photo: Jaclyn Locke
Artist Statement
Dörte Bundt is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual art and craftsmanship. Guided by ecological principles, her practice focuses on creating objects that embody environmental awareness and a sustained sense of care for the world we inhabit.
Her work explores themes of transformation, interconnection, and spiritual inquiry through textile-based processes. Engaging with both ancient and contemporary techniques, Bundt understands knots, cloth, and making as carriers of knowledge - linking past, present, and future while honoring ancestral practices and responding to current ecological urgencies.
Through an intuitive and research-driven approach, she examines the possibilities and limitations of traditional textile techniques, challenging boundaries between art and craft.
photo: Jaclyn Locke
Bio
Dörte Bundt is an artist whose work spans visual art, textile practices, 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 and the German female artist collective Gedok.
Dörte’s experimental practice deftly combines sustainable materials like recycled and dead-stock fabric, plant-dyes, clay and assorted plant fibers picked up on her travels. Using these elements, she pushes the boundaries of those materials to create distinctive new fiber-art objects and forms, drawing inspiration from architecture, contemporary design, and the natural world.
With a deeply ingrained ecological spirit, she seeks to craft enduring fine art objects, while nurturing her home grown and distinctive sense of aesthetics with resolute environmental consciousness.
Her aim is to create unique pieces that bring warmth, provoke conversation and invite reflection. On a multidisciplinary mission to beautify, engage, and inspire human connections through her work, Dörte’s practice is an open dialogue with her experiential world, and instinctually matching aesthetics with inhabited spaces.