The Textile Heritage Research Environment expands with an Artist-in-Residence Programme

Matilda Dominique and her installation "I Want the Weave to Become a Room", 2023. Photo: Elin Sylwan

The Textile Heritage research environment, led by Professor Maja Gunn, is launching an artist-in-residence programme, enabling artists to work in Konstfack's facilities and textile workshops. Textile Heritage is a research environment within artistic research funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025–2031) and aims to investigate museum textile collections.

In March 2026, we welcome textile artist Matilda Dominique, who will work with weaving and our technically advanced TC2 jacquard loom, drawing on the textile collection of the Nationalmuseum. In April, Sámi artist Katarina Spik Skum and Zambian artist Banji Chona will participate, in collaboration with the Museum of Ethnography and Southnord. In autumn 2026, the Swedish-Chilean artist Valeria Montti Colque will join the programme. The outcomes of the artist-in-residence programme will be published in a book at the end of the research environment's project period.

Through the residency programme, practising artists are given the opportunity both to engage deeply with museum collections and to explore collections, textile techniques and materials through material processes.

"Konstfack is a place with extensive artistic and technical expertise in textile practice, and we know that many artists are keen to spend time and work in our workshops. It therefore feels particularly rewarding to be able to realise this residency programme," says Professor Maja Gunn.