Born in Rockford, Illinois U.S.A. in 1980 – Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, and fashion designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was introduced to a curriculum, originally established by Mies van der Rohe.

A curriculum which was formed from the notions of Bauhaus, that enabled Virgil Abloh to learn how to converge the fields of arts, craft, and design. Those notions merged with contemporary culture make up his inter-disciplinary practice today. Accolades Throughout Virgil Abloh‘s career, his work has been awarded in the realm of art and design. – Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh™ was first started in 2012 as an artwork titled “PYREX VISION”.

– In 2013, “Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh™” was introduced as a seasonal men‘s and women‘s fashion brand and additionally moved into the production of furniture designed by Virgil Abloh. – Moving forward to 2015, Off-WhiteTM was nominated as one of the top eight finalists for the LVMH Prize in Paris.

– The following year, in 2016 Virgil Abloh was inducted into the BOF 500 “The People Shaping The Global Fashion Industry” List. – In the same year of 2016, he was nominated for one of the top five nominees in the category of International Urban Luxury Brand at The British Fashion Awards.

– Then in 2017, Virgil Abloh was nominated as one of the top five nominees in the category of Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at The CFDA Awards.

– Moving along, in 2017 Virgil Abloh was selected as a special guest to show his Spring Summer 2018 Men‘s Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh™ Collection in Florence, Italy during Pitti Immagine Uomo 92.

– At the conclusion of 2017, Virgil Abloh won the International Designer of the Year Award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards

– Additionally in 2017, Virgil Abloh’s NIKE “THE TEN” Air Jordan 1 won Shoe of the Year at the FN Achievement Awards.

– Lastly in 2017, Virgil Abloh won the Urban Luxe Brand Award at The British Fashion Awards.

– In the beginning of 2018, Virgil Abloh was nominated as one of the top five nominees in the categories of Womenswear Designer of the Year and Menswear Designer of the Year at The CFDA Awards.

– Furthermore, in 2018 Virgil Abloh was named Louis Vuitton’s newest Artistic Director of Menswear.

– Additionally in 2018, Virgil Abloh was named one of Times 100 Most Influential People in the World.

– For the second consecutive year, in 2018 Virgil Abloh won the Urban Luxe Brand Award at The Fashion Awards.

Virgil Abloh has also presented his work at major design institutions around the globe by the likes of Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2019 he will have a major exhibition of past and current work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Illinois.

Exhibitions 

– In 2016 Virgil Abloh launched his first furniture collection “Grey Area” (Milan, Italy).

– At the end of 2016, Virgil Abloh curated an exhibition with the works (“Free Cubes”, “Material Table”, and “Trivision Sign”), from his furniture collection for Design Miami at Art Basel (Miami, Florida).

– In 2017 Virgil Abloh worked with Ben Kelly on a touring “SET” which was exhibited at the Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, England) and then at the Somerset House
(London, UK). Virgil Abloh also collaborated with Ben Kelly on a new installation called Ruin, which was displayed at Store Studios (London, United Kingdom).

– In February 2018, Virgil Abloh and Takashi Murakami collaborated on an Exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery (London, United Kingdom).

– In March 2018, Virgil Abloh showcased his exhibition “PAY PER VIEW” at KaiKai Ki Ki Gallery. (Tokyo, Japan)

– In June 2018, Virgil Abloh and Takashi Murakami collaborated on an Exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery (Paris, France).

– In October 2018, Virgil Abloh and Takashi Murakami collaborated on an Exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery (Los Angeles, United States).

– In the year 2019, Virgil Abloh shall be showcasing an artwork focused retrospective, where he will reveal new work alongside unseen works from his past, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Illinois).

Maarten Baas is a Dutch designer. Born in 1978, he grew up largely in Burgh-Haamstede and Hemmen in the Netherlands. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Baas is at the forefront of the design community and is considered one of the most influential Dutch designers of the early twenty-first century. Since 2005, Baas has collaborated with production partner Bas den Herder. Most of his designs are handmade in the Den Herder Production House studio in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. His works straddle boundaries between art and design, and he is known for his rebellious, playful, intellectual, theatrical, and artistic style. He occupies a unique position in the design field in that he participates in such a wide variety of areas, including conceptual design, installations, public spaces, theater design, and performance. Baas is best known for his works Real Time, Schiphol Clock, Smoke, Clay Furniture, and Carapace. His work can be found in major museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS (selection)

2018
‘Hide and Seek’, Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium.
‘Close Parity’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
TEFAF, New-York Spring, Park Avenue Armory, New-York, USA.

2017
‘Cabinet Makers’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Hide & Seek’, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands.
‘TEFAF’, New York Spring, Park Avenue Armory, USA.
‘Run & Hide’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2016
‘New, Newer, Newest!’, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italie.
’10 Years Clay’, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italie.
Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
‘Carapace’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Martin BAAS Real Time’, Schiphol/Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
‘Expo Chicago’, Navy Pier, 600E Grand Ave, Chicago, USA.
‘Retrospective Exhibition, 10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Roissy, France.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.

2015
‘Fetichism’, Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Danemark.
‘L’Eloge de l’Heure’, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland.
‘Make Yourself Comfortable at Chatsworth’, Chatsworth House, UK.
Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
‘Measuring: This much, That much, How much?’, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan.

2014
’The Theme of Time’, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.

2013
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.

2007
Design Art London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2006
‘Smart Deco’, Droog Design, Miami, Art Basel Fair
Animaux gallery: permanent exhibition, Rotterdam
‘Odds & Ends’, Contrast Gallery, Shanghai, China
‘Clay and Smoke’, Cibone, Tokyo
‘Underdogs & Überprodukte’, MU gallery, Eindhoven
‘Made in Eindhoven’, Milan
‘Clay Furniture’, Superstudio Piu, Milan

2005
‘Treasures’, The Hague
New York, Dutch Village: Donna Karen, New York

2004
‘Noctrnal Emissions’, Groningen, Groninger Museum
‘Where There’s Smoke’, Moss, New York

2003
‘Brilliant’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
‘Use Your Faults’, The Hague, Artoteek

‘AU!?*!’ Auping showroom, Milan

2002
’An educative exhibition’, Vivid, Rotterdam

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (selection)

Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein, Germany
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Collection Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg / Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
Graphic Design Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
Centre National des Arts Plastiques , Paris, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

MUSEUMS REFERENCES
Groninger Museum, Groninge

Every convention – whether it concerns artistic legacy, beauty or plain purpose – needs to be challenged. And every creation is an exploration of the senses. From early on in his career Aldo Bakker (NL, 1971) has produced works in which his exquisite use of shape, material and colour is balanced with an almost disturbing tenacity in the way these pitchers, bowls, spoons, stools and tables defy everyday perceptions about the relationship between man and object. Or more precisely: the relationship between object and man. Because despite their tranquil appearance and the modesty of their monochrome skins, Bakker’s objects are anything but submissive. They determine the rules of the interaction. Those who handle or merely observe them should come to terms with the inherent independence of these creatures. Their sensuous presence makes them highly seductive, but also hard to get.

A bowl, a bench, a flask: all these ‘objects fatales’ could be (mis)taken for just being dead gorgeous and desirable, where in fact they undermine fixed notions about the object as a commodity. Aldo Bakker rejected a formal arts training. As an autodidact he carefully studied the oeuvres of some of the most idiosyncratic artists of the modern age, ranging from composer Luigi Nono and painter Giorgio Morandi to writer J.M. Coetzee and architect Carlo Scarpa. With these masters, Bakker shares a fundamental interest for the language of their favoured medium. In fact, the introverted nature of his works, their elegant curves and facets, the depth of their surfaces and their flawless execution all contribute to the sensation that these artefacts tell their own stories in their own language.

When they leave the studio – often after years of careful deliberation – the objects no longer bear witness to their maker, but exclusively to their own existence. To the questions they raise about the integrity of their being. By positioning his works as individual characters, Aldo Bakker forces his audience to shift its perception. We are no longer looking at an inanimate object on which we project our knowledge of style, shape or material value. Instead, these creatures invite us to engage in a conversation about their behaviour, their uncertainties, their beliefs, their native tongue. We do not approach them as buyers or even as art historians, we become their fellow travellers, questioning ourselves as much as they question us. Many of Aldo Bakker’s works are unique pieces. Several are produced in small editions. Next to his independent studio production Bakker has also created commissioned works for companies like Georg Jensen, Karakter, Puiforcat, Sèvres and Swarovski.

His work has been acquired by museums like Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), MoMa (NY), Cooper Hewitt (NY), mudac (Lausanne), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Victoria & Albert Museum (London). In 2016 and 2017 a major overview of his work was presented in the exhibition Pause (CID Grand Hornu, mudac Lausanne). Other solo exhibitions were staged at Atelier Courbet (NY), Gallery Libby Sellars (London), Looiersgracht 60 (Amsterdam), Villa Noailles in Hyeres and Vivid Gallery (Rotterdam). In 2016 Alice Rawsthorn and Hans den Hartog Jager edited the monograph Aldo Bakker (NAI 010 Publishers NL). Aldo Bakker received the Wallpaper Award 2011, First Prize at DDA 2009 and First Prize at Bornholm Glass (2008).

Humberto, born in 1953 and Fernando, born in 1961 are brothers from Brazil. Since 1983, Fernando and Humberto Campana have achieved both national and international recognition. Their work incorporates their ethos in environment and the idea of re-using and re-inventing everyday materials to achieve some notably Brazilian characteristics—bright colors, creative chaos, the triumph of simple solutions. Based in São Paulo, their studio often works in partnership with local communities, factories, and industries. They are the recipients of numerous awards, including the Ordre des Arts et Lettre from the Ministry of Culture in France and the Order of Cultural Merit in Brazil. In 1998 their Project 66 was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since then they have worked with Alessi and Fontana Arte on unlimited edition pieces, and their studio crafts its own unique handmade pieces. Those special editions are included in the permanent collections of renowned cultural institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Their studio also works in interior design, architecture, and landscaping, and the brothers have created a collection of Brazilian jewelry for H.Stern, shoes and bags for Grendene, and a cabinet for Louis Vuitton. In 2009 and in 2012 they reinterpreted the traditional Lacoste polo shirt. Set design is another area of interest, and their sets have been featured by the Ballet National de Marseille and in a production of Peter and the Wolf at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Their work has been the subject of several exhibitions, including one at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York in 2008.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS (selection)

2018
Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
‘Les Objets Nomades’, Louis Vuitton’s Foundation, Paris, France.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.

2017
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Cabinet Makers’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2016
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
Design Days Dubaï, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubaï, UAE.
‘Manufactura’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
’10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2015
Design Beijing, China.
Design Shanghai, Shanghai, China.

2014
‘From Art to Design’ Clerkenwell Design Week, London, UK.
‘Humberto and Fernando Campana, Recent Works’ Re: View Gallery, London, UK.
‘Antibodies’ Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark.

2013
‘Dangerous Luxury’, Le Sporting d’Hiver, Motercarlo, Monaco.
Design Days Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Design Miami, USA.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Pavilion of Art & Design Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
‘Brazilian Barroque’, David Gill Galeries, London, UK.
‘Concepts’ in partnership with Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Ocean Collection’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2012
‘Barrocco Rococo’ Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France.
Design Miami, Basel.

2011
Pavilion of Art & Design London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

2003
‘Sushi’ Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil.

2002
‘Never Letting The Poetry Escape’ Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA), Tel Aviv, Israel.
‘Kunstoff’, Broelmuseum, Courtrai, Belgium.
‘Milan in a Van’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

‘Le Botte-Cul’, Musee de Design et D’Arts Appliques Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2001
‘Rede de Tensao’ (A Network of Tension), Paco das Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. / ‘On Paper, New Paper Art’, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK.
‘Inventividade’ (Inventiveness), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Goiania, Brazil.

2000
‘Air en Forme’, Musee de Design et D’Arts Appliques Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland. / Design Biennial Festival, Saint-Etienne, France.
‘Blow Up’, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, Germany.
‘Beyond European Design – Projects From Around The World’, Abitare il Tempo, Verona, Italy. / ‘Entre o Design e a Arte’ (Between Design and Art), Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil.

1999
‘Transcendencia, Caixas do Ser’ (Trancendency, Boxes of Being), Casa das Rosas, São Paulo,
Brazil.
‘Novos Alquimistas’ (New Alchemists), Espaco Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
‘Retrospectiva Campana’ (Campana Retrospect), Casa Franca Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Bazil.
‘Materias/Materiais’ (Matter/Materials). Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

1999
‘Numeros’ Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil.
‘Materias/Materiais’. Museum de Arte Moderna de Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
‘Retrospectiva Campana’ Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1996
‘Brasil faz Design’ (Brazil Designs), Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Museu da Casa Brasiliera, São Paulo, Brazil; Instituto dos Arquitetos da Brasil (IAB). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Liceu de Artes e Oficios da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

1993
‘Edicao 93’ (Edition 93), Nucleon 8, São Paulo Brazil.

