K R A M E R G A R F I A S
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RECENTLY
Independent Art Fair NYC, duo booth
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick
OPENING 08.05.2025
DURATION 08.05. - 11.05.2025
ONGOING
Textile Manifeste - von Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture, group show
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
OPENING 13.02.2025
DURATION 14.02.2025 - 13.07.2025
UPCOMING
ARCUS Pride by Clifford Chance
group show curated by Wilko Austermann
Cliffordchance Office Munich
OPENING 26.06.2025
CV
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, works and lives in Munich, GER; *born in Viña del Mar/ Chile
REPRESENTED BY
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York City & Bern/Switzerland
also working with
BIOGRAPHY
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias is a Chilean-German artist living and working in Munich. She holds a Master's degree in Conceptual Textiles from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. She also pursued philosophical studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, which inform her theoretical approach to materials and image-making.
Her practice centers on Jacquard weaving as a critical tool for investigating colonial narratives, spatial imaginaries, and material iconographies. Through layered cartographies, interrupted visual codes, and experimental textile structures, she creates works that challenge linear historiography and fixed representation. Residencies and research in Japan deepened her knowledge of plant-based dyeing and traditional techniques, reinforcing her interest in textile as a cultural and temporal medium. Her work has been shown internationally, including at ART BASEL Miami Beach, the Arts and Design Museum Toyama (JP), Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick (CH), and exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, and New York.
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/ DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Independent, art fair, duo booth with Ada Friedmann,
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, NYC
2025 Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, Switzerland
2024 Ha! Patagón!, Instituto Cervantes München, 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 Textile Manifeste - von Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture, curated by Sabine Flaschberger, The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
2024 Radiant Currents x Saloon Munich, curated by Gretta Louw,
Curt Wills Foundation, The collectors Atelier, Munich
2024 The Art of Seeing x mirror, curated by Anne Kaerst, Munich
2024 Meet me here tomorrow (again), ALL STREET Gallery,
curated by Heike Dempster, NYC
2024 The Salon by NADA & The Community, art fair, with Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Paris
2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, curated by the American Tapestry Alliance, Peeler Art Center, Greencastle/Indiana, US
2024 Highlights International in the Munich Residenz, art fair,
with Wunderkunst, curated by Mon Muellerschoen, Munich
2024 Rooms in Rooms, Ear Ear projects, curated by Min Shin &
Jisu Kim, Munich
2024 Wilde Welten, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn & Wunderkunst,
curated by Mon Muellerschoen, Munich
2024 Kunst Aktuell, curated by Olena Balun, Kunstverein Rosenheim & Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, Germany
2023 Hidden Future, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt,
Praterinsel, Munich
2023 WE CAN BE HEROES, curated by Mon Muellerschoen
& Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Munich
2022 ART BASEL MIAMI, art fair, group booth with Gallery
Kendra Jayne Patrick New York/ Bern, Miami
2022 Quieter than silence, private group exhibition, Venetia Initiatives, Greenwich Street, NYC
2022 The creative room #2, a.topos Venice, Fondamente dei Penini, Venice, Italy
2021 Chilean Conexión Festival, Monopol Areal Reinickendorf, Berlin
2021 Ambactia Memoria, SOMOS Art house space, curated by
Vanesa Peña Alarcón, Kottbusser Damm, Berlin
2021 Traverse, online group exhibition, curated by Daniela Galan, 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
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
CASH APP Collection, Philladelphia & St. Louis, US
Rashid Johnson Collection, US
Anne-Celine Donnersberg Collection, Paris
Anja & Matthias Ottmann Collection, Munich
Buchberger Collection, Munich
AWARDS
2024 CEU loves Kunst Art Award, Club of European Business Women
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 (selection)
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 & 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
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
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/ Press (selection)
2025 HYPERALLERGIC.com: Downtown New York Shines at the Independent Art Fair, author Lisa Yin Zhang, online magazine, US
2025 ARTNET.com: Works to Remember From Independent’s Elegant 2025 Edition, author Ben Davis, online magazine, US
2025 The Collective: Issue No. 8, artist portrait and interview by Dr. Kathy Battista, print magazine, Switzerland
2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, exhibition catalog by the American Tapestry Alliance, US
2023 ARTSY.net, 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This December, author Maxwell Rabb, online magazine
2023 LES NOUVEAUX RICHES, online magazine, press release on DebütantInnen show, Austria
2023 ART IN AMERICA, New talents 2023, May issue, author Emily Mc Dermott, print magazine, US
2022 ARTSY.net,10 best booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, author Ayanna Dozier, online magazine
2022 H.O.M.E., artist portraitat, author Gaby Czöppan, 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