Azerbaijan’s contribution to this year’s Venice Biennale is a stunning installation by Faig Ahmed. COVER Editor Lucy Upward takes a look at the installation and speaks to the artist
Exhibitions
Faig Ahmed at the Venice Biennale: The Attention
At the 61st Venice Biennale (2026), Faig Ahmed’s solo exhibition The Attention for the Azerbaijan Pavilion reimagines the carpet as a shifting system of perception, where craft, language and cosmology intersect
Gently Under the Flame at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
COVER’s Raquel Diazdowney visits A media lumbre (Gently Under the Flame) at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, an exhibition exploring material knowledge and craft, set to travel across Spain throughout 2026
Kayla Mattes: Rebooting Textile Art for the Digital Age
Kayla Mattes transforms the visual language of the internet into vibrant handwoven tapestries where pixels, memes and material craft collide in richly textured form
Textile Art Redefined: A New Era at Saatchi
Textile art takes centre stage at the Saatchi Gallery, as fifteen artists redefine the medium’s place within contemporary fine art
Visit the textile archives of Susan Collier & Sarah Campbell
Opening today in London, Paint! Pattern! Print! celebrates the vibrant and influential work of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell, tracing five decades of bold, painterly textile design that reshaped the language of pattern
From Micro to Monumental at MATTER and SHAPE 2026
The third edition of MATTER and SHAPE returns to Paris from 6–9 March 2026, unfolding in the storied surroundings of the Jardin des Tuileries during Paris Fashion Week
Last chance to see Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold
Running until 14 March at the Lowe Art Museum, How Much A Heart Can Hold examines female identity, artistic legacy and the obscured histories of influential women
The new Museum Angewandte Kunst exhibition: Wool. Silk. Resistance.
Wool. Silk. Resistance. at the Museum Angewandte Kunst opens its showcase of textile designs woven in layers of collective dissent









