Dörte Bundt is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual art, craftsmanship, and design.
Her tactile, sculptural compositions transcend traditional boundaries, interweaving natural and repurposed materials through macramé knotting, weaving, and stitching. Grounded in the symbolism of portals and the kaleidoscopic aesthetics of Bojagi, her recent work investigates transformation, spiritual inquiry, and the material poetics of texture, color, and form. Through an exploration of craft techniques and their limitations, she creates pieces that challenge the distinctions between disciplines.
Bundt’s works have been exhibited internationally and integrated into bespoke interior projects, occupying a space between functional design and contemporary art. A largely self-taught artist, her practice is informed by a decade of independent research and immersive residencies with master artisans in Mexico and Italy.
Dörte is a member of the Homo Faber Guide by the Michelangelo Foundation.
Studio Practice
Dörte’s experimental practice deftly combines sustainable materials like recycled cotton, wool, clay, raffia, agave fiber, and assorted objects 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.