A new “Monster Life” for your Trousers?

Favourite trousers are loved as dearly as a living being. The end of a favourite pair of trousers' life is often a sad event. In this workshop, we will bring your favourite trousers back to life. As a first step, we will explore their life story by drawing them. The drawing forms the basis for making the individual life story grow three-dimensionally with needle and thread, using filling materials and recycled fabrics. In this way, a new ‘monster life’ is breathed into each pair of dead trousers.

Course instructor: Veronika Hösch studied Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2008–2013. She has also completed a Technical College (HTL) for Fashion and Clothing Technology and has years of practical experience in sewing inflatable castles and performance costumes.

After the workshop, there will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? accompanied by a cultural mediator from the museum. Whether precisely pressed or in a casual baggy look – they are a global phenomenon and seemingly familiar to us all. They are a symbol of cultural and social identity and the material for fashion statements: trousers.

From 25 March 2025, the Weltmuseum Wien will be taking a journey through 3,000 years of trouser history from all over the world in its new special exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? Treasures and many a quirky find from all the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien, the Theatermuseum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and objects on loan from Austrian museums and international collections will be on display.

In cooperation with the Wiener Kunst Volkshochschule, selected courses will be held on the premises of the Weltmuseum Wien. You can find the entire Kunst VHS programme here: Programme Kunst VHS

Duration: 4 hrs.
Participation: € 48 (price for annual ticket holders: € 36)
Ticket/ Booking via the portal of the VHS Kunst: https://www.vhs.at/de/k/294708175 (VHS-Nr. 10647723)
The course price includes admission to the Weltmuseum Wien. If you have an annual ticket of the KHM-Museumsverband, please let Kunst VHS know so that you do not have to pay the entrance fee additionally: diekunstvhs@vhs.at / +43 1 891 74 154 000.
Participant information: Please bring along: Favourite used trousers, filling material recycled fabrics and materials of your choice. The following will be provided: Sewing needles, threads, pliers, scissors, used materials, paper, pens and hot glue guns (+stuffing). Sewing skills/scissors experience are not necessary.
Possible teaching languages: German + English
Additional information: The course takes place with a minimum of 8 participants.
Meeting place: Hall of Columns