Martín Churba

Martín Churba was born in Argentina in 1970. At the age of 15, he began his unconventional training in performing and visual arts, studying at the National School of Fine Arts and the University of Buenos Aires.

A self-taught textile artist, Churba began his career at the age of 20 by participating in the Second Youth Art Biennial. Since then, he has developed a career spanning from fashion performances to theatrical practices. As a multidisciplinary artist, his current work addresses themes of sustainability and textile art applied to fashion and visual arts. His production ranges from limited series of garments with proprietary textile techniques to participatory installations created with the community.

Churba started developing handcrafted textiles and, learning the technique of textile screen printing, began to imprint his ideas onto fabrics. Using photography and image collection, which he then digitized for fotoprints, he started selling his works worldwide. He opened a studio in New York that represented his original ideas for the fashion industry in the USA, Italy, and Brazil.

Together with Jessica Trosman, he founded the label TrosmanChurba, which sold fashion collections with playful and original textiles in more than 10 countries, including Japan, Saudi Arabia, and France, and developed auteur design in Argentina.

Subsequently, he founded Tramando, a project that integrates his various productions under one brand, including clothing and textile objects for the home. Currently, Tramando continues to develop in Buenos Aires. Churba has continuously worked with the community, making visible cooperatives and groups in socially asymmetric situations, using design as a core to transform relationships and resources in neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires conurbation.

This latest experience allowed him to connect with Japan, where, after presenting his creations to the director of the HPFrance company, he established a cultural relationship that persists to this day. Currently, Martín is dedicated to developing sustainable projects with recycled materials and cooperatives in various parts of Argentina, making his textile knowledge a new possibility.

The metaphor of textile and weave are the emblems of Martín Churba's textile and artistic work.