gifty amoateng (she/her)
is a Berlin-based textile and material designer. Her practice combines digital technologies with traditional textile techniques to explore questions of memory, identity, and belonging. As an artist with Ghanaian heritage, born and raised in Germany, she reflects on visual absences and fragmented histories within her own family story and beyond. Through digital knitting, material narratives, and experimental archives, she investigates how textiles can act as vessels for presence, care, and resistance.
She is currently co-developing off:hybrid, a BIPoC-led art and design space in Berlin together with another BIPoC artist. The space aims to foster collaboration, increase visibility, and offer inclusive, accessible infrastructures for underrepresented voices in the arts.
In 2024, she was awarded a grant by The Supporting Act – an initiative by the international creative network WePresent / WeTransfer – supporting emerging artists and underrepresented perspectives across Europe.
Other recognitions include the EXIST-Women Programme (2024), a residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude & Goethe-Institut Namibia (2023), and the Mart Stam Germany Scholarship (2018). She is completing her BA in Textile and Material Design at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, where she has worked as a student assistant and tutor since 2020.
