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Leonie Burkhardt

Leonie Burkhardt is a textile designer/artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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. 

Leonie specialized in the craft of weaving early on and enjoys working in the field of practice-based design research. 

+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) (upcoming)

Révélations, Grand Palais Éphémère Paris (FR) (upcoming)

International Biennial of Crafts and Creation 7 - 11 June 2023

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

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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