Nieuw Charlois kicks off the year with the group exhibition Thinking in Textiles. The exhibition brings together eight artists who work with fibers and fabric as places where memory, identity, meaning, and resistance take shape.
Jenny Konrad presents a weighted quilt filled with glass beads and memory foam, inviting touch and physical sensation to convey the experience of an autistic shutdown. Fenna van Breda uses her handmade loom to visualize the movements of cleaning. She exposes the back of her weaving to show that the movements that shape our lives have no clear direction or fixed meaning, and that one small movement, just as in life, changes the whole. Sensory memory thus becomes a process that she experiences through action. Sarah Roseman translates childhood memories into a hand-tufted carpet in which memory manifests as texture and scale, while Iza van den Baar sculpts fabric into bread-like textile forms to explore how nostalgia and connection are materially constructed.
Sarah Roseman, Molten Memories
Maga Berr presents an installation in which motifs from the Underground Railway quilt carry the encoded memory of collective liberation, while an embroidered letter evokes the contested origins of a popular wax print textile company, drawing a parallel between distant textile histories shaped by inequality. Dakota Havard quilt in discarded cardboard and positions overlooked materials as sites of resistance against disposability. Johana Molina/Yokolina explores transformation and death rituals through a soft textile skeleton, proposing death as a moment of material transformation, rather than a definitive ending. Yoana Buzovac uses embroidery to document forms of productivity that often go unnoticed. She transforms inherited fabrics into an embroidered fortress and an audiovisual work that reflects the labor, time, and skills accumulated in private, domestic routines.
The work of Yoana Buzovac is partly made possible thanks to the Practical Contribution which she received for this.
Practical information
Date: January 17 to February 14, 2026
Opening: January 17, 18.00-20.00 PM
Location: New Charlois, C3 Studios, Huismanstraat 30, Rotterdam
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday 10.00am – 17.00pm
Photo: Yoana Buzova, Leave a gap like a door