Contextile 2022

We are designing and preparing the 6th edition of CONTEXTILE – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, which will take place between the September 3rd and the October 30th, 2022.

Guimarães will once again be the host city for this edition – Contextile 2022 – combining the 10 years of the biennial’s existence simultaneously with the 10 years celebration of Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture.

Ten years later, and with 5 editions already held, the Biennial is recognized as an international reference in the ambit of contemporary textile art. But, it is also an unique cultural and artistic event, that transforms Guimarães, and the Vale do Ave region, into the epicentre of a process of interaction and connection between artists, creators, communities, industry and territories, thus contributing to the strengthening processes of the identity of the place, encouragement to creativity and innovation and valorization of the textile culture.

Counting, from the beginning, with the partnership and support of the Municipality of Guimarães, DGartes and the textile industry, CONTEXTILE 2022 will occupy the various cultural spaces and public areas of the city, always with the aim of promoting the best of what is done in contemporary textile art in Portugal and in the world and to encourage the artistic creation, using textile as reference.

The growing adherence of the national and international communities to our challenge to place textile in the context of contemporary artistic creation, has been surpassing all predictions, and it is with this great expectation (of growing adherence and participation) that we are preparing the Contextile 2022 programme. A programme enlarged in form and content.

Similarly, we bet on a greater presence in the communities of this territory, which we want to affirm, of textile culture.