Softspace #20, 2019

Marie Schumann (b. 1991, Offenbach a.M., Germany) is a textile and installation artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Schumann has been included in numerous institutional exhibitions including Textile Manifestos - From Bau- haus to Soft Sculpture, currently on view at The Museum of the Zurich Uni- versity of the Arts. She participated in Textile Design Now at the University of Quebec in Montréal (2023), and Textile Garden at The Museum of the Zurich University of the Arts (2022). She has presented public projects including an installation during Pan Art in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2024), a textile installation during Mexico City Art Week at Expo Reforma, Mexico (2024), and Soft Walls, an installation at The Museum of the Zurich University of the Arts with Simone Züger (2023). Her work has been featured in Kunstbulletin, New York Times Style Magazine, Sight Unseen, Maisons et Ambiances magazine, and Swiss-Architects. Schumann holds an MA in Textiles from Lucerne University, Switzerland, and a BA in Textile from Hamburg University, Germany.

Softspace #20 drew us in with its quiet clarity. Marie Schumann creates not just an object but an atmosphere, where material speaks softly yet with precision.

The work balances industrial and organic, weaving and suspension, asking us to slow down and feel how space can hold emotion. We are moved by how she turns process into presence. Her language of textiles becomes a way to think through connection, structure, and care. For us at Collect Noir, this piece is not only seen, it is sensed.

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