From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
I received a book that was published early 2019 by Phaidon Press, called “Vitamin F – Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art”. It did make clear that the divide between art in a craft... Read more
MURAL AND SPATIAL HOW THE LAUSANNE BIENNIALS 1962-1969 TRANSFORMED THE WORLD OF TAPESTRY The Cité internationale de la tapisserie in Aubusson is joining forces with the Fondation Toms Pauli of Lausanne to present an international... Read more
Garden of Eden Textile exhibition at the ETN conference in Haslach / Austria, July 17 to August 4, 2019, Neuhaus Castle It has been a long time since ETN (European Textile Network) staged its own... Read more
This ETN Conference will be organised by the two new European Textile Networkorganisers, Christina Leitner and Andreas Selzer of Textile Kultur Haslach. Theconference will be held at the Textile Centre Haslach, a multifunctional place in the... Read more
Chiharu Shiota – Installation at the Berlin Gropiusbau from 22 March to 16 June 2019 Chiharu Shiota moved to Berlin from Japan in 1997 to study performance art with Marina Abramovic. Her famous thread installations... Read more
Yayoi Kusama The well-known Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama had her 90th birthday on 22 March 2019. Museum Voorlinden near The Hague celebrated the event by staging an exhibition which will run until 1 September 2019.... Read more
Museum Rijswijk is hosting the 6thRijswijk Textile Biennial from 18 June to 6 October, 2019. New and vintage go hand in hand as 22 artists explore the past and present: in their use of applied techniques... Read more