1991
‘Esculturas’ Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

1990
‘Organicos’ (The Organics), Nucleon 8, São Paulo, Brazil.

1989
‘Desconfortaveis’ (The Uncomfortable Ones). A Arquitetura da Luz, São Paulo, Brazil.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS (selection)

2013
Order of the Arts and Letters, Paris, France.

2012
Designer of the Year, Maison & Objet, Paris, France.
Prix Colbert Creation & Patrimoine, Paris, France.

2011
Special Prize at the Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil.

2008
Designer of the Year, Design Miami, USA.

1999
George Nelson Design Interior Awards, Interiors Magazine, USA.

1998
Home Furniture Category Award – 2nd Place (Labirinto Bookcase), Museu da Casa Brasiliera,
São Paulo, Brazil.

1997
Home Furniture Category Award – 1st Place (Inflavel Table). Associacao Basiliera da Industria Moveleira (ABIMOVEL), São Paulo, Brazil.

1996
Design Category Award – 1st Place (Papel Chair). XXI Salao de Arte de Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.

1992
Acquisition Award (Cerca Screen), Museu de Arte Brasiliera, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.

LITERATURE 

2010
Adam Lindemann, “Collecting Design”, Taschen.

2009
Marcus Fairs, “Green Design”, London: Carlton Books Limited.

2007
Sophie Lovell, “Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century”, Die Gestalten Verlag.

2004
Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell, “1000 Lights: 1960 to Present”, Taschen.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
Museum de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo. Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. Museum of Contemporary Art, Goiania. Museum of Moder Art, Sao Paulo. Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, Sao Paulo. Instituto do Arquitetos do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. Pinacoteca do Estado do Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Casa Franca Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.Oaxaca Design Center, Mexico City. Museu Vale, Vila Velha. Montreal Fine Art Museum, Montreal. Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal. Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen. Design Museum, London. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Manchester Museum, Oxford. Centre George Pompidou, Paris. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf. Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese Association, Milan. Palazzo Reale, Milan. Design Museum, Milan. Crystal Palace, Milan. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Centro Cultural Belem, Lisbon. Museum de Arte Mordernica, Bahia. Liceu de Artes e Oficios da Bahia, Bahia. Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, Coruna. Don Edelman Foundation, Switzerland. Museum of Design, Lausanne. Latin America Design Foundation, Amsterdam. High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New-York. National Design Museum, New-York. Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New-York. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Museum of Fine Art, Houston. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Tulsa. Art Museum, Palm Springs.The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

“I like to see objects as living organisms, imagine them coming alive and being able to surprise you with their behavior. I want to create objects with my hands; then I can give them my personality. I turn them into communicative objects that can arouse one’s feelings and imagination. In short, what I want to create are objects with a fictional or fantasy element that allow you to escape everyday life,” says Nacho Carbonell. Carbonell is known for his tactile approach to sculpture which plays with textures, experimental techniques, and natural materials. Born in Spain in 1980 and now based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Carbonell works alongside his team of designers and artists in an open warehouse. He graduated in 2003 from Cardenal Herrera University in Spain and went on to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Upon graduating, he created collections such as Evolution in 2009, which won him a nomination for Beazley Design of the Year from the Design Museum in London. In 2010, a year after being named a Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel, he presented This Identity, redefining his current style of organic forms and rough and colorful textures. His pieces are part of private collections and museums around the world.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS 

2018
The Armory Show, Solo Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.

2017
‘West Coast Pop Up’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery in collaboration with 836M Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
‘Living Organisms’, Hortamuseum Bruxelles, Belgium.
Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Summer Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Art Light, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Art Light, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.
TEFAF New York Spring, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Zona Maca, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City.
FOG Art + Design, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, USA.

2016
‘Forest’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Retrospective Exhibition 10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mitry-Mory, France.
‘New Gallery Opening 10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘New Works Only’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Expo Chicago, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Design Miami/Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City.

2015
Light Mesh, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
Preview of the new collection for Carpenters Workhop Gallery, Design Miami, Basel.
Presentation with sunbrella Textiles, and the launch of the Book “The Rebus Natura” at
Rossana Orlandi gallery, Milan Furniture Fair, Milano, Italy.

2014
World Design Capital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Maison Hermes window Display, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.
Design of the window display for the shop during november 2014/ january 2015 “Hatch up”
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Exemplary 150 years of MAK (Museum of Applied Arts), Viena, Austria.
Nacho Carbonell: Inspiration, Evolution and Transience, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.

2013
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Time is a Treasure, Design Miami, Miami, USA.

2012
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
MINT Museum, Charlotte, USA.
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Furniture Sculptures Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland.

2011
Luciferase, BSL Galerie, Paris, France.
Post Fossil, Museum of Holon, Israel.
Justmad, Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.

Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Playground Closes at Dusk and Luciferase, Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland. / Perceptions of Time and Contemporary Design, Marta Herford Museum, Germany.
Material Research / Examples Exhibition, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Organic Dwelling, State Museum of Architecture (MUAR), Moscow, Russia.
3 years, Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy.

2010
Vincon Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Evolution, BSL Galerie, Paris, France.
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Brain Ideas, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Archaic Shelter, Maison & Object, Paris, France.
Diversity, Design Miami/Basel, Miami, USA.
Hyperlinks, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.

2009
Por las Ramas, Rhein Triadem, Cologne, Germany.
New Directions in Design, Vivid Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Archeology of the Future, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Craft Punk, Spazio Fendi, Milan, Italy.
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Opening Droog, New York, USA.
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Corn Collection at Fumi Gallery, London Design Week, London, UK.
Experimenta Design, Lisbon, Portugal.
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
I’m in love!, Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan.

2008
Modefabriek, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
C!rcus, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Singletown, Biennale d’Architettura, Venice, Italy.
Design is Air, Seoul, South Korea.
Casa Decor, Valencia, Spain.
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

2007
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Design Parade, Villa Noailles, France.
Valencia Furniture Fair, Valencia, Spain.

2006
Por las Ramas, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.

AWARDS

2009
Designer of the Future, Design Miami Basel – Switzerland.
Design of the year nomination: Lover’s Chair – Design Museum London.

2007
Winner Grand Prix SEB 150 years, July.
Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy.
Design Parade, Villa Noailles, France.
Valencia Furniture Fair, Valencia, Spain.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
Groninger Museum, Netherlands. 2121 Museum, Japan. MINT Museum, Charlotte, USA

Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961. He moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the School for American Crafts and established a permanent studio in the area that is still in operation today. He has continually reinvented himself for nearly six decades. Often credited as the founding father of the American crafts movement, Castle has redefined sculpture and design by seamlessly merging the two into one discipline. He creates unique pieces that blur the distinction between design and sculpture. Castle’s organic and whimsical approach to sculpture incorporates his own invented technique of carving into stacked laminated wood known as lamination. His furniture designs for residential clients, public spaces, and a number of churches represent a unique exploration of the qualities and possibilities of wood and fiberglass. His work can be found in the permanent collections of more than forty museums and cultural institutions, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the White House in Washington, D.C. Moreover, he has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including four National Endowment for the Arts grants and the Modernism Lifetime Achievement Award from the Brooklyn Museum in 2007.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS (SELECTION) 2018

2018
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.
TEFAF, New-York Spring, Park Avenue Armory, New-York, USA.

2017
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
‘Planting Seeds’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
‘West Coast Pop-Up’, 836M Gallery, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New-York, USA.

2016
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
Design Days Dubaï, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubaï, UAE.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.
‘Tribal’, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
’10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2015
‘Remastered’, MAD Museum, New York, USA.
‘New Works’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Masterpiece, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
Art Geneve, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland.
BRAFA, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2014
/ PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
/ Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
/ BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium.

2013
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
‘Leap of Faith’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
Abu Dhabi Art, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.
The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Masterpiece, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Wandering Forms: Works from 1959-79’, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA.
‘A New Environment’, Friedman Benda, New York, USA.

2012
‘Volumes and Voids’, Barry Friedman, New York, USA.
‘Wandering Forms: Works from 1959-79’, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA. / ‘Forms within Forms’, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA.

2011
Wendell Castle in the 21st Century’, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, USA
‘Best Leg Forward’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Inaugural show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2010
‘Wendell Castle. Rockin’, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, USA.
Sotherby’s at Sudeley Castle, Cheltenham, UK.

2008
‘Wendell Castle. New Work’, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, USA.
‘Wendell Castle: About Time’ Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, USA.
‘Wendell Castle’, Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2006
‘Wendell Castle in Rochester’, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, USA.

2005
‘Wendell Castle: What Pluck!’, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, USA.

2004
‘Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic’, R20th Century, New York, USA.

2003
‘Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark’, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

2001
‘Wendell Castle’, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, USA.

2000
‘Furniture by Wendell Castle’, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, USA.

1996
‘One Man Exhibit’, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA.

1995
‘Works by Wendell Castle’, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, USA.
‘Art Furniture by Wendell Castle’, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA.
‘One-Man Exhibit’, Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.
‘Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985–1995. A Retrospective Exhibition’, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, USA.

1994
‘Ambiguous Objecthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle’, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, USA.
‘Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips’, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, USA.

1993
‘Wendell Castle: Environmental Works’, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75)’, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA.

1991
‘Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle’, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, USA.

1989
‘Wendell Castle: New Work’, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

1986
‘Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle’, Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College, Amherst, USA.
‘Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic’, 1968-1970, 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1980
‘Furniture As Art II’, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, USA.

1969
‘The Furniture of Wendell Castle’, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.

1962
Inaugural Show, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, USA.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS (SELECTION)

2007
Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA.

2003
Outstanding Achievement Award, The National Association of Schools of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA.

2002
Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, Manhattan, USA.

1999
Master of the Medium, The James Renwick Alliance of The National Museum of American Art, Washington, USA.

1994
Visionaries of the American Craft Movement, American Craft Museum, USA.

1988
Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

1979
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Sculptor/Designer, Maryland Institute of Art, USA.

1976
National Endowment for the Arts Grant(s), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, USA.

1973
National Endowment for the Arts Grant(s), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, USA.

LITERATURE (SELECTION)

2010
Barry Friedman, ‘Wendell Castle, Rockin’, Barry Friedman Ltd. And Friedman Benda LLC.

2009
Miller, Judith, ‘Chairs’, London: Conran Octopus Ltd.

2005
Albrecht, Donald, ‘Auto Plastic: Wendell Castle’, New York: R 20th Century.

2001
Busch, Akiko and Paul J. Smith, ‘Objects for Use: Handmade by Design’, New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.

1999
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter, ‘Design and the 20th Century’, Germany: Taschen.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
Addison Gallery Of American Art, Andover, USA
Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art Museum Project, Dearborn, USA
Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, USA
Charles A. Wustum Museum Of Fine Arts, Racine, USA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
Belger Art Center, Kansas City, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA
Carnegie Museum Of Art (Cmao), Pittsburgh, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA

Delaware Art Museum (Delart), Wilmington, USA
Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
Detroit Institute Of Arts (Dia), Detroit, USA
Everson Museum Of Art, New York City, USA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA
High Museum Of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hunter Museum Of Art, Chattanooga, USA
Ithaca College Art Museum, NYC, USA
Johnson Museum Of Art, NYC, USA
Kirkland Museum Of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver, USA
Lannan Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, USA
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum Of Art, Manhattan, USA
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, USA
Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Met), New York City, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Mint Museum Of Craft + Design, Charlotte, USA
Mobile Museum Of Fine Arts, Mobile, USA
Museum Of Art St. Louis, USA
Museum Of Art And Design (Madmuseum), New York City, USA
Museum Of Decorative Arts (Mbam), Montreal, Canada
Museum Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Boston, USA
Museum Of Fine Arts (Mfah), Houston, USA
Museum Of Modern Art (Moma), New York City, USA
Nordenfieldske Kunstindustrimiseet, Oslo, Norway
Palm Springs Art Museum (Psmuseum), Palm Spring, USA
Philadelphia Museum Of Art (Philamuseum), Philadelphia, USA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, USA
Renwick Gallery, The National Museum Of American Art, Washington DC

USA Rochester Institute Of Technology, Rochester, USA
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA
Spencer Museum Of Art, Lawrence, USA
Toledo Museum Of Art, Toledo, USA
University Of New Hampshire Art Museum, Durham, USA
University Of Utah Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, USA
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, USA
The White House, Washington DC, US

Vincenzo De Cotiis was born in 1958 in Gonzaga, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and founded his studio in 1997. His signature is the use of salvaged and reclaimed materials—with the signs of their age and wear and tear left intact—in combination with new materials. He aims for perfect imperfection, achieved through deconstruction, re-construction, and re-appropriation of salvaged textiles, metal, wood, leather, and stone. In his work, the original form of the materials is often difficult to identify, but their histories are always visible. Indeed, De Cotiis finds beauty in the patina of life, as seen in his architecture and interiors projects for private homes, hotels, restaurants, and retail outlets across the globe, as well as his furniture and design work. Under the Progetto Domestico label, De Cotiis designs and produces one off and limited-edition pieces that also incorporate recycled and reclaimed materials. Highly collectable, the work is sold through his gallery in Milan and exhibited at leading global design fairs, including Design Miami/Basel, PAD London, Dubai Design Week, and the Art Paris Art Fair.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS 

2018
‘Baroquisme’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
/ Milan Design Week 2018, Milan, Italy.

