5th International Biennial of Textile Art
Buenos Aires Argentina

The 5th International Biennial of Textile Art will be held from April 1st to 25th, 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, organized by the World Textile Art Organization (WTA).

The 5th International Biennial of Textile Art places its attention on those artists who choose to express themselves through fibers and weaving , resignifying through their work the concept of Textile Art, by taking away all boundaries and making it explode into many meanings and connotations. Overstepping boundaries and combining different disciplines, those artists participating in the 5th International Biennial of Textile Art start from the mere fibers to merge into new technologies, venturing to follow new lines of investigation, fusing their quests and challenging categorizations but keeping the soul of textile materials as the integrating element.

An international call for the reception of work proposals has been carried out. The assembly closed on September 29th, being received 467 proposals of national and international artists from 48 countries. A selection of these works in charge of a prestigious international jury will be exhibited in the Palais de Glace from April 1st to 25th.
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WTA is a non-profit organization, founded in 1997, with headquarters in Miami, USA, that has already organized four Biennial Exhibitions in Contemporary Textile Art, both in the United States and in different countries in Latin America with the participation of international artists and juries. The city of Buenos has been chosen as venue to host - for the first time – the fifth International Textile Art Biennial Show which in the next month of April will gather several and varied shows, lectures and workshops to be conducted by both foreign and local well known artists and which will take place in a variety of metropolitan museums, art and cultural centers and art galleries.-The ‘Palace de Glace’ will be the main venue within the whole cycle which will take place from April 1st to April 25th, 2009 in the hosting city of Buenos Aires. Works coming over from all over the world and previously selected by Cuban born Lilian Llanes, representing Havana University; by the Dutch Beatrijs Sterk, creator of European Textile Network – ETN as well as Argentinean born Graciela Cutulli – researcher for the University of Buenos Aires -UBA – will be currently shown in the building of the ‘Recoleta’ neighborhood.-

There will also be different shows held in parallel which will take place in the following venues:
The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship The Investment Federal Council Caat – Argentinian Center of Textile Art AMIA – Argentine –Israelite Mutual Association
Several Cultural Centers such as:
“Borges” “Plaza Defensa” “Recoleta”
Several Architecture Museums such as:
“The Architecture” “José Hernandez” “Sivori” as well as in the National Museum of the History of Costume, the MNBA National Museum of Beaux – Arts and in the Decorative Art Museum.
The whole cycle includes a series of Seminars and Workshops about traditional and ‘Avant-garde’ techniques, workshops, round-tables a forums for discussions; Talk shows addressed by both local and foreign spokespersons, as well as traditional and contemporary textile art exhibitions.-
This Biennial - which since the year 2000 has have its own correlated events in the United States, Venezuela and Costa Rica – includes among its highlights the awarding of a new edition of the “Olga Amaral” Price to one of the most prominent and distinguished figures of the local textile environment

Objectives of the Biennial
• To promote textile art at an international level • To repositionate the term “Textile Art”, allowing all kinds of ways of expression • To generate changes in the educational structures, promoting schools for textile art and design as a factor of human and industrial development • To form a heap of textile art (today it has over 230 works by artists from 45 countries)
© WTA Organization

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NOMBRE ARTISTA
Schaaf-Giesser Beatriz • Sanchez Vera Magali •Thacker Parul •Londoño Miriam • Vobis Annalisa •Laura Taboada Maximo • Breyter-Gils-Groshaus-Martin-Miranda-Paz-Roldan • Pensel Maria Elena • Nikitina Olga • Turbiner Silvia • Clachar Seravalli Karen • Oggero Beatriz • Ringeliene Lina • Tossoni Delia • Jakubowicz Berta • Van Lindenberd Margot • Circle Joanne • Cañas Maria Eugenia • Tanguy Maité • Constantino Laura Taboada • Anne Elizabeth • Zlatkes Ana • Dusi Inge • Btesh Marina • Hau Ray Kok-man • Schneck Noemi • Rymberg Pupi • Neziroglu Firat • Neeltje Schoenmaker • Carballo Jimenez Dinorah • Fernandes Maria Theresa •Halpert Estela • Constant Maria Ester • Corcuera Teran Maria Silvia • Almodovar Cristina • Enes Oznur • Lumioksa-Hansen Sirkku • Streefkerk Hannah • Parmigiano Nelida • Taber Avila Susan • Piñeiro Maria Sara • Olaso Claudia • Algamiz Matilde • Mine Biret Tavman • Cavagnaro Andrea • Sued Nell • Fischer Andrea • De Las Carreras Silvina • La Oveja Perdida • Sayward Brown Emilie • Toussaint Gonzalez Georgina • Noreikyte Rasma • Romanella Teresa •Dragotta Susana Nancy • Jawerbaum Myriam – Budasoff Valeria • Ruthschilling Evelise Anicet • Hardesty Pamela • Mensch Julia • Garnier Ariane • Miyakawa Tomoko • Smith Mary Ruth • Materia Textil -grupo- • Lewis Linda • Kenyon Jane • Gerber-Senger Ursula • Van Steenaver Wendy • Ortiz Clara Eugenia • Arena Rosa • Natale Cecilia • Tabera Mónica Cristina • Contreras Claudia • Gulshat Jurayeva • Polischer Marcela Patricia • Westfall Carol D.• Nelken Julia • Wicki Sabina • Parejo Mc Wey Natalia •Blanchard Denise • Saulle Graciela •Bendjeskov Evelyn • Ruiz de las Cuevas Patricia • Brett Alexander • Fargas Joaquin Alfonso • Stutz Gonzalez Laura • Tabakman Laura • Gatti Adriana • Gunnarsdottir Anna • Weinstein Trujillo Samuel • Caro Eugenio • Pazos Delfina Julia • Adragna Liliana • Cappelli Adriana • Baez Beatriz • Anna Goebel • Menendez Veronica Isabel • Gonzalez Virginia • Ortega Galvez Maria • Skuja Arta • Mazzola Claudia • Sachs Tana • Zak Mirta

Awards 5th International Biennial of Textile Art:
First Prize: Schaaf-Giesser Beatrix, Germany
Second Prize: Ortega Galvez Maria, Spain
Third Prize: Sanchez Vera Magali-Elisa, Uruguay

Mentions:
Anna Goebel, Poland
Anne Elizabeth, United States
Jakubowicz Berta, Argentina
Laura Maximo, Peru
Mensch Julia, Argentina
Noreikyte Rasma, Lithuania