Image: Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen will host ‘Paula knitting fashion talk’, a discussion examining the relationship between painting and textile practice, on 1 October 2026 at 6:30pm. Museum director Frank Schmidt will speak with Bremen/Berlin-based artist Sibylle Springer and Berlin-based freelance journalist Stefanie von Wietersheim in the exhibition ‘BECOMING PAULA. London Berlin Worpswede Paris’.
The conversation will focus on Springer’s transfer of painted imagery into textile sculptures and garments. According to the museum, her work includes a series of sweaters that interact with famous paintings and place historical women artists, including Paula Modersohn-Becker, at the centre of the composition. The event will consider what happens when an original artwork is adapted into a medium traditionally positioned outside the fine-art field.
That question places Springer’s practice in direct dialogue with the museum’s presentation of Modersohn-Becker. Rather than treating the paintings only as images to be reproduced, the discussion will address how their content changes when it is translated into clothing or three-dimensional textile objects. The supplied announcement identifies the tension between original and adaptation as one of the central subjects of the talk.
The event forms part of the programme surrounding ‘BECOMING PAULA’, a birthday exhibition at the museum tracing Modersohn-Becker’s connections with London, Berlin, Worpswede and Paris. The museum’s September programme states that, from 19 September 2026, a dedicated room within the exhibition will present Modersohn-Becker’s landscapes alongside selected works by Fritz Mackensen, Heinrich Vogeler, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende and Otto Modersohn. The comparison is intended to show similarities and differences in the artists’ approaches to the subject.
The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum is part of the Museen Böttcherstraße complex in Bremen, alongside the Ludwig Roselius Museum and the Sammlung Bernhard Hoetger. The institutions’ published opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, with the museums closed on Mondays. The announcement places the October discussion specifically in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, at Böttcherstraße 6 in Bremen.
‘Paula knitting fashion talk’ is scheduled for Thursday, 1 October 2026, at 6:30pm. The announcement does not provide an end time or further admission information.
