Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
b. Viña del Mar, Chile, 1988Lives and works in Munich, Germany
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias is a Chilean, Munich-based artist whose critical examination of textiles as a medium and subject reflects her cultural roots and personal resonance with theories of post-colonialism. Stemming from a theoretical, structural, and historical engagement with looms, her approach is characterized by exhausting their algorithms, with deconstruction as her point of departure.
Constanza is in public collections at the Mattias and Anja Ottoman Collection (Münich, DE); Cash App Collection (St. Louis and Philadelphia, USA); Anne-Céline and Pierre Donnersberg Collection (Paris, FR); and the Buchberger Collection (Munich, DE). She has participated in institutional exhibitions at the American Tapestry Alliance at The Richard Peeler Art Center/DePauw University (Greencastle, IN, USA); Galerie der Künstler*innen (Munich, Germany); and Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich, Switzerland) and Takaoka.
She was profiled in the Art and America New Talent Issue, and has also been featured in Flair, Cosmopolitan Germany, Artsy, and more
CURRICULUM VITAE. SELECT PRESS.
Education
2020 Philosophy & Italian Studies, LMU University of Munich, Germany2019 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale, Diploma at Prof. Carolin Achaintre, Halle, Germany
2017 Burg Giebichenstein University for Arts and Design Halle/Saale, Textile Studies, Germany
Public Collections
• Anne-Céline & Pierre Donnersberg Collection, Paris, France• Cash App Collection, Philadelphia, PA & St. Louis, MO, USA
• Anja & Matthias Ottoman Collection, Munich, Germany
• Buchberger Collection, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2025 backwards along the river, Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CH2024 Ha! Patagón!, curated by Yara Sonseca, Instituto Cervantes, Munich, DE
• Drifting Textures, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Landshut, DE
2023 Eat.Sleep.Drift.Repeat, PERG gallery, Ludwigsburg, Germany, DE
2022 All senses are lost, NoDepressionRoom, Munich, DE
Select Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2025 From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture: Textile Manifestos, Museum für Gestaltung, group exhibition, Zurich, CH2024 MUNICH CREATES, Mirror, Munich, DE
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Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, group exhibition, American Tapestry Alliance, Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, IN, USA
• Meet me here tomorrow again, group exhibition, curated by Heike Dempster, ALL STREET Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
• Kunst Aktuell, group exhibition, Kunstverein Rosenheim, DE
• Wilde Welten, group exhibition, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Munich
2023 Chilean Underground, duo exhibition, espacio 218, Portal Fernandez Concha, Santiago, CL
• Debutants Young Talent Award Exhibition, Galerie der KünstlerInnen, Munich, Germany
• Hidden Future, group exhibition, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Munich
• WE CAN BE HEROES, group exhibition, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, Munich
• Jahresgaben, group exhibition, Kunstverein München, Munich
2022 Quieter than silence, private group exhibition, Venetia Initiatives, Greenwich Street, New York
• Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias/ Silvia Inselvini, duo exhibition, Benjamin Eck Gallery, Munich
• 1 Kasten, group exhibition, curated by Christian Kölbl, Schönwalder Strasse 44, Berlin
• Landscapes, group exhibition, Torre Civica, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
• The creative room #2, group exhibition, a.topos Venice, Fondamente dei Penini, Venice, Italy
• SHARING, group exhibition, Galerie der KünstlerInnen, Munich, Germany
2021 Am Ende gewinnt der Troll, group exhibition, Orangerie Englisch Garden, Munich, Germany
• Chilean Conexión, group exhibition, Monopol Areal Reinickendorf, Berlin
• Ambactia Memoria, SOMOS Art house space, group exhibition, Kottbusser Damm, Berlin
• Traverse, online group exhibition, AMALGAMA Art. Ltd, Paul Street, London
• International KOGEI Award exhibition, Takaoka Art Museum, group exhibition, Takaoka, Japan
• International KOGEI Award exhibition, group exhibition, Art & Design Museum Toyama, Japan
2020 Munich OPEN ART, group exhibition, Venetia Initiatives Curatorial Projects, Liebigstraße, Munich, Germany
Art Fairs
2025 (forthcoming) Independent Art Fair, duo presentation with Ada Friedman, New York City, New York with Kendra Jayne Patrick2024 HIGHLIGHTS International Art Fair 2024, Munich, DE with Wunderkunst
• The Salon Invitational, an art fair by NADA x The Community Paris, FR with Kendra Jayne Patrick
• Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, three-person presentation with Kendra Jayne Patrick
Selected Press & Publications
2024 BUNTE, Mon Muellerschoen art column, exhibition review on Drifting Textures, printed magazine, Germany2023 ARTSY.net, 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This December, by Maxwell Rabb
• LES NOUVEAUX RICHES, online art magazine, press release on DebütantInnen show, Austria
• ART IN AMERICA, New Talents 2023, May issue, author Emily Mc Dermott, print magazine, US
• hyperMaterialities, artist monographie/cataloge, Design by Lukas Schimpfhauser, 500 copies
2022 COSMOPOLITAN, GERMANY. Interview with chief editor Lara Gonschorowski
• BUNTE, Issues 51. Mon Muellerschoen
• ARTSY. 10 best booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, by Ayanna Dozier
• H.O.M.E. artist portrait, Gaby Czöppan.
• flair. fashion forward, Gaby Czöppan.
• VIVA MONACO magazine. artist portrait.
• Juliet-artmagazine. The creative room #2: Utopia Dystopia, a.topos exhibition review.
• Am Ende gewinnt der Troll, exhibition catalog, funded by the Akademie Verein (ADBK), Munich
2021 International KOGEI Award exhibition catalog, Toyama, Japan
2020 bluebee magazine, international art magazine, Volume 3, London
• DIÁFANO modern art magazine, 3rd issue, Barcelona
Awards
2022 Portrait ART incubator Special Award, Portrait Art Venice & a.topos Venice, Italy2021 Honorable Mention Award, International KOGEI Award, Toyama, Japan
Select Residencies & Grants
2024 International Summer Academy Salzburg, grant for workshop with Curtis Talwst Santiago, Salzburg• Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Grant, Goethe Institute
2023 espacio 218, one month artist in residency project, Portal Fernandez Concha, Santiago, Chile
• Artist catalogue grant from the Erwin & Gisela Steiner Foundation, Munich
2022 Grants for artists by the Free State of Bavaria grant programme "Young Art and New Ways"
2021 Neustartkultur grant from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Germany
• The Artist and the others & Platform München, "Build your professional artistic backbone", summer training for emerging artists, scholarship, Munich
2019 Venetia Initiatives Art Residency in Maremma, Tuscany, Italy
2018 Natural dyeing Workshop at Studio Shikari, Okazaki, Japan
2017 Japanese Print Workshop at Studio Futaba in Tokyo, Japan
Special Projects
2022 Pshemek Kaminsky, Collaboration for a textile artwork and a dance performance, Berlin2021 Bavarian State Opera, Jacquardweaves development for the Idomeneo opera play for Costume Designer Victoria Behr, Munich
• Naumburg Kathedral, Jacquard weave development for altar fabrics, group project with Inka Schottdorf and Margarita Wenzel, Naumburg, Germany
2018 Guest Lecturer on Mapuche Textiles at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
2011 German Master School for Fashion in Munich, fashion and communication design