Gloria Sogl ~ Key words: tactile kinship, weaving as counter cultural technology, automation, unlearning patterns, material knowledge, life practice, art education

Gloria Sogl (b. 1994, Munich, Germany) is an art educator and visual artist, working across various mediums such as installations, performance, text, and textiles. Central to Gloria's practice is the art of weaving, which serves as a conceptual foundation and inspiration for much of her work and research. Her visual work captures the essence of patterns, narrating threads, individual and collective knowledge and the laborious art of textile making, intricately depicting the working bodies and tools. Through her work, Gloria delves into the contemporary landscape of art-making, forging deep connections with materials and intertwining narratives of textile traditions and automated production in the digital era.

Gloria’s exploration of the loom, a hyper-industrial machine with colonial roots, expands on traditional approaches, questioning the loom as a "timeless" machine amidst anti-modern processes. In this expansion, she strives for a method of unlearning and relearning, of writing and erasing, weaving and unraveling. By treating weaving as a counter-cultural technology, she explores its potential as an aesthetic detour with uncertain outcomes, aiming to further fray and redefine textile forms.

Gloria studied Fine Arts and Pedagogy in Munich and Nuremberg and graduated from Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in 2024. She received a Study Scholarship from DAAD (2023-2024), the Summerschool Salzburg Scholarship (2021), the German-Czech Scholarship from Bildwerk Frauenau and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2023), and the Debutant funding programme, as well as Project funding Scholarship from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art (2024). Gloria has participated in performances and exhibitions in various places, such as Bauhaus Dessau (2018), Haus der Kunst München (2019), Hinterconti Hamburg (2020), Kunstmuseum Celle (2021), Galerie der Stadt Schwarz, Austria (2021), and Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen (2021/22 and 2025), among others.

Learn more about Gloria Sogl's 20 minute performance What weave if remembrance is the woof and forgetting the warp? for Chameleon Orbit ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2024 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

Learn more about Gloria Sogl's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): coming soon