ARTAPESTRY6 Exhibition Catalog
Venues

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad

Hurray! Again, we are able to present ARTAPESTRY to a Danish audience. During the last three years we have been asked many times by our visitors when the show would return. Now the time is up and ARTAPESTRY6 is here showing us what is going on at the contemporary tapestry-scene in Europe. We thank ETF for once again letting us host this exhibition.

This time the whole Art Centre will be filled with tapestries: Together with the brand new tapestries from ARTAPESTRY6 chosen to show us what creative European weavers are working with, we will present a historic exhibition from the collections of Atelje 61 in Novi Sad, Serbia. The workshop has existed for 60 years now, founded in 1961, and has during these years with the work of many professional weavers made tapestry based on artists’ cartoons.

We hope that the two exhibitions will complement each other in a way that gives an impression of both tradition and innovation in this ancient craft that is still developing and showing new surprising trends.

The purpose of the Art Centre Silkeborg Bad is to communicate pictorial art. The institution presents artists from all over the world and exhibitions with internationally relevant themes and it provides a meeting-place for Danish and foreign art. Space is created for interdisciplinarity along with possibilities for dialogue between art forms.

Dorte Kirkeby Andersen
Curator at Art Centre Silkeborg Bad

6th February – 18th April 2021 
Denmark: ArtCentre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg 

Kulturcentrum

Kulturcentrum Ronneby was originally built to house the offices, storage spaces and packing central for Kockums Enamelling factory, active from 1856 to the mid-seventies. Kulturcentrum arranges about 10-15 exhibitions each year with national and international contemporary art, design and fine crafts. The exhibition area measures 1500 m2 in total. The Cultural Centre is thereby one of the largest arenas for contemporary art in southern Sweden.

Artist’s workshops in enamel, graphics and textile intended for professional artists and schools are situated in the building. The Kulturcentrum collaborate with the County of Blekinge and Konst i Blekinge in holding residency programs, exhibitions, art pedagogy, conferences and to develop the Cultural Centre into a regional hub for artistic resources that supports the art environment and strengthens the possibilities for artists to work in the county.

Several exhibitions with textile in different techniques and expressions have been held in our galleries during the years. Tapestry, three-dimensional textile and interior textiles in the form of absorbents. Textile exhibitions attract, not least due to the strong textile tradition in the county of Blekinge, and we perceive an increasing interest among the young. We have previously shown two instalments of Artapestry and look forward to the third. Kulturcentrum Ronneby are proud to house Artapestry6 in 2021 and are convinced that it will attract visitors both from Sweden and our neighbouring countries. We wish all the participating artists as well as visitors welcome to Ronneby.

Kirsti Emaus
Director of Kulturcentrum
Ronneby Kommun

13th November 2021 – 9th January 2022
Sweden: Kulturcentrum Ronneby Kunsthal, Ronneby

Museum of Central Finland

The Museum of Central Finland specializes in cultural history. It serves both as the town museum of Jyväskylä and the provincial museum of central Finland. It was founded in 1932 and is owned by City of Jysväskylä. Its permanent exhibition tells about the history of the province from the prehistoric times to the presents. 

In the museum’s permanent exhibition ‘Exploring Central Finland’ you can listen to the stories and memories as told by people from Central Finland, marvel at the beauty of the evolving environment, pop in to see a film, read comics about the early days of Jyväskylä, feel the magic of the smoke sauna and relive glorious moments of sports history, or immerse yourself in rap music. Children can play hopscotch and other traditional playground games, visit the old farmers’ market and create cave paintings using modern techniques. And what did Jyväskylä look like when Alvar Aalto was a young lad, over a hundred years ago?

When Alvar Aalto designed the main exhibition hall of the Museum of Central Finland in the end of 1950s, it was said that he had the traditional Finnish wall rugs, the that museum had in its collection, in mind. 

During the years, there has been many textile displays of Finnish textile artists in the museum, and a couple of group exhibitions made by The Finnish Association of Textile Artists TEXO. 

In the beginning of 2013, we had an opportunity to see modern European tapestry, when Artapestry3 exhibition was held in The Museum of Central Finland. Now, after nine years, we are eagerly waiting to see what is happening in the field of art tapestry and looking forward experiencing the Artapestry6 in Jyväskylä during the Summer 2022.

Heli-Maija Voutilainen
Head of Museum Services

3rd June - 4th September 2022
Finland: Keski-Suomen Museo (Museum of Central Finland), Jyväskylä