Ingrid Wiener, the Austrian textile artist associated with Viennese Actionism whose tapestries wove together everyday objects, handwritten texts and dream imagery, has died at 83 — just short of her 84th birthday. Her Vienna gallery, Charim, announced the death in an Instagram post and did not state a cause. Born Ingrid Schuppan on 2 October 1942, Wiener trained at a textile school, where she befriended Waltraud Höllinger — later known as Valie Export. In the 1960s the two produced tapestries from designs by their friend Friedensreich Hundertwasser, shown and sold under his name. By the mid-1970s Wiener had completed her first large-scale tapestry with Export and the Swiss artist Dieter Roth; the three aimed to invent a looser tapestry form, woven only from what showed behind the warp threads. The concept proved hard to realise, but its fluid approach became central to her practice, and she and Roth made five more tapestries between 1974 and 1997. Her circle also included Konrad Bayer — with whom she appeared in Ferry Radax's 1959 surrealist film "Sonne halt!" — and her husband, the writer and artist Oswald Wiener, who died in 2021. Wiener's tapestries absorbed fragments of her own life: cutting boards, old shopping lists, newspapers, cables, even cucumbers, with handwritten notes worked directly into the fabric as records of her emotions and observations. Alongside the textiles she made dream-inspired watercolours, the "Traumzeichnungen," translating dreams and daily narratives into singular images. In 1969 she and Oswald moved to Berlin, where she ran the restaurant Exile — a gathering spot for the art world that drew guests including David Bowie and Peter O'Toole — and later to Canada, whose landscapes fed the inner, surreal imagery of her watercolours. After decades of influence on the Austrian scene, Wiener's work found renewed attention around the turn of the millennium. Charim Gallery began representing her after encountering her dream drawings while preparing a 2001 exhibition, and went on to organise solo and two-person shows of her art. Owner Miryam Charim described a close personal friendship, and the gallery is now planning a major exhibition of Wiener's work alongside her historic collaboration with Export for early next year.