Aliki van der Kruijs

ABOUT

Aliki van der Kruijs works on her own research projects, as well as collaborative and commission-based creations, in her studio in The Hague, the Netherlands.

She holds a Master of Applied Arts degree from the Sandberg Instituut of Amsterdam and juxtaposes her background in graphic and fashion design with an exploration of how different materials, from ceramics to textiles, can be a means of communication. Her work navigates between art and design.

Van der Kruijs is also an accomplished photographer, and uses the medium for research, documentation and material in her design process.

Photo by Lonneke van der Palen © Interview series PROOFFLab Magazine curated by Studio Makkink&Bey

Last year she did a three months residency in Arita, Japan to work with porcelain and currently executes an Artistic Research fellowship for the TXT (Textile) department of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Aliki collaborates with companies and institutes like Nike, Wolf-Gordon, Zig Zag Zurich, Sandberg Instituut, Het Nieuwe Instituut as well fashion designers to apply her material research.

Her work is acquired by the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum (New York), Zuiderzeemuseum (Enkhuizen), Princessehof (Leeuwarden), Textielmuseum (Tilburg), Ministry of Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (United Arab Emirates), Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (The Netherlands) and private collectors.

For further information, request for collaboration and questions please feel free to contact:

info(at)alikivanderkruijs.com

+31(0)614180110

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NEWS

Made by Rain in NATURE Triennale

May 10, 2019

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Cube design museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands co-organize the exhibition “Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial,” which opened simultaneously at both museums. On view May 10 through Jan. 20, 2020, the Design Triennial will feature innovative projects, from 2016 and later, that highlight the ways designers are collaborating with scientists, engineers, farmers, environmentalists and nature itself to design a more harmonious and regenerative future.

Made by Rain is present in both of the venues.

Article in DAMN° magazine #72

May 2, 2019

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“If you would describe the works of Aliki van der Kruijs in one sentence, the phrase would probably be a fluid chain of the following key words: water, blue, textile, trance. Her textile works paint the drops of a rainfall or the cadence of the sea. They’re always blue. And they set the mind to a poetic trance.”

Text by Ringo Gomez-Jorge

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Winner category design

February 16, 2019

Open to Art / ceramic award / 3rd Edition
Organised by Officine Saffi, Milan.

Open to Art / nomination

February 6, 2019

Made by Rain porcelain is nominated for the Open to Art award at the Milan gallery Officine Saffi. Open to Art is a biennial competition that aims to recognise the role of ceramics in contemporary culture, art and design.

24 shortlisted artists will be exhibited at Officine Saffi gallery from February 14^th through April 18^th 2019. During the opening reception – on February 13^th – the jury will announce the winners.

The finalists have been selected amongst 400 candidates over 45 nationalities by an international jury comprised of 8 experts from the art and design world including Felicity Aylieff (artist, Head of programme Royal College of Arts, London), Laura Borghi (Officine Saffi), Flaminio Gualdoni (journalist, art critic and professor at Brera Academy of Fine Arts), Tom Morris (editor and consultant specialized in design, interiors and architecture), Isabelle Naef Galuba(director of Ariana Museum), Elisa Ossino (architect, stylist), Ranti Tjan (director of EKWC) and Matteo Zauli (curator, director of Carlo Zauli Museum).

http://www.officinesaffi.com/

Exhibition – Climate as Artifact

October 20, 2018

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For the exhibition Climate as Artifact – Klimaat als mensenwerk organised by Satellietgroep I collaborated with Jos Klarenbeek on the design research project Kadans.

Kadans sprouts from a shared curiosity for invisible natural processes, and using these as a source of information for developing patterns and materials.
Buoys and platforms offshore the coast of the Netherlands measure constantly changing conditions such as wave height, wave period and wind direction. How can the motion of the sea be a direct source for an ever-changing weaving pattern?

Kadans investigates the potential of raw scientific data: textile production is combined with sciences like geography and mathematics, constructing a soft output of hard data generated by the motions of waves at sea.

Nomination Beazley Design Awards

September 14, 2018

12 September 2018 – 6 January 2019

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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.

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t.e collection

March 26, 2018

From now on the Made by Rain porcelain and textiles are part of the t.e collection of Thomas Eyck.
Thomas Eyck will present the scarfs and plates this week during the Dubai Design week as part of Ventura Dubai.
www.thomaseyck.nl

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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

PROJECTS

Kadans

How can the motion of the sea be a direct source for an ever-changing weaving pattern? A textile sea archive in collaboration with Jos Klarenbeek

Album Arita

Experiments in various techniques to imply nuances, tactility and texture of textile characteristics onto porcelain.

The Curtain Show

Light sensitive textiles exposed to a UV installation. A performance by a set of materials that developed during the run of the exhibition.

Floral Echo

A study of natural color mixing derived from the CMYK principle used in graphic printing.

Made by Rain — Porcelain

A porcelain edition of Made by Rain follows up the textile collection. Developed during a three-month creative residency in Arita, Japan.

Focus

A movie as weather-station. The vibrating circle is the magnification of the most middle pixel from a record of a cloud passing by.

Untitled (Jungfrau-Aletsch)

How to map an ever changing landscape? Artistic research to the nature, landscape and culture of the Swiss Jungfrau-Aletsch glacier.

Nawa

Serie of yarns and ropes. Study on indigo and Kurume-kasuri during a research trip to Japan to work with local textile professionals.

Model of Nature

Series of silkscreened textiles derived from Goethe’s question ‘What is it that makes a particular being of nature into plant’

Daylit

Textile objects with architectural qualities to distribute light more evenly through space.

Beyond the Monstera

A silkscreen research on plant abstractions. Visual grammar guided by the Monstera deliciosa plant.

Living fossil

Study trip to Japan to learn about the technique katazome and make a textile for a yukata (summer kimono).

Horizont

Woven cloth on the fluvial deposition of the IJssel river. Inspired by an old Dutch sampler, data from soil-drill points are translated into a weave pattern.