Exhibitions

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    LOTTOZERO PRESENTS EVERY MONTH I WEAVE, A SOLO EXHIBITION BY LISELORE FROWIJN

    With the solo exhibition Every Month I Weave by Dutch artist Liselore Frowijn, Lottozero Kunsthalle in Prato opens a new chapter in its exhibition program, which for the 2025-2026 biennium is dedicated to exploring the expressive and conceptual potential of Soft Sculpture. On view until July 27, 2025, Every Month I Weave draws inspiration from the figure of Margherita Datini, wife of the 14th-century textile merchant Francesco Datini of Prato, and unfolds as a layered reflection on the invisible labor of women – long the hidden backbone of Western economies. Through an extensive body of work – including textile sculptures and digitally woven jacquard tapestries – Frowijn weaves together past…

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    FRANCA SONNINO. THE THINKING HANDS

    From June 19 to November 8, the Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens – Agathonos 6 – will host the exhibition Franca Sonnino: The Thinking Hands, curated by Paolo Cortese and Francesco Romano Petillo. Three years after the major retrospective held in collaboration with MUACC in Cagliari, this exhibition, curated by Paolo Cortese and Francesco Romano Petillo, offers the Athenian public a curated selection of works spanning from the early 1970s to the present. The works on display provide a clear insight into the artistic journey of the Roman artist, rightly regarded as one of the mothers of Italian Fiber Art. In her early career, Franca Sonnino created large canvases, using acrylic…

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    ERNESTO NETO: NOSSO BARCO TAMBOR TERRA

    From June 6 until the end of July 2025, the Grand Palais in Paris will host Nosso Barco Tambor Terra, a monumental installation by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, created using hand-crocheted textiles, bark, earth, and spices. Produced by GrandPalaisRmn in collaboration with the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, the project is presented within the framework of the 2025 France–Brazil Season. Conceived as an immersive, walkable, and inhabitable environment, the work functions as a multisensory space that expresses a profound connection with nature. It explores the continuity between the human body and the body of the Earth through manual craft, organic materials, and ancestral techniques. Nosso Barco Tambor…

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    BIEN 2025: AIR

    BIEN is the textile art biennial that enlivens various locations across Slovenia, offering an international overview of contemporary textile art. The project comprises a widespread exhibition and a comprehensive program of community activities and knowledge exchange, highlighting the transformative potential of textile practices for individual well-being and social impact. The 2025 edition, taking place from May 31 to August 14, is dedicated to the central theme of “air” and will involve the cities of Kranj, Škofja Loka, Idrija, Nova Gorica, Gorizia, Tržič, and Jesenice. Recognized as Slovenia’s foremost event dedicated to contemporary textile creativity, BIEN 2025 is part of the official program of GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture.…

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    GARGOFANIE

    SCD Studio presents GARGOFANIE, a project room by Margherita Levo Rosenberg curated by Barbara Pavan, the third event of CASSANDRE, a multidisciplinary platform created to explore the many voices and perspectives of the contemporary female universe through exhibitions, site-specific installations, performances, and talks, running from March to November. Inspired by the mythological figure of Cassandra — symbol of unheard truths and marginalised voices — the project reflects on the role of women today, promoting artistic inquiry free from symbolic or commemorative constraints. It is an invitation to reimagine the margins as spaces of possibility, inversion, and rebirth. Within this context emerges GARGOFANIE, a poetic and material investigation of thresholds and…

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    SFMOMA ANNOUNCES GLOBAL DEBUT OF MAJOR RUTH ASAWA RETROSPECTIVE

    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, the first major national and international museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). Premiering at SFMOMA from April 5 through September 2, 2025, this first posthumous retrospective will feature the entire spectrum of the artist’s awe-inspiring practice. Sculpture, drawings, prints, paintings, design objects and archival material from U.S.-based public and private collections will offer an in-depth look at her expansive output and its inspirations, exploring the ways her longtime San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative universe, and highlighting the ethos of collaboration and inclusivity that informed her numerous public…

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    MARION BARUCH – UN PASSO AVANTI TANTI DIETRO (ONE STEP FORWARD, MANY BACK)

    The Museo Novecento in Florence presents “Un passo avanti tanti dietro” (One Step Forward, Many Back), the largest retrospective in Italy dedicated to Marion Baruch, a cosmopolitan artist and tireless experimenter. The exhibition, curated by Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli, will be open from March 15 to June 8, 2025, and extends to the spaces of the Manifattura Tabacchi and Polimoda, organizations that have actively collaborated in the realization of the project. The exhibition offers an in-depth overview of the artist’s research and journey, highlighting the consistency and versatility of her work. A fervent advocate for an authorship free from constraints, throughout her long career, Baruch has effortlessly explored different…

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    THE SACRED PLACE

    Aorta Social Art Gallery (Corso Italia 146) in Pisa, Italy, presents The Sacred Place, a solo exhibition by Chiara Giannini Mannarà, curated by Nadzeya Naurotskaya. This exhibition is conceived as an immersive and multisensory experience that intertwines traditional media, virtual reality, and digital mind-drawing, deeply exploring the dimensions of memory, myth, and ritual. At the core of the artist’s research lies the concept of the sacred as an experiential space — a place of connection between the individual and the collective, where archaic narratives merge with the language of contemporary art. Through painting, textile art, multimedia assemblage, and digital experimentation, Giannini Mannarà constructs a fluid dialogue between the tangible and…

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    PANNEGGI

    The Prato-based artist Chiara Bettazzi inaugurates the new exhibition season at Lottozero in Prato, Italy, with the exhibition Panneggi, a project that marks the beginning of a cycle dedicated to Soft Sculpture, the central theme of the center’s 2025-2026 program in art, design, and textile culture. Curated by Alessandra Tempesti, Panneggi presents a series of previously unseen photographs taken between 2022 and 2025, in which fabric becomes the central element. Bettazzi’s work moves beyond the realm of still life to approach the tableau vivant, establishing a refined dialogue between painting and sculpture. Fabric, once a mere scenographic element in her previous installations and sculptural compositions, now becomes an autonomous material,…

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    INTRINSIC BEAUTY: CELEBRATING THE ART OF TEXTILES

    Exquisite artworks created worldwide over the last two thousand years will be on view in “Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles” at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, February 22 through June 14, 2025, as The Textile Museum — a leader in the study and appreciation of textiles—begins celebrations for its centennial year.  “Each of 60 spectacular works in this exhibition selected from our collections of more than 25,000 textiles exemplifies the ‘intrinsic beauty of design, color, and technique’ so prized by The Textile Museum’s founder George Hewitt Myers,” said John Wetenhall, director, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. “They set the stage for our next century…