Kröller-Müller Museum 

Searching for meaning

Searching for meaning was the driving force behind Helene Kröller-Müller’s personal life and her collection. The exhibition of the same name, which runs in the Kröller-Müller Museum until 11 May 2025, follows her journey as she encounters artists and movements, philosophy and spirituality. Specially for this exhibition, exhibition designer Lies Willers asked the TextielLab to embroider a quote by Helene Kröller-Müller on a room divider that stands behind a painting by Van Gogh. It reads: ‘If you can put yourself in the mind of someone who was able to see lemons and interpret them for us in such a way, then you will enjoy art because you will feel that, despite everything, there is something in the world that we are always searching for and for which we should always have respect.’

The quote is embroidered in viscose rayon on an ecru-coloured cheesecloth mounted on a pine panel. As the text was too long to embroider in one go, it was cut into sections the size of the embroidery frame. The challenge was then to make the letters and words on the different sections align perfectly.

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© Kröller-Müller Museum, photos by Marjon Gemmeke