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is a Visual Art doctorate. She learned weaving in
Britany with Anne Fontaine. In 2003, she travelled
to Mali by herself to visit villages in Bandiagara
and observe Dogon’s practices of weaving and
spinning. ​As as sculptor, she deals with textiles (
sewn materials, crocheted forms with various kind
of threads, embroideries, weaving, vintage clothes
out of their ordinary use) combined with pieces
of wood or glass objects.​She realizes outside
performances mostly by the seaside and textile
installations.​She had an exchange with Hans
Peter Feldmann, conceptual German artist and she
sewed several clothes for him according to his short
proposition in Galerie Durand Dessert. Photos of
these dresses were reproduced in the big catalogue
for his exhibition at MEP Paris.​In 1995, she had a
correspondance with Louise Bourgeois about the
translation of sensations through materials and
writing practice.​Words and titles are very important
in her practice. She wrote poetry and some of her
texts were published in Le Journal des Poètes,
Belgium. She also wrote film analyses and articles
for Le Cinéma des Cinéastes, France Culture and
the review CinemAction.​References or allusions to
litterature are frequent in her textile works.​She has
been selected by MuseuTextil in April 2023. Next
collective exhibition will take place in November at
MACPARIS. Solo show at POCTB Orléans May/
June 2024.
GEORGIA FAMBRIS
Athens, Greece
INSTAGRAM: @penelope_left_the_building
WEBSITE: georgiafambris.weebly.com
Georgia Fambris (born in 1973 in Genoa ,Italy) is a
contemporary artist based in Athens (Greece) were
she moved since 1993. Fambris creates abstract
works that explore mostly female bodies in relation
with society’s conditions andobstacles. Her practice
includes principaly painting and tufting art, but also
ceramic and new media. She studied painting and
byzantine iconography and graduated from the
School of the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus Greece and
has worked as hagiographer in Greece, Cyprus
and the United States. Since 2012 her artistic
process focused on seeking that imaginary which
is potentially equivalent to her own subjective view
. The painter’s world is occupied by narratives with
logical or ‘absurd’ symbolisms and an expressionist
tension, aimed at ‘sabotaging’ the anticipated
rendering of the female form with humour, subtle
irony and an inner sensibility; she comments on
the stereotypical female image as constructed
by the fashion industry and adopted by society,
proposing instead the recognition of uniqueness
and self-definition. She has held 4 solo exhibition
and participated in more than 20 group exhibition in
notable galleries and museums in Greece , Italy and
abroad such as the National Archaeological Museum
of Athens, the Byzantine Museum of Culture of
Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of
Palermo ,the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa
Croce in Genoa and Art Madrid, SWAB, as well as at
the 6th Athens Biennale, among others.
GUACOLDA
Paris, France
INSTAGRAM: @guacolda
WEBSITE: guacolda.com
Guacolda is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she has since taken on all
mediums, painting, engraving, photography, and
finally embroidery, which she continues to confront
and reinvent. His works are present in various
private and institutional collections. She lives and
works in France near Paris.
Her work is presented in the book “ From Thread
to Needle” by Charlotte Vannier.From Thread to
Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art https://amzn.
eu/d/fj8xJBA
GÖZDE JU
Frankfurt and Main, Germany
INSTAGRAM: @gozde_ ju
WEBSITE: gozdeju.com
Born in Adana/Turkey in 1992. Following her
graduation from a Fine Arts High School in 2009,
Gözde Ju started studying in the Faculty of Fine
Arts at Anadolu University. She graduated from
the Printmaking and Painting departments (double
major). In 2018, she obtained her master’s
degree with the thesis on “ Spatial Searches
in Contemporary Printmaking Art”. Her master
thesis focused on the evaluation of Printmaking in
the context of space and contemporary art. The
artist took part in various exhibitions in different
countries. She continues to work at her studio in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In the most general
form, she uses different materials such as found
photographs, textile as a tool in her works aiming to
touch upon the issues of identity, culture, memory,
gender and belonging. The artist is researching
the relationship of concepts such as memory and
culture with space. Gözde Ju aims to point out the
reality and uncertainty of women’s memories, past
and consciousness by benefitting from the found
photographs and dowery. She also aspires to make
roles of women and concepts of identity, gender and
memory questionable.The objects that she uses,
beyond being only remembrance, express the sociocultural
content. These make cultural memory which
is anchored in the time and space visible.
