We are excited to present “Every Month I Weave”, solo exhibition by Dutch artist Liselore Frowijn, developed during her one-month residency at Lottozero in October 2024 and marking the second chapter of our Soft Sculpture Biennial exhibition program.

Frowijn’s project takes inspiration from the life of Margherita Datini, the wife of 14th-century Prato textile merchant Francesco Datini. Through a rich body of work that includes soft sculptures and jacquard fabrics, the artist highlights the historically neglected role of women in sustaining the fabric of social, economic, and domestic life.

Drawing on the thought of Italian feminist philosopher Silvia Federici, the exhibition critically examines the concept of carriership and the exploitation of the female body within Western neoliberal systems. From childbirth to domestic work and the invisible labor that sustains communities, women have historically borne the weight of essential yet undervalued roles.

Opening: 28th May, 18.30h
29.05.2025 - 27.07.2025
Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00 / Sat and Sun by appointment

Textile Sculpture and Body Politics. Workshop with Liselore Frowijn
29.05.2025, h 10:00-13:00

Thursday, the 29th of May, on the occasion of her upcoming exhibition at Lottozero, Amsterdam-based artist Liselore Frowijn will lead a hands-on workshop exploring fabric as a tool for expression, resistance, and transformation.

Frowijn’s research blends transdisciplinary and ecofeminist approaches, using textiles as acts of revolt and disguise. In this session, she will guide participants through a process combining sewing, collage, and sculpture, inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois.

Participants are invited to bring fabrics related to their personal/domestic experience to be used in the activity.
No previous knowledge is required.
The workshop will be held in English and is open to a maximum of 8 participants.
Reserve your spot here.

Thursday, 29 May 2025, h 10:00-13:00

Soft Sculpture is an interdisciplinary project dedicated to investigating the expressive and conceptual possibilities of sculpture through soft materials such as fibres and fabrics.
The programme combines exhibitions by artists of different nationalities and generations, supporting the research and training of young artists, and workshops on three-dimensional textile techniques, confirming the vocation of the space to be a place of experimentation and production.

If from the the 1960s and 1970s, sculpture opened up to unconventional materials organic and ‘soft’, it remains tied to the idea of solidity and permanence. Soft Sculpture investigates the use of textiles and fibres not only as a material choice, but as a practice that expands the the boundaries of sculpture, expanding its plasticity and relationship to space. With an interdisciplinary approach, the programme touches on different themes, reflecting theversatility of textiles in the contemporary art scene.

The programme runs over the bienary 2025/2026.

EXHIBITION

Panneggi, solo exhibition by Chiara Bettazzi
Finissage: 23rd   May, h 17:00-23:00
20.03 – 23.05.2025

Every Month I Weave, solo exhibition by Liselore Frowijn
Opening: 28th May, h 18.30
29.05 – 27.07.2025

What Lies Behind the Boundaries?, solo exhibition by Barbara Prenka
October 2025 – Juanuary 2026

Solo exhibition by Daniela De Lorenzo
February-April 2026

WORKSHOP

3D Modelling Workshop with Blender, with Margaux Minodier
16th May, h 15:00-18:00

Textile Sculpture and Body Politics, with Liselore Frowijn
29th May, h 10:00-13:00

Weaving ³ - 3D Weaving Workshop, with Frederick Thomas Joachim
13th June, h 15:00-18:00

Felt process, materiality and plasticity, curated by Lottozero
4th July, h 15:00-18:00

RESIDENCIES

Rosa Lützen (Denmark)
5-11.05-2025

Barbara Prenka (Kosovo/Italy)
7-20.07 / 1-14.09.2025

Claudia Catarzi (Italy)
September-October 2025

Amy Usdin (Minnesota, USA)
29.09 – 19.10.2025

Amelia Skelton (Australia)
17.11-14.12.2025

Gloria Sogl, Digital Tenderness, 2024–2025, iron frame, handwoven textiles produced on a hand-operated digital TC2 Jacquard loom and machine-produced textiles on a fully automated Jacquard loom; made of cotton, virgin wool, and acrylic yarn.
@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.

