These uncertain times have called for arts and cultural institutions and cultural spaces to be reactive and flexible, working collectively throughout new approaches and digital formats.

Virtual Boundaries: online textile art exhibitions beyond distance presents an easy and replicable format for online exhibitions born by the collaboration of different actors, taking place on Instagram platform.  

The online exhibitions featured by the project arise from the on-going experience of Textile Culture Net, an international network of four textile institutions and cultural spaces conceived during the pandemic, in spring 2020. The network includes Lottozero textile laboratories in Prato, the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (Poland), CHAT (the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) in Hong Kong and the TextielMuseum in Tilburg (The Netherlands).

With this kind of initiative, both ‘public’ and ‘private’ institutions and cultural spaces can overcome boundaries, both geographical and institutional, forging a new way of collaboration to become more inclusive, sustainable, efficient, and at the same time, dynamic and powerful.