Selected Shows: 2023 “Bien” Textile Art Biennial
2023 ,The Museum of Škofja Loka, Kranj, Slovenia;
2023 “Enable”, Presented by Eulengasse,
Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm,Sweden;
2023 “Reconsider”, Municipal Gallery of Gjilan,
Eulengasse Gjilan, Kosovo; 2023 “Home Coming”
Group Show, Kairos Gallery, Embassy of Ireland,
Istanbul,Turkey; 2023 “An und Ab Wesenheit”
Group Show, Atelierfrankfurt Projekt Raum,
Frankfurt, Germany; 2022 “They Belong To Me”
Bureau D`Art Et De Recherche, Roubaix, France;
2022 The Platform Project International Art Fair
“Stranger To”, Athens, Greece; 2022 “Here We Are”
Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany;
2019 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, Art Exchange Week, Nanjing, China;
2019 5th Contemporary Art Project Competition,
CerModern Museum, Ankara, Turkey; 2018 Anadolu
Uni.Printmakig Department,School of Art Changzhou
University, Changzhou, China; 2017 Arbeitswelt
und Undustrialisierung Anatoliens, LVR Museum,
Solingen,Germany; 2016 Artists For Nature, Society
of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London, England;
2016 Bugünden Yarına, CerModern Museum,
Ankara, Turkey.
IPHENO
Limassol, Cyprus
INSTAGRAM: @ipheno__
Iphigenia Papageorgiou was born in Cyprus and
her work involves the ‘Street’ style as she prefers
to contribute to public spaces with her embroidery
installations on the walls. She has found her own
special way of creating portraits on metallic fence
using upcycled fabrics. It is a long process using
this thread-pattern though she finds it challenging to
finish one piece and watch the outcome. Iphigenia
graduated in 2011 from UCA (Canterbury) with
BA(hons) Fine Art and from Kingston University
with Masters in Arts in 2012. She finds inspiration
in people related to every day life and society.
Meanwhile she is playing around with shadows
being created depending on the daylight. You can
find her work at several places in Limassol at the
moment. She likes to leave her mark wherever she
tis travelling to like she did in Greece and Paris.
IRINA LAAJA
Malmo, Sweden
INSTAGRAM: @irina.laaja
WEBSITE: irinalaaja.com
Irina Laaja, b. 1989, is originally from Vasa, Finland.
She took her Masters degree in Fine Arts from
Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2020, and her
work has been shown in various group exhibitions
in Sweden and internationally, as well as in solo
exhibitions such as ReTramp Gallery Berlin (2017),
Galleri Majkens Stockholm (2018), RYMD Gallery
Reykjavik (2019), Galleri Alva Umeå (2022) etc.
She has received grants and awards including The
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2020), First Prize
Winner of New Emergence Art Unity Award (2020),
and others. Irina is currently living and working in
Malmö, Sweden.
JASON KRIEGLER
Mexico City, Mexico
INSTAGRAM: @jasonkriegler
WEBSITE: jasonkriegler.com
BIO
Kriegler’s work has been exhibited both within the
U.S. and internationally.
He currently lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
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While in art school in the mid 80’s, Kriegler was
intrigued by the rising textile artists, contemporary
art and modernism that were changing the art
scene; especially Bauhau and Black Mountain
College where new ideas and techniques were
being challenged and created. Influences of his work
were and are abstract modernist artists; Dubuffet,
Anni Albers, Bryce Marden, Anslem Keifer, Franz
Kline, El Anatsui, Helen Frankenthaler, Sheila Hicks,
Ruth Asawa, Julie Mehretu and Cy Twombly to
name a few. These artists influenced his work and
helped push the boundaries of what textile art or
fiber art is. Painting and textiles can the both be
intertwined, infused.
‘Not the norm’ of traditions. i.e. hand embroidery into
paper rather than traditional fabric.
He began as a traditional painter then made the
transition to mixed-media, using found
objects and materials in the early 90’s.
Over the past 10 years, he began using embroidery
or stitching into different mediums to create modern
contemporary dimensional forms based on his
experiences traveling, living and learning about
techniques old and new through the making of
textiles.
Receint Exibitions: 2021, Solo Show, Oliva Gallery,
Chicago, Usa; 2021, Group Show, Studio Ima,
Mexico City, Mx; 2022, Group Show, Galeria Patate,
Mexico City, Mx; 2022, Solo Show, Flux Lab, Mexico
City, Mx
JULIA COUZENS
Clarksburg, California
INSTAGRAM: @julia_couzens
WEBSITE: juliacouzens.com
Julia Couzens has exhibited drawings, sculpture,
and textile-based constructions in scores of museum
and gallery exhibitions throughout the United
States and internationally. Couzens received her
M.F.A from University of California, Davis and has