Angelica Falkeling (b. 1988, Degerfors, SE) is a queer visual artist from Sweden. With a background as a seam stress, they often depart from textile craft techniques. Angelica create site-specific installations and exhibitions by patching fabrics together and constructing three-dimensional collages in space. They work across a wide range of mediums: collage, drawing, performance, music, sculpture, textiles and video. They approach fiber arts as a decorative, material and relational practice and therefore often collaborate with others and host events in communal spaces. In their practice they connect vulnerability, hard (metal) and soft (textile) materials, and skilled and unskilled labor as joint sequences in their installations. Through the employment of DIY aesthetics, cable ties and plastic recycling techniques they develop methods that solve problems on-site and in exhibition settings. Angelica regularly enjoys learning new skills, also in order to avoid becoming an outsourcing middleman. By working with hobby materials, textile crafts and DIY solutions in the scale of the domestic, they enjoy paying attention to textural play and logistical chaos.
Born into a working-class family who was taught to forget everything, they imagine what their forgotten folklore aesthetics might have looked like if it had been continued. Angelica has a theoretical foundation in decolonial, queer, and feminist future-making. In a broad sense, their research focuses on tacit knowledge, generational trauma, seasonal thinking, storytelling, and garment history.
Their work has been exhibited and performed at De Appel, Textielmuseum Tilburg, Het Nieuwe Instituut, CCA Glasgow, CAC Brétigny, SIGNAL – Center for Contemporary Art Malmö, Rib Rotterdam, Temporary Gallery and Tensta Konsthall. They have been a resident at Cripta747 and 18th Street Art Center. They graduated with a Master of Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute (2017) and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Malmö Art Academy (2014).
Hause of Fibre
"Haus of Fiber" is the result of a unique co-creation process. We wanted to create an exhibition about the role of textiles in the work of artists from the LGBTQIA+ community, and this story is naturally best told by queer artists themselves. "Haus of Fiber" not only shows how contemporary artists use textiles in their work but also offers a historical perspective.
Life with Fifi
Life with Fifi: Book reading and workshop
15:00 AM – 17:00 PM
On Sunday 25 May, the book presentation of Life with Fifi will take place in de Appel, a book for all ages written by writer and curator Kris Dittel and artist and designer Angelica Fakeling. In the presence of the dog Fifi, Kris and Angelica will read from the book and share reflections on what it means to care for another being and to enter their world.
Life with Fifi
Book presentation
16.00 - 18.00
In this book, we narrate a day in the life of Fifi, from the moment she wakes up to when she falls asleep at night. Along the way, we share how we connect with her, how we see her understanding her surroundings and what she has taught us about companionship.
Published by _BÖKS, Edition of 350
Authors: Kris Dittel, Angelica Falkeling
Copy editor: Clem Edwards
Design: Amy Suo Wu
Photography: Lili Huston-Hertreich
Moving Out Party I Multi-Avond
Above the Couch
Above the Couch is a solo exhibition consisting of drawing, paintings and textile works.
Kleurstoff
Tacit Knowledge is a video installation commissioned by the Textielmueum, Tilburg, as part of the group exhibition; To Dye For, curated by Adelheid Smit. To Dye For as a whole, delve into the origins of and stories behind the dyes in our textiles.
The Herbarium as a place for storing ideas
The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice.
A Malmö Trilogy Chapter I: Armaturer
group exhibition together with Sara Lindeborg and Selma Sjöstedt. The artists have been invited to work on one exhibition which will be told in three chapters throughout the spring. Each chapter has a leading voice, yet each chapter is the sum of a collaborative exploration that guides us through the multiple folds that compose a practice. Idiosyncratic, unexpected, inconsistent bare meanings we like.
The Hoodie
Het Nieuwe Instituut and curator Lou Stoppard have invited a range of artists to respond to the themes of the project with a new work created from their own individual perspective and practice. In their mixed-media installation What We Are Made Of, Angelica Falkeling looks at cotton: the material most hoodies are made from. Falkeling uses audio and sculptural elements to explore the cotton industry's impact on the societies it touches and our climate.
Emotional Channel
Rib welcomes Angelica Falkeling and Anna Łuczak as they present their latest work, Emotional Channel, the result of their residency at Skafftfell Art Center in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The presentation includes a live performance set on Friday November 30 and an exhibition the following two days.
Repair
Repair is set in a TV studio during rehearsals for a talk show. The director, guests and musicians get involved in a conversation whose script is based on spontaneous events, conversations and educational TV programs. The starting point of the performance is the figure of the 'joykiller', a feminist concept with which theorist Sara Ahmed designates someone who does not adhere to the conventions that are supposed to deliver happiness and satisfaction, and thus opens space for new possibilities.