. Her works have been exhibited internationally, occupying a space between functional object and contemporary art.
Largely self-taught, her practice is informed by over a decade of independent research, as well as residencies and studies with master artisans in Mexico and Italy.
Dörte Bundt is a member of the Homo Faber Guide by the Michelangelo Foundation.
Dörte's experimental practice combines sustainable materials - recycled and dead-stock fabric, plant dyes, clay, and plant fibers gathered on her travels - pushed into distinctive new fiber-art forms inspired by architecture, design, and the natural world. Rooted in ecological consciousness, she crafts enduring pieces that bring warmth, provoke conversation, and invite reflection.