Open call for 18th Triennial of Textile

The exhibition will be held in autumn 2025—exactly 50 years since its first international event. The theme of the Triennial’s 18th edition is Deconstruction/Reconstruction. To the curators, Marta Kowalewska and Bukola Oyebode-Westerhuis, these terms encompass the socio-political and economic challenges and contradictions of the present time. Deconstruction is dictated by a strong need for change arising from a scrutiny of the non-inclusive old orders and systems. Thus, in the framework of this Triennial, the curators propose deconstruction as breaking down and tearing apart, embracing a critical disorder, questioning and disturbing the order of modern society, rethinking old systems, and subjecting the modern world achievements to scrutiny. And, they conceive of reconstruction as a means to new possibilities, multiple pathways to restoration and repair, creating new systems to co-exist, looking back to erased traditions that can still benefit humanity, and imagining ways that our world can evolve from a state of endless violence.