New artist-in-residence: Enzo Aït Kaci

Enzo Aït Kaci is a visual artist and art director based in Amsterdam. Trained as a digital graphic designer, he studied for a second BA in fashion design with a strong focus on visual communication and textile practices.
In his most recent works, he has explored the value of fashion imagery through the digital prism of the internet – taking into account how the videogame industry, information networks and copy-paste culture affect fashion production. He produced a method to develop fabric prints and garments using technology and craft, building a system where the images flatness and the clothes’ volume dialogue together, in a visual circuit in which 3D clothes and 2D images morph into another back and forth. As a result, the garment circulates in an endless cycle and shifts between analog and digital realities.

Alessandra Tempesti
Second Skin - A project by Hannes Egger

Second Skin is a performative project developed by Hannes Egger after a residency at Lottozero in 2023. After previewing the project in Bolzano for the third edition of BAW - Bolzano Art Weeks and later at the Green Factory Festival in Florence, we are thrilled to show it in our Kunsthalle in a newly form.
With Second Skin Hannes Egger involves the public in a performative action that triggers a reflection on the traces we leave through clothing and the dynamics of appropriation and identification we establish with them. The work stems from an inquiry around the second-hand and vintage cloth market system, explored during a residency in Prato and investigated as a phenomenon of economic history of the last fifty years.

From the 3rd of March to the 31st of May 2024.
In collaboration with The Vintage Store.
With the support of Toscanaincontemporanea 2023.

March 3, from 11 am to 9 pm, Lottozero joins Aprto - Aperture del contemporaneo a Prato. The second edition of Aprto brings together events and special openings of independent spaces active in the production of contemporary art in the city. The participating spaces to Aprto 2024 are: ChorAsis, Dryphoto contemporary art, Estuary Project Space, Lottozero, Moo, Open Studio Italo Bolano, Spazio Materia and SC17

In collaboration with the Municipality of Prato.

Alessandra Tempesti
Aprto - Aperture del Contemporaneo a Prato - 2nd edition

We are excited to announce that Lottozero joins Aprto - Aperture del contemporaneo a Prato, on the 3rd of March, 2024. 
The second edition of Aprto brings together events and special openings of independent spaces active in the production of contemporary art in the city. 
An anagram of Prato's name, Aprto was born in an urban context characterized by a strong vocation for the contemporary, with the idea of gathering and giving visibility to the richness and diversity of proposals and actors that contribute to the vitality of the local independent art scene.
Each space involved participates in the day's program with a special opening or event. Admission is free.

The participating spaces to Aprto 2024 are: ChorAsis, Dryphoto contemporary art, Estuary Project Space, Lottozero, Moo, Open Studio Italo Bolano, Spazio Materia and SC17

In collaboration with the Municipality of Prato.


For Aprto, Lottozero presents the third step of Second Skin, a project by Hannes Egger developed during a residency at Lottozero in 2023. Within a broader reflection on the market dynamics of vintage, Hannes Egger builds a performative device that directs the gaze to the garment as a trace and vector of existences.

Alessandra Tempesti
another way of speaking - 2nd TCN exhibition

We are excited to present the 2nd online exhibition of Textile Culture Net 2023/2024.

Curated by Bukola Oyebodeanother way of speaking explores the body and textile as metaphors; an alternative means of communication. The exhibition asks how cloth is part of the body, or can replace it completely in communication processes.
In the featured artworks, anthropomorphic, deconstructed, multi-dimensional forms emphasize the agency of different textile materials. Subjects that emerge include identity, gender, femininity, notions of place, history, memory and women's labour in the textile industry.

Featured artists: Marcia Kure, Lucy Brown, Shradha Kochhar, LIN Pei-ying, Dagny Loe, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Daniela de Lorenzo, Ada M. Patterson.

Each year Textile Culture Net invites guest curators to join its curatorial team proposing an exhibition theme to which other curators react with an artwork proposition. This dialogue shapes a dynamic exchange of views, methods and perspectives on textile.

