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Nanna hosted two separate Erasmus+ "job shadowers" a year ago in late 2025. Ritva was a weaving expert, who ran a weaving center in Espoo, near Helsinki. Anu arrived some weeks later from Oulu. She teaches a wide variety of textile classes and also creates textile art. As part of the official program during "Oulu - European Culture Capital 2026" her art was also exhibited.

Thanks to a grant that Anu's group was able to receive from the adult education section of the EU-Erasmus+ program enables the exchange-week in Stuttgart.

Nanna provides for varied textile-input. But she is also excited to learn from the participants in the group. Exchange in both directions, learning from and with each other is at the core of this visit.

Nanna passes on information of the way she gives workshops. It includes both practical textile technique education, as well as cultural transfer in a lecture. Cultural appropriation is a dear subject to Nanna that she pays close attention to in her teaching-sessions especially on topics that are e.g. from Asia or India.

The group from Finland will learn about Nanna's research activities and curatorial work. During the Covid-Pandemic she e.g. started studying Lotte Hofmann (1907-1981), a German textile artist and embroider, whose legacy was almost forgotten. Thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Culture in Baden-Württemberg, Nanna could focus on carrying out research. Meanwhile she was asked to join the board of the Lotte Hofmann Stiftung für Textilkunst in Deutschland (Lotte Hofmann Foundation for Textile Art in Germany), which organizes competitions in textile art in Germany. At present the prize-winners and nominated artists' works are on show at the Textile Collection Max Berk Heidelberg. The group visits Heidelberg to an impression of cutting-edge textile art in Germany at the moment. A year ago, at the same museum in Heidelberg, Dr. Kristine Scherer (the curator of the textile collection) and Nanna curated a large Lotte Hofmann Retrospective. Many Lotte-Hofmann-works were on display that originated from private collections and had never been shown to the public before. Loans from Landesmuseum Württemberg (State Museum of Württemberg), that stores the largest Lotte-Hofmann-Collection, were also on show. The Baden-Württemberg Foundation finanzed the retrospective.

Important in Nanna's work are collaborations and concept-development with different partners, also abroad. Various cases will be studied and used for assessment.

The Finnish participants work on individual textiles projects that are instigated during or stem from the Stuttgart visit. Some may develop quickly and idea of what-to-do. Taking time and making e.g. samples is also an idea.

We are all looking forward to the creative and fruitful time together. Welcome to Stuttgart!

Nanna

Nanna Aspholm-Flik (*1964, Tampere) ist diplomierte Textildesignerin (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) aus Finnland und agiert u.a. als Künstlerin, Dozentin, Forscherin, Kuratorin, Jurorin und Kunsthandwerkerin. Als Impulsgeberin und Kooperationspartnerin in Kulturprojekten verfolgt sie den Ansatz, Theorie und Praxis zusammenzubringen, um die Wertigkeit des Textilen hervorzuheben. Sie ist Gründerin und Ideengeberin der Atelierwerkstatt _nannatextiles in Stuttgart-West. Unter _programm _archiv kann über Nannas konkrete Mitwirkungen nachgelesen werden.

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