Textile artist. Inquirer. Lecturer.
Monika Hutter works with materials that carry stories – textile relics, passed-on materials, industrial products, animal fragments. Sometimes they come from everyday contexts, removed from their original function. In new settings and through handcrafted transformation, they become multilayered signs. Her works emerge on the body and in dialogue with it. They address visibility, power structures, ascriptions, and absences. Memory, trace, and transformation are always present – nothing remains what it was, yet everything retains something of what it once meant.
In Hutter’s work, textile may adorn – but never only that. Her pieces transform historical and culturally coded forms such as headpieces, aprons, masks, or animal fragments into spaces of reflection on social conventions.
Her artistic practice weaves together art, craft, research, and theory – not as opposites, but as different modes of understanding. Textile techniques shape the form, textile expression carries meaning. Hutter’s work arises in relation – material, reflective, open.
She has been active in teaching for many years – at various educational institutions. She teaches fashion, cultural and design history – with the aim of opening up spaces for thought and possibility without offering prefabricated answers.
She lives and works in Munich under the name korrelart – an open, process-oriented artistic practice that makes relations visible without fixing them.