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