Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled & Woven
Thursday 9th July 2026 to Monday 31st August 2026
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER
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This exhibition brings together new work by eight contemporary artists and collectives from Korea and India with historic textiles from the Whitworth’s collection.
The exhibition traces surprising connections between Manchester’s industrial past and living craft traditions shaped by culture, migration, labour and care.
Co-organised with the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025, in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, and presented in partnership with Hyundai Motor Company, the exhibition treats textiles as active, changing materials rather than objects from the past. Through weaving, dyeing, embroidery and hand-spun fibre, it shows how skills are passed on, adapted and shared — from hand-to-hand, generation-to-generation.
Across the galleries, newly commissioned installations by eight artists and collectives sit alongside Indian and Korean textiles dating back more than 400 years. Historic pieces are not tucked away as relics, but brought into conversation with contemporary work, opening up stories of ingenuity and industry, intimacy and extraction.
Exhibition Preview:
6pm - 8pm, Thursday 9 July 2026 (Book tickets for the preview here.)
Exhibition runs from 10th July.
Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Artwork Photo: Jounghye Yoo, Gilded Veil, 2025, installation view in Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven, National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy. Photo by Garima Bhaskar