May 16th, 3pm-6pm: BASIC 3D MODELLING WORKSHOP WITH MARGAUX MINODIER

We are launching a 3-hour workshop taught by Margaux Minodier; a beginner's introduction to Blender, the free and open-source 3D modeling software.

Participants will master the basics of creating custom 3D images and videos. They will be able to start by exploring the main tools: working with shapes (meshes) and navigating 3D space while setting up environments and adding materials.

They will try a fabric simulation to create a ghostly tablecloth, followed by a short session using the sculpting tool to model fabric-like surfaces.

At the end, they will learn how to export their work so they can transfer their virtual soft sculptures to any platform!

No prior 3D modeling skills are required.

Please bring your own computer equipped with a mouse.

The workshop costs 20€, maximum 10 participants

Register here!

On Friday May 23rd 2025 from 17:00 to 23:00, Lottozero hosts The ReFASHIONized EXCHANGE: a Global Fashion Exchange clothing swap event with DJ set by Claudio Capitoni.

The event is aimed at promoting the Lottozero Refashionized – Fashion Evolution towards Sustainability project whichis coming to an end after 2 years and which has allowed us to create multiple FREE ressources for fashion lovers which you can find on our website:

The event will also mark the final celebration of the exhibition Panneggi by Chiara Bettazzi.

How does a SWAP party work? To join the swap, guests are asked to contribute up to 10 items with a suggested retail value of 10 Euros or more. For each item contributed guests will receive tickets that can be used to exchange for items that are new to them. Items can be dropped off at Lottozero during opening hours from 9:30 – 18:00 starting the 8th of May 2024 or brought directly to the event. 

Find all infos and book your slot on Eventbrite.

Time & Location

May 23rd, 2025, 17:00 – 23:00

Lottozero, Via Arno 10, 59100 Prato Italy

Join us this Saturday, May 10 at 11:00 AM for a special morning dedicated to the work of Chiara Bettazzi, on the occasion of her solo show “Panneggi” at our Kunsthalle.

We’ll begin with a visit to her studio at Corte 17, located in the former industrial complex of the ex-Lanificio Bini in Prato. Originally her personal workspace, the studio has evolved into a collaborative project devoted to experimental artistic practices and the exploration of Prato’s industrial landscape.
This visit offers a unique opportunity to delve into Bettazzi’s artistic research, characterized by her use of everyday objects, which take form in site-specific installations and ephemeral assemblages, often captured through photography—with a constant reflection on memory, time, and the relationship between organic and inorganic matter.

The visit will conclude with a guided tour of the exhibition Panneggi at Lottozero, led by curator Alessandra Tempesti.

Meeting point: Saturday, May 10 at 11:00 AM at Studio Corte 17 (enter the courtyard through the arch).
Info: Alessandra / tel +39 348 8137701

Photo: Toast Studio

Luis Weber

Luis Weber is a German artist based in Amsterdam. He studied Textile and Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Drawing inspiration from daily life, he converts collected content—photographs, sketches, fragments—into various materials: a scenario becomes a photograph, which becomes a coded file, and then is crafted into a weaving, an embroidery, or a print. This process examines how information evolves and shifts through medium and repetition.
His work creates a material space between the fast, impulsive, and gestural nature of sketching and scribbling, and the slow, tactile process of textile-making. In weaving, this duality becomes particularly evident, as the intuitive act of drawing meets the mathematical and rational structure of textile design.

Weber is currently undertaking a two-week residency at Lottozero (28 April – 11 May), where he is developing a new series of works on the TC2 jacquard loom and experimenting with digital embroidery techniques in the lab.

Fast fashion has a huge impact on our planet—but your wardrobe can be part of the solution!
This free 3-session workshop at Lottozero offers practical tools and creative inspiration to help you build a more mindful and sustainable relationship with your clothes.
Participants must attend all three sessions, for a total of 18 hours:

Creative Mending, with Ginevra Consoli: learn techniques to repair and care for your clothes, extending their life and reducing textile waste.
Friday, May 23 – 10:00–13:00 / 14:00–17:00

Armocromia, with Maria Michela Mattei: learn how to choose the colors that best enhance your natural tones, helping you make more thoughtful wardrobe decisions.
Friday, June 6 – 10:00–13:00 / 14:00–17:00

Creative Styling, with Maria Virginia Benvenuti: discover how to create coherent and personal looks using what you already own, reducing the need for new purchases.
Friday, June 20 – 10:00–13:00 / 14:00–17:00

This initiative is part of the attivaMENTE project, a lifelong learning program funded by PR FSE+ Tuscany 2021–2027, and coordinated by Sistema Bibliotecario Provinciale Pratese.
The workshop is in Italian and is open exclusively to individuals who are residents or domiciled in Tuscany.

