ALLA GRANDE - Bachelor of Fine Arts

Even as a child I was extremely creative - I drew and painted with passion and
discovered my flair for materials, composition and form at an early age.

It was only in retrospect that I realized how much fabrics and textiles played a role in my life from an early age. At the age of 13, I started to re-sew my mother's clothes, create my own designs and sew my own individual pieces. Even during my studies and beyond, I kept returning to fashion, developing my own garments - and refining my understanding of materiality, feel and expression.

In my artistic
development, I initially experimented with a wide variety of materials. I created paintings and sculptures, many of them three-dimensional, always in search of an authentic style of my own. Eventually I found my way back to textiles - but now as an artistic medium with its own expressiveness.

Today, my focus is on creating high-quality textile works of art. For me, textile structures are not just material, but language - every fiber carries a memory, every fold retains a moment. I explore the tension between movement and stillness and create unique pieces that unite image and material and harmonize content and form. In my work, I combine diverse themes that can be translated into a multi-layered, profound visual language through the use of fabrics.

My name - my story
My first name is Alla. When I gave up my job as an architect to become an artist, I was looking for a name that would express my dream. Friends jokingly said that I should call myself Alla Great but that didn't harmonize with my first name. I was looking for a word that large means, but sounds softer - and found Grande. That's how my real name became my stage name - ALLA GRANDE. It reminds me every day to remain courageous and to follow my path with passion and greatness. Shortly afterwards, in Milan, I was standing in front of a shop window full of gorgeous dresses. Two women shouted enthusiastically: Alla grande! - I turned around and thought for a moment that they had recognized me. But they meant the dress! It was only later that I found out that alla grande in Italian means as much as great, with verve, full of energy. I smiled - life had shown me that I had chosen my name just right.