ABOUT STUDIO DRIFT
2019 BIOGRAPHY STUDIO DRIFT
BIOGRAPHY
Studio Drift was established in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978), who both graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) in 2005. In their installations and interactive sculptures the relationship between nature/human/technology is key. Gordijn’s fascination for nature and that of Nauta for science fiction and technology intersect in an intriguing way. Over more than a decade of their existence, Studio Drift’s work in product and furniture design has evolved into increasingly larger, often site-specific and moving installations which they have realized all over the world.
The works occupy a wholly unique place between disciplines such as tech art, performance and biodesign. Data and algorithms derived from natural phenomena often form the basis for Studio Drift’s work – the flight 2 patterns of a flock of birds, for instance. With the help of state-of-the-art technologies they translate this data into poetic, meditative experiences. Their ideas regularly anticipate technological possibilities. This is why they collaborate with scientists, programmers, engineers, and other specialists in the development of projects.
Studio Drift is represented by Pace Gallery (a.o. London and New York), taking part in the gallery’s FuturePace program, and is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery with whom Studio Drift has been collaboration since 2009. Installations by Studio Drift are exhibited worldwide at leading museums, fairs and institutes such as the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), World Expo Shanghai (CN), Miami Basel, Miami (US), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL), M.A.D. New York (US), The Israel Museum (IL), Abu Dhabi Art Fair (UAE) and La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Biennale de São Paolo (Brazil) and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL).
www.studiodrift.com Photo by JW Kaldenbach, 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE STUDIO DRIFT
SELECTED MEDIA
Wallpaper: “Drones flock, concrete hovers and lamps bloom as Studio Drift reimagines science and nature” Whitewall: “The Fragile and Fierce ‘Coded Nature’ of Studio Drift” Elephant: “Dreams of Nature and Concrete with Studio Drift” The New York Times: “In Miami, It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. Its... a Flock of Drones?” Freunde von Freunden: “Studio Drift are advancing AI technology in the arts by simulating nature” CNN: “Swarm of Drones illuminates the night sky” Artnet: “Five Star Artworks That Stole the Show at the Inaugural Frieze Los Angeles” Colossal: “Everyday Consumer Goods Are De-Produced Into Rectangular Prisms of Raw Materials” Artnet: “Two Years After Studio Drift’s Floating Monolith Dazzled the Armory Show, It’s Back and It’s Bigger Than Ever”
STUDIO DRIFT SPECIAL PROJECTS 3 Address: Asterweg 20 B1, 1031HN Amsterdam Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada (USA) | Franchise Phone: +31 20 840 6993 Freedom with 600 drones, 2018 E-mail: [email protected] ‘Syntopia’ - a collaboration with Iris van Herpen for her ‘Syntopia’ collection, Website: www.studiodrift.com Paris Couture Week (FR), 2018 Franchise Freedom - a flying sculpture of 300 drones in collaboration with BMW, Art Basel Miami Beach (USA), 2017 LONNEKE GORDIJN Concrete Storm, Armory Show (NY), for Artsy and Microsoft Hololens, 2017 Semblance, CitizenM Tower Hill, London (UK), 2016 Born: 17-03-1980, Alkmaar (NL) The Portal, Lichtparcours Braunschweig (DE), 2016 Nationality: Dutch The Particle Plan, Lucerne (CH) | Winning project, 2014 Education: 1999 - 2005 Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Wellbeing, Cum Laude Internship: 2004 Studio Tord Boontje, London COLLECTIONS
Atlanta High Museum of Art (USA) RALPH NAUTA Victoria and Albert Museum London (UK) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL) Born: 30-08-1978, Swindon (UK) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL) Nationality: Dutch Louis Vuitton collection (CN, JP, HK) Education: 199 - 2005 Design Academy Eindhoven, San Francisco MOMA (USA) Man and Leisure Museum Voorlinden (NL) Internship: 2004 Studio FAT Architects, London And numerous private collections CURRICULUM VITAE STUDIO DRIFT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS Campaign for Art, MoMA San Francisco (USA) The Next Best Thing is Not a Thing, Maastricht (NL) 2019 Solo exhibition Studio Drift: Elemental, Amos Rex, Helsinki (FI) Annual Showcase Dutch Creative Industry, Ministry of Education, Culture Biennale di Venezia, ‘Dysfunctional’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Galleria & Science, Den Haag (NL) Franchettie Alla Ca’ d’Oro, Venice (IT) FAIRS: The Armory Show (USA) / Design Shanghai, Shanghai, (CN) Nature in Motion, Hong Kong (HK) Newfields Museum of Art, Indianapolis (USA) 2014 What is Luxury, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK) Museum Franz Mayer, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Neo Baroque New York Inaugural Show, Carpenters Workshop Gallery (USA) Exhibition, Mexico City (MEX) Hands off, San Francisco Museum for Arts & Crafts (USA) FAIRS: Art Basel (HK) / TEFAF (NL) / FRIEZE Los Angeles (USA) Berlage, Godfather of Dutch Desgin, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (NL) Art Months, Conservatorium Hotel, Amsterdam (NL) 2018 Solo exhibition Studio Drift: Coded Nature, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Pavilion de l’esprit nouveau 2.0, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New (NL) York (USA) Franchise Freedom, European Premiere, Amsterdam (NL) THING NOTHING, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL) Dutch Design Awards, Eindhoven (NL) 2017 FOG Fair, solo with PACE Gallery, San Francisco (USA) Plants out of Place, London (UK) Armory Show, solo with PACE Gallery, New York (USA) Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Palazzo Franchetti / Istituto Veneto di West Coast Pop Up, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, San Francisco (USA) Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venice (IT) Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL) Open World, Kazerne Eindhoven (NL) Art Light, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London (UK) Vormgevers ontmoeten Van Gogh, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Dwell on Design, Short films program, Los Angeles (USA) ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) 4 Cuypershuis, Exhibition Limburg Design Award (NL) FAIRS: Design Miami/Basel (CH) / World Expo Milan (IT) / Salone del Mobile FAIRS: Art Basel Miami Beach (USA) / Design Miami (USA) / Zsona Maco (IT) / Design Show Shanghai (CN) / Art Genève (CH) / Masterpiece London México Arte Contemporáno (MEX) / Art Basel (CH) (UK) / Design Beijing (CN) / Design Dubai Days (UAE)