2017
Summer Show’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Cabinet Makers’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Baroquisme’, De Cotiis Gallery, Milan, Italy.
‘Archeo Black’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
West Coast Pop Up, Carpenters Workshop Gallery with 836M Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.
TEFAF New York Spring, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City.
FOG Design + Art, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, USA.

2016
‘Pop nouveau’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.
Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.

2015
Design Week Milan, Milan, Italy.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.

2014
Design Miami, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Wallpaper Handmade with Leclettico, Milan, Italy.

2012
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
‘Historical Prototypes’, Architect Vincenzo De Cotiis and and Erastudio Apartment Design Gallery, Milan, Italy.
‘Prototypes –Site Specific’, Fuorisalone del Mobile, Architect Vincenzo De Cotiis and
Erastudio Apartment-Design Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo – Design Section, Mexico City, Mexico.
Progetto Domestico, Galerie L’Eclaireur Saint-Ouen, France.

2010
‘Mnemòsyne (a philosophy of matter)’, Fuorisalone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.

COMMISSIONS

Aesop, Milan, Italy.
Krizia boutique, Milan, Italy.
T’a? bistro, Milan, Italy.
Residences, Shenzhen, China / The Straf Hotel, Milan, Italy. AWARDS 2016
Wallpaper design awards 2016: Best lair, Fold sofa by Vincenzo de Cotiis 2015
Wallpaper, Best Grid, ‘DC1406’ lamp 2008
Nomination from ‘ADI Design Index 2008’

PRESS

2018
Architectural Digest, ‘Réinventer le salon’, Sarah de Beaumont, February-March.
Architectural Digest, ‘Art déco revival’, Cédric Saint André Perrin, December 2017-January 2018.

2017
Casa Vogue, ‘Beleza Torta’, Annalisa Rosso, November.
Vogue Living Australia, The Hot 100 List Kitchens & Bathrooms, ‘Tuscan Treasure’, October.
Architectural Digest Collector, The Best of Design 2017, Cedric Saint André Perrin, September. / TMagazine Spain, ‘Qué serà, serà’, Nancy Hass, April.

2016
Elle Decor Italia, ‘Limited Edition’, Rosaria Zucconi, October.
Architectural Digest, ‘Messingpracht und Kühlerhauben, Gesine Borcherdt, September.
Stanze, ‘Altre Filosofie dell’Abitare’.

2015
Ideat, ‘En Attendant l’Expo’, Nathalie Nort, May-June.
Architectural Digest, ‘Entfesselte Grandezza’, Karin Jaeger, April.
Grazia Casa, ‘Pubblico Privato’, Carolina Trabattoni, March.
Living, ‘Vincenzo de Cotiis’.
Elle Decoration, ‘Pasé Recomposé’, February-March.
Wallpaper, ‘Best Grid’, February.

2014
TL mag, ‘Formes Hivernals: Winter Forms’, December.
The Telegraph, ‘Design Miami 2014 Review’, Henrietta Thompson, December.
T magazine, ‘Highlights of This Week’s Design Miami Show’, Dan Rubenstein, December.
Wallpaper, ‘Design Miami preview: the top 15 exhibitions and satellite events’, Rosa Bertoli, December.
Architectural Digest, ‘Le Meilleur de Design Miami 2014’, December.
T magazine, ‘Industrial Elegance’, Stephen Heyman, November.
RUM, ‘Melleum Kunst Og Design Vincenzo de Cotiis’, Maja Hahne Regild, September.
Architectural Digest, ‘Les 100 créateures qui comptent et les tendencies du moment’, September.
Elle Decor, ‘In Grande Stile’, Ruben Modigliani, September.
H.O.M.E., ‘Takiler Traumköreper’, Sandra Piske, July-August.
Wallpaper, ‘The W* House: Bedroom’, Rosa Bertoli, July.
Elle Décor, ‘Inspiration’, May.
Wallpaper, ‘Vision View: Milan’s Breath of fresh air’, May.
Corriere Della Sera, ‘Láuto del Futuro? Ita bisogno anche di un tauolo-Scultura’, Silvia Nani, April.
ICON, ‘Q&A / Vincenzo De Cotiis’, Andrea Tenerani, April.
Madame Figaro, ‘Vincenzo de Cotiis L’émotion design’, Marie-Catherine de la Roche, March.
RUM, ‘Milano eksklusiv’, Karin Grabæk.

2013
Elle Décor, ‘Décor Power’, October.
Architectural Digest, ‘Passez au salon’, September-October.
Architectural Digest (Collective Special Issue no.9), September.
Wallpaper, ‘Architects of fashion’, Nick Vinson, September.
Elle Décor, ‘Codice de Cotiis’, Rosaria Zucconi, April

Studio Drift is an artists’ studio founded in 2006 by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn that explores the relationship between nature, technology, and mankind. The studio’s philosophy is based on creating a dialogue between opposites. Its work comes to life via ongoing collaboration with scientists, university research facilities, computer programmers, and engineers. Studio Drift’s sculptures are site-specific art installations that react directly to human behavior but question it at the same time. Studio Drift proposes a distinct mix between hi-tech and poetic imagery. Fragile Future III conveys emotion while simultaneously referencing the fact that light lies at the basis of all life. Fragile Future III is a modular work. It is created in the form of a limited edition collection and custom made installations are created on commission. It consists of three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits connected to light emitting dandelions. It was developed in collaboration with the Carpenters Workshop Gallery and won a Light of the Future award from the German Design Council in 2008. The Fragile Future III Concrete Chandelier won the Moët Hennessy-PAD London Prize in 2010 and was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2011, Fragile Future III won the top prize at the summer exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague. Studio Drift’s work has been shown at many fairs and museums, including the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Design Miami/Basel, Art Paris Art Fair, Dubai Design Week, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

AWARDS

2015

Dutch Design Awards | Nominated with Shylight

2014
Best piece of Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venezia (Flylight)
Artist in Residence ‘ART STAYS’, part of the Premio Arte Laguna Art Prize (Flylight)

2012
Finest light sculpture / Interieur, Kortrijk (Fragile Future 3)

2011
1st Prize ‘ZomerExpo’ / Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands (Fragile Future 3.5)

2010
The Moet Hennessy Pavilion of Art and Design London Prize 2010 (Concrete Chandelier)

2008
International Design Prize ‘Lights of the future’ / German Design Council (Fragile Future)

2006
Art prize 2006, 1st Prize Stichting ArtiParti (Fragile Future)
Young Talent Award, Stichting MS Research (Fragile Future) PERMANENT COLLECTION / Victoria and Albert museum London, UK | Fragile Future Concrete Chandelier
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, NL | Shylight Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL) | Fragile Future Chandelier / Atalanta High Museum of Art, USA | Fragile Future 3.13
Louis Vuitton collection, CN, JP, HK | Fragile Future
San Francisco MOMA, USA | Ghost chair and numerous private collections

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018

‘Coded Nature’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2017
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City.
Design Miami/Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
FOG Fair, PACE gallery, San Francisco, USA.
The Armory Show, collaboration with Artsy and Microsoft Hololens, New York, USA.
The Armory Show, solo with PACE gallery, New York, USA.
Dwell on Design, Short films program, Los Angeles, USA.

2016
’10 years of collectible design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
’10 years of collectible design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mitry-Mory, France.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico city.
‘Fragile Future’, Lightopia, Vitra, Lisbon, Portugal.
‘Fragile Future’, Design Miami, USA.
The Obsidian Project, Seattle Art Fair, PACE gallery.
Berlage, Godfather of Dutch Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Feira International del Libro de Bogotá, Colombia.
GLOW Festival, Kazerne Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Dutch Design Week, Kazerne Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Torenkamerfestival, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
DaVinci: Codex, Seoul, South Korea.

The Making of Fragile Future and The Making of Shylight, Architecture Film Festival, New York, USA.

Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2016, The Portal | Braunschweig, Germany.
‘Dream Out Loud’, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Glassfever, DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
‘Electro craft’, London, UK.
‘Campaign for Art’, San Francisco, USA.
‘Design Shanghai’, Shanghai, China.
‘The next best thing is not a thing’, Maastricht, Netherlands.
‘The Armory Show’, New York City, USA.
Annual showcase Dutch Creative Industry, Ministry of Education, Culture & Science, Den Haag, Netherlands.

2015
New York Inaugural Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York.
‘Design Miami/Basel’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
‘Masterpiece London’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Design Beijing’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Beijing, China.
‘Art Geneve’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland.
‘Berlage, godfather of Dutch Design’, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘Art Months’, Conservatorium Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘Pavilion de l’esprit nouveau 2.0’, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
‘DDW: THING NOTHING Van Abbemuseum en Design Academy Eindhoven’, Eindhoven, Netherlands. / ‘Dutch Design Awards’, Eindhoven 2015 ‘Plants out of Place’, London, UK.
‘Glasstress 2015 Gotika’, Palazzo Franchetti / Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venice, Italy.
‘Hands off’, San Francisco Museum for Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, USA.
‘What is Luxury’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
‘World Expo Milan’, World Expo, Milan , Italy.
‘Salone del Mobile’, Milan, Italy.
‘Design Show Shanghai’, Shanghai, China.
‘Design Dubai Days’, Dubai, UAE.
‘Open World’, De Kazerne, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
‘Vormgevers ontmoeten Van Gogh’, Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

2014
‘Dining Room’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Organic’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Lightopia’, Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium.
Tokyo Design Week, Japan.
‘Open Mind’, De Kazerne, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Belgrade Design Week, Serbia.
‘Made by Brazilians’, Cidade Matarazzo Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
‘Wallpaper – Handmade’, New York, USA.
‘Wallpaper – Handmade’, Milan, Italy.
Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
‘Useful+Beautiful’, Geffrye Museum, London, UK.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.

2013
DesignMiami/Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Masterpiece, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Abu Dhabi Art fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
‘Lightopia’, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.
‘Subversive Design’, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, UK.
‘Wit’, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA.
Pavillion of Art + Design (PAD), London, UK.
Flower Salon, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse.
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Pavillon of Art + Design (PAD), Paris, France.
‘Ja Natuurlijk’, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.

2012
DesignMiami/Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Biennale des Antiquaires, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
‘Space Oddity’, Grand Hornu, Boussu, Belgium.

The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA.
26e Finest light sculpture / Interieur’, Kortijk, Belgium.
‘A Better World’, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. / ‘Art and Design for all’, The Victoria & Albert Museum, showing in KAH, Bonn.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
‘Curious Minds’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
‘Nieuwe Energie in Design en Kunst’, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Design Miami/ Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Luminale, Frankfurt, Germany.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Featured Designers at ‘OBJECT’, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

2011
‘Curious Minds’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
‘Nieuwe Energie’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Pavillion of Art and Design (PAD), New York, USA.
Design Miami/, Miami, USA.
‘SuperDesign, London, UK.
‘Liberation of Light’, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China.
‘ZomerExpo’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, First prize, Netherlands.
Design Miami/ Basel, Basel, Switzerlands.
‘FOO-Flight of Objects’, Milan, Italy.
‘Every Day Dutch’, Selfridges, London, UK.

2010
Fragile Future with Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Artefiera Bologna, Italy.
Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
MOSS gallery, ‘Make Me’, New York, USA.
‘Luminous Times’, Vitra Design Museum, Domaine de Boisbuchet park, Lessac, France.
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Vitra Design Museum, Domaine de Boisbuchet park ‘Luminous Times’.
‘Better City, Better Life’, World Expo Shanghai, BIE, Shanghai, China.
‘Death or Alive’, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.
Pavillon of Art + Design (PAD), Jardins des Tuileries, Paris, France.
Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy.

