Contextile, Portugal 2022

Red Fungus. Installation view at Contextile
The work is made of hand – stitched viscose jersey and lace.

For its 10th anniversary, Contextile – an international biennial for textile and fibre art – invited Norway to be its ‘invited country’. The Norwegian Textile Artists’ Association (NTK), in collaboration with Norwegian Crafts, presented an exhibition of textile art from Norway.

The Norwegian presence at the biennale is spread out over three important cultural sites within the historic city of Guimarães: Museu de Alberto de Alberto Sampaio, Palacete Santiago and Museu da Sociedade Martins Sarmento, exhibiting projects by thirteen Norwegian contemporary textile artists including a variety of perspectives that together represents some of the concerns significant in Norwegian contemporary textile art. The exhibition was curated by Norwegian textile artist Málfriður Aðalsteinsdottir and the curator of Contextile 2022, Cláudia Melo, in collaboration with Janis Jefferies and Kiyoshi Yamamoto.