The work of Aliki van der Kruijs originates from context and material research and moves in the intersection of art and design.
During her Master's degree Applied Art at the Dirty Art Department of the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam she juxtaposed her background in graphic design, photography and fashion design to do research into the way textile can be a means of communication and is able to travel through disciplines.
Photo by Lonneke van der Palen
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She operates a studio in The Hague, the Netherlands and works on self initiated research-projects, collaborations and commission based.
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 department of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
May 2, 2019
“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 →
February 16, 2019
Open to Art / ceramic award / 3rd Edition
Organised by Officine Saffi, Milan.
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 14th through April 18th 2019. During the opening reception – on February 13th – 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/
October 20, 2018
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.
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.
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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
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
Experiments in various techniques to imply nuances, tactility and texture of textile characteristics onto porcelain.
A porcelain edition of Made by Rain follows up the textile collection. Developed during a three-month creative residency in Arita, Japan.
Light sensitive textiles exposed to a UV installation. A performance by a set of materials that developed during the run of the exhibition. →
A study of natural color mixing derived from the CMYK principle used in graphic printing.
How to map an ever changing landscape? Artistic research to the nature, landscape and culture of the Swiss Jungfrau-Aletsch glacier.
Serie of yarns and ropes. Study on indigo and Kurume-kasuri during a research trip to Japan to work with local textile professionals. →
Series of silkscreened textiles derived from Goethe’s question ‘What is it that makes a particular being of nature into plant’ →
A silkscreen research on plant abstractions. Visual grammar guided by the Monstera deliciosa plant. →
Study trip to Japan to learn about the technique katazome and make a textile for a yukata (summer kimono). →
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.
How to wear the weather? Textile register of rain fall at a specific location. www.madebyrain.com →
Visual descriptions of tropical plants, made by the plants themselves; Botanography.
A visual record of colour and seasonal change made tangible by exposing textiles day and night to the weather conditions.
Where does colour become visible and how do we make use of colours? A thesis investigating the use of colour to make something visible or invisible.
Made by Rain print for Nike’s KD line →
Gate for residential building made out of bronze branches. →
Print & Colour concept for Woolmark Prize capsule collection by studio Elsien Gringhuis
© Aliki van der Kruijs 2018
A curtain collection as potential wardrobe
