Heidi Jalkh (Colombia/Argentina) is an experimental designer, educator, researcher, and curator working in material design. In her work, materials guide exploration, making, discussion, and reflection; shaping embodied practices through which knowledge and objects emerge. She weaves interdisciplinary research with hands-on, craft-based processes to explore traditional making alongside bio-inspired and bio-fabricated materials and processes.
During the residency, Heidi’s research will unfold through encounters and exchanges with practitioners from different backgrounds who work closely with materials. By treating materials as active contributors rather than passive supports, this process will open space to reflect on how we design, produce, and consume across contexts and territories, through an iterative process of listening and making.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions across Latin America and Europe, notably Material Interactions at Artlab, Buenos Aires (2026); Extremos at 14ª Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo (2024); MATTER MAKES SENSE, 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024); Design Lab#13: Material Legacies, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Germany (2023); and Trazos Biomateriales at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023).
Heidi also curated MoS | Matter of South: Biomaterial Cultures from Latin America at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany (2024), and has contributed to publications such as ‘Toward a New Culture of the Material’ (Berlin, 2024) and edited ‘Trazos: Edición Biomateriales,’ with Gabriele Pozetti (Buenos Aires, 2024).
Heidi was born in Medellín, Colombia and is now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
With support from:
Amaya-Boffi Collection and Delfina’s Network of Patrons for Latin America & the Caribbean
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