K R A M E R G A R F I A S
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ON VIEW
Galerie Wolfgang Jahn & Wunderkunst
curated by Mon Muellerschoen
group show, Munich
DURATION 26.06. - 03.08.2024
curated by Min Shin & Jisu Kim
Ear Ear projects, Munich
OPENING 25.07.2024
UPCOMING
Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, group show
curated by the American Tapestry Alliance
Peeler Art Center, Indiana, USA
OPENING 26.08.2024
CV
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, works and lives in Munich, GER; *born in Viña del Mar/ Chile
WORKS AVAILABLE THROUGH
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York City & Bern/Switzerland
BIOGRAPHY
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias holds a Master of Arts in Conceptual Textiles from the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Germany. In 2017 and 2018, she traveled to Japan to live with and learn from Japanese dyeing masters about traditional and ancient techniques for creating natural colors with plants. In her Munich laboratory, she experiments with materials on her tufting machine and develops unique Jacquard fabrics with manufacturers in Como/Italy. Due to her interest in combining her artistic work with philosophical theories, she studied philosophy for two semesters at the Ludwig Maximilians University during the Covid period.
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias's jacquard artwork from the HYPERISM (2019) project earned one of four Honorable Mention Awards from the prestigious International KOGEI Award 2020 and was presented in the esteemed Arts and Design Museum of Toyama/Japan. Her works were exhibited internationally at the ART BASEL Miami Beach, at Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick in Bern/Switzerland, and in local shows like the Chilean Conexíon Festival in Berlin and Galerie Wolfgang Jahn in Munich.
EDUCATION
2020 Philosophy & Italian Studies, LMU University of Munich, Germany (2 semesters during covid)
2017 - 2019 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale, Conceptual Textiles, Germany
2012 - 2017 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale,Textile Studies, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, Switzerland
2024 Instituto Cervantes, curated by Yara Sonseca Mas, Munich
2024 Drifting Textures, curated by Mon Muellerschoen, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Landshut, Germany
2023 Eat.Sleep.Drift.Repeat., PERG gallery, Ludwigsburg, Germany
2022 ALL SENSES ARE LOST, curated by Lorena Harauzek, NoDepressionRoom, Dachauer Str. 157, Munich
SELECTION GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Textile Manifeste - von Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture, curated by Sabine Flaschberger, Museum für Gestaltung Zurich, Switzerland
2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, curated by the American Tapestry Alliance, Peeler Art Center, Indiana, USA
2024 ALL STREET gallery, curated by Heike Dempster, New York City
2024 Rooms in Rooms, Ear Ear projects, curated by Min Shin & Jisu Kim, Munich
2024 Galerie Wolfgang Jahn & Wunderkunst, curated by Mon Muellerschoen, Munich
2024 Kunst Aktuell, Kunstverein Rosenheim & Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, Germany
2023 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich
2023 Debutants Young Talent Award, Galerie der KünstlerInnen, Munich
2023 It´s a material world, Pulpo Gallery & BERGSON, Munich
2023 Hidden Future, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Praterinsel, Munich
2023 Let nothing disturb you, Saloon Network, Schwere Reiter Theater, Munich
2023 WE CAN BE HEROES,Mon Muellerschoen & Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Munich
2022 ART BASEL MIAMI, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick New York/Bern, Miami
2022 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich
2022 Landscapes and Visions, Torre Civica, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
2022 Hoch-Zeit, curated by Christian Kölbl, Invalidenstraße 145, Berlin
2022 TACKER, Galerie der KünstlerInnen, Munich
2022 Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias/ Silvia Inselvini, Benjamin Eck Gallery, Munich
