Wieki Somers  (1976)

Exposities (komt/future nu/now voorbij/past)

De Collectie Vormgeving Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - Rotterdam 1/2/2013 - 30/6/2013

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Over de kunstenaar
STUDIO WIEKI SOMERS comprises the designers Wieki Somers and Dylan van de Berg.
The studio has developed an international reputation since 2003 for the extraordinary way the designers unite surprising fantasies about everyday things with a great sensitivity for materials, technological detailing and aesthetic finish. Daily objects are turned into an aesthetic (sometimes emotional) experience.
They undertake commissions for international companies, museums and galleries such as Galerie Kreo in Paris. They design for manufacture and for small-scale artisanal production and at a variety of scales, for interiors and public spaces. Their well-know works include the ‘Bathboat’, ‘High Tea Pot’, ‘Blossoms’, ‘Bellflower’ and the ‘Merry-go-round Coatrack’.
They have won various prizes (including The Golden Eye of the Dutch Design Awards 2009), and their works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

selection shows/works
2010 Frozen in Time, Galerie Kreo, Paris (solo), 2010; Grasshopper, outdoor furniture for Tectona, Paris Consume or Conserve? for In Progress, Grand Hornu, Belgium;
2009 Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009; Telling Tales, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2009; elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the National Modern Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009-2011; European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009; Winner Dutch Design Awards 2009 and Golden Eye (best of the best Dutch Design); nominated for The Great Indoors Awards 2009; nominated for Rotterdam Design Prize 2009; nominated for Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards 2009 (UK)
2008 Merry-go-round Coatrack, cloakroom for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Thinking Hands, Speaking Things, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch (solo), 2008
2007 Bellflower for Dry Tech III in collaboration with Delft University of Technology and Droog Design, Amsterdam; Surrounded by Objects, Design Miami, 2007; Dutch Design Port, Milk Gallery, New York, 2007
2006 Blossoms for Cor Unum Contemporary ceramics, Den Bosch; NLA, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, 2006 2005 Wieki Somers, Vivid Gallery, Rotterdam (solo), 2005; Bathboat shown at Grazie dei Fior Salone del Mobile
Milano; 2004 Trophees for From Lille with Love by Droog Design for Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, in collaboration
with ARC international; My Precious for Chi ha paura..? 2003 High Tea Pot for National Ceramic Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden; 2002 Mattress Stone Bottle workingperiod European Ceramic Work Centre s’Hertogenbosch; nominated for Rotterdam
Design Prize 2001 Cigar Boxes for Droog Design; 2000 Graduation Design Academy Eindhoven; Start-up ‘Studio Wieki Somers’;