2009
‘Design High’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Louise Blouin Foundation, London UK.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
‘Pavillion of Art + Design, Jardins des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Glow Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
‘Eat Drink Design’, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
‘In Praise of Shadows’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Maison et Objet, Paris, France.
Design Act Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
Gallery Karena Schuessler, Berlin , Germany.
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
‘Surface’ Schnittstelle Kunst / Design, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund/Heimatdesign, Cologne, Germany. / ‘Object’, Galerie VIVD, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Diseño holandés. En la calle como en casa. Binnen/Buiten”, Vigo, Spain.
‘Responsive’, Material Sense, CeBit fair, Hanover, Germany.

2008
Tokyo Design week, Design Tide, Tokyo, Japan.
‘New Dutch Design’, Mars Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia.
‘GHOST Collection’, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
‘Material Sense’, IF, Hannover, Germany.
‘Light+Building 2008’, Lights of the future, German Design Council, Frankfurt, Germany.
‘Family of Form’, Designhuis Eindhoven, Netherlands.
‘Becoming Dutch/Eindhoven Caucus’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2007
‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’, 100% Design Tokyo, Japan.

‘NAT’, Design Week Eindhoven, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

‘Via Milano’, Woonbeurs Amsterdam, Netherlands.

‘Exploring new Identities’, Art Partner, Post CS-Gebouw W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mode Biënnale Arnhem, Arnhem, Nertherlands.
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
‘Bright + Light’, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Art Rotterdam’, gallery Mart House, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

2006
‘Fleurs et Lumières’, Biennale du design, Saint Etienne, France.
‘White bright and delighting home’, Mart House, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘Post Mortem’, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.

2005
‘Graduation 2005’, Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

2017
‘Design on trial, critique and metamorphosis of the contemporary object’, Francesca la Rocca, ISBN: 978-88-917-9914-7

2016
Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2016, The Portal, (ISBN 978-3-00-053403-4)
Art Architecture, Peter Marino | Fragile Future commissions Louis Vuitton

2015
Boekman 105, Boekmanstichting, (ISBN 9789066501379)
Thing Nothing catalogue, Design Academy Eindhoven
Silk/Zijde, Zijdar Book (ISBN: 978-90-78376-21-7)
‘Bright 2 – Architectural Illumination and Light Installations’, Frame Publishers, (ISBN: 978-94-91727-41-2)

2014
21st Century Lighting Design, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN: 978-14-7250-3138)
Think Dutch, DAAB and Frame Publishers (ISBN: 978-94-91727-24-5)

2013
Ja Natuurlijk: How Art Saves The World, Nai uitgevers (ISBN: 978-94-6208-0638)
Designing Interior Architecture, Birkhauser (ISBN: 978-3034606806)

2012
Hands on Dutch Design, Wbooks (ISBN:978-9-08910-297-3)

2011
ZomerExpo 2011, Gemeentemuseum, d’Jonge Hond (ISBN: 978-90891-02638)

2010
Dead or Alive, Museum of arts and design (ISBN: 978-1-89038-520-0)
Design, 28 April 2010, catalogue Philips de Pury

2009
‘Once Upon a Chair,’ Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-256-0)
‘Furnish II,’ Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-176-1)
‘Star Pieces’, Thames & Hudson (ISBN: 978-0-500-51482-5)
‘Desire’, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-218-8)
‘Limited Edition’, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-7643-8895-9)
‘Create’, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-231-7)
‘Inspirations’, Elizabeth Lerich

“My approach is about imbuing bronze with warmth and vitality by borrowing scarification techniques and visual motifs from tribal societies,” says Donat. Ingrid Donat is a French- Swedish artist born in 1957. Donat trained at École des Beaux Arts and later she met with Sylva Bernt, who instructed her in the art of sculpture. During the 80’s sculptor Diego Giacometti pushed her to start creating her own furniture. Now, Donat currently stands as one of the most influential living artists in Decorative Arts. Her sculptured bronze furniture pieces exist as a symbiosis between the sophistication of Art Deco against the force of Tribal Art. Her creations take a painterly approach to the weighty medium of bronze. Donat draws upon a diverse range of decorating influences including tribal tattooing. The works of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Armand-Albert Rateau have inspired the characters and intricate patterns in her art. Donat crosses time without ever anchoring herself in the trends of the moment. She expresses a universal language as in the era of the first civilizations. Her timeless work needs to be seen and touched to be truly understood.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.

2017
‘West Coast Pop Up’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery in collaboration with 836M Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Summer Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Cabinet Makers’, Carpenters workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Design Miami/Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
TEFAF New York Spring, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Galerie, Paris, France.
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City.
FOG Design + Art, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, USA.

2016
‘Origins’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
‘ Retrospective Exhibition 10 Years of Collectible Design, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mitry-Mory, France.
‘New Gallery Opening 10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Tribal’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery in collaboration with Galerie Bernard Dulon, Paris, France.
‘Origins’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘New Works Only’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Expo Chicago, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Design Miami/Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
Artmonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Caprenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.

2015
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
Design Beijing, Beijing, China.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.
AD Collections, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Paris, France.

2014
The Salon : Art + Design, New York, USA.
Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris, France.
BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.

2013
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris, France.

2012
Cicatrices de Métal, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris, France.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.

2011
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.

Design Miami/Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Sotheby’s at Sudeley Castle, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.

2009
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
‘Design High’, Louis T Blouin Foundation in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France.
Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

2008
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Conversations in Bronze: Ingrid Donat and Vincent Dubourg, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, USA.

2007
Design Art, London, UK.
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, USA.
Pavillon des Antiquaires et des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. 2

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Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, USA.
Pavillon des Antiquaires et des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.

2003
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, USA.
Carrousel du Louvre, Louvre, Paris, France.

2002
L’art du Jardin et de la Scuplture, Parc de Saint Cloud, Paris, France.
Jardins des Tuileries, Paris, France.
International Art & Antique Fair Pavilion des Antiquaires et des Beaux Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

2001
Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Cazeau-Beraudiere, Paris, France.
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France.
Pavillon des Antiquaires et des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.

2000
Meubles et Sculptures, Galerie Cazeau-Beraudiere, Paris, France.

1998
Meubles Sculptures d’Ingrid Donat, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Paris, France.

LITERATURE

2009
David Linley and C.Cator, H.Chislett, “Star Pieces – The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture”. London: Thames and Hudson.

MUSEUM REFERENCES

Art of the Twentieth Century, New York, USA. Fondation Louise T Blouin, London, UK.

Vincent Dubourg’s is a French artist born in 1977. Dubourg’s sculptural furniture makes contemporary allusions to traditional methods of cabinetmaking. This evokes a nostalgic sense of the familiar, which he simultaneously distorts with his fresh approach to materials and techniques. Dubourg poetically fuses the crafts of glassblowing, wood-bending, and metal-casting to bring simple forms to life. In Napoleon A Trointette, the solid form of a bureau is harmoniously combined with the graceful curves of bronze branches. Dubourg’s designs introduce motion to stationary furniture. Vent Sur La Table whirls bronze and branches upwards as though freed from the constraints of gravity. Indeed, Dubourg offers a new perspective to furniture design, often subverting classic functional forms. In Commode à Nouvelle Zélande, he flips a bar so that it rests on rows of up-turned glasses and bottles. Another piece in this series, Plancher à Nouvelle Zélande, sees shelves fly from the wall as if making an escape. Dubourg’s conceptual twists add a surreal element to traditional craftsmanship, though he never relinquishes his devotion for the search of perfection.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
Vortex, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
TEFAF, New-York Spring, Park Avenue Armory, New-York, USA.

2017
Vortex, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Cabinet Makers, Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
FOG Design + Art, San Francisco, USA.

2016
New Gallery Opening, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
10 Years of Collectible Design, Carpenters Workshop Roissy, France.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
Zona Maco, Mexico.

2015
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.

2014
Dans l’Atelier, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Design Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium.

2013
Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA.

2012
‘Nature’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2011
Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, New York, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
‘Inside’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2010
Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris.
ArteFiera, Bologna, Italy.
‘Sotheby’s at Sudeley Castle’, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK.

2009
‘Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. / ‘Design High’, Louis T Blouin Foundation in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France.

2008
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Tuileries, Paris, France.

2007
Design Art, London, UK.
‘Design Povera’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Decors Fashion-Week’, Gourav Goopta, Dehli, India.

2006
‘Metal’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2005
‘Creation Vitrine’, Galeries Layfayette, Paris, France.
‘Jardin-Jardin’, Tuileries, Paris France.

2004
100% Design Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Palais Bourbon Lacondet, Paris, France.
‘Jardin-Jardin’, Tuileries, Paris, France.

2003
Festival des Jardins de Chaumont sur Loire, France.
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Salon du Meuble, Paris, France.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2011
Moet & Hennessy Prize, Pavilion of Art & Design New York.

2008
LVMH, Paris. 2006
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.

2005
Window display development of Galeries Lafayette, Paris.

2003
Colonial Concept of a bedroom for the Princess of Morocco, Paris.

LITERATURE

2013
Anne Bonny, “Esprit Meuble Design”, Editions du Regards, 2013.

2009
Gareth Williams, “Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in contemporary Design”, London: V&A
Publishing, 2009.
David Linely, C. Cator, and H. Chislett, “Star Pieces – The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular
Furniture”. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris

Influenced by her studies at Ecole Camondo and her years spent in Paris and Rotterdam, Najla El Zein returned to open her workspace in Beirut, a city that inspires her in a paradox of emotions, senses and memories which continuously trickle into her work process. Najla seeks the challenge of taking a simple idea, object or material and converting it into a cosmic experience. Her creations are intimate experiments, reinterpreting conventional materials within atypical contexts. Najla El Zein’s works have been featured in the Victoria and Albert museum, Singapore Art Fair, Boghossian Foundation (Brussels), Design Days Dubai, House of Today, Beirut Art center, PAD fairs with Smogallery and Starch Foundation.

Kendell Geers was born in South Africa in 1968 and now lives and works in Brussels. His artistic practice covers a wide range of media, including installations, sculpture, drawing, video, performance, and photography. Since the 1990s, his work has been firmly anchored in activism. Geers uses emblematic figures from art history, religious icons, and pornographic images to explore social limits. He is known for his vocabulary of barbed wire, barrels, truncheons, broken glass, and police tape—elements that convey a feeling of urgency. His work never fails to reflect strong desires and violent impulses. His work also inverts order and morality, whether in the form of belief systems or social and political ideologies, while also shining a light on the mechanisms of the human psyche. He is one of the most frequently exhibited artists of his generation. His works are part of sixty permanent museum collections and since 1988 he has taken part in more than four hundred exhibitions all around the world.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
‘AFROPUNK, Gallery Week-End, Brussels, Belgium.

2017
‘The Silence between’ Goodùan Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

2016
‘BXL Universelle’, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium.
‘BXL Universelle’, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France.

2015
Guild Design Fair, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘The Importance of being a panorama in Contemporary Art with 40 Belgiums Artists in Latina America’, Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
‘The Importance of being a panorama in Contemporary Art with 40 Belgiums Artists in Latina America’, Musco de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
‘The Importance of being a panorama in Contemporary Art with 40 Belgiums Artists in Latina America’, Musco de Arte Comporanea de Unersidad des Sao Paulo, Brasil.
‘Theorem’, Mana Contemporary Museum, Jersey City, USA.
‘Les mondes inverses’ Art contemporain et cultures populaires, Commissariat : Pierre-Olivier Rollin, Charleroi, Belgium.

2014
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK.
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
‘Divine Comedy’, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany.
‘Ruffneck Constructivists’, ICA, Philadelphia, USA.
‘INSERT2014’, Maati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India.

2013

‘AlphaBête’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles, Belgium.
‘Endgame’, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France.
‘Stealing Fire from Heaven’, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey.
‘Kendell Geers 1988-2013’, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
‘Artifical Amsterdam’, De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
‘PostMortem’, Forde, Geneve, Switzerland.
‘Beyond Liaisons’, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea.
‘My Joburg’, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
‘Money, Sex, Power’, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Celluloid Brushes’, Ludlow 38, New York, USA.

2012
‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’,Château Blandy-Les-Tours, France.
‘Struggle(s)’, 4 Private collections, Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Newtopia: The State of Human Rights’, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Manifesta 9’, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Limburg, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?’, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (catalogue).

2011
‘Hellraiser’, ADNGaleria, Barcelona, Spain.
‘No Government, No Cry’, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium.
‘Fin de Partie’, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (catalogue).
‘CON AMORE — Leif Djurhuus Samling’, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (catalogue). / ‘NUNC, ET IN HORA MORTIS NOSTRAE’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht’, La maison Rouge, Paris, France (catalogue).
‘Spheres 4’, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Paris, France.
‘It Won’t Happen Again’, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.
‘Super-Organism’, CAF Art Museum Biennale, Beijing, China.
‘Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance’, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Ireland.
‘How to Philosophize with a Hammer’, White Box, New York, USA.

