Britta Marakatt Laba
Britta Marakatt-labba was born in 1951 in Idivuoma, outside of Kiruna in northern Sweden. She grew up in a siblingschool of nine children in a reindeer herding family in Saarivuoma Samby. Marakatt Labba studied at... Read more
Category: Exhibitions
The ETN Conference in Borås 2017
Some impressions from a very successful conference in Borås, held from 12 to 18th. September2017 at the Fashion Centre in Borås. Organizers where the Nordic Textile Artists (NTA) together with the European Textile Network (ETN) supported by... Read more
Call for entries Paper Biennial Rijswijk 2018
Press Text: The twelfth international Paper Biennial Rijswijk will be held from June to November 2018. The aim of the Paper Biennial Rijswijk is to showcase the diversity and ingenuity of contemporary paper art. In... Read more
Rijswijk Textile Biennial, 2017
Last week I was finally able to visit this Biennial in Rijswijk near The Hague. Having been a jury member, I knew most of the artists, but in some cases I had only viewed their... Read more
Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice
The 57th Venice Biennial is a feast for all those loving textiles! Visitors, who have seen it many times, are saying that never ever has there been so many textiles on show. This is not... Read more
Documenta 2017 in Kassel
Yesterday I have visited the Kassel Documenta. I will now just show a first series of images on textile-related works. Even though (or because?) there were lots of political issues at this exhibition, there were... Read more
Textile and Art: Recent Developments
In recent years textile has increasingly become a medium of significance in the art world. In other words, the fibre arts are now being shown in many art exhibitions. Unfortunately, the work of those... Read more