Weaving is my main medium of artistic expression. I am fascinated by the sculptural potential of textiles: the fluid transition between the second and the third dimension, the mutability of form. For me, creating textiles is a form-finding process, where structure, material and space influence and shape one another.
Ursula Wagner studied Textile & Surface Design at weissensee academy of art in Berlin and at Hiroshima City University in Japan, and received her Diplom (equivalent to an MFA) in 2013. She has been teaching in the Textile and Surface Design Department of her alma mater in Berlin, the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany and Shenzhen Polytechnic in Shenzhen, China.
As a research fellow at the Berlin University of the Arts, Ursula Wagner was engaged in a government-funded research project about smart homes, where she developed electronic and interactive textiles with several partners from industry, universities and research institutes.
In the recent years, Ursula Wagner worked with Italian weaving mills in Como, designed and produced custom-made fabrics for the fashion label PerretSchaad and collaborated with TheGreenEyl on a large-scale textile art installation for museum Grimmwelt in Kassel, Germany.
From 2017-2019 she held a full-time faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Textiles and New Technologies in the Textiles Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA.