FITE - Textile Biennial - Brazil

PLAY

du 24/08/2025 au 25/01/2026

Sesc Pinheiros

Rua Paes Leme, 195 - Pinheiros - São Paulo

This edition is co-produced with SESC Pinheiros, which will host the biennial from 24 August 2025 to 25 January 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil.

FITE has chosen the theme «PLAY» because play is a space and a time apart from everyday life, with its own rules and its own limits, which encourages the explo- ration of other ways of relating to oneself, to others and to the environment. It produces pleasure, educational value, emancipating energy, an exercise in reason and strategy. It fosters creativity, problem-solving skills, divergent thinking and the development of new ideas.

The central exhibition at the Musée Bargoin adopts the principle of playing and of presentation, «truth» and «knowledge». «knowledge». It offers artists the museum as a playground, within which each plays in his or her own way and reveals something of our contemporary societies.

In 2024, the FITE – Textile Biennial was:
18 exhibitions, including 15 in Clermont-Ferrand and 3 in Cervières, Lyon and Retournac
50 artists, designers and heritage collections
32 nationalities
7 highlights
13 workshops, meetings and tours

WHERE & WHEN ?

One theme is voted for 2 years !

After « Métamorphoses », « Renaissance », « Rebelles », Déviations », « Love etc. » and « Imagine ! », the theme for 2024_25 edition is « PLAY ». While the biennial is held each even years in Clermont-Ferrand (France), every odd year it moves to another country. This was the case in 2013 in Hué (Vietnam), 2015 in Manila (Philippines), 2017 in Mexico City (Mexico), 2019 in Romania (itinerant) and 2023 in Lithuania (itinerant). In 2021, the FITE was supposed to be in Dakar (Senegal), but had to be cancelled. The 2025 edition will be hosted in São Paulo (Brazil).

WHOM ?

The HS_Projets Association

Association under the 1901 Law. International actors of textiles : artists, designers, dancers etc. The association works to structure exchanges and cooperation between regional, national, european and international actors by organizing events such as the FITE.

WHOM ?

The City of Clermont-Ferrand

Nineteenth urban center of France, Clermont-Ferrand encourages co-construction and new modes of cooperation for a common project. Social and cultural links are seen as crucial for the urban life. The city is very much involved in the development and influence of its territory as a human community, with the objective of a common invention of its future.

WHOM ?

The museum Bargoin

Whose collections are unique in France, pursue a remarkable work on extra-european textiles invite us to an unseen travel.

WHOM ?

Clermont Auvergne
Métropole

Urban community, work for the reinforcement of the intercommunalitiy to make things better together, especially as part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes