K R A M E R G A R F I A S
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ONGOING
Woven Maps, Woven Lands (solo)
curated by Yara Sonseca Mas
Staircase Gallery Rosewood Hotel Munich
until October 2026
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
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 and studied philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, both of which continue to inform her approach to material and image-making.
Her work centers on Jacquard weaving as a tool for examining colonial narratives, spatial imaginaries, and material iconographies. Through layered cartographies, disrupted visual codes, and experimental textile structures, she develops works that question linear historiography and
fixed representation. Textile operates here not only as a medium, but as
a system through which images are constructed, translated, and reconfigured.
Residencies and research in Japan deepened her engagement with plant-based dyeing and traditional techniques, shaping her interest in textile as
a temporal and cultural medium.
Her work has been presented internationally in institutional and gallery contexts, including ART BASEL Miami Beach, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and the Arts and Design Museum Toyama, as well as exhibitions
in New York, Paris, and Munich.
Education
2020 Philosophy & Italian Studies, LMU University of Munich, Germany
2017 - 2019 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale, M.o.A. Conceptual Textiles, Germany
2012 - 2017 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale, B.o.A. Textile Studies, Germany
Solo/ duo exhibitions
2026 The Armory show, art fair, solo booth, Gallery Kendra
Jayne Patrick, NYC
2026 Woven Maps, Woven Lands, solo exhibition, curated by Yara Sonseca Mas, Staircase Gallery Rosewood Hotel, Munich
2025 Independent, art fair, duo booth with Ada Friedmann,
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, NYC
2025 backwards along the river, 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)
2026 Scythia - 16th International Biennial on Textile and Fibre Art,
Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine
2026 Latinovision, group exhibition with Latin American artists, curated
by Azalea Ortega Flores, LEFTBANK Gallery, Vienna
2025 Fäden schaffen Welten, curated by Janine Erkel, Women´s
Museum Wiesbaden (Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden), Germany
2025 Textile Manifestos - from Bauhaus to 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 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
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
2021 Traverse, online group exhibition, curated by Daniela Galan, AMALGAMA Art. Ltd, Paul Street, London
2021 International KOGEI Award exhibition, Art & Design Museum Toyama, Japan
Collections
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
CASH APP Collection, Philladelphia & St. Louis, US
DKV Mobility Group SE Collection, Ratingen, Germany
Rashid Johnson Collection, US
Anne-Celine Donnersberg Collection, Paris
Anja & Matthias Ottmann Collection, Munich
Buchberger Collection, Munich
(March 2026)
hyperMaterialities (2023)
Artist cataloge
Reweaving Territories (2026)
Project-series cataloge
Awards
2025 Bavarian Atelier Award 2025, granted by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Munich
2024 CEU loves Kunst Art Award, Club of European Business Women, Munich
2023 Debutants Young Talent Award, BBK Munich & Upper Bavaria/ Association of Visual Artists, Munich
2022 Portrait ART incubator Special Award, Portrait Art Venice & a.topos Venice, Italy
2021 Honorable Mention Award, International KOGEI Award, Toyama, Japan
Grants/ residencies (selection)
2026 USA Fellowship for a 6-month residency in US in 2027, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Munich
2025 Ngüren 1km, HVB KunstCube (UniCredit Art Program),
curated by Tinatin Ghughunishvili-Brück, HypoVereinsbank, Munich
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
Artist books
2026 Reweaving Territories: Subverting colonial landscapes
through textile practice, artist monographie/cataloge, 10 copies
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
2025 State of play, commissioned work for NIKE´s Womens Retail store, Kings Road, London
since 2022 Part of the lesbian DJ duo tender cousins, performing for FLINTA+ events as a contribution to the LGBTQIA+ community in Munich
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
Bibliography/ Press (selection)
2026 AD MAGAZINE online, „Various Others“ 2026: Diese Kunst-Ausstellungen und Galerien in München sollten Sie sich vormerken, by Sara Berardi, Ulrich Clewing, Anna-Lena Reith
2025 Textile Practices - 40 Female Artists and Designers from Europe, by Stehpanie Kahnau, Arnoldsche Art Publishers
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 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