Olivia Kaufmann – Textile Art | Experimental Graphic

I am an artist who works with textiles. My work focuses on creating traces through dyeing, printing, and embroidery, whereby I use a method that allows for random effects. The dyed fabric is cut, layered, sewn, and embroidered to establish relationships between traces and textures. I specialize in printing with an algae-based paste and combine the prints with fabric fragments to create collages to which I add hand-embroidered marks as a drawing element.
In my work, people and landscapes serve as different approaches to the exploration of liminal spaces and perceptions. In my engagement with in-between spaces, the hidden and the overlooked come into focus, and supposedly stable states and clear convictions begin to waver. This raises questions of visibility, attribution and social value.
Liminal spaces open up a perspective that reveals how fixed assumptions are unstable and must be continually questioned.
My artworks have been exhibited both in Germany and abroad since 2023.
My works “Unisono”, which won the Design Award at the international textile exhibition “Trame a Corte 2025” (IT), "Korridor", which won the third Women United Art Prize in 2023 and “detrimental”, which received a special mention at the world-renowned International Triennial of Textile Arts 2024 in Szombathely (HU), attracted particular international attention.
Olivia Kaufmann – Textile Art | Experimental Graphic
Olivia Kaufmann is a mixed media and textile artist living in the Uckermark region. Born in Lower Saxony, she moved to northeastern Brandenburg after a career as an entrepreneur. She holds a degree in graphic design with a focus on printmaking, having studied under Professor Tillman Gasch at the Westend Art School, now the Frankfurt Academy for Communication and Design (FAKD), Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt am Main.
Olivia Kaufmann has exhibited both domestically and internationally, including in Poland, Italy, Hungary and Finland, and has been working full-time as an artist since 2022, specializing in textiles and experimental printmaking.
Works by Olivia Kaufmann are found in private and public collections.
Olivia Kaufmann is the recipient of the Trame a Corte Design Award 2025, Italy, and is the third prize winner of the Women United Art Prize 2023, category Collage & Fiber Art, USA.
She is a member of bbk-Brandenburg eV, the Friends of the Neubrandenburg Art Collection, VG Bild-Kunst and the European Textile Network.