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Leonie Burkhardt

Leonie Burkhardt is a textile designer and artist based in Göteborg. She is passionate about exploring the craft of weaving and pushing its limits by using digital tools. She works at the boundary of textile and object and emphasizes textile qualities such as material compositions, rich textures, and vibrant colors. Her work process is playful and intuitive and derives from a place of curiosity.

She graduated with her BA studies in textile design at HAW Hamburg (2016-2020) and did a semester abroad at KMITL in Bangkok in 2018/19. She continued to do a Master's degree at the renowned Swedish School of Textiles in Borås (2020-2022). During the Master's program, she absolved a six-month internship at Kvadrat in Hamburg. As a freelance designer, she worked for Lokaldesign and Jongeriuslab. 

+49 (0) 1577 3549832    |    leonieaburkhardt@gmail.com

EDUCATION

The Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden

MA Textile Design 2020-2022

KMITL, Thailand

Semester Abroad Textile Design 2018-2019

HAW Hamburg, Germany

BA Textile Design 2016-2020

 

Drew University, Madison NJ, USA

Audit Student "Art in the late 20th Century" 2014
 

GRANTS & AWARDS

2023

2022

  • Travel Grant, Swedish Arts Grant Committee

  • Best Concept Award by Home of Textiles Scandinavia

  • Textile Design Award 2022 by Kasthall

  • Shortlisted for the ArtsThread Global Design Graduate Show 2022

2022 

  • TEKO - Sveriges Textil- och Modeföretag Study Grant

2019- 2022

  • Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2018

  • Best Artistic Development by Xounts

EXHIBITIONS

2023

Secrets of Making #3, TextielMuseum Tilburg (NL)

Interactive Group Exhibition 1 July 2023 - 26 May 2024

Révélations, Grand Palais Éphémère Paris (FR) 

International Biennial of Crafts and Creation 7 - 11 June 2023

One-And-Twenty Winner Exhibition, Tortona Design (IT)

Group Exhibition at Milan Design Week 17 - 23 April 2023

2022

MK&G Messe 22 - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (GE)

Young Talents invitation 23 - 27 November 2022

Looking Forward, Design Perron (NL)

Graduation group exhibition at Dutch Design Week 22 - 30 October 2022

Talente 2021 (postponed to 2022), HWK Munich (GE)

International Craft Fair 6 - 10 July 2022

We Will Design, BASE Milano (IT)

Group exhibition at Milan Design Week 6 - 12 June 2022

Looking Forward, Textielmuseet Borås (SW)

Graduation group exhibition 3 June - 28 August 2022

DRAFTS, Berlin Open Lab (GE)

Group pop-up exhibition 13 May 2022

2018

Light&Day, Tendence Frankfurt (GE)

Group exhibition 30 June - 13 July 2018

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