In my artistic practice, I explore knitting and crochet as an independent sculptural language. I am not interested in creating functional objects, but in the potential of the thread to generate physical forms through repetition, time, and growth. My works emerge intuitively from a single thread and develop stitch by stitch into abstract, three-dimensional sculptures that remain deliberately open to different associations.
Working from the material itself, I create forms that follow internal processes of growth and move between the familiar and the undefined. By transferring textile techniques into the context of contemporary art, I shift their perception: the seemingly ordinary becomes a counterpart. Working with wool thus becomes a dialogue about material, time, and social notions of value, labour, and art — a practice that raises open questions rather than providing definitive answers.
Biography
Lana Bragin studied Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) from 2001 to 2006 and Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (HAW) from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008, she has worked as a freelance artist and designer. In her artistic practice, she explores textile materials, focusing particularly on knitting and crochet as independent sculptural forms of expression.
Her works were exhibited in 2026 in the exhibition XXL Textile Variations 2026 at Galerie OpenBach in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France, as well as at Galleri kbh kunst in Copenhagen and the Kunstsalon Hamburg.