TCN’s online exhibitions are published on the institutions’ and guest curators’ Instagram accounts, connected by the hashtag #TextileCultureNet.

TCN’s fourth edition for 2023/2024 is co-funded by the European Union, within the framework of the prestigious Creative Europe program.
Grant Agreement n°101099994.

Marcia Kure, The Three Graces (triptych), 2014, acrylic wig, bolts, paint, polyester thread, rug and wood, variable dimensions.
Collection: Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo: Sophie Thun.

Alessandra Tempesti
The TEX4.0 project kicked-off in Dresden!

We are excited to announce that the European project TEX4.0 – Enabling Industry 4.0 Skills in Textile SMEs officially kicked off in Dresden, Germany at the Technical University of Dresden.

The Lottozero team, together with our consortium partners, had the opportunity to lay the foundations of the project and discuss its implementation.

This Erasmus+ project aims to provide VET learners, including the current textile workforce and NEETs, with training and upskilling on Textile 4.0 – related technologies, in order to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the sector and to increase their employability opportunities.

Our initial step is to assess the needs of our community of VET trainers, VET learners and textile stakeholders and to do so we have prepared two quick surveys:

Click here to participate if you are a VET trainer.

Click here to participate if you are a VET learner.

Tessa Moroder
TEXTILE LAB EXCHANGE - Networking apero

Calling all designers, brands, artists, architects, artisans and creative minds! We are excited to announce that on Tuesday, January 30th starting at 5 p.m., we will hold TEXTILE LAB EXCHANGE, a networking aperitif dedicated to the multiple possibilities of working with fashion and textile creative hubs. The event will take place at Berlin Textile Coop and is free and open to all!


Participating CREATIVE HUBS:
Lottozero textile laboratories, Prato, Italy
Textile Prototyping Lab, Berlin, Germany


TEXTILE LAB EXCHANGE is an opportunity to open the doors of the Berlin Textile Coop so that designers, brands, artists, architects, artisans and creative minds can discover the services, techniques, machinery and tools these two creative hubs can offer. All while enjoying a wonderful aperitif and networking with peers and potential future partners.


The event is part of the ECHN - European Creative Hubs Network and co-funded by the European Union P2P Learning Program, which aims to engage and connect peers of established and emerging creative hubs across Europe with the main goal of seek new formats of cross-sectoral cooperation, initiating projects of co-creation or collaborative plans.

Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

BERLIN TEXTILE COOP - Weichselstraße 32, Berlin, Germany

Tessa Moroder
The Lottozero Library is now open to the public!

We are proud to announce that our library has become open to the public, having joined the Prato Province Library Network since last year.

The Lottozero Library is specialized in the fields of fashion, textile art and design.
Initially born as a private collection of texts and magazines reserved for members of the internal team and users of the space, over the years has grown to count almost 900 volumes, divided between catalogs and essays on contemporary art dedicated to experimentation on textiles, monographs, essays and catalogs of fashion, manuals and texts on textiles, magazines.

The library is open from Monday to Friday (9 am - 1 pm). Reserve your visit at info@lottozero.org

Alessandra Tempesti
New artist-in-residence: Lisa Rampilli

Lisa Rampilli is an Italian artist and designer, living and working in Milan.
Raised by biologists, the subject matter of her work is directly influenced by this immersive background in the sciences and natural world.

Graduated in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, she hold a Master in Drawing and Painting at ENSCI in Paris.
Her figurative subjects, which play at combining organic and fantastic worlds, can now be seen on silk scarves and other pieces within the collections of Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Frette.

During her 2-week residency at Lottozero she will experiment with sublimation printing and other textile techniques.
A series of her drawings and silk scarves are on display until the end of February in the Lottozero Kunsthalle.

Alessandra Tempesti
The Unseen Self - 1st TCN exhibition

Anna Von Mertens, Marilyn Monroe's Aura (II.31), After Warhol (detail), hand-dyed, hand-stitched cotton, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and R & Company, New York, NY. Photo: Don Tuttle

The first TCN online exhibition for 2023/2024 is out!
Curated by
Caroline KippThe Unseen Self features contemporary textile artworks about identity and “self,” which extend beyond traditional portraits.
Through unexpected, layered, and mercurial representations, artists question the authenticity of a definable, stable personhood while expanding upon what can be considered a “portrait” in the formal sense.

