| By Barbara Pavan | Gudrun Bartenberger-Geyer (Linz, Austria, 1969) has always intertwined her life with the languages of textiles, fashion, and the visual arts. After an initial education in Textile and Decorative Design in her hometown, she moved to Vienna, where she pursued a path that alternated between the academic study of art history and Italian at the University of Vienna and a more concrete and experimental practice in the field of Fashion and Clothing Technology, culminating in a Master Class for Dressmaking. This constant dialogue between theoretical research and artisanal know-how became the guiding thread of her poetics. In 2005 she further enriched her background with a specialization…