Emma Cogné

"At the core of her global textile medium exploration, which she dubbed “Système T”, Emma assembles rhythmic canvases of startling immediacy, that infuse the everyday with their poetic paradoxes. She deploys a personal arsenal of techniques to adapt to the available resources, transforming the constraints of reality into the very material of a playground where new configurations can emerge. She is drawn to the translation of gestures and knowledge, as well as the circulation of objects across cultures : " the undercommons"

This exchange she’s playing out, this dialogue of ancient weaving techniques and industrial detritus, breathes new life into unique textile furniture and site-specific installations, effortlessly merging interior and exterior. Emma is stripping structures down, refining the strata of the habitat, rebuilding the world—probing the potential of resistance and reorganisation, in a crisis of materiality."

Text by Jerôme Hoppe

Exhibitions & Fairs

Pièges à soleil Gilbard.e.s , Be

KONVOOI festival 2023, Bruges, Be

Specters of the future, Doel festival, Be 

HOME MADE - Créer, Produire, Habiter, CID Grand-Hornu, Be

 Des archives au design, CID Grand Hornu

Next Door, Triphasé, Be

The Waiting Room, Het Paviljoen, Be

Voyage Voyage, Arcade design à la campagne, Fr

Michael’s agency, Studio City Gate, Be

The gift to be simple, New York Textile Month, US

Um Cento de Cestos, Museu Arte Popular, Lisbonne

Détours, Abbaye de Stavelot, Be

Materia, CID Grand Hornu, Be

Les usages du monde, World design capital, Gare St Sauveur, Lille, Fr

Torronnées, Marronnées ERG Gallery, Be
23rd Floor, WTCI, Northern Quarter Be

Maison & Objet 2024, Rising Talent Award, Paris

Lake Como Design Festival, 2023

MK&G Messe 2023 Young Talent, Hambourg

Heimtextil fair 2023, Franckfort

Contemporary design market 2022, Tour & taxi, Be

Collectible Design Fair 2022, " Systems" La Bocca Della Verità gallery 

«How & Wow Bask it!», Dutch Design Week, Pays-Bas

Lake Como Design festival 2019, Teatro sociale, Italie

Collectible Design Fair 2019, espace Vanderborght, Belgique

Talents ! finalist Dorothy Waxman International prize Mohawk showroom, New-York

Residency

Thread, Foundation Josef & Anni Albers, Sénégal

Saisons Zéro, Monastère des Clarisses, Roubaix

Alumni Artwell, Amsterdam

Summer school, Portuguese basket weaving technology, Lisbon

Award & grant

Rising Talent Maison & Objet 2024

Grant design research 2022 Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles

Finalist young design artist, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Prototyping grant 2020, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Tremplin 2018, prix du Ministre de l’Education Supérieure 
Tremplin 2018, prix du TL Mag, Be

Finalist Dorothy Waxman international textile design by Lidewij Edelkoort, US

Lookbook award, MAD Brussels fashion & design platform

Publications / press

La revue d'a n°322, "Sustainable screen" 

The site magazine, issue 3 «Common Currencies»

Out of Catalogue, Zaventem Ateliers book

Domus magazine April 2022 issue
"Home made Créer, Produire, Habiter" de Fabien Petiot  & Chloé Braunstein-Kriegel

The design Story, «Textile in space »
The design story, «reimagining design and process with emma cogné»
Through Objects, interview about « Clareira »
Interior design, 10 Highlights From the Lake Como Design Fair
Dezeen, 10 young designers to watch from Collectible 2019
TL mag, Constructing Textiles: Emma Cogné
New York Textile Month, Magalog, vol.3, Talents
édition Système T limitée à 50 exemplaires numérotés avec le soutien du MAD Brussels & Design platform

Education

Master design textile with distinction ENSAV La Cambre, Be

Bachelor design textile with mention ENSBA Lyon, Fr

Diplôme des métiers d'art Lycée la Source Nogent sur Marne, Fr