The International Village Shop is a growing trans-local network of cultural producers who set up trading places for goods with strong local connections.
Potato Sleeper Kartoffelbeutel
Potato Sleeper Kartoffelbeutel
Felt, belt strap, threadFilz, Gurtband, Nähgarn, 2025. story geschichte verhaal historia
The village of Neuenkirchen is located in the Lüneburger Heide, an area with sandy ground, famous for it's good Heidekartoffeln, it's potatoes. The local comittee - invited by the Kunstverein Springhornhof from Neuenkirchen - voted for making a product to keep a small amount of potatoes, about two and a half kilograms. In the neighbouring small town Soltau felt is produced; felt is light tight and breathable and a good material to store potatoes. The Berlin designers Fuchs + Funke and Michael Lehner thought about a potato container made of felt, their pattern is sewed by the trained tailor Margitta Stölpe from the village of Tewel, a neighbouring village of Neuenkirchen.
producer produzent producent productor
Fuchs + Funke and Michael Lehner, Berlin (www.fuchs-funke.de)
Margitta Stölpe, Tewel
Röders Textiles, Soltau
Aug
2021
Dinnyeköztársaság, Mars Tér, Szeged, HU
Apr
– Oct 2021
Kunsthaus Graz / what will be/was sein wird / Kunsthaus Graz
Sep
2020 – Jan 2021
Hannover Sprengel-Museum
Nov
2017
Amsterdam Art Weekend
Aug
2017
Internationaler Dorfladen Neuenkirchen/International Village Shop
Sep
– Oct 2015
Bogorodskoe Meshdunarodnij Selskij Magasin/Естественный обмен. Международный сельский магазин
Jul
– Aug 2015
Ark Stoyanie/АРХСТОЯНИЕ
Jun
2013
Agrocite Two Day Summer Shop/Boutique Locale
May
– Sep 2012
Shop in the shop
Dec
2010
4-hour-international-village-shop/FERIA DEL TRUEQUE
Nov
2010 – Jan 2011
Langenthal
Oct
2010
Berlin Shop in the offices of Lower Saxony/Berliner Laden in der Niedersächsischen Landesvertretung
Oct
2010
Höfer Goods 2010/Höfer Waren 2010



