My name is
Katarina Spacal and I'm textile and clothing designer.
I graduated in textile and clothing design from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Ljubljana in 2001. I live and work in a village named Kostanjevica, in the Karst region of Slovenia. I'm married and I have two children (14 and 16 years) From 2020 to 2017 I worked in two different companies as a designer and a help to PR. From 2017 I am self-employed in culture as a painter. I create woven paintings, which are so-called presented by art critics, and also exhibited. I deal with the unique weaving on hand looms. My basic medium of expression is colored threads, with which I create fabrics by hand weaving, which I further combine into various compositions of woven paintings. I sew several pieces of different dimensions together and get new shapes by folding. As if painting with a brush, I play with the whole by sewing different colored details. Reliefs and miscellaneous details refinement the whole.
My woven paintings have been shown at the following solo exhibitions:
Jakopič Galery, Ljubljana (June 2002)
Meduza Galery, Koper (July 2002)
Municipial Galery of Nova Gorica (October 2002)
Museum of Gorenjska, Kranj Town Hall (October 2003)
TR/3, Ljubljana (December 2003)
Lična hiša, Ajdovščina (September 2006)
Center EDA, Nova Gorica (April 2013)
ED2RD, Maribor (November 2014)
Sožitja, Pomnik miru na Cerju (October 2019)
Vitja v sožitju, Galery of institute 'Jožef Stefan', Ljubljana (December 2019)
Jaki house, Galery, Nazarje (September 2020)
Galery Krka, Novo mesto (November 2020)
and group exhibitions:
Weavers, The Church of St. Spirit, Črnomelj (June 2016)
International Planeair and group exhibition „Grenzraum knüpft Verbindungen“, City Museum Zittau, Germany (April 2019)
Mozaik 2020, Lokar Galery Ajdovščina (January 2020)
„Grenzraum knüpft Verbindungen“, European parliament in Brussels (February 2020)