‘Big Brother, L’artiste face aux Tyrans’, The Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France (catalogue). / Glasstress, Eventi collaterali di La Biennale di Venizia, Venice, Italy.
‘Sympathy for the Devil’, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Eat Me’, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘The Luminous Interval’, The Daskalopoulos Collection, The Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue).
‘Celluloid Brushes’, Film Posters by artists, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, Belgium.

2010
‘Lady/God/Gift’, Kendell Geers participation in the project: Domino Canibal, Contemporary Art Project Murcia, Spain (catalogue).
‘Third World Disorder’, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Handgrenades from my Heart’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Mexico Expected/Unexpected’, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA.
‘Je crois aux Miracles’, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France.
‘Idoles’, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le Châtel, Paris, France.
‘The Right to Protest’, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel.
‘Bare Life’, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel.
‘Wish List of a Young Collector’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
‘Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (catalogue).
‘Winter Show’, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘México — esperado/inesperado’, B.P.S.22 – Espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium.
‘Spazio, Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura del MAXXI’, MAXXI, Roma, Italy.
‘Bern Biennale’, The Museum of Fine Art in Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
‘The 29th Bienal de São Paulo’, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue).
‘Nieuwe Monumenten’, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Strengths and Convictions’, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Sweden (catalogue).
‘UltraMegaLore-Fashion Icon’, Het Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue).
‘One Shot ! Football and contemporary art’, BPS22 espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Dada South?’, Iziko Museums Of Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue).
‘Contemplating the Void’, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.

2009
‘A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK.
‘Irrespektiv’, MART, Trento, Italy (catalogue).
‘The Wasteland’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
‘SCRATCH!’, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain.
‘Visions of paradise: utopias | dystopias | heterotopias’, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico. ‘Art Foundation Mallorca’, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
‘Fonction Critique, quelques apparitions diversement manifestees, sur une proposition de M.Fadat’, Aperto, Montpellier, France (Catalogue).
‘Spheres 2009’, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Paris, France.
‘Locus Solus’, Galerie Yvon Lambert , Paris, France.
‘Re:Print, n.a.v. een grafisch werktraject in het Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee’, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Hellwach Gegenwartig’, Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta, Marta Herford, Germany.
‘Dark Summer’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Une collezione trasversale Da Duchamp a Nino Calos, da Cattelan a Entang Wiharso’, ALT Arte Contemporanea, Arte Lavoro Territorio, Spazio Fausto Radici, Alzano Lombardo, Italy.
‘A House is Not a Home’, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France (catalogue).
‘SONS Shoes Or not Shoes?’, Kruishoutem, Belgium.
‘Time of the Signs’, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
‘Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War’, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland.

2008
‘Oficina Para de Arte A.C.’, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
‘Irrespektiv’, MOCA, Lyon, France (catalogue).
‘Irrespektiv’, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (catalogue).
‘PostPunkPaganPop’, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue).
‘Artist-Citizen / Contextual artistic practices’, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia.
‘Chambre à part II’, La Réserve, Paris, France.
‘7+1Project Rooms’, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (catalogue).

‘My Favorite Object, Artists and Architects present their favourite object in the MAK’, The Viennaartweek, MAK, Vienna, Austria (catalogue).
‘WALL ROCKETS’, New Flag Art Foundation Show, Contemporary Artist and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘Collection Agustin et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected’, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (catalogue).
‘Betwixt’, Sofia Hultén curated by Richard Julin, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden.
‘NEON’, group show curated by Tania Doropoulos, Gallery Anna Schwartz, Sydney, Australia.
‘Bare Life’, Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam, Israel.
‘Neon Bible’, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France.
‘Neighbourhood Secrets’, Kvadrat, Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, Norway (catalogue).
‘Person of the Crowd: The contemporary Art of Flânerie’, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA.
‘Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War’, Blackwood Gallery, Curated by Séamus Kealy, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada (catalogue).

2007
‘Kannibale’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
‘Irrespektiv’, BALTIC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom (catalogue).
‘Irrespektiv’, S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Auto da fé’, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue).
‘J’embrasse Pas’, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France.
‘Passage du Temps’, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Lille, France (catalogue).
‘My Sweet Sixteen Party’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Werchter Rock Festival’, Amuseevous project, Werchter, Belgium.
‘Hidden Cities’, Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
(catalogue).
‘African Pavilion’, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (catalogue).
‘Global Cities’, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK.
‘L’emprise du lieu’, curated by Daniel Buren , Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (catalogue).
‘One Colour’, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.
‘The Freak Show’, MAC, Lyon, France (catalogue).
‘Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Nicolas Bourriaud’, 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (catalogue).
‘1 Biennal of the Canaries islands’, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (catalogue).
‘Emerging Wor(l)ds’, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic.
‘Il faut rendre à Cézanne…’, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France (catalogue).

2006
‘The word made flesh’, Gallery Stephen Friedman, London, UK.
‘Only the Paranoid Survive’, HVCCA – Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, USA.
‘Being, In Brussels’, Argos, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue).
‘SD Observatory’, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue).
‘HUMAN GAME’, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (catalogue).
‘A Fiction of Authenticity-Contemporary Africa Abroad’, Blaffer Gallery-The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, USA.
‘One Star Stop’, Galerie Erna HÈcey, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Take a Walk on the Wild Side’, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue).
‘Images Publiques’, 1ère Triennale d’art public, Liège, Belgium.
‘Ballkünstler’, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (catalogue).
‘The Flip Book Show’, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium.
‘Taste. In Viaggio Con Le Diversità Del Gusto’, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy.
‘Metropolitanscape’, Il paesaggio urbano nell’arte contemporanea, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (catalogue).
‘DON JUAN alias Don Giovanni’ or ‘Two plus two equals four’ or ‘Lust is the only swindle I wish permanence’ ’, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (catalogue).
‘Exces, Nr.12 Beelden en lichamen in buitensporige tijden’, Z33, Zuivelmarkt , Hasselt, Belgium(catalogue)
‘Looking both ways’, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA (catalogue).
‘George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Kendell Geers, MRZYK & Moriceau, Thomas Palme, Gert & Uwe Tobias’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.

2005
‘Satyr:Ikon’, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy.
‘The Fall, Sorry we’re closed, Bruxelles, Belgium.

‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA (catalogue).
‘Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht’, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
(catalogue).
‘War is over 1945-2005 la libertà dell’arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan’, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy.
‘ADAM’, International exhibition of contemporary art, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (catalogue).
‘Expérience de la durée’, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France (catalogue).
‘Leaps of Faith’, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalogue).
‘Daumenkino’, The Flip Book Show, KunstHalle Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue).
‘CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Books’, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France.
‘Brussels South Airport’, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (catalogue).
‘Manmano’, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.
‘10th year Anniversary Exhibition’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK.
‘Dionysiac’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (touring show) (catalogue).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland (touring show)(catalogue).

2004
‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered’, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, USA (catalogue).
‘Sexus, Cimaise et Portique’, Albi, France (catalogue).
‘The forest of suicides’, MACRO Museum, Roma, Italy (monography).
‘In the flesh’, Salon 94, New York, USA.
‘Wall Drawings’, MMSU,16th International Drawings Exhibition curated by Branko Franceschi, Rijeka, Croetia (catalogue).
‘Terminal 5’, curated by Rachel K.Ward, John F.Kennedy International Airport, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘Stock Zero-Opera’, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania (catalogue).
‘Art in the Age of Terrorism’, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK.
‘Channel Zero’, curated by Katerina Gregos, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
‘Democracy is fun’, White box, New York, USA.
‘Transcultures’, The cultural Olympiad and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue).
‘Tijdelijk verblijf/ Séjour Ephemère/temporary residence’, Stedelijk Musea Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium.
‘Ipeg bild.ton.maschine’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Liquid Architecture).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA (touring show) (catalogue).
‘Cremers haufen.alltag,prozesse, handlungen: kunst der 60er jahre und heute’, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (catalogue).
‘The Ten Commandments’, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany.
‘OK, America !’, APEX Art, New York, USA.
‘Le Opere e i Giorni’, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy (catalogue).
‘Not Done’, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Art Unlimited’, Galeria Continua, Basel art fair, Switzerland (catalogue).
‘Visions of Paradise’, João Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, Cranbrook Art Museum, USA (touring show) (catalogue).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA (touring show)
(catalogue).
‘Les Afriques’, Tri Postal, Lille, France.

2003
‘NOITU(LOVE)R’, Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea Lecchi in Chianti, Italy.
‘Inferno’, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (artists book).
‘Terrorealismus’, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.
‘The Prodigal son’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘Rogue States’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK.

‘Synopsis III -Testimonies: between fiction and reality’, EMET, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue).
‘Looking both ways’, curated by L.A.Farell, Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘Poetic Justice’, 8th International Istanbul Biennal, Haghia Sophia Museum, Turkey (catalogue).
‘Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’, New Museum, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad’, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, Missouri, USA (catalogue).

‘Opening Gallery Beaulieu’, Oudenaarde, Belgium.
‘Poëzie Zomer’, Opzij van het kijken, Watou, Belgium.
‘African Exile Museum’, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland.
‘A Prove d’Ascolto’, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (catalogue).
‘Time, art and architecture’, Biennal of Valencia, Spain (catalogue).
‘Coollustre’, curated by Eric Troncy, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France (catalogue).
‘Göteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal’, Göteborg, Sweden (catalogue).
‘Next Flag’, Hans Bogatzke Collection, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium.
‘Thatcher’, The Blue Gallery, London, UK.
‘HardCore, Vers un Nouvel Activisme’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (catalogue).
‘M_ARS – Art and War’, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue).
‘Salon des Refusées’, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (Catalogue).
‘Sted//Place’, Galerie Asbæk & Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Catalogue).
‘Observatorio #5’, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Next Flag’, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium (Catalogue).
‘Video-Zone@LX’, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.

2002
‘Grenzgänge’, Gallery Luis Campana, Köln, Germany.
‘Mondo Kane’, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
‘A Spy in the House of Love’, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Sympathy for the Devil’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
‘Documenta 11’, Kassel, Germany (catalogue).
‘Trauma’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (catalogue).
‘The Short Century’, PS1, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘Editionen Part One / 2002’, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria.
‘Tutto Casino’, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (Catalogue).
‘To Actuality’, Bolzano, Italy.
‘Video-Zone’, 1st International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (Catalogue).
‘Refuge Tilflukt’, Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway (Catalogue).
‘Handlungsanweisungen – Instructions for Actions, (with Anri Sala)’, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria (Catalogue).
‘…privat’, CHARIM GALERIE, Wien, Austria.
‘zeichen > <sprache’, Galerie Grita Insam, Wien, Austria.
‘Enactments of the Self’, Steirischiser Herbst, Graz, Austria.
‘Surviving Apartheid’, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.

2001
‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’, Delfina Project Space, London, UK.
‘Televisionaries’, Würtembergischer Kunstverein and Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
‘ARS 01’, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue).
‘Marking the Territory’, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland.
‘Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel’, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.
‘The Short Century’, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, touring show (catalogue).
‘Locus Focus’, Sonsbeek, Arnheim, the Netherlands (catalogue).

‘Skulptur – Biennale im Münsterland’, Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany (catalogue).
‘Casino 2001’, 1st Quadronnial of Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Trauma’, Dundee Contemporary Arts and touring.
‘Konverzacija’, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (catalogue).
‘In cold blood’, State University of New York and New Palz, USA.
‘Short Stories’, Fabbrica del Vaporeo, Milan, Italy (catalogue).
‘Berlin Biennale’, Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue).

2000
‘Timbuktu’, MAK, Vienna, Austria.
‘¡Ya Basta!’, Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
‘Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi’, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Arte all’Arte V edizione’, Volterra, Italy.
‘Inova’, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA.
‘Art Unlimited’, Basel ArtFair, Basel, Switzerland.
‘Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000’, curated by Hou Hanru, Pusan, Korea (catalogue). / ‘The Sky is the Limit Taipei Biennial’, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue).
‘3 Räume – 3 Flüsse’, Hann.Münden, Kassel, Germany (catalogue).
‘The Invisible Touch’, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria.

