Angelica Falkeling (they/them) is a white queer Scandinavian artist, performer, costume designer and seamstress based in Rotterdam. They work across art, fashion and theatre. Their versatile art and craft practice focuses on tacit knowledge, unfolding garment histories, paying attention to ethical narration, and performing fun. Their studio practice moves between their laptop and making, closely tied to the movement of the computer's invention mirroring a loom's punchcards 1822. They browse and employ crochet, embroidery, knitting, and sewing in their multi-media practice. They connect vulnerability, hard (metal) and soft (textile) materials, and skilled and unskilled labor as joint sequences in installations. They often collaborate with others and host events in communal spaces, approaching fiber arts as a material and relational practice. Their work has been exhibited and performed at CCA Glasgow, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia, Rib, SIGNAL Malmö, Temporary Gallery, Tensta Konsthall, Textielmuseum Tilburg
Above the Couch
Above the Couch is a solo exhibition consisting of drawing, paintings and textile works.
Kleurstoff
Tacit Knowledge is a video installation commissioned by the Textielmueum, Tilburg, as part of the group exhibition; To Dye For, curated by Adelheid Smit. To Dye For as a whole, delve into the origins of and stories behind the dyes in our textiles.
The Herbarium as a place for storing ideas
The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice.
A Malmö Trilogy Chapter I: Armaturer
group exhibition together with Sara Lindeborg and Selma Sjöstedt. The artists have been invited to work on one exhibition which will be told in three chapters throughout the spring. Each chapter has a leading voice, yet each chapter is the sum of a collaborative exploration that guides us through the multiple folds that compose a practice. Idiosyncratic, unexpected, inconsistent bare meanings we like.
The Hoodie
Het Nieuwe Instituut and curator Lou Stoppard have invited a range of artists to respond to the themes of the project with a new work created from their own individual perspective and practice. In their mixed-media installation What We Are Made Of, Angelica Falkeling looks at cotton: the material most hoodies are made from. Falkeling uses audio and sculptural elements to explore the cotton industry's impact on the societies it touches and our climate.
Emotional Channel
Rib welcomes Angelica Falkeling and Anna Łuczak as they present their latest work, Emotional Channel, the result of their residency at Skafftfell Art Center in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The presentation includes a live-performance-set on Friday November 30 and an exhibition the following two days.
Repair
Repair is set in a TV studio during rehearsals for a talk show. The director, guests and musicians get involved in a conversation whose script is based on spontaneous events, conversations and educational TV programs. The starting point of the performance is the figure of the 'joykiller', a feminist concept with which theorist Sara Ahmed designates someone who does not adhere to the conventions that are supposed to deliver happiness and satisfaction, and thus opens space for new possibilities.