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ABOUT


Nayeli Vega is a Berlin-based artist. She holds a bachelor's degree in Product Design from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and a Master's degree in Textile and Surfaces Design from the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin . Her interests include technology, open-source software, social justice, ecology, intersectional feminism, and speculative design. Vega's artistic practice investigates the links between digital and analog mediums, such as digital 3D modeling and 3D printing, weaving, and other textile techniques. Her artistic research in the digital field is currently supported by the Berlinerchancegleicheitprogramm (BCP) and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (KHB).



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, Germany

Inside Bodies. Performance. Festival Atonal Gender. Costume designer.Berlin, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

2022
Sensing Digital Memories. The Whole Life Academy-Haus der Kulturen der Welt.Berlin, Germany
2021
Creative hubs - Creative FLIP. Lacuna Lab. Ambassador of Change Program. Pilot policy project
co-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
2023-2026
DiGiTal. Digitization: design and transformation.Female scientists and artists on their way to professorships in digitization research supported by Berlin Equal Opportunity Program (BCP).
2023
Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Berlin
2022
NEUSTART für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler:Digital Vermittlungsformate. Germany.
2021
Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship (NaFöG / Landesstipendium) of the State of Berlin
2020
DAAD-Preis 2020 for outstanding international students in german universities.KHB Weisensee. Berlin
2017-18
Funding for Project RONDA-Mx-Berlin.Intercultural project funded by Regional Office for  Development Cooperation of the country (LEZ)-Berlin Senate. Berlin, Germany
2016
”Knowledge is power” Wearables and awareness about sexual harassment in public transportation. First Place. Fashion Hack Day. Berlin, Germany