The Tapestry Triennale of Lodz
Despite all attempts to be innovative, this Triennial – which can be seen from 9.5 to 30.10.2016 in the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz – displays a comparitively traditional image of the textile art... Read more
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Sheila Hicks: Why Not ?
Internationally renowned, thanks to her participation in numerous large solo and group exhibitions, this is her first appearance in the Netherlands for many years. Her colourful work, which ranges from monumental textile installations to metre-high... Read more
15th International Triennial of Tapestry, Łódź 2016
Currently one of the oldest of the Textile Biennials / Triennials will take place again from 9 May to 30 October 2016 at the Central Museum of Textiles in lodz, Poland. This 15th Triennial of... Read more
Tapisseries Nomades – Fondation Toms Pauli – Collection 20th century
Exhibition from 24.3 to 19.5.2016 at the Musée cantonale des Beaux Arts, Lausanne. On show will be a part of the textile collection belonging to the Canton Vaud of which Lausanne is the capital. Prepared for the exhibition are works... Read more
Textile Art
Rarely has there been a more enigmatic concept than TEXTILE ART! Children of the post-war era like ourselves grew up with the Lausanne Biennials, which we perceived as textile art events. They were exciting presentations... Read more
When was the starting point of textiles in fine art?
Textile art has always been a pariah of the art world. It was not ” spiritual ” enough , a charged field of employment for women, at most craft, loaded with too much material values and the sublime... Read more
The Field of Textiles and “Art”
Over the past five years textiles have increasingly featured in art exhibitions where curators and art scholars have described them from a rather one-dimensional perspective, regarding them as factors influencing the development of art, as... Read more