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Barbara Palandeng Munsel

textile, jewellery, cooperation, Ecology, Diversity, Diaspora, Decolonization, Conceptual, Artistic research, Archives

Inspired by culture and identity research, memory and loss, Barbara Munsel develops conceptual garments and experimental textiles from a strong narrative. Her work is about fragility and stratification, in which a current context, history or background can always be detected, whether consciously or not. She emphasizes the connection between people's perception and their relationship to their material context.
She often works with natural, old or antique materials and with residual materials.

Maison & Objet Paris January 2026
Maison & Objet Paris January 2026
(re)Discoveries Art Fair Amsterdam October 2025
(re)Discoveries Art Fair Amsterdam October 2025 - Wall panels from silk, cotton, natural dye, embroidery and screen print.
Assembly
Assembly - Antique silk, boro, rose petals, tea, embroidery.
Rotterdam Art Week 27-30 March 2025
Rotterdam Art Week 27-30 March 2025 - Community art tapestry In recent years, there has been an increase in the recognition and use of craft as a practice to promote mindfulness and wellbeing. Artist Barbara Munsel proposes that this contribution is rooted in material engagement, the creative act of making, and the social nature of craft. Barbara believes that experiential and social aspects of making foster the human(e) components of creativity and mindfulness through which craft can contribute to emotional satisfaction, social connection, and personal agency, and thus wellbeing. This tapestry was created under these circumstances. Co-creativity for this group was distinguished by a number of characteristic features, including empathic connections, a sense of equality and the generation of a safe space that enabled creative involvement and sharing.
Art Rotterdam 2024 - Location: former Unilever margarine factory on the Kaai, South Rotterdam.
Barbara Palandeng-Munsel - earth garments
Barbara Palandeng-Munsel - diaspora
Coat series 2021 - Food and plant waste on deadstock silk hand sewn coat.
Solo exhibition Gemaal op Zuid 2021 - Assembly with left overs.
Freedom - Textile assembly (2019) in collaboration with Mirjam Boomert included in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam with regard to the freedom theme.
'He who embraces too much holds on to little' Nov '21 - Solo exhibition about the urge to collect and overconsumption.
Kyoto Shibori Museum September 6-25 December 2023 Kyoto, Japan - Group exhibition Kyoto, Japan. Curated by Soude Dadras of Ongoing Conversation. The trilogy of 'Unfinished Time' is proudly supported by CBK funding. With Onvoltooid Worn Time, designer and artist Barbara Palandeng investigates how she can convey emotion through textiles. In her current practice she often responds sensorially and intuitively to the ever-changing spirit of the times. In order to think and create more freely, she finds it important to work less from the body and to push boundaries by placing her work in a different context and expressing it to maximum effect. With this research she focuses on overturning prejudices and other limiting ideas about 'style'. Indigo plays a central role here as a reference to the traditional dyeing process on the Indonesian island of Sumba, which has its origins in an occult art form as a protest against injustices against women.
Exhibition 'Uma nova poesia visual' Estaçao Viva - Group exhibition in the old railway station of Canelas, Portugal. Series of three textile panels with eco-print. Material: waste silk, plants and flowers.
'uma nova poesia visual' at Estaçao Viva, Canelas, Pt. - Hanging. Series of 3. Hand print, eco print, silk and cotton waste. Exhibition at the old railway station of Canelas Portugal.
Mi prani wan bon
Mi prani wan bon - I'm planting a tree #textile #weaving #dyeing #print #cloth #carpet
Entangled connections
Entangled connections - Project songketweaving; artistic research into ancient weaving techniques from Indonesia translated from the artist's practice. Made possible by CBK.

Rotterdam Art Week

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Location: voormalig graanfabriek Codrico

RAW groepsexpositie Expo Codrico

Rotterdam Art Week

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Location: voormalig graanfabriek Codrico

RAW groepsexpositie Expo Codrico

Wabi Sabi lab ‘Manifeste de l’imperfection’

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Location: LE DOMAINE DE QUINCAMPOIX

A deliberate curatorial choice: a selection of brands, galleries, artists, artisans, designers, publishers, and
material suppliers aligned with our intent, our vision, our affirmed tastes — and the full subjectivity our choices imply.

https://wabisabilab.fr/

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Expo Kaapkwartier | Rotterdam Art Week

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Location: Bay House, Rijnhavenkade 18

Collective Fase3 (Barbara Munsel, Ruth Horstmanshoff and Karin de Visser) exhibits during RAW. Thursday 27 March 13.00:15.00-14.00:XNUMX festive opening with Ina Klaassen, director Boijmans van Beuningen, live music, poetry, performances at XNUMX:XNUMX.

IN YOUR FACE 2.0

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Location: studio 2 de Doelen Art
In association with: about A woman

IN YOUR FACE 2.0 is a group exhibition with 118 works by various female visual artists from Rotterdam. Various research reports on the position of female artists in the Netherlands show that the visual presence of women in art still lags far behind that of their male colleagues.
Opening: April 5 from 15 to 17 pm
Finissage and book launch: April 27, 15-17 pm

https://aboutawoman.nl/INYOURFACE_2

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Testactiviteit

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Een Kunstcentrum

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Location: Een Kunstcentrum Charlois

group exhibition

https://www.instagram.com/een_kunstcentrum/

South Explorer

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Location: Gemaal op Zuid

Art route Rotterdam-south

http://www.southexplorer.nl/gemaal-op-zuid

‘Wie teveel omhelst houdt weinig vast’

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Location: Het Gemaal op Zuid

From October 16 to November 14, an exhibition by artist and fashion designer Barbara Munsel can be seen in the Rotterdam Gemaal op Zuid. The exhibition is about our society's urge to collect and overconsume. There will also be a number of unique jackets for sale.
On display are layered work constructed from textile remains and discarded materials: new designs that have been created through textile assemblages.
Also part of the South Explorer art route.

https://fashionunited.nl/nieuws/cultuur/ontwerper-barbara-munsel-exposeert-over-verzameldrift-en-overconsumptie/2021101151302
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