New artist-in residence: Gloria Sogl

Gloria Sogl, Digital Tenderness, exhibition view, Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
© Photos: Michael Mönnich

Gloria Sogl (b. 1994, Munich, Germany) is an art educator and visual artist, working across various mediums such as installations, performance, text, and textiles. Central to Gloria’s practice is the art of weaving, which serves as a conceptual foundation and inspiration for much of her work and research. Through her work, Gloria delves into the contemporary landscape of art-making, forging deep connections with materials and intertwining narratives of textile traditions and automated production in the digital era.

Gloria’s exploration of the loom, a hyper-industrial machine with colonial roots, expands on traditional approaches, questioning the loom as a “timeless” machine amidst anti-modern processes. In this expansion, she strives for a method of unlearning and relearning, of writing and erasing, weaving and unraveling. By treating weaving as a counter-cultural technology, she explores its potential as an aesthetic detour with uncertain outcomes, aiming to further fray and redefine textile forms.

During her 2-week residency at Lottozero (May 12–25, 2025), Gloria will develop a new series of jacquard-woven pieces that explore blurred perception, digital manipulation, and embodied knowledge.

Gloria studied Fine Arts and Pedagogy in Munich and Nuremberg and graduated from Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in 2024.