2016 Dream Out Loud, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL) 2013 Lightopia, Design Museum Gent (BE) Lichtparcours Braunschweig, Braunschweig (DE) Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo (JPN) Lightopia, Vitra Design Museum, Lisbon (PT) Open Mind, De Kazerne, Eindhoven (NL) 10 Years of Collectible Design, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London (UK) Belgrade Design Week, Serbia (RS) + Mitry Mory (FR) Made by Brazilians, Cidade Matarazzo, Sao Paulo Biennale (BR) Berlage, Godfather of Dutch Design, Amsterdam (NL) Dining Room, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London (UK) FAIRS: PAD London (UK) / Design Miami (USA) / Seattle Art Fair (USA) / Organic, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR) Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo (MX) Wallpaper - Handmade, New York (USA) + Milan (IT) Arsenale, Venice (IT) 2015 DaVinci: Codex, Seoul (KR) Useful+Beautiful, Geffrye Museum, London (UK) Feira International del Libro de Bogotá, Colombia (COL) Design Days Dubai, Dubai (UAE) GLOW Festival, Kazerne Eindhoven (NL) Dutch Design Week, Kazerne Eindhoven (NL) 2012 Lightopia, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (DE) Torenkamer Festival, Amsterdam (NL) Subversive Design, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton (UK) Architecture Film Festival, New York (USA) Wit, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL) Art Light, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York (USA) + Paris (FR) Flower Salon, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse (NL) Glassfever, DordtYart, Dordrecht (NL) Ja Natuurlijk, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL) Electro Craft, London (UK) Space Oddity, Grand Hornu, Boussu (BE) CURRICULUM VITAE STUDIO DRIFT
26e Finest Light Sculpture / Interieur, Kortrijk (BE) Salone del Mobile, Milan (IT) A Better World, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Pavillion of Art + Design, Jardins des Tuileries, Carpenters Workshop Venezia, Venice (IT) Gallery, Paris (FR) Art and Design for all, The Victoria & Albert Museum, showing in KAH, Surface Schnittstelle Kunst / Design, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund Bonn (DE) Heimatdesign, Cologne (DE) Curious Minds, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IS) Object, Galerie VIVD, Rotterdam (NL) Nieuwe Energie in Design en Kunst, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Diseño Holandés. En la calle como en casa. Binnen/Buiten, Vigo (SP) (NL) Responsive, Material Sense, CeBit Fair, Hanover (DE) Luminale, Frankfurt (DE) FAIRS: Design Miami/Basel (USA) OBJECT, Rotterdam (NL) FAIRS: DesignMiami/ (USA) / The Salon: Art + Design (USA) / Pavillion of Art 2008 GHOST Collection, solo exhibition, Salone del Mobile, Milan (IT) + Design (UK) / Masterpiece (UK) / Salone del Mobile (IT) / Pavillon of Art + Tokyo Design Week, Design Tide, Tokyo (JPN) Design (FR) / Abu Dhabi Art Fair (UAE) / DesignMiami/ (USA) / The Salon: Art New Dutch Design, Mars Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow (RUS) + Design (USA) / Biennale des Antiquaires (FR) / Masterpiece (UK) / Design Material Sense, IF, Hannover (DE) Miami/ Basel (CH) / Design Days Dubai (UAE) Lights of the Future, German Design Council, Frankfurt (DE) Family of Form, Designhuis Eindhoven (NL) 2011 Curious Minds, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IS) Becoming Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL) Nieuwe Energie in Design en Kunst, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) 2007 No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips, Tokyo (JPN) SuperDesign, London (UK) NAT, MU, Eindhoven (NL) Liberation of Light, Beijing Design Week (CN) Via Milano, Woonbeurs Amsterdam (NL) 5 ZomerExpo, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL) | First prize Exploring New Identities, Art Partner, Amsterdam (NL) Flight of Objects, Salone di Mobile, Milan (IT) Mode Biënnale Arnhem, Arnhem (NL) Every Day Dutch, Selfridges, London (UK) Salone del Mobile, Milan (IT) FAIRS: Pavillion of Art and Design (USA) / Design Miami/ (USA) / Design Bright + Light, European Parliament, Brussels (BE) Miami/ Basel (CH) Art Rotterdam, Gallery Mart House, Rotterdam (NL)
2010 Make Me, MOSS gallery, New York (USA) 2006 Fleurs et Lumières, Biennale du Design, Saint Etienne (FR) Luminous Times, Vitra Design Museum, Domaine de Boisbuchet park, White bright and delighting, Mart House, Amsterdam (NL) Lessac (FR) Post Mortem, Salone del Mobile, Milan (IT) Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL) Better City, Better Life, World Expo Shanghai (CN) 2005 Graduation 2005, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) Death or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (USA) FAIRS: Pavillion of Art + Design (FR) / Bologna Art Fair (IT) / Design Miami/ (USA)
2009 Glow Festival, Eindhoven (NL) Eat Drink Design, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL) In Praise of Shadows, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK) Maison et Objet, Paris (FR) Design Act Moscow, Moscow (RUS) Design High, Louise Blouin Foundation, London (UK) Gallery Karena Schuessler, Berlin (DE)