EXHIBITIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...

Hands of Korea
South Korea, extra european guest of honor
Exhibition curated by Chunghie Lee, together with Seong Hee Joo and Jiyoung Chung

Chunghie Lee, a renowned textile artist, is presenting 4 separate exhibitions describing the different aspects of Korean textile creativity and skills:
1. Pojagi & Beyond 2010 (curator: Chunghie Lee)
2. Korean Traditional Clothing (curator: Dr. Seong Hee Joo)
3. Beyond Quilt (curator: Chunghie Lee, advisor: Dr. Kyungae Wang)
4. Joomchi Exhibition (curator: Jiyoung Chung, advisor: Myunghee Oh)
Approximately 160 artworks made by 130 Korean will be introduced to the visitors: Korea’s deeply rooted (5,000 years) unique cultural heritage such as pojagi, quilts, joomchi and Korean Traditional Clothing will capture audience’s attention with their beauty and uniqueness.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY BERNINA INTERNATIONAL AG AND CHEONGJU INTERNATIONAL CRAFT BIENNALE

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Miao Costumes (China)
Exhibition curated by Pierre Trécourt

After a preview in 2009, Pierre Trécourt is back with his complete collection of Miao costumes.
Through 40 authentic pieces you will have the opportunity to discover the identity and heritage of this very particular minority living in South China.

// Ste Marie aux Mines – Espace des Tisserands -

2010 Nihon Vogue and JHIA (Japan Handicraft Instructor’s Association) (Japan)

The European Patchwork Meeting is very happy to welcome 12 traditional and 12 contemporary quilts selected amongst the 2010 finalists. The quilts have been made by Japanese artists to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the contest.
These large quilts have been exhibited for the first time in Tokyo in February 2010, and never been seen abroad yet.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE “EDITIONS DE SAXE”

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German Guild’s 25th anniversary
The contest « 25 » Germany, European guest of honour

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The “Patchwork Gilde Deutschland” has organized a contest on the theme: “25.” The quilts must measure 80x80cm minimum and 200x200cm maximum.
All the Guild members have been invited to participate and we surely can expect traditional and contemporary creations as well as art quilts.

// Ste Marie aux Mines – Eglise de la Madeleine

My Place
Exhibition curated by Dijanne Cevaal (Australia / New-Zealand / South Africa)

This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between New Zealand, South Africa and Australia to bring textile and quilt art to the respective countries. Each country made a call for entries interpreting the theme “My Place”. The work ranges from the personal, from city scape to landscape, from treasured objects and activities to the hopes and dreams for the future.
Thirty works were selected from each country on the basis of interpretation, execution, innovation and variety of technique.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE “CREDIT MUTUEL”

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« We are such stuff as dreams are made on »
Competition organized by Dörte BACH (Germany)

Based on the quotation from William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”, and in free adaptation, the artists integrated their favorite material and tools of the trade – fabrics – into poetry: words, lines, a poem, whereby the written form is not necessarily essential for expressing the spirit of poetry. They interpret a story with needle and thread and put on a “drama in three acts” as a textile work of art.

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Wide Horizons II
SAQA Europe & Israël
Presented by Elisabeth Nacenta de la Croix

SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) introduces « Wide Horizons II » open to its European and Israeli members only. At this biennale, the participants must present exclusively new works never seen before at any venue, a nice opportunity for our viewers to discover the work of renowned art quilt artists.
SAQA aims to help the development of art quilt worldwide by organizing prestigious exhibitions in Museums and Art Galleries. Its website is also updated with virtual exhibitions of its members.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY SEWN.EU, the quilters’ Portal of Europe

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The Amish and Mennonite world

• Multiple patch or “the art of economy”
Exhibition curated by Jacques Légeret (Switzerland)

The Amish didn’t invent the art of patchwork, but they certainly developed “the recycling art”. Not to waste any tiny bit of fabric is a perfect example of their life style made of modesty, austerity and lack of competition.
Through quilts discovered in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, some of them never seen before either in the USA or in Europe, Jacques Légeret will illustrate this “art of economy” so particular to Amish quilts.

• The Amish schism
Exhibition curated by the French Association of Mennonite Anabaptist History

This association will stage an Amish family evening as well as a Mennonite one, which since the Amish schism that occurred in the USA, differ from each other.
They will also present historical documents about the Mennonite Anabaptist and Amish movement dating from the 16th century Reformation together with a large panorama on Christian religions. You may also buy historical, religious or quilting books related to Amish and Mennonite communities and look at videos running continuously.

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EXHIBITIONS FROM ARTISTS...

