CHAT Names Eight Finalists for Its 2027 Textile Art Prize

CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) has revealed the eight artists shortlisted for the second Contemporary Textile Art Prize, chosen from 28 nominations spanning West, Central, South, Southeast and East Asia. Their work will fill the Hong Kong centre from March to June 2027, with the Grand Prize of HK$300,000 announced at The Mills that March, and a further Audience Prize decided by public vote once the exhibition closes.

Gulnur Mukazhanova, Bosağa – Transition. The Weave of Ancestral Memory. BARSAKELMES exhibition. Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, September 2025. Photo: Saparlas.

The range of ideas at play is what makes this shortlist worth paying attention to. Felt appears as a body rather than a fabric. Embroidery becomes a way of arguing with time. A patchwork gets built from the recordings of a "plant orchestra." These are working methods, the actual starting points for eight practices that treat textile as a tool for thinking rather than simply making...

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Image Credits:

Lead: Majd Abdel Hamid, Second Resonance, 2025, Photo: E Sommer for Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen.

All further images as credited in captions.