From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
Contextile 2020 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial from 5 September to 25 October 2020 On a very warm and sunny 5 September I made it to Guimarães, Portugal to visit Contextile, the Biennial competition/exhibition with accompanying events. It was... Read more
I saw this exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle on 24 June 2020 (currently it is on show at the Luisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, from 25 July till 8 November 2020) This was the second... Read more
Life doesn’t frighten me – Michelle Elie wears Comme des Garçons , 3 April – 1 November 2020 at the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Art My first exhibition visit in Frankfurt, end of June, after... Read more
Hannah Ryggen – Woven Manifestos Exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from 26 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 Under the auspices of the Frankfurt Book Fair, with Norway invited as Guest of Honour, Kunsthalle Schirn... Read more
This Biennial took place in Madrid from 17 September to 17 November 2019. Venues were the Costume Museum, the Museum of the Americas, the Complutense Art Center, the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Royal... Read more
The Lodz Triennial is currently the oldest textile art event in Europe and probably the whole world. It was created in 1972 as an East European window on textile art for all those who were... Read more
In this post I will show artists using textiles at the Venice Biennial. They were far less numerous compared to the last Biennial in 2017. The reason seems to be that the curator, Ralf Rugoff... Read more