SIMI NINATI

hyphenate artist, designer & educator lives and works in Germany

born 1970 Simone Meentzen

artist alias name Simi Ninati since 2018 

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions Art & Photography

 

2024: G_Schichten solo showVILLA7 Dresden DE

 

2016Anonymous Artshow, group show, Glastonbury Galleries, UK

 

2006: Illy Cup, group show, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, VR China

 

2001: Racing, solo show photography, Running Horse Pub, London UK

 

1998: Into the Woods, group show London UK

 

1994: "Prima Collezione Simone Meentzen", solo show, illy caffé, Trieste IT

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions Textile Art and Textile Design / Textile Trade Fairs

 

2015, 2016: Textile Art Berlin

 

2014: Trendforum, Heimtextil Frankfurt a.Main

 

2000-2012: Premiere Vision Indigo Paris, Direction Indigo NYC, Pitti Filati Florenz, Comocrea Como 

represented by London based textile studio The Collection Design Studio

 

Freelance Artistic Collaborations

2020-2023: contributing artist, SABAT Magazine

2020-2022: contributing artist, Earth School

2011-2015: art gallery assistance, project space Grieder Contemporary Berlin

2015: textile art commission, Kerim Seiler Berlin, Zurich

1998, 2002: art film performance, site specific artist assistance Melli Ink, London

1990-93: artist assistant Sandro Chia artist studios

 

Selected Freelance Teaching and Workshops

2023 ongoing: educational art guide, SKD Lernort Albertinum Dresden 

2018-19: educational guide, Umweltbildung Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz

2015 ongoing: fiber and heart® creative workshops, artist herbalist blog

2008-2016: workshop leader, university lecturer, AMD Berlin, AMD München, HTW Berlin, Betahaus Berlin, Designschule Schwerin & Leipzig

 

EDUCATION

2018 Ausbildung International Permaculture Design Certificate, teachers Starhawk, P. Livingston, S. Fischer-Rizzi, Sulzburg Allgäu

1994-1998 BA Textile Print, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London

1990 Scholarship Class Painting & Sculpture, International Summer Academy of Art, Salzburg

1986-1988 Abendstudium Malerei & Grafik, HfBK Dresden


Have i forgot something?

For sure.

So many days

uncounted for

diaries lost or burned.

Memories unremembered.

The spiral is moving

outward.

Or is it a cycle?

Relentless

 shaping me.

 

© Simi Ninati 2025