‘Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial’, Japan (catalogue).
‘VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival’, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalogue).
‘Acts of Resistance’, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain (catalogue).
‘Untitled (Sculpture)’, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA.
‘Inverse Perspectives’, Edsvik konst och kultur, Sweden.
‘Positions Attitudes Actions’, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue).
‘Atmosfere Metropolitane’, Openspace, Milano, Italy.
‘Memórias íntimas Marcas’, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Continental Shift/ For R.EAL’, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, the Netherlands (catalogue).
‘Home’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
‘Micropolitiques’, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (catalogue).
‘South Meets West’, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalogue).
‘HB First View’, Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1999
‘States of Emergency’, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (catalogue).
‘Heart of Darkness’, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK.
‘Project Rooms’, ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
‘Zeitwenden’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (catalogue).
‘Bodies of Resistance’, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
‘South Meets West’, National Museum, Accra, Ghana (catalogue).
‘Carnegie International’, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (catalogue).
‘Five Continents and One City’, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico (catalogue).
‘Patentia’, NIFCA Stockholm, Sweden.
‘A3HB’, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Extra and Ordinaire’, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France (catalogue).
‘Following and to be Followed’, Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
‘High Red Centre’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
‘Power’, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue).
‘Traffique’, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (catalogue).
‘Global Conceptualism: points of Origin 1950s-1980s’, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (catalogue).
‘Entrée Libre’, (http://www.culture.fr/entreelibre/).

1998
‘Guilty’, Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, South Africa.
‘98.3’, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (brochure).
‘Heart of Darkness’, Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa (brochure).
‘Memórias Íntimas Marcas’, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal.
‘Europa Afrika’, 7 Triennale der Kleinen Plastik’ Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue).
‘Dark Continent’, Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Outshoorn, South Africa.
‘Odradek’, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale on Hudson, New York, USA.
‘City Canibal’, Paço Das Artes, São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue).
‘Cross/ing’, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, USA (catalogue).
‘Medialization’, Edsvik konst kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden (catalogue).

1997
‘Memento Mori’, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland.
‘Alternating Currents’, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (catalogue).
‘Cross/ing’, University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, USA (catalogue).
‘Unplugged II’, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘October’, Norwich School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Norwich, UK.
‘Purple and Green’, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa.

1996
‘Black on the Inside (with Neil Goedhals)’, Galerie Metroplex, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘16 June 1976 (with Willie Bester)’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘Inclusion Exclusion’, Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (catalogue).
‘Simunye (We Are One)’, Adelson Galleries, New York, USA.
‘Colours’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
‘Egoists at Work’, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria.
‘Crapshoot’, de Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (catalogue).
‘Unplugged’, Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

‘The Young and the Restless’, Sandton Art Gallery, Sandton, South Africa.

1995
‘Work on Paper’, Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘W.C.’, Villa Arson, Nice, France.
‘On the Road’, Delfina Studios, Africa95, London, U.K (catalogue).
‘Mayibuye iAfrika’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK.
‘Outside/Inside’, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (catalogue).
‘Vita Art Now’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1994
‘Air de Paris (with Joachim Schonfeldt)’, Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More’, Michaelis Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Vita Art Now’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.
‘Quinta Bienal de la Habana’, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (catalogue).
‘Un Art Contemporain d’Afrique du Sud’, curated by Jean-Yves Jounnais, Galerie de l’Esplanade, La Défense, Paris, France (catalogue).
‘VI Biennale d’Arte Sacra’ San Gabriele, Teramo, Italy.
‘Identita e Rappresentazioni Cartografiche’ curated by Teresa Macri and Lucilla Meloni, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome, Italy.
‘The Netherlands Against Apartheid’, Amsterdam’s Historisch Museum, the Netherlands (catalogue).
‘Zuiderkruis’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (catalogue).

1993
‘The New Patron’, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘Threshold: The Exhibition’, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa.
‘Objects’, Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa.

1991
‘Mediations’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1988
‘Box Theatre’, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

LITERATURE

2011
Fin de Partie, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.

2009
Guest editor of Be Contemporary Magazine.
N.7, Summer, 184 pages, France, June.
7+1 Project Room, The Terrorist’s Apprentice + T.W.(Rock).
Marco Museo de Arte Contemoranea de Vigo, Vigo.

2008
PostPunkPaganPop, published on the occasion of the show ‘PosPunkPaganPop’ at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zürich, 2 June-16 August 2008.

2007
Irrespektiv, designed by Base design and published by BOM Publishers in cooperation with SMAK (Ghent), B.P.S.22 (Charleroi), Baltic (Gateshead), MOCA (Lyon) and MART (Trento), 296 pages, ISBN 978-84-934879-5-9, Barcelona, August.

2004
Between Good and Evil, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan.
Point Blank, Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium.
The Forest of Suicides, MACRO, Roma, May 2004.

2005
Fingered, Tikiriki Publications, Brussels, Belgium, edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem, February 2005.

The Plague is me, Onestar Press, Paris, France.

2002
My Tongue in Your Cheek, Les presses du Réel, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France, January 2002.

1995
Argot, Chalkham Hill Press, Johannesburg, South Africa.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
ICA, Philadelphia, USA; MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea; La Maison Rouge, Paris, France; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark; MOLAA, Long Beach, USA; Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; MAXXI, Roma, Italy; The Museum of Fine Art in Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium; Het Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; MART, Trento, Italy; MOCA, Lyon, France; MARCO, Vigo, Spain; MAK, Vienna, Austria; Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam, Israel; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA; S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium; Tate Modern, London, U.K; IVAM, Valencia, Spain; Blaffer Gallery-The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, USA; Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany; Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium; Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; MACRO Museum, Roma, Italy; MNAC, Bucharest, Romania; The cultural Olympiad and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Stedelijk Musea Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA; Westfälisches Landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany; MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Cranbrook Art Museum, USA; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece ; Museum for African Art, New York, USA; Haghia Sophia Museum, Turkey; New Museum, New York, USA; Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, USA; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K; PS1, New York, USA ; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, the Netherlands; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; National Museum, Accra, Ghana; Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

Belgian designer Anton Hendrik Denys was born in July 1990. After living in both the Netherlands and the United States, he returned to his native Belgium to establish his practice. Anton’s architectural background and natural affinity for trends are omnipresent in his overall work. With an instinct for intriguing materialities, Anton has a sense for combining the familiar with the unexpected. Often minimal and geometric in shape, his objects exhale a substantial knowledge of material properties. While balancing different techniques, his experimental approach leads to surprising results.

For example: The project Self Reflect allows us to observe ourselves in our everyday life, similar to Caravaggio’s painting of Narcicus. By undertaking an extensive research, Anton Hendrik explored the material properties of stainless steel. His quest resulted into a gradual reflectiveness and fluidity of colours in the material, bordering the romantic atmosphere of Caravaggio’s painting. Ultimately, the urge to transform mundane objects into refined everyday spectacles leads Denys to continuously redefine his everyday surroundings.

Born in 1974, Mathieu Lehanneur is a French designer on the forefront of the international design scene. Mathieu Lehanneur has a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity: his projects stretch the realms of product design and object to architecture, craft, and technology. His designs are inspired by nature yet push the limits of design by exploring new technologies. He crosses boarders by combining design, science, technology, and art in projects that aim to achieve maximum welfare for human beings. Air, water, light, and sound are amongst his favorite materials to create his science-inspired humanistic projects. He considers human beings as complex structures whom need more than chairs but need air to breathe, sustainable food, good health, and love to live better lives. Born in 1974, he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and at the Design Museum Gent. He has also designed interiors for Saint-Hilaire Church in Melle, France; for Château Borély in Marseille, France; for the Hôpital des Diaconesses in Paris, France; and for the Café ArtScience in Boston.

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2018
‘Ocean Memories’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
’50 Seas’, Christie’s Paris, France.

2017
‘Ocean Memories’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, US.
‘Liquid Marble’, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.
DesignMiami, US.
PAD Paris, France.

2016
‘Spring’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Liquid Marble’, Victoria & Albert Museum , Londres, UK.
‘Petite Loire’, Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire , France.
‘Art Light’, Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Sans et Saufs’, MUDAC, Switzerland.

2015

’L’Eloge de l’Heure’, MUDAC, Switzerland.
Biennale de Saint-Etienne, France.
‘The Art of Living’, Triennale Milano, Italy.
‘Design for Life’, Design Museum, Barcelone, Spain.
‘Human Resources. Some examples of sustainable design’, CentroCentro, Madri, Spain.
‘Oracles du design’, Gaîté lyrique, Paris, France.

2014
Design Days Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2013
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, France.
Design Days Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2012
Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium.

2011
PAD New York, New York, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, New York, USA.
‘Inaugural Show’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris.

2010
Design Miami, Miami, USA.
Design Miami/ Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion des Arts et du Design, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.

2009
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
‘Design High’, Louis T Blouin Foundation in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2006
Elements, Milan.
Elements, Paris.

2005
SAFE, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Slim Retrospective, Resonnance, Lyon.
Domesticity, A Suivre… Lieu d’art, Bordeaux.

2004
International Design Biennale, St Etienne, France.
Moulure utiles + Sacco + Ral 9006, CAC Brétigny.

Appel d’Air, Now, Paris.

2003
Non Standard Architecture, Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris.
Mosquito Bottleneck, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York.
Observeur du design, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris.

2002
International Design Biennale, St Etienne, France.

PRESS (SELECTION)

2010
Johanna Agerman, ‘Mathieu Lehanneur in the Design Laboratory’, Icon, April 2010.

2009
Chris Scott, “A Beautiful Mind”, Frame, May 2009.

2008
Massimiliano di Bartolomeo, “Flood Paris”, Domus, April 2008. AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS (SELECTION) 2017
Winner – Top 10 best stores” by AD magazine.
Winner – Design Awards” by Wallpaper magazine.

2010
Créateur de l’Année, Now ! Maison & Objets, Paris, France.
Dialogues, Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller, Paris, France.
Winner – Biennale internationale de la céramique contemporaine, Vallauris, France.

Winner – Biennale Internationale de la Céramique Contemporaine, Andenne, Belgium.

2008
Best Invention Award, Popular Science Magazine, US 2007
Talent du Luxe, Centre du Luxe et de la Création, Paris, France 2006
Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris, France 2005
‘Fisherman’s House’, Dalen.
‘Pink Giant’, Nieuwegein.
‘Gieleskull’, Amsterdam.

2004
Kurt Schwitters Award.
‘Wombhouse’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.

2000
Wilhelmina-Ring Sculpture Award.

1998
Mart Stam Award.

1997
Anjerfonds – Chabot Award.

1996
Katalogförderpreis.
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung Award.

1995
Bolidt Floor Concepts Prize.

1992
Prix de Rome.

1991
Charlotte Köhler Award.

LITERATURE

2015
J. Dautrey, E. Quinz – “Strange Design”, it:editions

2014
Alice Rawsthorn – “Hello World: Where Design Meets Life”, Penguin

2012
Monograph

2009
D. Linley, C. Cator, H. Chislett, Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

2007
J. Allen, A. Betsky, R. Laermans, W. Vanstiphout, Atelier Van Lieshout, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, US.
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, San Francisco, US.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France.
Museum Design Gent, Belgium.
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany

Frederik Molenschot was born in 1981, is graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, currently works in Amsterdam, and is part of the Dutch Design Movement. His degree was earned with studies in man and public space and he focused on connecting people and their environments. The founder of Studio Molen, Molenschot is a blur of constant energy, forever creating and developing new ideas and inspiring people. Molenschot crafts his work by hand and displays incredible diversity. He has a deep interest in the artificial and natural elements of our surroundings. His aim is to transport the viewer’s senses to a new level. Molenschot is best known for his cast bronze lighting structures such as his body of works City light which he hand-shaped into detailed formations to channel and direct light. His work is inspired by city lights and the night sky which visualize a vision of a future city. He says, “If you’re an architect, your world is a building, a graphic designer works on a newspaper or a wall, while a landscape architect plays with nature itself. I try and draw all these worlds together and see what happens when they meet.”

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2017

‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New-York, USA.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2016
Zona Maco, Crpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
Design Days Dubaï, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubaï, UAE.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.

2015
Art Genève, Switzerland.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Guild, Cape Town, South Africa.

2014
BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium.
Design Shanghai, China.
Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris, France.
Organic Group Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France. / Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris, France.
Design Days, Dubai, UAE.

2013
Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris, France.
Masterpiece, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Design Days Dubai, UAE.

2012
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Design Days Dubai, UAE.

2011
Design Miami/Miami, USA.
Inaugural Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Selected Works, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK

Florian Ortkrass and Hannes Koch were both born in 1975 in Germany. The two met at Brunel University before going on to study at the Royal College of Art. Random International was founded in 2005 and is based in London, with an outpost in Berlin, the studio today employs a large and diverse team. Random International is a collaborative studio for experimental practice within contemporary art. Using science to develop a new material vocabulary, its work invites viewers to consider the man/machine relationship through explorations of behavior and natural phenomena. In more than a decade since the studio’s inception, the focus of Random International’s artistic practice has continuously evolved, and today it embraces sculpture, performance, and installation, often on an architectural scale. Their highly collectable work creates a bridge between objects and products by merging monumental design and graphic artwork. Randoms International are acclaimed for their interactive installation Rain Room which can be permanently found at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
‘The Future of Life Art’, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
‘Everything & Nothing’, The Yuz Museum, Shangaï, China.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.