Featured artists: Bea BonafiniCélio Braga,  Enoch Cheng,  Eli Eines,  Hou I-Ting,  Aslaug Magdalena JuliussenNgozi SchommersAnna Von Mertens.

Each year Textile Culture Net invites guest curators to join its curatorial team proposing an exhibition theme to which other curators react with an artwork proposition. This dialogue shapes a dynamic exchange of views, methods and perspectives on textile.

TCN’s online exhibitions are published on the institutions’ and guest curators’ Instagram accounts, connected by the hashtag #TextileCultureNet.

TCN’s fourth edition for 2023/2024 is co-funded by the European Union, within the framework of the prestigious Creative Europe program.
Grant Agreement n°101099994.

Alessandra Tempesti
TEXTILE CULTURE NET - New exhibition program

Textile Culture Net enriches its international collaboration with a new and improved online exhibition program, featuring a brand new visual identity.
The first exhibition launches on December 4, 2023.

Gathering visions on textiles from diverse cultural contexts, each year TCN institutions invite four guest curators to join its team of curators and develop a yearly program of online exhibitions.
This year the following have been welcomed on board: Caroline Kipp (US), Zoe Yeh (Taiwan), Bukola Oyebode (Nigeria / The Netherlands) and Hilde Skancke Pedersen (Norway/Sápmi).

TCN explores and expands the horizon of textile art and design, providing space for curators and artists from different backgrounds to create dialogue on contemporary agendas and test new ways of presenting and experiencing textile art and design, taking advantage of the possibilities offered by digital technology.

Follow us on Instagram #TextileCultureNet

Textile Culture Net is an international network of four textile institutions: Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (Poland), Lottozero in Prato (Italy), TextielMuseum in Tilburg (The Netherlands) and CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) in Hong Kong.

Textile Culture Net is co-funded by the European Union.
Grant Agreement n°101099994.

Alessandra Tempesti
New artist-in-residence: Sarah crowEST

We are extremely happy to have the chance to work with renown Melbourne based artist Sarah crowEST, who is spending a 2-month residency at Lottozero till the end of December.

Sarah works across disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art, social practice, and textile craft. Her recent production occupies a conceptual space between painting, working apparel and the graphic qualities of text, with a critical interest in the provenance and value we place on objects, the processes and materials they are made of and their use and reuse.

On December 1st we will present her ongoing Dub Freight project in the Lottozero Kunsthalle.
The project begun as a way to use materials at hand, make something out of nothing in constrained circumstances (Covid 19 lockdowns) and maintain contact and exchange of energy between artists and colleagues. Rectangles of recycled fabric with text and value amounts (numbers in a sequence of making) printed on the surface were and continue to be shared with feedback invited.

Alessandra Tempesti
The Tecofash FREE learning Platform is ONLINE!

We are exited to launch the TECOFASH Online Cooperative Platform.

Together with our partners we've worked tirelessly to bring you a FREE, easily ACCESSIBLE (no registration required) platform that includes an exhaustive course list, real-world applications, case studies, exercises and interactive sessions.

Whether you're a fashion newbie, a job seeker aiming for a sustainable edge, or an entrepreneur eyeing to revolutionize your business, our platform caters to all.

And did we mention it is 100% FREE? Read the full Tecofash newsletter here.

Tessa Moroder
GREEN FACTORY FESTIVAL

Lottozero is participating in the 3rd edition of Green Factory, exhibiting a performative work by Hannes Egger, following its launch during BAW - Bolzano Art Weeks last October.

“Second Skin” is a performative device which has been conceived and developed by Hannes Egger after a residency at Lottozero and a series of tours into the Prato textile district. The work opens up a broader reflection on the vintage market, directing the gaze to the second-hand garment as a trace and vector of existences. 

