Dutch Design Week 2018

October 20, 2018

During the Dutch Design Week my work will be presented in two venues. On both location there is as well a presentation moment.

Behind the Shiny Glazing, Van Abbe Museum

Whole week in Van Abbemuseum by Creative Residency Arita.
Wednesday 24th October from 15:00 – 16:00 I will  give a lecture together with the potter I collaborated last year during my residency in Arita.

The Future of Living Materials / Klokgebouw

Friday 26th of October from 13-14h during BGLF Radicale Verbeelding Talks I will talk about my research and vision on a circulair textile system. During this DDW Talk, ArtEZ Future Makers will present the project ‘The Future of Living Materials’; a project in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research (WUR). This project brings together art, design and science to explore and develop new ‘living’ materials, sustainable designs and ecocentric value systems.

Nomination Beazley Design Awards

September 14, 2018

12 September 2018 – 6 January 2019

Made by Rain is nominated in the category fashion for the Beazley Designs of the Year award and now on show in the Design Museum in London.
Every year since 2008 hundreds of design experts from around the world nominate the most innovative and thought-provoking designs from the past 12 months.

Now in its eleventh year, Beazley Designs of the Year is the Design Museum’s annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.

The international awards and exhibition showcase design projects from the previous 12 months, across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Product, Graphics, and Transport. Design experts, practitioners and academics from across the world are asked by the Design Museum to suggest potential projects, from which the museum has selected 87 for nomination to display in the exhibition. A specially selected jury will choose a winner for each category and an overall winner – to be announced in November 2018.

Colour view in NYC

May 20, 2018

The scarfs On Colour are present in the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum shop parallel from the show SATURATED.
Saturated explores the elusive, complex phenomenon of color perception and how it has captivated artists, designers, scientists, and sages.

Featuring over 190 objects spanning antiquity to the present from the extraordinary collections of Smithsonian Libraries and Cooper Hewitt, the exhibition reveals how designers apply the theories of the world’s greatest color thinkers to bring order and excitement to the visual world.

Album Arita at /SHOWROOM in Osaka

March 17, 2018

From Friday 16th March till Sunday 1st April 2018 a selection of the work made in Arita will be on display in the /MAISON gallery space of TERUHIRO YANAGIHARA STUDIO in Osaka.

This exhibition will introduce various new expressions found during the residency, combined and introduced as several chapters consisting  “Album Arita” in the scope of renewing the history of Arita porcelain that has been continuing now over 400 years.

/MAISON ( 3-1-16 Kyutaromachi Chuo-ku Osaka 541-0056 Japan )

MadebyRain.com is online!

March 2, 2018

A webshop, archive and information about this ongoing project combined. With an (almost) live rain radar it responds to the weather conditions above the studio in The Hague.
www.madebyrain.com

akira,​ ​aliki,​ ​arata,​ ​arita

December 11, 2017

A selection of works I made during my residency in Arita are on display in the KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY in Tokyo. This duo​ ​exhibition​ ​together with​ ​Akira​ ​Fujimoto​ ​lights a new perspective on approaching Arita porcelain that has a history of 400 years.

December​ ​9th​ ​​ ​(Saturday),​ ​2017​ ​—​ ​February​ ​3rd​ ​(Saturday)​ ​2018

Made by Rain in South Korea

September 10, 2017

 
The project Made by Rain is part of the Gwangju Design Biennale 2017 that primarily seeks to reflect the power of design in the future creative society. Exploring the theme of “FUTURES” the exhibitions and installations will touch on contemporary hot-topics ranging from sustainable, eco-friendly, future-oriented design with emphasis on sympathy, distribution/sharing and consideration. It explores the future life, design value and its vision under new paradigm of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Residency in Arita, Japan

September 1, 2017

This autumn I will be three months in Arita, Japan to do a porcelain residency and to work with local potters.

The Curtain Show

July 19, 2017

OpZicht presentation at Stroom, The Hague
In collaboration with Anne Dessing

19 juli t/m 10 september 2017
Locatie: Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
Open: ma t/m vr, 11-17 uur; za en zo, 12-17 uur

Made by Rain in NYC

May 21, 2017

Made by Rain is from 20 – 24th May on display in NY!
As part of Wanted Design in the exhibition ‘Ventura NY – The Dutch Edition’, an initiative of Organisation in Design.

Made possible with the support of Stroom Den Haag.

foto: Lucas Jansen at Times Square NY

Weathering Blue in Designroute Zuiderzee Museum

April 7, 2017

In the Outdoor Museum of the Zuiderzee Museum you will find premises that used to be located at various places round the former Zuiderzee. Across this historic setting they have set out the design route: at different locations you can see how the cultural history of the Zuiderzee has inspired designers and artists to create new insights. Using modern interpretations of traditional techniques, materials and  themes, the Zuiderzee Museum underlines the value of our heritage for the present.

Examples include Richard Hutten’s contemporary Zuiderzee Chair in the chapel and the wooden shoes by Victor & Rolf in the farmhouse on the city canal. In addition there are a number of new presentations this year, for example the Weathering Blue project of Aliki van der Kruijs in the fishermen’s quarter. On show till the 29th of October 2017.

Foto: Thijs Jansen

Designing the Surface

January 20, 2017

For the exhibition Designing the Surface in Het Nieuwe Instituut, initiator Chris Kabel researched together with Koehorst in ‘t Veld the finish, the final layer that is on top of practically everything around us. They delved into what surfaces want and afford in a wide-ranging survey that extends from the deepest black to the most shimmering shine.

I am commissioned to make a work around the display of Anish Kapoors’ vantablack by the use of my material Daylit. You are welcome to join the opening at the 26th of January from 5 PM. More info about the exhibition here

(foto: Johannes Schwartz)

Great Big Story + The Weather Channel

December 28, 2016

Great Big Story and The Weather Channel teamed up to document stories of humans working on special ways with the elements of the earth. They made a small documentary about my work Made by Rain that was broadcasted on The Weather Channel (USA). Here you can see the result.

 Full episode That’s amazing episode 4 | Guardians of our planet

www.madebyrain.com

New work for 10 years Thomas Eyck exhibition

December 2, 2016

Coming up, exhibition in Zuiderzeemuseum in the context of the 10 years anniversary of the label Thomas Eyck. Exhibition 10 years of Thomas Eyck curated by Jules van den Langenberg is open from 23 December 2016 – 14 May 2017. To mark this tin jubilee momentum ten product series were selected from the Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 8/10 by Aliki van der Kruijs is a reflection on the ‘Colour, based on nature’ series developed by book designer Irma Boom and producer Eijffinger for the t.e. collection in 2012.