ABOUT
Nayeli Vega Vargas is an artist and a designer born in Mexico City. She holds a Bachelor degree in Product Design from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco and a Master's degree in Textile and Material Design from the weißensee school of art and design berlin. Her master's thesis focuses on understanding ancient textile artifacts for recording information, analyzing the use of computational practices and digital fabrication, and producing encrypted narratives through knots.
Vega Vargas investigates the links between digital and analog mediums, such as virtual 3D worlds and physical objects, and practices such as knotting and weaving with digital crafts. Her research is supported by Berliner Chancengleichheitsprogramm (BCP) within the Department of Textile and Material Design at weißensee school of art and design berlin.
Vega's diverse interests, including design and education, textile methods, open-source technologies, intersectional feminism, and ecology, converge in her projects and research initiatives.
Additionally, Vega is an associated member in the research projects “Material Form Function” and “Weaving” at the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity" at Humboldt University of Berlin.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS
2022
Holland Festival/FIBER, Amsterdam, Ne.Stretching Materialities. Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin. Matters of Activity-Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany.
Salon Sophie Charlotte. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin, Germany
India Art Fair. New Delhi, India
2021
All Connected. Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven, Ne.RAISIN. 6018 North Art Space. Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA.
DesignFarm Berlin Anniversary and Beyond. Berlin, Germany
Salon Mexicano de Ultramar. Mexican Embassy in Germany. Berlin, Germany
K(not) a Conversation. Communication through Knots and AI Systems. Vorspiel-Transmediale&CTM
2020
Codes in Knots. All Goods. Virtual Space-Exhibition of NL Embassy. Dutch Design Week
2019
Fire is the air the Poet breath(es). Vorspiel-Transmediale & CTM. Lacuna Lab. Berlin, Germany
2016
Lactivation Exhibition #1. SPEKTRUM. Berlin, GermanyInside Bodies. Performance. Festival Atonal Gender. Costume designer.Berlin, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Sensing Digital Memories. The Whole Life Academy-Haus der Kulturen der Welt.Berlin, Germany2021
Creative hubs - Creative FLIP. Lacuna Lab. Ambassador of Change Program. Pilot policy projectco-funded by the European Union.
2018
Textile Stories between Mexico City and Berlin.A Window to the realities of Repairing and Open Workshops in Mexico and Berlin. RONDA Mx-Berlin.
Coordination and Research..Intercultural project funded by Regional Office for Development Cooperation of the country (LEZ)-Berlin Senate
AWARDS & GRANTS