Wolfgang Woerner aka Wolf & Wilding

Wolfgang Woerner is a German-British mixed-media artist whose work spans disciplines, cultures, and dimensions. With a foundation in architecture, he grew up in Germany before relocating to London in his late teens. His dual heritage and experience of living between cultures are central to his artistic practice. Rather than treating identity as something fixed, he explores it as fluid—shaped by memory, place, and everyday encounters.

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His practice flows between two and three dimensions, paper and cloth, drawing and stitch. Ideas drift in the making, led by intuition and an unfiltered responsiveness to material. For Wolfgang, touch is fundamental. He is drawn to materials with histories—discarded toys, napkins, hotel bedsheets—objects embedded with stories, becoming silent collaborators in the work.

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“In architecture, you're forced to think in three dimensions,” he says. “Everything is part of something else. I carried that with me into art—nothing is just a background; everything matters.” Wolfgang’s transition from architecture to full-time art emerged gradually, a result of life changes and an increasing pull toward direct, tactile processes. Unlike the delayed transformation of ceramics, textiles allow him to work in the moment. “I like softness,” he says simply. “If I stitch into dense fabric, it resists. Wool, on the other hand—it’s like a knife through butter.”

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Wolfgang’s work explores personal and collective space, often through recording fleeting impressions, physical traces, and emotional states. Each piece reflects a dialogue between material and memory, where process and sensation shape the outcome. Rather than aiming for resolution, his practice values presence, attention, and the quiet unfolding of meaning through making.

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“Even something as flat as a drawing on a piece of paper is still a three-dimensional object… I care about all of the components of a piece, because that’s what makes it real.”

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​www.wolfandwilding.com

Instagram: @wolfandwilding

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