FREE ENTRY / International Tapestry City Award - Haltra Communities 2025

For the past twelve years, the Cité internationale de la tapisserie in Aubusson has been pursuing a policy of creation, promoting this expertise, which is classified as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and at the same time enriching the contemporary collection of the museum.

Eva Nielsen, Clément Cogitore, Mathieu Mercier, Marie Sirgue, El Seed, Raphaël Barontini, Amélie Bertrand, Thomas Bayrle, in particular, winners of the various calls for projects have created textile works whose scale, deployment and diversity salute tapestry as a contemporary artistic medium.

With the same energy, the creation of two large hangings around the works of JRR Tolkien and Hayao Miyazaki extends the history of textile imaginations in tapestries of monumental proportions. A current public artistic commission "Hommage à George Sand", entrusted to Françoise Pétrovitch, will project the tapestry medium into the world of monumental installation.

The Cité de la tapisserie, in a logic of…