This is the portfolio website of Aliki van der Kruijs. The body of work explores the relationship between colour, culture and nature with a specialisation in textile. Nature is material and subject at the same time.
During the master Applied Art at the Sandberg Institute (2012) Aliki layered her graphic- and fashiondesign background into a practice where textile as information-carrier plays a fundamental role.ABOUT
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May 25, 2014
During the one-day exhibition Local Heroes, curated by Jules van den Langenberg, the busstop at the Boscheweg in Boxtel will be my studio / weatherhouse to perform weather observations.
Made by Rain again in Tokyo
May 16, 2014
ULTRASUPERNEW GALLERY and EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS are delighted to organise the exhibition “Juxtapose ‐ Dutch Art and Design” curated by KANA KAWANISHI.
By exhibiting works of photography artists and designers in juxtapose ‐ positioned side by side ‐, this exhibition will allow a new overview and in‐depth understanding of creativity from the Netherlands. A scarf and a book of Made by Rain is part of this exhibition.
15 may- 5 june.
Made by Rain goes Tokyo!
March 3, 2014
Made by Rain & Spirit from the Sky presented by Mikimoto and the Dutch Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Japan.
The exhibition will be on view from March 27th – April 23rd 2014 at Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo. Curation by Lenn Cox
Made by Rain & Spirit from the Sky to Florence
December 20, 2013
During the Pitti Immagine Uomo Fair, Made by Rain and the collaborative collection Spirit from the Sky with Elsien Gringhuis will be part of the network event ‘Dutch Touch’ initiated by the Dutch Fashion Foundation.
Made by Rain part of ‘Starting Something’ in Beijing
November 28, 2013
During the Beijing Design Week 2013, Made by Rain will be part of the exhibition ‘Starting Something’. This dynamic and growing exhibition presented by the guest city of Amsterdam will start an active dialog between alumni from Sandberg Institute of Amsterdam, Dutch designers and students of CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) in Beijing.
Best Concept Award
October 16, 2013
The book ’Travelling Concept #1 – Made by Rain’ is awarded with the Best Concept Award at Art Books Wanted International Award, Edition Lidu, Prague
Living textile, Theater & Design and Hitchcock
September 24, 2013
Curtains Made by Rain part of life shoot produced by styling collective Kamer 465 during INSIDE DESIGN AMSTERDAM September 27-29, 2013
Print event during Het Groene Gemak
August 3, 2013
Print Event Made by Rain during show at Het Groene Gemak in Den Haag, NL
Green GEMAK reflects on how we as humans attempt to charm and get a grasp of the natural world. The works by artists and designers that are shown during this exhibition literally handle nature or refer to natural origins, and show how, in this day and age, art and nature are connected to each other.
Print event at The Institute of Dirty Horticulture
June 1, 2012
Presentation Master project in the VU Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
Selection for Afterlife Photo Contest
November 1, 2011
Selected triptych for photo-contest as part of the exhibition ‘Afterlife” from 03/11/2011 – 09/09/2012
Uitvaartmuseum Tot Zover Amsterdam
WORK
Spatial Contour
“The wonderful thing about rain is that it oultines the contour of the immediate landscape around your. You hear the space. When we became more urban, we tend to really forget the basic pleasure and touching whatever the environment is” — Quote from a blind man.
Parallel landscape
The thesis Parallel landscape is part of CONTEXTILE: a research into colour, context, text & textile. This thesis is not about what colours are but attempts to see what colours can do.
Botanography
A collection of textiles produced during a print event at the VU Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. At the moment of the print event the VU Hortus was listed to be closed in the coming year so the present collection of plants would move. I mapped a selection of the plants by using the (artificial) rain of the greenhouse to imprint leaves with filmed textile . The visual descriptions of the plants is made by the plants themselves; botanography.
Global tools
Global tools is a selection out of a couple of series of photographs which can be seen as a very simple and elementary design approach. The constructions are studies in an architectural language which are metaphors for situations, settings, atmospheres and ritual. Simultaneously a colour+material+pattern inspiration. They are a tool in a desire for change.
Made by Rain — Book
Research book made for the context of my textiles. This self-published book is a record of process, inspiration and research to results of the project Made by Rain.
Made by Rain — Method
Rain is deeply rooted in Dutch culture. I questioned what it would be like to capture the experience of rain fall on textile, so it becomes possible to ‘wear the weather’. For this I developed my own technique called ‘pluviagraphy’: photographic recordings of rain precipitation on textiles with a film coating that is sensitive to water. →
Made by Rain
Dutch rain is imprinted on 100% silk textiles at location 52°21’11.13’’N / 4°54’21.78’’E
Weer Blauw — Record
The project Weer blauw is a visual record of colour and seasonal change made tangible. Commissioned by the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen I developed a collection of textiles in situ as part of the exhibition NIJVER|heden. I juxtaposed the process of photography and fashion and found my material in the historic steam laundry.
EXHIBITIONS
Institute of Dirty Horticulture, graduationshow
11/07/2012 – 15/07/2012 VU Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
CONTACT
Studio
Jan Tooropstraat 575
1061 AE Amsterdam
For further information, request for collaboration and questions please feel free to contact:
info@alikivanderkruijs.comor phone +31(0)614180110