Recent years have posed renewed challenges to the strength of the social fabric, reinforcing the urgency of being together. The 7th edition of Contextile – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, which takes place between September and December, in Guimarães, is designed with a focus on the biennial’s involvement with the community(ies) of the territory(ies) in which it lives and works.

In the same way that a fabric is built from the perfect articulation between weft and warp, societies also depend on how the people who make them up relate to each other. The 2024 Biennale is committed to creating and working together, reinforcing its commitment to art and culture, but also to the ecosystem and sustainability.

In this way, what has been one of its most marked lines of identity is highlighted: a platform for meeting and creating a community.

Contextile 2024 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial will be bigger, extending its period of activity by more than a month. There are 100 days dedicated to Contemporary Art and Textile Culture, between September 7th and December 15th, 2024, in a program that includes exhibitions, artistic residencies, performances, workshops and the Textile Talks cycle.

Always counting on the partnership and support of Guimarães City Hall, DGArtes/MC and textile industry agents in the region, Contextile 2024 will occupy the various cultural spaces and public areas of the city of Guimarães, with the intention of promoting the best in contemporary textile art in Portugal and around the world, encouraging artistic creation with textiles as a reference.

Contextile has been working for over a decade and is recognized as an international reference in the field of contemporary textile art. But it is also a unique cultural and artistic event, which transforms Guimarães and the Vale do Ave region into the epicenter of a textile culture territory. It is these dynamics and interactions that move and motivate us to new stages and challenges, in total sharing with artists, creatives, communities, and places in the territory(ies).