Location: Lottozero, Via Arno 10 Prato
Registrations open till May 09 at this link
Download the brochure of the workshop

Myrta Moser-Zulauf, Gwand, 2022, used discarded jeans, cotton, 110 x 181 cm

For years, Myrta Moser-Zulauf has been using second-hand fabrics as the primary material for her artistic research. Her work explores issues related to textile production, appropriation, and disposal, while questioning the use of raw materials and the historical and social dynamics behind their transformation. Fabric becomes a living trace: through its shapes, impurities, and imperfections, it reveals signs of previous use and reflects the overwhelming availability of materials in our contemporary world.

By transforming this everyday material, Moser-Zulauf challenges our habits of seeing and perceiving. Her work exposes tensions between surface and space — between the fabric that wraps the body and the gestures it shapes, and the intimate absence of the body itself, subtly revealed through folds and creases. Processes of dissolution and decomposition further evoke the surrounding environment and the ecological consequences of textile waste.

Her residency at Lottozero (April 14–27) is a research journey into fabric regeneration processes in Prato.

Lottozero Kunsthalle’s exhibition program is featured in the Spring Equinox, a calendar promoting major contemporary art activities and events in Tuscany during the first two weeks of spring.

The calendar collects relevant information on the activities of the main public institutions and private realities that operate in the sector and represent the cutting edge of this region's cultural offerings.

Equinox of Spring includes the program of events from March 21 to April 6, 2025 and is promoted, integrated and updated through the websites of the various participating art and cultural venues, coordinated by the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art.

Spring Equinox Program

Organizations like Lottozero rely on the 5×1000 to continue fostering creativity, supporting artists, and promoting textile culture. This small act costs you nothing but makes a significant impact, allowing us to fund exhibitions, residencies, and research that would otherwise be impossible.

By donating 5 per thousand of your IRPEF tax, you help sustain an independent space dedicated to artistic and cultural innovation. Simply select Support of non-profit organizations of social utility and enter Lottozero’s tax code: 02855050213 in your tax declaration.

Your support ensures that art and culture continue to thrive. Thank you!

We are thrilled to unveil “Panneggi”, the solo exhibition by Chiara Bettazzi, which marks the beginning of Lottozero’s new exhibition season, dedicated to investigating the expressive and conceptual implications of Soft Sculpture.
Curated by Alessandra Tempesti, “Panneggi” collects a series of unreleased pictures by Chiara Bettazzi made between 2022 and 2025, in which fabric becomes the focus of the scene. With this new series, the artist moves her ongoing contemplation on still life into a dimension closer to the tableaux vivant, engaging in a debate between painting and sculpture.

Chiara Bettazzi's research is distinguished by the use of everyday objects, some of which have been collected from former industrial contexts, which take shape in site-specific installations and ephemeral assemblages, that are fixed in photographs.
In the making and unmaking of the compositional act, in which the object vocabulary itself is shattered and transformed, a reflection on memory, time and the relationship between organic and inorganic materials emerges.

Opening: 19th March, 18.30h

20.03.2025 - 23.05.2025
Mon - Fri 10.00-18.00 / Sat and Sun by appointment

Elena Adamou’s work revolves around the intimate dimension of the passing of time and the fragility of the human body. Through her artistic practice, she analyzes the connections between time and the body, the relationship of the self with personal objects, and the notion of belonging within familiar spaces and non-places.
To give a physical dimension to the intangible and create a dialogue with the public, she utilizes diverse mediums, mainly encompassing multimedia installations, textile manipulations, embroidery, video and performances.

During her residency (3-16 March) she will be working on ‘ARKA’, a project dedicated to critically endangered and vulnerable species endemic to the Mediterranean.

