A festival of textile-based art 

June – August 2024

with: Yassine Balbzioui, Goldendean, Philipp Gufler, Nora Hansen, Emalohi Iruobe, Ernest Cedi Kankam, LRRH_, Emmanuel Ndefo, Bubu Ogisi, Charlotte Pohle, Hugo Holger Schneider

Woven by:
Miriam Bettin (curator), Katharina Fink (director Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral), Elmar Hermann (Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein)

Venues:
@neuerkunstvereinmittelrhein
@artist.residency.balmoral
@arpmuseum

The festival interweaves several event formats at three exhibition venues. With a focus on the queer-feminist history(ies) of textiles, the festival presents contemporary artistic strategies of textile-based art and their subversive potential. 

Program (excerpt)

21.6.24, 6pm
Opening
Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Rasselsteingelände, Neuwied

29.6.24
from 1pm
Balmoral Lab: Immersion
Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems

from 8pm
The Opulence of Subversive Threads. A ballroom immersion with Adelle Nqeto, Trashure @adellenqeto
Marmorsaal, Bad Ems

2.7.24, 6pm
Lecture Conversation: Theo Eshetu @theoeshetu
Kunsthochschule Mainz

9.7.24, 5pm
Artist talk: Emalohi Iruobe and Yassine Balbzioui moderated by Miriam Bettin, Katharina Fink and Julia Wallner
Arp Museum Rolandseck

3.8.24, 3pm
Performances: Emalohi Iruobe & Adey Omotade, Bubu Ogisi
Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein

24.8.24, 6pm
Closing
Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein
Thanks to all artists and collaborators.

Generously supported by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Rheinland-Pfalz Ministerium für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Integration
@ifa.de