“Color Improvisations” : International Invitational of contemporary Quilts, by Nancy Crow
Exhibition curated by Nancy Crow (United States)

Nancy Crow is probably the most noted quilt artist in the world. Her works are on display in numerous museums and galleries; her influence on a whole generation of textile artists is enormous. This exhibition owes to her choice its unique significance and its artistic up-to-datedness: Here we can experience the positioning of a genre looking with her eyes.
„Color Improvisations“ is a dedicated, focused and fresh group collection of contemporary quilts: 25 handpicked artists from North America and Europe have been invited to “improvise” on the topic of color in three to five quilts. The quilts are large, have never been exposed to the public before and are free of any conventional rule of patchwork. “Color Improvisations” will be afterwards on display in European museums and then continue to the United States.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY AURIFIL

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The Enchanted Gardens & Kaffe Fassett
Exhibition curated by Quiltmania

Amongst quilts from all over the world representing gardens, such as the Japanese garden, the Dutch garden, the garden of ancient flowers and the secret garden of Quiltmania, you will discover Kaffe Fassett’s world in a colourful and exuberant garden, a touching ode to joy.
Join us and get carried away by all the scents of this textile flower show!
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY QUILTMANIA

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The Fifth Season
Exhibition curated by Ina Statescu (France)

Once upon a time, there were two embroiderers fascinated by the light: Ina Statescu and Michiko Nomura used to hang the sun and the stars to their textiles…
In tribute to their friendship, Ina Statescu reveals the “Fifth Season” between dream and reality, poetry and music, a praise to the most beautiful landscapes – snow, flowers and butterflies – all made with love, without limits, profit or logic.
“Alas, nothing is eternal. I am alone now, my friend is in the sky and because she loved birds so much, I am sure she keeps them company. I would like to thank her for all the happiness she brought me and for the love of birds she passed me down.” Ina Statescu
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE “EDITIONS DE SAXE”

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Katriina Flensburg and her Quilt Academy of Swedish Students
Exhibition curated by Katriina Flensburg (Sweden)

Katriina Flensburg’s art work has been exhibited and published worldwide. Her quilts seen in this exhibition are a sample of her artwork from the last five years. Katriina’s Scandinavian roots and especially in Scandinavian functionalism have a strong impact on her work. Her quilts are often built on simple basic forms and of a few fabrics with strong colours and somewhat graphic character, which gives the quilts a parallel minimalistic and monumental look. Together with her own artwork Katriina exhibits a series of quilts named « Gustavian Splendor Quilts ».These quilts are designed by Katriina but sewn and quilted by her students from the Quilt Academy of Sweden (except one sewn by Katriina herself). Katriina’s started this very project being inspired by some reproduction fabrics from the Swedish 18th century. Katriina´s aim was to pick up the main characteristics from the Gustavian style and to transfer them in quilts, so that the work could be seen as « representative* » for that very era. (*neither quilting nor patchwork was commonly spread in Scandinavia then).

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Emotion in art
Exhibition curated by Ineke Van Unen (The Netherlands)

Ineke got fascinated by abstract art and loves to use this concept creating art-quilts and textile art. Emotions, feelings and moods are a constant source of inspiration, which she makes visible and tangible using sparkling coloured fabrics. The composition usually is enriched through hand-dies, paints, other materials, extra layers etc. Every piece of art originates from a wild chaos of colours and materials just kept in the boundaries of the framework, resulting in an abstract order of different shapes, which fall together like a puzzle revealing an art-quilt in its harmonic unity. All these elements catch the view of the spectators and lead them emotionally along in the piece of art.

// Lièpvre – Eglise de l’Assomption -

Textile Dialogue
Exhibition curated by Dörte Bach and Helga Widmann (Germany)

Dörte Bach and Helga Widmann have inspired each other over many years. Both developed their own textile concept and characteristic style. They have taken up the challenge of exchanging their works and ideas in an intensive textile conversation.
Dörte works as a textile artist, Helga creates artists’ books: the exhibition «Textile Dialogue» is the unique synthesis of their work.

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Vivace (United States)
Exhibition curated by Ludmila Aristova (born in Russia, resides in USA)

Ludmila Aristova’s “painting palette” consists of fabric and thread combined to create smooth color and design transitions within an abstract format. Her use of varied fabric textures produces a color spectrum ranging from rich to subtle in effect. While recognized for her signature prairie points, “wafering” and embellishments, Aristova nonetheless experiments with and applies new techniques to her art.
Vivace, her latest collection of work, derives inspiration from nature and the classical music and showcases her mastery with the “unraveling” of silks and ribbons.

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“Drunter & Drueber” (Under the surface)
Exhibition curated by Britta Ankenbauer (Germany)

The complexity of life and nature is the main subject of Britta Ankenbauer’s art. She uses a variety of materials and techniques, always related to and in connection with the situation and the subject of the quilt. For her, nothing has only one aspect. There are a lot of elements playing together to form the whole story. Her quilts are exploring the balance between showing the necessity of complexity and the struggle of shifting down the overloaded impressions of our multimedia world. Her quilting is like drawing, lines giving the last textural element to the complex quilt.