The residency is funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut @culturemoveseurope

Elena Adamou lives and works in Nicosia (Cyprus). She graduated with a degree in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where she also earned an MA in Theatre Costume Design.

Elena Adamou, Ankh, 2024, handmade embroidery with yarns dyed with natural colors.

Graziella Guidotti. Photo by Mihaela Mihajlovic

Thursday 27 February, 6.30 pm, Graziella Guidotti meets the public at the conclusion of her solo exhibition ‘Dentro il verziere’.
She will share insights into her extraordinary journey as an artist, textile designer, researcher, and leading expert in manual weaving techniques.

Since the 1950s, Graziella Guidotti has dedicated her life to the study of Italian textile culture, research, and teaching, contributing in the reconstruction of part of Italy’s textile art legacy and passing on this vast knowledge to future generations.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to celebrate her work!

’Dentro il verziere’ is the third and final exhibition of ‘On Weaving’, a dense cultural programme sponsored and financed by the Municipality of Prato and ‘Toscanaincontemporanea 2024’, dedicated to the technical and expressive possibilities of weaving art.

We are thrilled to announce Leonie Burkhardt as the winner of our Circular Wool Lab Open Call!

Leonie is a textile designer and artist based in Göteborg, currently a PhD candidate at the Swedish School of Textiles. She is passionate about exploring the craft of weaving and pushing its limits through digital tools. Her work blends textile and object, emphasizing material compositions, rich textures, and vibrant colors.

Leonie’s project, Woven Space, explores wool’s potential as an adaptive and spatial material. At the TC2 Circular Wool Residency, she will experiment with 3D weaving to create flexible, woven structures for textile-based housing—an innovative take on soft architecture.
We can’t wait to see the exciting outcomes of her work!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the call, we had to go through over 280 applications and had to make difficult decisions among many strong candidates - your creativity continues to inspire us.

This project is supported by the European Union (Next Generation EU) and Ministero della Cultura.

Leonie Burkhardt, photo by Johfors

Raisa Kabir, House Full of Water (Between the Two Tides) 2023, Fort Aguad, Goa - India. Antibodies 24 hour performance festival - commissioned with HH Art Spaces x The Tetley - The British Council

From February 2 to 14, Raisa Kabir (b. 1989, United Kingdom; based in London) is in residency at Lottozero.

Kabir uses woven text/textiles and performance to materialise multiple concepts, concerning the interwoven cultural politics of cloth. Kabir’s work draws on textile mobilities, nationhood, embodied archives, and geographies of anti-colonial resistance. Kabir’s (un)weaving performances and tapestries use queer entanglement to complicate structures of power, global production/extraction, and to call on the weaving knowledge systems and technologies potential to transform, dream and reimagine the world.

Kabir has exhibited work internationally at The Whitworth, Liverpool Biennial, Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini, Australian Design Centre, Asia Art Now Paris, India Art Fair, Raven Row, The Craft Council London, CCA Glasgow, Archive Berlin, British Textile Biennial, Glasgow International, Ford Foundation Gallery NYC, and the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design NC.

 Kabir has lectured and shared her research at Tate Modern, the V&A, The Courtauld, ICA London, Royal College of Art, and Central Saint Martins.

Barbara Gamper is an interdisciplinary artist from South Tyrol (Italy), based in Berlin, in residency at Lottozero, from 2 to 14 February.
Barbara Gamper works across movement, somatics, performance, moving image, and textiles. Her research centers on the politics of embodiment seeking to advocate for decolonial feminist pedagogies through somatic movement workshop formats in art, education and activism.

Somatic exploration is an integral part of her daily practice, challenging the internalized patterns of socialization and expanding the body’s experience beyond the skin. Through this, she explores the body as a porous, fluid form in constant interconnection with human and non-human materialities and ecologies.

Textiles take the role of "connective tissues" fostering participation and serving as a canvas for visual storytelling.

She earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University London in 2016. Most recently, she completed training in Somatic Movement Education at the Somatic Academy Berlin. In 2023, she realized the project Think Like Mycelium together with mycologist Alessandra Senettin at the Natural History Museum in Bolzano.

Barbara Gamper & Fouzia W. Kinyanjui, At the point of subversion (constituting the new normal), 2020, video still.