2017
‘Augment your Reality’ Abu Dhabi Art.
FOG Design + Art, Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, USA.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘West Coast Pop-Up, 836M Gallery, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, USA.

2016
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA.
’10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2015
Rain Room Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA.
Rain Room Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
FOMO, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France.

2014
Studies In Motion Lundskonsthall, Lund.
Random International RH Contemporary Art, New York City.
Light Fantastic, House of the Noble Man, London, UK.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, UAE.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2013
Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII Ruhrtriennale, Essen.
EXPO 1: New York / Rain Room MoMA, New York City.
Rain Room Barbican, London.
Digital Crystal Design Museum, London.
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, UAE.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, UAE.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenter Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
The Salon: Art + Design, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Swarm Study IV, Abu Dhabi Art, UAE.

2012
Rain Room, The Curve, Barbican Center, London, UK.
Before the Rain, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
The Space Between Now and Then, Galeria OMR, Mexico.
Future Self MADE, Berlin.
No Object Is An Island Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit.

2011
REFLEX Installation, Welcome Trust, London, UK.
Duplex Installation, Bloomberg, London, UK.
A Study of Time #1, Design Miami/Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery., Basel, Switzerland. / SWARM Study III, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
Rewriting Worlds 4th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Russia.
Study Of You, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2010
Design Miami/Miami, USA.
‘Wayne McGregor’s Deloitte Ignite’, Royal Opera House, London, UK.
‘The Behaviour of Objects’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.

Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris, France.

2009
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.

2008
‘Design and the Elastic Mind’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2011
Swarm Study III, Victoria & Albert Museum commission in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.

2010
Designers of the Future, Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.

2009
Prix Ars Electronica — Honourable Mention in Interactive Art category.

2007
Observer Future — 500 List Top Ten Creative Talent in the UK.

2006
Wallpaper* — Design Award.
iF Design Award — Concepts category (Germany).
CR — Creative Futures Award, Interaction Design category.

2005
18th Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition — Bronze Design Award (Japan).
Matthews Wrightson Trust Award.
iF Design Award — Concepts category (Germany).

2004
Rosenthal European Competition — Runners up.
Identity for Egyptian Museum (Doha, Qatar).

LITERATURE

2009
Gareth Williams, “Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in contemporary Design”,
London: V&A Publishing, 2009.

2008
“Design and the Elastic Mind”, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. September, 2009.

PRESS

2013
Felicity Scott, “Limits of Control”, Artforum, September 2013.
BBC News, “The Big Picture: The Rain Room”, 16 May 2013.
Marvin Orellana, “No Rain on Me”, The New York Times, 13 May 2013.

2012
Nancy Durrant, “It’s Not Raining Outside”, The Times, September 26 2013.
L’Officel Art, “A Random Dance”, Fall 2013.

2011
Emmanuelle Javelel “Londres Deco”, Elle Decoration, February 2011.

2010
Lucy Bullivant, “Interview with Random International”, Domus, 21 October 2010.
Beth Dunlop, “What furniture and objects tell us about our time, culture and ourselves”,
Miami Herald, 5 December, 2010.
Femke de Wilde, “Laws of Reflection”, Frame Magazine, April 2010.

2009
Eric A. Taub, “Panels of Light Fascinate Designers”, The New York Times, 6 September, 2009.

2008
William Wiles, “Design and Redunant Technology”, ICON, July, 2008.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Tate Modern, London. Museo di Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Prato. The Barbican Centre, London. The International Design Museum, Jerusalem. The International Design Museum, Munich. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Seoul Design Museum, Seoul

A Southern California native born in 1962, the acclaimed fashion designer Rick Owens displays a demanding and singular aesthetic in fashion. His original vision plays on material. Owens lives and works in Paris, but the dark, minimalist style of his designs was created in the United States when he started out making bespoke furniture for his bunker-style loft in Los Angeles. Working with craftsmen of the highest caliber, he has developed a collection of pieces that express his signature style in cut, volume, and plan. His designs evoke original furniture through archetypes. There are a number of typologies: the ceremonial chair Curial, the Trident chair with its structure, and the Halfbox armchair crafted from a chest. Through his choice of subtle and rare materials, Owens suggests the beauty of nature and develops a contrasting palette of black and white that confirms his taste for the monochrome. He juxtaposes values to compose three-dimensional pieces that fully reflect his own style. Through fashion, design, and furniture, he cuts and shapes a transversal and global universe.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2017
FOG + Art, Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, USA.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshopn Gallery, Switzerland.
‘West Coast Pop-Up’ 836M Gallery, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, USA.

2016
‘New Works’ Carpenters Worshop Gallery, Paris, France.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Monaco, France.
‘Tribal’, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA.

2015
‘La passion selon Carol Rama’, MaM, Paris, France.
Bargenale at Certosa Island, Venezia, Italy.
Art Geneve, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Paris, France.
Design Miami/ Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

2014
BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium.
Design Days Dubai, UAE.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2013
‘Prehistoric’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Abu Dhabi Art, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
The Salon: Art + Design, New York, USA.

AWARDS

2007
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, USA
Fashion Group International’s Rule Breaking Award

2002
Perry Ellis Emerging Talent Award, Council of Fashion Designers of America, US

Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. The designer has always been drawn to the details of objects and the narratives they evoke. He studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan before attending the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris in the late 1980s. He has continued to work in Paris ever since. In 1992 Stadler co-founded the RADI Designers collective, whose varied practice revolved around the marriage of the everyday and the unusual. Stadler began to work on solo projects in 2002, though he continued to collaborate with RADI until the studio’s dissolution in 2008. Stadler’s interests encompass both what he terms “aristocratic design” and objects typically deemed vulgar or absurd; he explores the possibilities for building bridges between the apparently incompatible. He is involved in furniture making, product, interaction design, art installations, and multimedia ac-tivities. He frequently questions objects’ established identities. His furniture tends to both convey and destroy preconceived notions of what an object should be. Although works such as his Possible Furniture series may at times appear haphazard, they are perfectly constructed to fulfill their ergonomic purpose.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2017
‘You May Also Like : Robert Stadler’, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany.
‘Solid Doubts’, The Noguchi Museum, New-York, USA.
‘Weight Class’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New-York, USA.

2016
‘Cut_paste’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France.
Triple V – New Location Opening Exhibition, Galerie Triple V, Paris, France.
‘Quiz 2’, MUDAM, Luxembourg.

2015
‘Airspace’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami/ Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France.
‘Zones de confort’, galerie Poirel, Paris, France.
‘PAVILLION DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: a 21st Century Show Home’, Swiss Institute, New York, USA. / ‘Oracles du design’, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France.
‘L’usage des formes’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

2014
‘Back in 5 min’, MAK Design Salon #03, Vienna, Austria.
L’intelligence de la main, PIASA, Paris, France.
‘Quiz’, Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France.

2013
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenters Workshop gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
PAD Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France.
‘Tephra Formations Play’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
‘Brigadoon’, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
‘Isn’t it romantic?’, MAKK, Cologne, Germany.

2012
‘Tapis Parade’, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France.
Ricard SA depuis 1932, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.
‘The Magic of Diversity’, MAK applied Arts – Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria.
‘Bright Future: New Designs in Glass’, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York.

2011
‘1000 Jours’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris.
‘Shading’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘Wild at home’, Galerie Triple V, Paris, France.

‘Ardoises’ Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France.

Design Miami/Miami, USA.
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
‘Atomi’, Galleria Nilufar, Milan, Italy.
‘Di Vaso in Fiore-Inventario tra Nature e Design’, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy.

2010
Design Miami/Miami, USA.
Design MIami/Basel, Switzerland.
Split Identities: Objects at the Interstice of Art and Design, 17th edition of the European
Triennal of Small-Scale Sculpture, Murska Sobota Gallery, Slovenia.

2009
Pavilio of Art & Design, London.
Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
‘Design High’, Louis T Blouin Foundation in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
‘Formlose Möbel, Formless Furniture’, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland.
Efeito D – a new DNA for design, Exd’09, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
‘Nature in a kit’, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland.
‘Thing beware the material world’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

2008
‘The Freak Show’, Musée de la Monnaie, Paris, France.
‘Object Factory’, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Kantlijnenm Musea Brugge, Belgium.
‘Living box’, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.

2007
‘Roomers’, Galerie Traversée, Munich, Germany.
‘Understand what you love’, Galerie des Multiples, Paris, France.
‘Design contre design’, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
‘The Freak Show’, MOCA Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.

2006
‘Sieges avec vue…’, Design Parade, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France.
‘Essences insensées’, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
XIX Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Vallauris, Vallauris, France.

2005
‘Vacancy, Project Room’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
Design now, 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France.

2004
‘Lost and Found’, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France.
‘Vanishing Point 1’, with Jurgen Bey and Konstantin Grcic, Spazio Erasmus, Milano, Italy.
‘Vanishing Point 2’, with Jurgen Bey and Konstantin Grcic, KlausEngelhorn22, Vienna.
Open Borders, Tri Postal, Lille, France.
Trafic d’influences: art et design, Collection of the FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais,Tri Postal, Lille, France. / Design en Stock, 2000 objets du FNAC, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.

2003
‘Frontalunterricht’, with Stefan Nikolaev, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France.
‘Alehop!: ingenious designs and remedies’, Palau de la Virreina,Barcelona, Spain.

2002
‘Less & More’, Design Collection of the FNAC, Musée des Arts appliqués, Saint-Etienne, France.

2001
‘Un Art populaire’, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
‘Do Create’, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris.

LITERATURE

2014
Robert Stadler Invasive Shifting Absurd Exercise (monograph). Paris: Editions de la Martinière.
Stadler, Robert; Vaillant, Alexis. QUIZ, sur une idée de Robert Stadler (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Manuella Editions.

2013
Hesse, Petra; Beyerle, Tulga. Isn’t it romantic? (exhibition catalogue). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Bony, Anne. Esprit du meuble et du design, l’évolution esthétique de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Paris: Editions du Regard.
Plunkett, Drew; Reid, Olga. Detail in Contemporary Bar and Restaurant Design. London:
Laurence King Publishing.

2012
Two Points.Net. Pretty Ugly – Visual Rebellion in Design. Berlin: Gestalten.

2011
Boudier, Laurent. Les objets fous d’artistes. Paris: Hoëbeke.

2008
Hackenschmidt, Sebastian; Rübel, Dietmar; Noever, Peter. Formlose Möbel, Formless Furniture (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag.

Klanten, Robert; Ehmann, Sven; Kupetz, Andrej; Moreno, Shonquis; Mollard, Adeline. Desire,
The Shape of Things to Come. Berlin: Gestalten.

2007
Gaillemin, Jean-Louis. Design contre design: deux siècles de création. Paris: RMN Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
Lovell, Sophie; Klanten, Robert; Meyer, Birga. Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century. Berlin: Gestalten.
Pécoil, Vincent; Vadrot, Olivier. The Freak Show (exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon). Paris: Les presses du réel.

MUSEUM REFERENCES
MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts-Contemporary Art, Austria. Musée Magnelli, Musée de la céramique, Vallauris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. FRAC Nord-pas de Calais. FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France. Central Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. FNAC Fond national d’Art contemporain, Paris. Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Hofmobiliendepot, Mobel Museum Wein, Vienna

Charles Trevelyan was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1974. He has lived and worked in London since 2000. His functional sculptures align with strong reference to nature. Using a variety of materials, such as steel, timber, gauze, and marble powder. Often featuring in his works is the skillful technique known as patination in which chemicals are painted to the surface of bronze with heat quickly applied using a blowtorch. Variants of the chemical combination and the heat applied can completely change the appearance of the bronze. As a result, Charles Trevelyan’s work shows the full range of possibilities of this process with their spectrum of colors and textures. His chosen techniques give his pieces a sort of muted wildness. In his series of side tables and human sizes lamps, each piece boasts bold, elongated forms, and expressive lines, reminiscent of trees and roots, influenced by natural characteristics. On closer inspection, each piece has its own unique texture, creating both a functional piece and a unique, artistic experience. Trevelyan’s work has been exhibited in Trapholt Museum in Denmark and can be found in many private collections.

