Eyes, moons, and cats drift through the carpets of Christoph Hefti, where dreamscapes and masked creatures share the same woven surface. The Swiss textile designer is the subject of The Missing Cat and Other Textile Stories, a large-scale solo show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. It is the museum’s first major exhibition devoted to his work, and it is on view at the Ausstellungsstrasse location through January 3, 2027.
The Bittersweet is a solo show by Åsa Jungnelius at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. The exhibition is on view between August 22-October 3, 2026.
Contemporary textile art and design from the Collection Thalie is in dialogue with Leo Orta in Tissier les imaginaires, at the Fondation Thalie, in Arles, through July 31, 2026
Through 4 July 2026, La Verrière, the Brussels exhibition space of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, presents Extrazimmer, a solo exhibition by Caroline Achaintre, curated by Joël Riff.
Mudam Luxembourg presents Igshaan Adams: Between Then and Now, a comprehensive exhibition that traces the South African artist’s distinctive practice, one that is shaped by care, healing and community. The exhibition is on through August 23, 2026.
Running from November 8, 2025 to March 15, 2026, Glass: Transcending Matter. The Cirva Collections at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) offers an ambitious presentation of Cirva’s collections to date. The exhibition draws a rich dialogue between design, visual arts, and scientific inquiry through the singular lens of glass.
Roots is a monumental installation by Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi made from jacquard weaving and delicate Japanese washi paper yarns. The installation is on view at the Institut finlandais through February 21, 2026.
At Istanbul’s Pera Museum, Swedish artist Åsa Jungnelius presents A Verse Written with Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, an exhibition curated by Elif Kamişli. Known for her boundary-pushing glass works and feminist approach to craft, Jungnelius invites visitors to experience matter as both medium and message — where glass breathes, marble listens, and obsidian remembers.
Galerist presents Earth on Their Hands, a solo exhibition by Elif Uras that features a selection of sculptural vessels and ceramic plates that were made between New York and Turkey. The delicately painted, handcrafted vessels reveal layered stories about the invisible labour of women throughout time. The exhibition is on view through November 8th, 2025.
Lameice Abu Aker is a designer living between Jerusalem and Milan. She studied furniture design at the Politecnico in Milan, but a chance encounter with a generations-old family glass workshop in the village of Jaba, Palestine, inspired her to create Ornamental by Lameice, a wildly creative collection of glassware and tableware. TLmag spoke with Abu Aker about her creative practice, her fascination with the alchemy of glass and the history of glass-making in Palestine.
The Swedish Institute in Paris presents “Blazing Grace” a group exhibition of five leading glass artists whose work is reframing the legacy Swedish Grace movement and blazing a new future in Swedish glass. The exhibition is on view between September 3-September 21, 2025.
Berber rugs and weaving have gained enormous popularity in the last decades, but who are the people behind the rugs and what are the traditions and stories told within them? Mina Abouzahra curates “The Soul of a Rug,” an exhibition that sheds light into a community of weavers and their incredible talent as well as her own personal journey of discovery and craft.
