ABOUT
Nayeli Vega is an artist and designer born in Mexico City. She holds a Bachelor degree in Product Design (UAM Azcapotzalco) and a Master degree in Textile and Surface Design (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin). With her master thesis “Codes in Knots” she was awarded the DAAD Prize for outstanding international students at German universities, as well as the Elsa Neumann Scholarship by the city of 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. In her practice, Vega delves into the fusion of digital and analog mediums, exploring the connections among textile techniques and materials, virtual 3D environments, and tangible artifacts.
Vega participates as a fellow in the DiGiTal University program. This initiative, generously supported by the Berlin Equal Opportunity Program (BCP), aims to improve equal opportunities for women in research and teaching. Through her involvement in this program, Vega serves as both an artistic collaborator and researcher at the Textile and Material Design department at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
Additionally, Vega holds the role of 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