{"id":57488,"date":"2026-02-20T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/la-delicadeza-del-arte-textil-de-koral-antolin-puesta-en-escena-en-el-hotel-la-zambra-de-malaga\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:39:50","slug":"textile-artist-koral-antolin-takes-an-active-role-in-madrid-design-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/textile-artist-koral-antolin-takes-an-active-role-in-madrid-design-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Textile artist Koral Antol\u00edn takes an active role in Madrid Design Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in 1989 and based in Madrid, Koral Antol\u00edn<\/a> develops her artistic practice in a territory where drawing becomes matter and gesture acquires body. Trained in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, with a specialisation in drawing and printmaking, her early trajectory spans different disciplines \u2014 art direction, craft design, photography \u2014 before finding in textile art a language capable of bringing them together with coherence and depth.<\/p>\n\n

Thread, wool and cotton appear in her work as elements of visual and spatial construction. Koral understands textiles as an expanded medium: an active surface that enters into dialogue with architecture, with the scale of the body and with the slow time of manual making. Her work is grounded in traditional techniques \u2014 embroidery, punch needle, manual tufting, braiding, appliqu\u00e9 \u2014 explored through a contemporary lens that prioritises texture, rhythm and the relationship between void and matter.<\/p>\n\n

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Exhibition \u201cIn constant movement\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At Gancedo\u2019s showroom on Vel\u00e1zquez 38 (Madrid), Koral Antol\u00edn presents a journey through vital energy expressed through embroidery and techniques such as punch needle. The work explores identity and transformation, including symbolic references to motherhood and Paleolithic Venuses. For Antol\u00edn, texture and volume do not merely animate the work but become the very landscape in which the viewer can lose themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018 she founded Studio.fi together with her mother and sister. What began as a minimalist textile embroidery brand, focused on craftsmanship and material quality, gradually evolved into an artistic practice applied to space. The studio specialises in creating bespoke tapestries and textile artworks for interior and hospitality projects, always maintaining direct control over process and execution.<\/p>\n\n\n

Studio.fi works from the premise of commission as dialogue. Each project begins with a detailed brief that analyses place, scale, light and the client\u2019s specific needs. From there, the studio develops a technical and material investigation that leads to textile proposals designed to integrate naturally into their architectural context, bringing a tactile and quiet dimension to space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The studio\u2019s production combines unique pieces and limited series, all made entirely by hand. In recent projects, Studio.fi has undertaken highly complex commissions, including textile installations composed of dozens of pieces, demonstrating a rare ability to translate craft language to architectural scales without losing precision or coherence. In the work of Koral Antol\u00edn and Studio.fi, textiles cease to be surface and become a sensitive structure. A practice built on respect for material, time and place, understanding art as a presence that accompanies and lends character to space.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roundtables at Fiesta Design<\/h2>\n\n\n

To explore the impact of design on society and wellbeing, Gancedo is hosting two gatherings at its Vel\u00e1zquez 38 space (Madrid):<\/p>\n\n\n

February 11 (7:00 pm)<\/strong>: \u201cTextile art as a sensory and emotional experience.\u201d A discussion on how textiles connect with our emotions. Participants include artist Koral Antol\u00edn, Cecilia Mallardi (co-founder of Calma Chechu) and David Pastor (creative director of Rabad\u00e1n). The session will be moderated by designer Chio Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n

February 25 (7:00 pm)<\/strong>: \u201cDesign that transforms hotels and restaurants into memorable experiences.\u201d Focused on the hospitality sector, this panel will feature Mar\u00eda Ruiz Pardo (Atelier Mel), \u00c1lvaro Mesonero-Romanos (MR Studio), Eva Longoria (Rockwell Spain) and Isabel Luque (Fuerte Group). Moderated by journalist Mario Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n\n

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Studio.fi
Koral Antol\u00edn
<\/strong>Madrid
hello@studiofi.es
koralantolin.com<\/a>
@studio.fi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Her work will be on view at Gancedo\u2019s showroom \u2014 exhibition \u201cIn constant movement\u201d \u2014 at Kutrix Gallery \u2014 the exhibition \u201cenLANA2\u201d \u2014 and at Fiesta Design, where she will participate in two roundtable discussions on textile art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[742],"tags":[2266,2267,2269],"ppma_author":[249],"class_list":["post-57488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-koral-antolin","tag-madrid-design-festival-2026","tag-textile-art"],"authors":[{"term_id":249,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amoratinos","display_name":"Ex\u00e1gono","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/95418ef5af1f1a520d5386cfe82ba253c88665f94a4343ec69a36d8df034ab4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57517,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57488\/revisions\/57517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=57488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}