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Moments in Time
Exhibition curated by Alison Holt (England)

This exhibition of freehand machine embroideries by Alison Holt has been inspired by the countryside that surrounds her home on the English/Welsh border, an area that has a rich diversity of scenery. The embroideries are small scale, detailed and representational in style. She is a painter that uses threads, a fine artist that draws with a sewing machine. The range of imagery runs from woodland scenes through landscapes with mountains and waterfalls to seascapes. Encompassing the four seasons the work is about capturing moments in time with the skill of a fine artist who has the glorious addition of texture to play with.
Alison will be signing copies of her most recent book ‘Woodlands’.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY AURIFIL

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A Retrospective of The Log Cabin and its Variations
Exhibition curated by Brigitte Morgenroth (Germany)

Brigitte Morgenroth started quilting while living in Africa for nearly 10 years together with her husband. In those days quilting helped her to organize her life – today she can‘t live without it! Her favourite is log cabin and its variations; both enable her to achieve her ideas with different materials in a lot of colours. She likes to use doupion silk or polyester satin – creating beautiful effects in a rave of colours or uncoloured – the log cabins typical criss-cross technique gives a special light and shade effect.
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Born to Quilt
Exhibition curated by Véronique Requéna (France)

Through her quilts, Véronique Requéna takes us into her « Folk Art » world. We discover her favourite themes such as Jules the Labrador, houses, hearts, birds… her appliqué embellished with embroideries, buttons, in a traditional style more “Country” than ever and very “Born to Quilt”!
Not to mention her famous Mystery Quilt that will be exhibited here for the first time.
EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE EDITIONS DE SAXE

// Rombach le Franc – Eglise Ste Rosalie -

Handknitted insects
Exhibition curated by Saskia E.M van Dijk (The Netherlands)

The last few years, Saskia has been constructing boxes made of zinc, in which she presents hand knitted insect, shaped objects based on real life insects like bumblebees, dragonflies, caterpillars, grasshoppers and the like. You could also say mixed media, because besides knitting, all techniques will eventually come together during the process of making the objects. The concept of these ‘insect boxes’ shows her interest in museums’ natural science collections that present rows of dead insects and their labels.
// Ste Croix aux Mines – Verrière

AND ALSO...

The European Patchwork Meeting International contest :
« When materials collide »

Each year, by organizing a different contest, the European Patchwork Meeting tries to encourage all traditional or contemporary artistic and textile innovation. The 2010 theme invites all artists, while keeping the characteristics of a quilt in mind, to introduce any other material than fabric in their creations.
Jury: Gisèle Acker, Linda Colsh (president), Mirjam Pet-Jacobs.
Award ceremony open to the public: Friday September 17th at 2pm.

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French Patchwork Association

France Patchwork will present a selection of the contest « The Nature », a beautiful inspirational theme, a vast subject to discover and develop.
The works must measure 1 x 1m or have an equivalent surface; all techniques are accepted. This contest is organized jointly with the JHIA (Japan Handicrafts Instructor’s Association).Each country will present about 20 pieces.
The same theme will also inspire the “Jeunes poussent” making you discover all the creativity of children and young.
Also, in the same premises, an opportunity to discover antique quilts belonging to France Patchwork members.

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Nature
The French Cross Stitch association invites Marie-Thérèse Saint-Aubin

France Point de Croix is very proud to exhibit a retrospective of Marie-Thérèse Aubin embroideries.
After reproducing ancient alphabets from her family, Marie-Thérèse, a biology teacher, has adopted a more personal and refined style. You will discover how she is mainly inspired by nature and how she makes her creations look like embroidered watercolours.

// Ste Croix aux Mines – Presbytère

Characters from here and elsewhere
Val Patch (France) invites Sélest’Patch (France)

Valpatch will present the annual creations of its members on the theme « Characters from here and elsewhere.
Also, you will discover the mini quilts challenge based on “Greenlandscapes”.
Valpatch is sharing this wonderful experience with SELEST’PATCH by inviting them to exhibit 15 of their most beautiful quilts.

Patchwork and embroideries made by Air France flying attendees

This year we are happy to welcome a very special work: a fresco made of 100 embroideries and patchwork inspired by Asian designs. This piece made by Air France flying attendees has already been successfully exhibited at the French Embassy in Tokyo.

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The Red Power
Sitges Festival’s contest (Spain)

“The Red Power” has inspired over 130 quilters who entered the contest organized for the Festival of Patchwork in Sitges during spring 2010.
The members of the Spanish guild have selected colourful and vibrant pieces that had one thing in common: “Red”, a powerful and attractive colour.

// Lièpvre – Espace Exposition -

ASCLVL

The patchwork section of the Sport and Culture Association of the Val d’Argent presents the works of its adults as well as children and teenage members made between 2009 and 2010.

// Lièpvre – Presbytère