CONSTANZA CAMILA

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/ 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

SELECTION GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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, New York City

2024 The Salon by NADA, art fair, with Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Paris

2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, curated by the American Tapestry Alliance, Peeler Art Center, Greencastle/Indiana, USA

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 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 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, art fair, group booth with 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 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

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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

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 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, exhibition catalog by the American Tapestry Alliance, USA

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

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