About

Katharina Spitz

I am Katharina Spitz, an Amsterdam-based textile artist, designer and tailor with a passion for meticulous craftsmanship and the stories woven into textiles.

As the founder of a textile and tailoring studio, I work across textile art, fashion and costume — blending traditional tailoring with experimental techniques and material research like hair works, textile sculpture, ceramica, tufting, and crocheting.

I create garments, performances and objects that explore material, form, and meaning — one thread at a time.

Katharina Spitz (b. 1993) is an Amsterdam-based conceptual designer with a background in couture dressmaking. Her practice balances craft, research, and art, exploring new perspectives on pressing social issues through a feminist and material-oriented lens. Using fashion and textile as her primary mediums, she investigates themes such as inequality, alienation, and identity in poetic, tactile ways.

Spitz's work spans performance, costume design, and sculpture, often created in close collaboration with artists from different disciplines. Recent projects include a performance with a Tanzanian poet, costume design for a dance film by Emma Evelein, and a textile sculpture for visual artist Susanna Inglada. She is also engaged in a project addressing age discrimination in fashion.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), Marres (Maastricht), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg), Fashionclash Festival (Maastricht), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). In addition to her artistic practice, she regularly facilitates workshops, where she promotes sustainability, textile skills, and self-empowerment through textile making.

2025

• 30.05.–30.07.2025
  Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden)
  ‘FÜR ALLE! Demokratie neu gestalten’
  group exhibition
• 05.04.–01.05.2025
  Textilmuseum (Tilburg)
  ‘Common Ground’
  group exhibition

• 11.2024
  Fotogenia (Mexico City)
  ‘Forget Me Not’
  filmfestival
• 15.–17.11.2024
  Marres (Maastricht)
  ‘I see you seeing me’, funded by AMARTE
  performance and exhibition
• 15.–17.11.2024
  Bureau Europa (Maastricht)
  ‘New Fashion Narratives’
  group exhibition
• 10.2024–12.2024
  Textielmuseum (Tilburg)
  Advanced Textile Programme
  residency
• 30.05.2024–13.10.2024
  Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, Germany)
  ‘FÜR ALLE! Demokratie neu gestalten’
  group exhibition
• 04.2024–11.2024
  Fashionclash (Maastricht)
  ‘New Fashion Narratives’
  curatorial residency
• 02.2024–05.2024
  Big Gallery XS (Delft)
  Studio Katharina Spitz and Maartje van den Noort
  group exhibition
• 26.10.2024–01.02.2024
  Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G (Hamburg, Germany)
  ‘Forget Me Not’
  solo exhibition

• 04.2023–10.2023
  Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G (Hamburg, Germany)
  ‘Fonds for Young Design’, funded by Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen
  residency
• 26.10.2023
  Fashionclash Festival (Maastricht)
  ‘Play Harder’
  performance

• 04.05.2022–18.05.2022
  Sissy Expo (Amsterdam)
  ‘In the Face of Loss’
  group exhibition

• 30.10.2021
  Konzertsaal UdK (Berlin)
  ‘Freeloading’
  graduation show

• 15.09.2019
  Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW (Berlin)
  ‘Bootcamp Humans Only’
  performance
• 10.09.2019–15.09.2019
  Robert-Koch-Forum (Berlin)
  ‘Utopias of digital Physicality’
  group exhibition
• 18.05.2019–20.05.2019
  Algomech Festival (Sheffield, UK)
  ‘Rituals of Care’
  group exhibition

today

• 11/2021 – today
  Studio Katharina Spitz — textile artist, designer and tailor
• 05/2024 – today
  various clients — tailoring and patternmaking
• 07/2022 – today
  teaching in textiles and sustainability — sewing, patternmaking, workshops, repaircafe
• 01/2022 – today
  Marlou Breuls / House of Rubber — freelance designer, tailor and studio management

• 03–10/2025
  Susanna Inglada — artisan trajectory made possible by Mondriaan Fonds

• 01–03/2025
  Emma Evelien — tailoring and costume design for dance film ‘born into you’

• 10/2022 – 01/2023
  Susanna Inglada — technical advise and design implementation textile sculpture ‘Head of Medusa’, presented as part of ‘Patretraits’, Kunstlinie (Almere)
  

• 09/2022 – 11/2022
  Sean Hannan — costume design and tailoring for work ‘LUCK’, presented as part of ‘When things are beings’, Stedelijkmuseum (Amsterdam)

• 02/2019
  Götze (Berlin) — freelance tailor
  
• 01/2019 – 10/2021
  Universität der Künste (Berlin) — junior teacher tailoring and textile techniques

• 10/2017 – 10/2021
  University of the Arts (Berlin), Institute for experimental textile and fashion design
  BA of Arts Fashion and Textile Design

• 04/2017 – 09/2017
  De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam) — freelance tailor soloists costumes

• 08/2016 – 04/2017
  Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) — textile set design and realisation for film screening

• 03/2014 – 12/202015
  Obono (Düsseldorf) — freelance tailor

• 07/2013 – 09/2017
  Pio O’kan Couture (Düsseldorf) — bespoke tailor, high-end womenswear

EDUCATION

• 10/2017 – 10/2021
  University of the Arts (Berlin), Institute for experimental textile and fashion design
  BA of Arts Fashion and Textile Design

• 09/2020 – 02/2021
  Marlou Breuls Creative Studio (Amsterdam)
  fashion design

• 07/2013 – 06/2016
  Pio O’kan Couture (Düsseldorf)
  apprenticeship bespoke tailor, specialisation: high-end womenswear, prize for best exam of the year
• 08/2004 – 06/2013
  Gymnasium: Marienschule Opladen
  A-Levels

spitzkatha@gmail.com
+4915789036558
Studioadress: Surinameplein 35, 1058 GM Amsterdam