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ANN VOLLUM: THREADS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND RE-STITCHED NARRATIVES
Ann Vollum is a textile artist whose practice primarily involves hand-stitching techniques and the use of repurposed materials. Her work is characterized by an organic, slow, and meditative approach, grounded in the valorization of craftsmanship and sustainability. In her practice, the act of handwork becomes simultaneously a contemplative gesture and a vehicle of memory. Vollum’s pieces present ambiguous and often dark narratives, emerging from the unconscious and constructed around the emotional burdens that accompany human experience. These inner threads, suspended between awareness and the repressed, are expressed through a highly personal iconography rooted in her childhood in Africa and her subsequent travels in Pakistan and India. From these experiences arises…
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FILO-DIFFUSIONE: TWO EXHIBITIONS IN ATHENS EXPLORING THE THREAD BETWEEN MATER AND LOGOS
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, the Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens (Agathonos 6) will inaugurate the group exhibition Filo-diffusione, curated by Paolo Cortese. The project takes inspiration from the women-centered exhibitions organized by Mirella Bentivoglio in the 1980s on the theme of the thread, reinterpreting and updating that seminal research for the present day. The show brings together works by historically established artists — many of whom took part in Bentivoglio’s exhibitions over forty years ago — alongside younger generations who have embraced the same artistic and conceptual concerns, developing them in step with the passage of time and the evolution of creative tools and languages. Conceived as a retrospective investigation…
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VALCELLINA AWARD – 12TH EDITION “WAKE UP!”
The International Fiber Art Competition is back – Deadline: December 31, 2025 The call for entries for the 12th edition of the Valcellina Award, an international competition dedicated to contemporary Fiber Art and promoted by the association Le Arti Tessili APS, is now officially open. Under the theme Wake up!, the 2025 edition invites young artists from around the world — under 35, born after January 1, 1990 — to engage with textile languages as tools for critical reflection, material experimentation, and expressive research. A long-standing reference point for the promotion of emerging talents in the field of textile art, the award offers participants international visibility, exhibition of selected works,…
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YUJI MIZUTA – SIMULACRUM / BREATH OF HAZE
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, Amy-d Arte Spazio, located in the heart of Milan’s Brera District, presents Simulacrum – Breath of Haze, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Japanese artist Yuji Mizuta (born in Shizuoka, 1976; lives and works in Tokyo). The exhibition is curated by Raffaella Nobili, who also serves as co-director of the gallery alongside Anna d’Ambrosio. This new economArt project continues the Milanese gallery’s exploration of the interrelations between body, matter, and technology, while probing the boundaries of contemporary Japanese performance art. In Simulacrum – Breath of Haze, Mizuta transforms physical experience into a nostalgic simulacrum, preserving an ethereal trace of life in perpetual transformation. Rarely…
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CULTURE MOVES EUROPE: SUPPORT FOR ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL MOBILITY
Culture Moves Europe promotes the mobility of artists and cultural professionals by funding individual and residency projects across all countries participating in the Creative Europe programme.The initiative is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut. The Individual Mobility scheme offers artists and cultural operators the opportunity to develop a project in collaboration with a partner — either an individual or an organisation — located in a Creative Europe country different from their country of residence. Applications can be submitted either individually or as a group of up to five participants. Each project must pursue at least two of the following objectives:• to…
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GREEN | II EDIZIONE – CALL FOR ARTISTS
An International Exhibition Project by BLU Spazio delle Arti | RAABE APS Museo del Fiume, Nazzano – Rome | March 2026 After the success of IBLUE (2024), BLU Spazio delle Arti presents IGREEN | II Edition, the new chapter of its chromatic exploration dedicated to the colors of our planet. The 2025–2026 edition turns its focus to GREEN — the color of nature, vitality, balance, and regeneration, but also of ambiguity, illusion, and contradiction. In an era where green has become a universal keyword — evoking sustainability while often serving as a marketing label — IGREEN invites artists to question its deeper meaning. What does green truly signify today? Which…
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TAMARA KOSTIANOVSKY. “MOVED BY FORCES” AT SLAG&RX NEW YORK
Until October 25, 2025, SLAG&RX New York presents Moved by Forces, the latest solo exhibition by Tamara Kostianovsky, an Argentine-American artist whose practice lies at the intersection of ecology, feminism, and material memory. The exhibition offers an immersive exploration of her research, where sculpture becomes a tool for examining the relationships between body, nature, and social structure, through a masterful use of fabric as a living, symbolic flesh. At the core of the exhibition is a series of five new textile “carcass” sculptures. Two of these, inspired by the Caryatids of classical architecture, take the form of freestanding figures that subvert their original function as supports: no longer columns, but…
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NINE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS REINVENT THE BOOK ON A LARGE SCALE: “CONTEMPORARY VOLUMES” AT THE MORRIS MUSEUM
At the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, the book transforms from a container of words into a plastic material, a living surface, an architecture of thought. Contemporary Volumes — on view through March 2026 — explores the formal and conceptual power of the book as an object through the vision of nine international artists who expand its physical and symbolic boundaries. Conceived as a reflection on design and on the ways in which the book continues to inspire contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together heterogeneous languages and divergent sensibilities — political, aesthetic, poetic, and at times fantastical — in a dialogue that intertwines matter and memory, archiving and…
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TASSONOMIE (TAXONOMIES): MANUELA BIERI AT THE VILLA PIA MUSEUM, PORZA
The Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation will inaugurate TASSONOMIE (TAXONOMIES) on November 9, 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the artist Manuela Bieri, whose practice is deeply rooted in visual communication. Beginning her career in graphic design, Bieri gradually gravitated toward the language of textiles — a medium that, in her hands, becomes a vessel for connection and memory, inquiry and meaning. Her work unfolds in dialogue between nature and human experience, and through ongoing reflections on space and time. It is within this terrain that Bieri’s distinctive expressive freedom emerges. Her technique stems from a process of exploration refined over time — continuously nourished by study and direct engagement with material.…
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LE FIL VOYAGEUR. TOLD BY SHEILA HICKS AND MONIQUE LÉVI-STRAUSS
The exhibition Le fil voyageur, presented at the Atelier Martine Aublet inside the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac from September 30, 2025, to March 8, 2026, retraces sixty years of friendship and creative dialogue between Sheila Hicks, artist and pioneer of textile art, and Monique Lévi-Strauss, historian of textile arts. It represents a unique occasion for an unprecedented encounter between Sheila Hicks’s works, for which the ancient Andean textiles are a source of inspiration, and the textile artifacts of the Museum itself. Le fil voyageur presents a selection of Sheila Hicks’s works of varying dimensions — from the smallest, belonging to the Minimes series, to the most monumental…