Sculptor Joep van Lieshout was born in 1963 in Ravenstein, The Netherlands. He is the progenitor of AVL-ville, a self-sufficient free-state in the port of Rotterdam named after the studio he founded in 1995. For three decades van Lieshout has produced work that straddles art, design, and architecture; sharing recurring themes of systems, power, life, sex, death, and the human individual amidst the greater whole. AVL gained international recognition for sculptural installations featuring controversial or sinister nuances. Alongside playful perversion, the work conveys disdain for limitation and longing for freedom. Van Lieshout considers the body to be divine architecture with the viewer invited to interact with manufactured interior spaces resembling internal organs, acting out taboos and wish fulfillment. His work Sensory Deprivation Skull allows the experience of entering one’s own head, offering a period and place of mental respite. Wellness Skull houses a sauna and a bath within its form, proffering more hedonistic relaxation. AVL’s projects traverse clean design and non-functional sculptures doubling as habitats, fusing luxury with anarchic independence from conventional living.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
‘Back to The Future ?!’, Rotterdam Art, Netherlands.
‘Lust For Life’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
ArtMonte-Carlo, Carpenters Worlkshop Gallery, Monaco, France.

2017
‘AVL’s Works’, ART Break, Heak Van Holland, Netherlands.
FOG Design + Art, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New-York, USA.
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpneters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
‘Furnification’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Expo Chicago, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Chicago, USA.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Design Miami / Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.

2016
‘New Work ‘, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Zona Maco, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mexico City, Mexique.
Design Days Dubaï, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubaï, UAE.
‘Tribal ‘, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘Art Light ‘, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.

2015
‘Power Hammer’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
‘The Original Dwelling’, Design at Large, Basel, Switzerland.
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy.
‘Oracles du Design’, CNAP, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France.
‘Artists as Architects’, MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany.
‘Vienna For Art’s Sake!’, Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria.
‘Blast Furnace’, AVL-Mundo, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
‘Futur Archaic’, Grand-Hornu Images, Hornu, Belgium.
‘Design uit het land van de aardappeleters’, Noordbrabants Museum, Breda, the Netherlands.
‘Op zoek naar betekenis’, De Fundatie, Zwolle, the Netherlands.
BRAFA Brussels Art Fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Art Genève, Salon d’Art, Genève, Switzerland.
Art Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.

2014
‘Het Orakel’, Drenths Museum, Assen, the Netherlands.
‘Vrijstaat’, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, the Netherlands.
‘Mirages’, F93, Montreuil, France.
‘Ik hou van Holland!’, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the Netherlands.
‘Non Basta Ricordare’, Maxxi, Rome, Italy.
‘Die Ballade vom Fliegenden Hollander, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany.
‘Zeven eeuwen Leids laken’, Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, the Netherlands.
‘Vrijstaat’, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, the Netherlands.
‘Art Basel’, Basel, Switzerland, with OMR Gallery, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Galerie Krinzinger. / ‘Designing Scarcity’, Museumpark, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, CBK Drenthe, Assen, the Netherlands.
‘Wilhelminaring’, CODA, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
‘AVL Mundo´s Happy Industry’, Museumpark, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
‘Design’, Chamber, New York City, USA.
‘Art is a Shelter’, ODA, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
‘Future Fictions from the Present’, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.
‘Nirvana’, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland.
BRAFA Brussels Art Fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2013
FIAC, Paris, France.
‘Architectes de l’urgence’, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France.
Furniture III, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
‘The Butcher’, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France.
Mirages, F93, Montreuil, France.
WIT, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Ik hou van Holland!, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the Netherlands.
‘The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future’, Museum Kürhaus Kleve, Germany.
Utopia, Lakenhal, Leiden, the Netherlands.
‘Make active choices’, Museum for New Art, Freiburg, Germany.
‘Domestication’, Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
‘Non Basta Ricordare’, Maxxi, Rome, Italy.
Pulsar Rotterdam, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, the Netherlands.
Die Ballade vom Fliegenden Hollander, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany.
Gemoedstoestanden, Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium.
‘Food for Idealists’, Supper Club, TBA21, Vienna, Austria.
BRAFA Brussels Art Fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
Masterpiece, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
PAD Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.

2012
Blastfurnace, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
WWIII, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
‘Installation Saucisson’, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland.
‘The Monument@Art Paris’, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
‘God Save the Queen’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

2011
Design Miami, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami, USA.
PAD New York, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Inaugural Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France.
Design Miami / Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Switzerland.
‘Contemporary collections’ of the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France . / ‘Hollandse Meesters van de 21e eeuw’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam.
‘Futuro’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
‘Post Fossil’, Design Museum, Holon, Israel.

2010
‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, MuseumsQ Mumok, Vienna, Austria.
‘Infernopolis’, Onderzeebotenloods/ Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam.
Gallery show, Regina Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Gallery show, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.
Gallery show, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy.
‘Destroy Design’, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland.
‘Post Fossil’ Design 21-21, Tokyo, Japan.

2009
‘Furniture II’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
Cradle to Cradle, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia.
Artscape, Galeria Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Atelier Van Lieshout, CBK Dordrecht.
Schöne Aussichten, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen Germany.
Atelier Van Lieshout, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium.

2008
‘SlaveCity. Atelier Van Lieshout’, gallery show Albion, London, UK.
‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, gallery show Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.
‘Das Leben’, gallery show at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
‘Die Stadt der Sklaven’, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
‘Atelier Van Lieshout. The Mall’, gallery show at Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain.

‘Eyes wide open. Recent Acquisitions’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
‘Utopia Transfer’, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

2007
‘Reproduction’, Aerea, Stockholm, Sweden.
‘Furniture’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK.
‘The Technocrat’, MACRO, Rome, Italy.
‘The Board Room’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
Gallery show at Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland.
Gallery show at Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy.

2006

Gallery show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
Gallery show at Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, Central del Arte, Guadalajara Mexico.
Atelier Van Lieshout, Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gallery show at Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain.

2005
‘Happy Forest’ Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
‘Der Disciplinator’, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
Gallery show at Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.
Gallery show at Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
‘Triumph’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

2004
Gallery show Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Gallery show at Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
‘Atelier Van Lieshout. Der Technokrat’, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Gallery show at gallery Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
‘Teutopia’, Munich, Germany.
Gallery show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.

2003
Gallery show at Gallery André Simoens, Knokke, Belgium.
Le Rectangle, Lyon, France.
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brétigny-sûr-Orge, France.
‘In or Out’ , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.

2002
‘SM’, Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam.
‘Muscles’, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam.
Gallery show at Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland.
Gallery show at Gallery Magazzino d’Arte Monderna, Rome, Italy.
‘AVL Franchise’, Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerp Belgium.
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
‘Living in Motion’, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, Germany.
‘Smart Alice’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Biennale of Sydney, Woollomooloo, Australia.
‘Politically Correct? Dutch!’, Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
‘HELP’, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen.
Cetinjski Biennale, Cetinje Montenegro, Yugoslavia.

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2015
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, arts project for the Rührtriennale, Bochum, Germany.

‘Monument’, public sculpture at Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Gemany.
‘Y Caban’, pavilion for Pontio Art Centre, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
‘De Stam’, Frederik Hendrikplantsoen, public sculpture, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

‘Vis-a-Vis’, new premises for an open-air theatre, Almere, the Netherlands.

2014
‘Het Orakel’, Dam square, Amsterdam, commission by Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comite.

‘Vooruit’, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden.

2013
‘La Caravane’, public sculpture, Place Saint-Saveur, Caen, France.
‘De Warande’, information stand, Turnhout, Belgium.

2012
‘Plataforma Choco’, artist-in-residence MasArteMasAcion, Choco, Colombia.
‘Equilibrist’, Emporia Shopping Centre, Malmö, Sweden.
‘Mediville’, doctors practice, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
‘Insect Farm’, insect farm/information stand, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.

2011
‘Worm’, interior for Cultural Centre, Rotterdam.
‘Stage design for Tannhauser, Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany.

2010
‘Funky Bones’ Artwork in Art and Nature Park, Indianapolis, USA.
‘Lokal Lieshout’, cafe interior at K20, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘Cascade’, artwork in public space, Rotterdam.
‘Dynamo Hotel Capsule’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.
‘de Ontknopping’, artwork in public space, Middelburg.

2009
Stankowski Award.
l’Absence, artwork in public space, Nantes, France.

2005
‘Fisherman’s House’, Dalen.
‘Pink Giant’, Nieuwegein.
‘Gieleskull’, Amsterdam.

2004

Kurt Schwitters Award.
‘Wombhouse’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.

2000
Wilhelmina-Ring Sculpture Award.
Bar for the Parade, mobile theatre show.
Furniture visitor’s room Prison Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.

1998
Mart Stam Award.

1997
Anjerfonds – Chabot Award.

1996
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung Award.

1995
Bolidt Floor Concepts Prize.
Mobile Home for the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo.
Bussing Stations, for the cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. / Prix de Rome.

1991
Charlotte Köhler Award.

LITERATURE

2009
D. Linley, C. Cator, H. Chislett, Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

“We respect the old but want the new. We want to challenge, confront the normal, the accepted, the expected. We believe in fusing talented writers, filmmakers, artists, and scientists into a movement that will go beyond ego; that will create a super story teller. As designers we feel not limited to only one category. We work with museums, architecture, furniture and fashion companies, to commercial brands and self-initiated projects. But wherever the starting point is, challenging and beautiful products are always our aim. Dutch Design is mostly famous for its conceptual, almost art-like status. We are very much Dutch, but apart from that, we also strongly believe that in the end our work should also find a larger audience. That is why we work in a similar way as the Haute Couture fashion world works. Our studio will take the largest amount of artistic freedom to express valuable concepts, fantastic stories in projects that know no limitations. We use them ourselves as an inspiration and show them as a way to tell our story. On the other hand that same drive can lead to products that find their way in the production line. For the Lace Fence design we set up a social oriented production in India in 2006. We are now able to provide 75 Indian families with health care insurance, pension and a healthy working environment, with the production of Lace Fence. We love to cross boundaries: between dream and reality, what is today and is about to come. The possibilities to shape the future with the tools of today are endless, we try to use them in their best way. Industrial production is as beautiful and inspiring as craft. We design serial products with the same attention as one-off’s. We are storytellers, from fantasy to factory, from statement to product.” Verhoeven Twins.

Verhoeven, Joep & Jeroen (b. 1976: live and work in Amsterdam).
Verhoeven Twins work combines the fantastic with the practical: it is function and form turned into mystical narrative, where the supple feather-light impressions of dreams become objects that we can see, touch and most importantly use in our every-day lives. The Verhoeven Twins graduated from Eindhoven Design Academy in 2004. Since then, Verhoeven’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent group exhibitions including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, at the Mind Museum, North Carolina which travelled to the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2013), New Energy in Design and Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2011) a solo exhibition The Curious Image, Blain|Southern, London (2011),Telling Tales at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, (2009), Thing: Beware the Material World at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2009), Digitally Mastered: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2007) and Space for your Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2007). Verhoeven’s practice is included in several publications including History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 (Yale University Press, New Haven 2013); The Power of Design: Product Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies, (Wiley, Chichester 2013); the publication by Glenn Adamson; Invention of Craft, (Berg Publishers, London 2012); 21st Century Design by Marcel Wanders and Marcus Fairs (Carlton Books Ltd, London 2011); Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology (Board of International Research in Design) by Michael Erlhoff, Timothy Marshall, Laura Bruce, and Steven Lindberg, Birkhäuser Architecture, (Basel 2008); And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs, by Tom Dixon (Phaidon Press, London 2007) and Gareth William’s The Furniture Machine, (Victoria and Albert Museum London 2006). Verhoeven’s work is in several public and private collections, including Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and has most recently been acquired by The Corning Museum of Glass.

EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2018
‘Vanitas of Life’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York, USA.
Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.

2016
’10 Years of Collectible Design’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mitry-Mory, France.

2015
‘Label Breed’, the Frozen Montain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2013
‘Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design , at the Mind Museum, North Carolina and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.

2014
Design Days Dubai, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Dubai, UAE.

2011
‘New Energy in Design and Art’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
‘The Curious Image’, Blain|Southern, London, UK.

2010
‘Sotheby’s at Sudeley Castle’ in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, UK.

2009
Pavilion of Art & Design, London, UK.
‘Telling Tales’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
‘Thing: Beware the Material World’ at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

2008
Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA.

2007
‘Design Contre Design’, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

‘Digitally Mastered: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Collection’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
‘Space for your Future’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

PROJECTS

2006
Furniture Design, Montis, The Netherlands.

2005
Droog Design Interior, 21st Century Room, Friedman Gallery, New York, USA.
Interior design, Nibostone, the Netherlands.
Floor design, Nibostone, the Netherlands.
Lighting for Artecnica.
NOTS watches, Mondaine.
Laced Fence, MVRDV interior, the Netherlands.
Furniture design, Montis, the Netherlands.