Nova Gorica, Eta Sadar Breznik's textile works open Biennial Textile Art 2025

The 2025 edition of BIEN - Biennial of Textile Art will host the exhibition Capturing the Storm by Eta Sadar Breznik (Ljubljana, 1950), curated by Lovro Ivančić and exhibited at the Rotunda of the Slovenian National Theater in Nova Gorica, from September 18, 2024 to September 18, 2025. Awarded the bronze medal at the Beauvais International Tapestry Festival in 1996 and recognized with the Prešeren Fund Prize in 1998, Breznik presents her suspended textile works on this occasion. The artist narrates the concept of the suspended moment, which she has been skillfully transforming through weaving into a distinctive visual language for decades.

His hand-woven works reflect the time it takes for the countless threads of warp and weft woven on the loom to assume their final form. The harmony of colors and forms returns compositions of accentuated atmospheric identity whose goal is to draw the viewer in and lead them into a fantasy world of imagery. Eta Sadar Breznik gives textiles a primary value, conceiving them in a sculptural sense, more oriented to the viewer’s experience. Ivančić, who brings together more than 75 of the artist’s textile works, interprets her works as primal expressions “They hover in the air, sparkle, reveal something deeper. They recall desert dunes, sea waves, clouds, the golden sway in the wind of blooming rape fields. They are the flow of the air, the sea current, the flight of birds, a school of fish and much more, everything we can imagine from our existential condition,” reads his commentary accompanying the exhibition. Eta Sadar Breznik manages to masterfully transpose all these elements into a unique work, capable of imposing itself in the exhibition space, creating an atmospheric effect that envelops the viewer.

The Biennial of Textile Art - BIEN 2025, entitled ARIA, will be held in the Slovenian cities of Kranj, Nova Gorica, Škofja Loka, Jesenice and Idrija. With its Textile Art and Design and Land art programs, BIEN occurs biennially with exhibitions and collateral activities that gravitate toward thinking about heritage, conservation and sustainability. It draws on the biological, geological and archaeological properties of space, environment, identity, industrial culture and traditional knowledge by going on to shape new contemporary expressions. It promotes interdisciplinary contaminations in art with projects and art residencies, presents the works of Slovenian and international artists enhancing in particular the most successful creations in the student scene, in Slovenia as elsewhere, leveraging not least the awareness that the future of art is also to be found in the public and digital dimensions. BIEN is a biennial articulated in exhibitions, artistic synergies, workshops, and an insider program that, on the whole, looks at research in the field of textile culture and art. BIEN is an initiative of Zavod Carnica, a non-governmental cultural organization in Kranj that coordinates the organization of the Biennial of Textile Art in concert with the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, with the Faculty of Design as an autonomous university institute and numerous other partners. It creates a link between Upper Carniola and Goriziano, growing from edition to edition as an artistic event of regional resonance.

Notes on the artist

Eta Sadar Breznik was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1950. He graduated with a degree in architecture in Ljubljana, after which he decided to devote himself entirely to creation, weaving and the study of textile art, later specializing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (Poland). Since 1978 his works have recurred in numerous solo and group exhibitions of textile art set up in Europe, Asia and America, included among others in many public collections as well as in specialized reviews on developments in the world panorama of textile art.

Nova Gorica, Eta Sadar Breznik's textile works open Biennial Textile Art 2025

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