Emma Cogné

At the core of her global textile exploration, which she dubbed “Système T”, she works with materials drawn from the ruins of industry and construction, for their social charge and their role in the standardization of everyday life. Through pre-industrial techniques, she assigns new roles to these resources, through processes of juxtaposition and relational proximity. Her practice thus unfolds from material research to the design of textile objects and scenographic installations, with sustained attention to the scale and context of each project.

For Emma, textile constitutes a pivotal medium: a threshold between the domestic and the collective. She seeks to preserve the essence of materials while opening up new forms of relation to the commons, notably by treating ornamentation as a politics of detail and attention.

Exhibitions & Fairs

Semis, un lieu de Fabrication, Berny-en-Rivière, Fr

Biennale de St Etienne, « Ressource(s), présager demain », Fr

"Perpetuo", TAMAT musée de la Tapisserie et des Arts textiles, Be

"Woven Whispers" Alcova Milano, Belgium is Design, Fr

Darwin 15, Be

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

Through Objects, interview about « Clareira »
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