2022 1 Kasten, curated by Christian Kölbl, Schönwalder Strasse 44, Berlin
2022 Quieter than silence, private group exhibition, Venetia Initiatives, Greenwich Street, New York City
2022 The creative room #2, a.topos Venice, Fondamente dei Penini, Venice, Italy
2021 Am Ende gewinnt der Troll, Orangerie Englisch Garden, Munich
2021 Chilean Conexión Festival, Monopol Areal Reinickendorf, Berlin
2021 Ambactia Memoria, SOMOS Art house space, Kottbusser Damm, Berlin
2021 Traverse, online group exhibition, AMALGAMA Art. Ltd, Paul Street, London
2021 International KOGEI Award exhibition, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Japan
2021 International KOGEI Award exhibition, Art & Design Museum Toyama, Japan
COLLECTIONS
CASH APP Collection, Philladelphia & St. Louis, US
Anja & Matthias Ottmann Collection, Munich
Buchberger Collection, Munich
AWARDS
2023 Debutants Young Talent Award, BBK Munich & Upper Bavaria/ Association of Visual Artists
2022 Portrait ART incubator Special Award,Portrait Art Venice & a.topos Venice, Italy
2021 Honorable Mention Award, International KOGEI Award, Toyama, Japan
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
2024 Makerspace Workshop Artist Grant, Munich Urban Collab & Kompetenzteam Kultur & Kreativwirtschaft München
2024 Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Grant, Goethe Institute Munich
2024 International Summer Academy Salzburg, grant for workshop with Curtis Talwst Santiago, Salzburg
2023 Artist catalogue grant from the Erwin & Gisela Steiner Foundation, Munich
2023 Project grant from the Erwin & Gisela Steiner Foundation, Munich
2023 Artist catalogue grant from the Free State of Bavaria and the LfA Förderbank Bayern, Munich
2023 Studio grant from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, Munich
2022 Grants for artists by the Free State of Bavaria grant programme "Young Art and New Ways"
2021 Neustartkultur grant, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Germany
2021 The Artist and the others & Platform München, "Build your professional artistic backbone",summer training for emerging artists, scholarship, Munich
2019 Venetia Initiatives Art Residency in Maremma, Tuscany, Italy
2018 Natural dyeing Workshop at Studio Shikari, Okazaki, Japan
2017 Japanese Print Workshop at Studio Futaba in Tokyo, Japan
ARTIST BOOKS
2023 hyperMaterialities, artist monographie/cataloge, Design by Lukas Schimpfhauser, 500 copies
2023 Am Ende gewinnt der Troll, exhibition cataloge, Design by Neleka & Oliver Haussmann, 100 copies
OTHER PROJECTS
2022 Pshemek Kaminsky, performance artist, commissioned work for a textile artwork and a dance performance, Berlin
2021 Bavarian State Opera, Jacquardweaves development for the Idomeneo opera play for Costume Designer Victoria Behr, Munich
2021 Naumburg Kathedral, Jacquard weave development for altar fabrics, group project with Inka Schottdorf and Margarita Wenzel, Naumburg, Germany
2018 Guest Lecturer on Mapuche Textiles at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
2024 BUNTE, Mon Muellerschoen art column, exhibition review on Drifting Textures, printed magazine, Germany
2023 ARTSY.net, 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This December, author Maxwell Rabb
2023 LES NOUVEAUX RICHES, online art magazine, press release on DebütantInnen show, Austria
2023 ART IN AMERICA, New talents 2023, May issue, author Emily Mc Dermott, print magazine, US
2022 COSMOPOLITAN, May issue,interview by chief editor Lara Gonschorowski, print magazine, Germany
2022 BUNTE, Mon Muellerschoen art column, issues 51, printed magazine, Germany
2022 ARTSY.net,10 best booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, author Ayanna Dozier, onlinemagazine
2022 H.O.M.E., artist portraitat, author Gaby Czöppan,printed magazine, Germany
2022 flair.fashion forward, articel, author Gaby Czöppan,printed magazine, Germany
2022 VIVA MONACO magazine,artist portrait atvivamonaco.de online and print magazine, Germany
2022 The creative room #2 Utopia Dystopia,a.topos exhibition review at juliet-artmagazine.com, Italy
2021 International KOGEI Award exhibition catalog, Toyama, Japan