Mai-Li Helweg
2026年三月驻地艺术家
Mai-Li Helweg
No. 183 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist
2026 March Resident Artist
Mai-Li Helweg
关于艺术家 About the Artist

(德国 Germany)
Instagram:@mailihelw
Mai-Li Helweg is a Berlin-based artist with a background in fashion design. After beginning her career at Alexander McQueen, she worked on textile developments for houses including Chanel and Louis Vuitton.
Her practice spans painting, textiles, and objects. Drawing on early 20th-century embroideries encountered while working as an embroidery designer in Switzerland, as well as elements of her mixed heritage, she explores ornament as a cultural language. Working with fabric and paper, she creates scroll-like surfaces that imagine a fictional world consisting of ornament and decoration as memory.

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在薄纱面料上印制的刺绣图案
Printed embroidery on tulle fabric

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油画棒和铅笔在捡到的纸板上
Oil pastels and pencils on found cardboard

数码打印在杜什丝缎上的拼贴画作品
Collage artwork digitally printed on duchesse silk satin

Windspiel
装置绘画部分 Drawings and paintings as part of an installation
粉彩、丙烯颜料以及中国水墨画在和纸上的创作 Pastels, acrylics, and Chinese ink on washi paper

Lace development
梭织绣花与激光切割的蕾丝装饰在亮片织物上
Soutache embroidery and laser-cut lace on sequin fabric

印刷织物的细节特写图 Detail shot of printed tapestry
混合媒介拼贴画,印在未处理过的画布上 mixed media collage printed on raw canvas
