Nayeli Vega is a Mexican artist and designer based and working in Berlin. Vega focuses her work on topics related to feminism, ecology, social justice and speculative design. Her artistic practice explores rituals and technologies of the past, present and future through digital and analog mediums such as digital 3D modeling and fabrication, weavings, knots,
installations, among others. Vega was awarded with the Elsa-Neumann- Scholarship of the Berlin State and she is co-founder and member of Lacuna Lab e.V., an international artist collective in Berlin-Kreuzberg that brings together a wide range of projects at the intersection of art and technology.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS
2022 (upcoming events)
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
AWARDS & GRANTS
2022
NEUSTART für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler:Digitale 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
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
2013
Re-Mex, The Power of Arts. Introduction. Goethe Institut, Mexico. Mx.City, Mex