Christina
Dörfler

Artist
Researcher
Educator

Christina
Dörfler

Artist
Researcher
Educator
I’m an Austrian based artist, teacher and researcher, teaching Art and Fashion Design at KMD-Herbststrasse Vienna. I studied Art Education and Textiles focusing on fashion design and textiles at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Through my on-going interdisciplinary art project “Excuse my Dust Series” I’m working with various experimental dyeing techniques which involve corrosive materials, natural pigments and sustainable surface-treatments. My work is a quest for alternative forms of collective gathering, producing and sustainable creating.
Exhibitions

Masterpieces of REPAIR & UPCYCLING

// Festival exhibition of re:pair Festival Vienna // Atelier Augarten, Vienna // 2025

Excuse my Dust Series

// Exhibition @ Zwischen:Räume Festival // Collaboration with Sebastian Müller // Old keep of the town castle of Eggenburg, AT // 2025

Critical Fashion

// Conference and exhibition // MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome // 2024

Excuse my Dust Lab

// Exhibition @ Zwischen:Räume Festival // Ziegelmuseum Eggenburg, AT // 2023

Licht.Spiel.Haus

// Exhibition @ Zwischen:Räume Festival // Collaboration with Sebastian Müller // Former cinema of Eggenburg, AT // 2021

Excuse my Dust Extended

// Exhibition @ XX Art Flanerie Festival // Collaboration with Mirjam Papouschek // Atelier Analog, Vienna // 2021

Fashion. Wow!

// Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach // 2018

Transfashional

// International exhibition series // Collaboration with Jasmin Schaitl // Locations: Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK / Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL / MQ Freiraum, Museumsquartier Vienna, AT / Kalmar konstmuseum, SE / City Museum of Rimini, IT // 2016 – 2020

Roter Faden – Textileforce

// Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach // 2015

Hallstattfarben

// Natural History Museum Vienna // 2012 – 2013

(Nach)wirkungen – ad Alice Schwarzer

// Cooperation with Miriam Hamann // Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna // 2010

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// work-in-progress exhibition series in cooperation with Gloriette // Looshaus, Vienna // 2009

Fashion & Costume Design

SPORTPLATZ EUROPA

// Costume advisor & theatre pedagogic collaboration for a project of Theaterkollektiv Freundliche Mitte // 2019 – 2020

BERGEINS

// Costume advisor & theatre pedagogic collaboration for a performance and installation of Theaterkollektiv Freundliche Mitte // 2017 – 2018

Excuse my Dust III

// Costume design for a performance of club “.akut” @ Wien Modern Festival // Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna // 2016

Pinned

// Costume & stage design for an installation and puppet theatre performance of Rebekah Wild // Wild Theatre // 2013

Hag

// Costume & stage design for an installation and puppet theatre performance of Rebekah Wild // Wild Theatre // 2012

Wandering Tribe

// Fashion Collection // Artistic part of my diploma at University of Applied Arts Vienna // 2012

Becoming

// Researcher & Assistant Designer for a fashion collection of Lara Torres // Shown @ ModaLisboa, Cascais, PT // 2008

Performances

Wandering Tribe

// Fashion performance of my collection at Natural History Museum Vienna // 2012

TONE

// Performance // Cooperation with Bettina Földesi (Dance) and Hanibal Scheutz (Double bass) // University of Applied Arts Vienna // 2009

CARRÉ

// Performance // Cooperation with Andreas Karl (Composition), Bettina Földesi (Dance), Katherina Kinzel (Dance), Christopher Roth (Violin) // University of Applied Arts Vienna // 2008

Education, Grants & Residencies

Natural Dye Class

// Threads of Life Studio, Bali, Indonesia // 2019

Diploma in Art Education & Textiles

// Passed with distinction // University of Applied Arts, Vienna // 2011

Scholarship of the University of Applied Arts

// Field of research: Textiles of the Hallstatt period // 2010

Publications

Geografien des Textilen

// Barbara Putz-Plecko (Ed.) // Mentioned in chapter: “Hallstattfarben”, pg. 192-200 // De Gruyter, 2025

Transfashional. Post-Interdisciplinary Lexicon

// Dobrila Denegri (Ed.) // Artistic contribution, pg. 136-143 // University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2019

Transfashional.

// Dobrila Denegri (Ed.) // Artistic contribution, pg. 102-115 // University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2017

Hallstattfarben / Colours of Hallstatt

// Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Anton Kern, Barbara Putz-Plecko (Eds.) // Mentioned in chapters: “Wandering Tribe” & “Looking back to the future”, pg. 38-41 // Published in German & English // Natural History Museum Vienna, 2012

“Blick zurück nach vorn” : Transfer als Methode für künstlerische Praxis

// Diploma thesis at the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education // University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2010

Press

Experiments in Fashion and Art

// Interview with Dobrila Denegri for efa.community // 2025

Moda e sostenibilità. Le iniziative dell’estate 2024

// Article by Margherita Cuccia // Artribune // 2024

Cosa è la “moda critica” e quale è il suo futuro?

// Article by Giulia Bracaloni // Artribune // 2024

Statt Shoppen auf der Mahü: Mode, besinnlich

// Article in Der Standard // 2017

„Transfashional“: Unbestimmtes Modemosaik

// Article by Christina Lechner // Die Presse // 2017

Christina Dörfler, Kunst und kommunikative Praxis

// Article on oe1.ORF.at // 2017

If you wish to get in touch with me,
just send me an e-mail.
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© 2026 Ι Christina Dörfler

© 2026 Ι Christina Dörfler