Green Factory is a festival dedicated to promoting the culture of sustainability. A creative agora in which to confront and approach environmental issues. The Festival investigates through multidisciplinary events the 4Rs of the circular economy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover.
At Tepidarium del Roster, Via Bolognese 17, Florence, 16-19 November 2023.

19 November - h 15.30: Talk “Second Skin / Second Hand”
Considerations around the dynamics of the vintage market. With Hannes Egger (artist), Simone Martini (The Vintage Store, Prato), Alessandra Tempesti (Lottozero's curator).

The event is free, registration required.
Check the full program here.

Alessandra Tempesti
FOLLOW REFASHIONIZED !

We are happy to announce that we are part of a new Erasmus project called Refashionized - Fashion Revolution towards sustainability !

We are working together with five EU-Partners: Jugend- & Kulturprojekt e.V. , Kainotomia & SIA EE , Catwalk Project , Cellock LTD , Politecnica de Valencia ) to support a sustainable future of fashion. Through this project we want to encourage young people to a sustainable approach to fashion usage and consumption ,  by offering them several different educational activities and tools about fashion culture, and upcycling. 

Keep up to date and follow the project on Refashionized social media: Facebook    , Instagram and TikTok .

We are looking forward to SEEING YOU THERE!

Elena Ianeselli
OPEN DAY at the Lottozero textile laboratory

As we do every fall, Saturday October 21st, from 10:00 - 19:00 h we are opening up our headquarter in via Arno 10, for an OPEN DAY entirely dedicated to the laboratory and the textile techniques it offers. We will show you all the machinery and tools we have available and you will be able to try out needles, threads, colors and fabrics!

Access is free, SEE YOU THERE!

Tessa Moroder
LOTTOZERO GOES ICELANDIC TEXTILE CENTER

To start off September in the best way possible Lottozero was given the amazing opportunity to visit our fellow textile hub, Icelandic Textile Center.

Our lab manager Federica Valli spent one week in Blönduós, Iceland shadowing her Nordic counterpart Margrét Katrín Guttormsdóttir and her work, in order to get more familiar with the amazing digital tools that they have to bring some more knowledge back to Prato.

Now we can’t wait for Margrét to come visit us here in Italy!

We are grateful for the European Creative Hubs Network P2P learning program which made this exchange possible.

Alessandra Tempesti
TCN GUEST CURATOR IS CAROLINE KIPP

We are very excited to introduce Caroline Kipp, the guest curator we have selected to work with us on the fourth edition of Textile Culture Net:

Caroline Kipp is a curator, artist, and art historian. From 2019 to 2023, Kipp was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Curatorial Associate in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she was responsible for the contemporary decorative arts collection.
She serves on the boards of the Textile Society of America (TSA) and the James Renwick Alliance for Craft (JRA).

Together with Bukola Oyebode (Nigeria/The Netherlands), Zoe Yeh (Taiwan), and Hilde Skancke Pedersen (Norway/ Sámi), who are the curators selected by the other TCN institutions, Caroline Kipp will curate Textile Culture Net's upcoming online exhibition programming, starting next October and published on our IG acoounts.
Follow us on our social media!

Textile Culture Net 2023/2024 is co-funded by the European Union.
Grant Agreement n°101099994

Alessandra Tempesti
BAW - BOLZANO ART WEEKS

Lottozero is taking part in the 3rd edition of the Bolzano Art Weeks!

Bolzano Art Weeks is a collective event created with the aim of providing a space for South Tyrol's multifaceted contemporary art scene. BAW spreads across the city of Bolzano with the intention of engaging a wide and diverse audience in exhibition, performance, installation, multimedia and site-specific projects.

Lottozero will present “Second Skin” a performative device conceived and developed by artist Hannes Egger after a series of tours into the Prato textile district.

In collaboration with The Vintage Store, Prato.
With the support of the Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Alto Adige.

At Palais Moiré, Piazza delle Erbe 9 - Bolzano
From 29.09 to 07.10
(Mo-Sa: 09.30-18.00)

Artist Talk on the 07.10: 17.00-19.00

Alessandra Tempesti