Graduated from the Polish School of Reportage, Marta Kowalewska is an art historian and critic as well as the chief curator of The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland. Kowalewska has curated numerous contemporary exhibitions including Metamorphism. Magdalena Abakanowicz (2017-18), Rebellion of the matter (2017), 100 Flags for the Centenary of Polish Women’s Suffrage (with the 100 FLAG collective, 2019), Antoni Starczewski: The Idea of Linear Notation (with Grzegorz Musiał, 2022) and Threads of a New Spirituality (with Elisabetta […]
Sjouk Hoitsma studied Textile Art at the Academy for Visual Arts in Tilburg, the Netherlands then studied History of Art and Fashion at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. After working as a curator in fashion, textiles and cultural heritage at the City Museum of Rotterdam, she joined as a curator of art and design for the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 2020. She is currently in charge of the Dutch textile art and design collection there. Hoitsma has […]
The TextielMuseum is a dynamic and creative working museum located in a former textile factory in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is the only place in the world where textile design, art, fashion, industrial heritage and innovation come together. The combination of inspiring exhibitions, educational programmes and the TextielLab, which is specialised in textile research and production, makes the museum unique in its kind. The collection and exhibitions are integrated and form part of the comprehensive package of activities that the […]
Lottozero is an international centre for textile art, design and culture, based in Prato, Italy. It operates both as a creative hub and as a consultancy studio, working with designers, artists, brands and institutions and providing personalised services to anyone operating in the world of textiles, textile art and fashion. With a gallery, a shared studio and an open fab-lab, Lottozero’s activities in the field of contemporary art explore the multiple connections between art and textile material through the development […]
The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (CMT), Poland opened in 1960, and is located in a former textile factory of classicist architecture. The museum presents textiles across a broad spectrum of meanings and ideas, combining the rich history of Łódź’s textile industry with the artistic vision of artists who propagated textile art in the world. The museum runs exhibitions, educational activities and interdisciplinary research projects. It has an impressive collection of textile art, fashion and objects related to the […]
Krystie Ng is a curator and researcher, born in Malaysia and currently lives in Hong Kong. Her research interests include collaborative art practices, cultural activism and ethnic relationships in the post-colonial context of Southeast Asia. Her recent project is Carving Reality: Contemporary Woodcut Exchange Exhibition from East Asia at The Back Room, in Kuala Lumpur (2020). She is also the co-founder of research collective Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group (2019 till now).
Lee Chun Fung is an artist, curator and researcher based in Hong Kong. His research interests cover self-organised art practices, grassroots activism and politics of aesthetics in inter-Asia context. He is the co-founder of community/art space ‘Woofer Ten’ (2009-15) and research collective Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group (2019 till now).
Hsieh Feng-Rong is a curator at the Planning Office of New Taipei City Art Museum. He was a founding staff member and senior curator of Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions curated by Hsieh include: Rehearsing the Future (2021), RAM HIGHLIGHT 2019: Before the Whistle Blows (2019), co-curated with Cosmin Costinas, Claire Shea and Billy Tang An Opera for Animals (2019), co-curated with Amy Cheng Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative (2018), RAM HIGHLIGHT 2018: Is It My Body? (2018).
Sasaki Gentaro has been working at Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (CAMK) as a curator since 2013. Sasaki is broadly interested in the cultural situation, history and society in the Asian region, with a particular focus on contemporary art in China. With the support of the Japan Association of Art Museums, Sasaki conducted field research on the state of contemporary art in Shanghai in 2017 and based on this research he organised Shanghai Beat: The Dynamism of the Contemporary Art Scene […]
Lee Yongwoo is a media historian and cultural studies scholar, currently affiliated as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught critical media and cultural studies of modern Korea, visual studies, film theory and popular culture in East Asia, intellectual history of wartime Japan and post-war Korea, Korean contemporary art, postcolonial memory, historiography and translation at New York University, Cornell University and Sogang University’s Critical Global Studies Institute. He has served as guest […]