TLmag Special Editions

The new exhibition littala – Kaleidoscope: From Nature to Culture brings the history of the company together in one place in an unforeseen manner.

MAMC Saint-Étienne presents ‘I am the single work artist’, a retrospective of Hassan Sharif. The exhibition showcases Sharif’s diverse oeuvre, which spans painting, performance, drawing, installations, and sculpture, and highlights his position as a pioneer of Conceptual Art in the Middle East. 

The exhibition Textilités at the Old Slaughterhouses of Mons brings together over 60 works in an attempt to explore the meaning and pertinence of textiles.

Front Design is known for creating playful, avant-garde objects. Shifting between research-driven and experimental projects, the eponymous Swedish design studio embraces tactile and surprising elements to lend their designs a sense of magic.

Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté invents a poetic, geopolitical and cosmogonic language through compositions made of fragments of coloured textiles.

Pera Museum presents Etel Adnan: Impossible Homecoming, an exhibition bringing together sixty years of work by the eponymous artist and poet.

French designer Samy Rio creates objects that bridge traditional crafts and modern industrial processes through playful and functional material combinations.

Berlin-based designer Philipp Weber works with elemental materials to explore craft processes. TLmag speaks with Weber about emphasising process over outcome, and the relationship between maker and material.

A sculpture created by Guillaume Bottazzi was recently placed in Mallet-Stevens’ garden which attempts to modify our perception of the environment.

Atelier Ace announces Ace Hotel Brooklyn, which brings together artists, narratives, and materials that speak to both the building site and the city. Opening summer 2021, the hotel showcases a textile and fibre art program with local artists.

U.S. artist Jacqueline Surdell draws upon her background as an athlete and painter to create large-scale textile pieces that twist and expand beyond the confines of the frame.

Artist and designer Kiki van Eijk weaves a sense of wonder into her work, infusing everyday objects with something more than its intended purpose and inviting us into her rich imagination.