October 2025
Works
Feeling voids of reason
Tapestry & felting
Stitching human sufferance
Textile installation, mixed technique
Textile composition
Patching Maya's Veil
Weaving with extra-warpping & stitching
Litany against fear
Textile installation
The coping mechanism
Textile collage
Expendable bodies
The Art of Weaving Emotions
Welcome to the textile universe of Ioana Ciuciulica, where threads are transformed into artistic expressions.
Ioana Ciuciulică
Ioana Ciuciulică was born in Eastern Europe during the communist era.
As a teenager, dissatisfied with the fashion offer in Romania after the fall of dictatorship, Ioana began working with textiles, creating her own designs, and quickly achieved success within her community.
In 2007, she began a multi-year exploration across different media in search of her artistic means of expression: audiovisual production, graphic design, metals, gemstones, soutache, 3D modeling and more. This exploration gave her a clear sense of the path she wanted to pursue: not staying on the surface but going deeper into her preferred medium—textiles. In 2020, she enrolled in the Faculty of Arts in Bucharest (Romania), specialising in Weaving. In 2021, her research took her for several months to Vienna (Austria) through the Erasmus+ program, where she encountered new approaches to learning. While completing the last year of her Master’s degree, Ioana Ciuciulică developed her own technique combining tapestry and felting, which became her signature.
In 2025, her first solo exhibition was held, showcasing her Master’s work.
Techniques and Details
My work explores a variety of textile techniques, ranging from traditional weaving to experimental approaches. Each piece is conceived as a dialogue between the material and the artistic intention.
Relief Weaving
Detail showing the interaction of blue and green threads
Watercolour and Thread
Integration of mixed techniques
Felting-mixed Tapestry
Crossfades of Tapestry & Felting areas
Weaving Embroidery
Unreliable textile mending
Philosophy
“Weaving is not merely a technique; it is a way of thinking about the world, of connecting disparate elements to create a harmonious whole.”
Patching Maya’s Veil
My work explores the fundamental question: “What is reality?” and the space between reality and illusion. In the philosophical tradition, Maya’s veil represents the illusion that prevents us from perceiving the true nature of things. Through my weavings, I attempt to repair these fragmented perceptions and to build bridges between different understandings of the world.
Filling Voids of Reason
When certainties slip away, when the sound of the wind falls silent, when the echo of footsteps ceases, it is in these voids that art finds its place. My textile works seek to inhabit these spaces of silence, to give form to the unspeakable, and to weave connections between seemingly contradictory ideas.
Thus, the process of weaving becomes a meditation on how we interpret the world and give it meaning—an act of resistance against fragmentation and isolation.
Events
My (Big) Book of Mending the World
Exhibition period: 3–30 June 2025
Opening reception: 14 June 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Centre of Culture “Brâncoveanu Palaces”, Mogoșoaia / Foișor Gallery
Supervising professor: Lecturer Dr Iulia Toma
This exhibition presents the outcome of my research into the relationship between textile art and the symbolic repair of the world. Through a series of textile works, I explore the themes of connection, healing, and transformation.
The pieces on display combine traditional weaving techniques with contemporary approaches, using hand-dyed threads in shades of blue, yellow, and green to create compositions that evoke both the natural landscape and human emotions.
Selected exhibitions (timeline)
June 2025
Social Society Gala
June 2025
My (Big) Book of Mending the World
March–April 2025
Hearing, Seeing, Touching
November–December 2024
The Weaving Process: from Sketching to Weaving
August–September 2024
Leviathan or the Matter, Form and Power of Art
June 2024
Floating Threads
April–June 2024
Decorative Arts Saloon — 22nd Edition (New Blood selection)
November–December 2023
Emerging Young Art
October 2023
Diploma Show — 10th Edition
June–July 2023
Secvențial
April–June 2023
Decorative Arts Saloon — 21st Edition (New Blood selection)
September–October 2022
Tactile Balance
January–February 2022
Between Threads
May 2021
Artistic Expressions in Textile Media
Contact
For any enquiries, exhibitions, or collaborations, please feel free to contact us.
Email: contact@ioanaciuciulica.com
Instagram: @ioanaciuciulica