CV - Studio Wieki Somers Exhibition and projects (selection) 2011 Residency Tokyo, Japan, January - March 2011; Design ‘Outbox’ for neurobiologist Prof. Swaab and broadcasting company Humanistische Omroep; Exhibition The Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, Stedelijk Mu- seum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Exhibition JETZ/NOW – Perceptions of Time and Contemporary Design, MARTa Herford, Germany; Some pieces from ‘Frozen in Time’ exhibited at Design Basel 2011, Switzerland; Exhibition Time Design, Triennale di Milano, Italy; 2010 Solo exhibition Frozen in Time, Galerie Kreo, Paris, France; Design ‘Grasshopper’ for Tectona, Paris, France; Design ‘Consume or Conserve?’ for In Progress, Grand Hornu, Belgium; Design ‘Black Velvet’ for Kahla, Germany; Exhibition Utopias of the Everyday, Porzellanikon Selb, Germany; Exhibition elles@pompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the National Modern Art Museum, Paris, France; Exhibition Post Fossil, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Japan and Design Museum Holon, Israel; 2009 Winner Dutch Design Awards 2009 and Golden Eye (best of the best Dutch Design); Solo exhibition Thinking Hands, Speaking Things, Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch, the Netherlands; Exhibition European Design Since 1985, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA; Exhibition Archeology of the Future, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France and Designhuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Exhibition Nature in a Kit, MUDAC Lausanne, Switzerland; Exhibition Telling Tales, Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK; Exhibition Treasure Hunt: Vanitas or Humanitas?, Gallery Le Bain, Tokyo, Japan; 2008 Design ‘Merry-Go-Round Coat Rack’ for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, the Netherlands – permanent installation; Design ‘Garland’ for Textile Museum in Tilburg, the Netherlands – permanent installation; Design ‘Doll’s House’ for Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands; Exhibition 16 New Pieces, Galerie Kreo, Paris, France; Exhibition Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge, MoMA New York, USA; 2007 Design ‘Bellflower’ for Dry Tech III in collaboration with Delft University of Technology and Droog Design, Amsterdam; Design ‘Chinese Stools – Made in China, Copied by the Dutch’ for Entity Identity, Beijing, China; Design ‘Departed Glory’, exhibited in Vases with Spouts, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands; Sketch proposal for a monument in Rotterdam / marking the fireline, Municipality Rotterdam, the Nether- lands; Exhibition and film Surrounded by Objects at Design Miami 2007, USA; Exhibition Dutch Design Port, Milk Gallery, New York, USA; Exhibition Nature Design, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland; Exhibition Design Against Design, Grand Palais, Paris, France; Exhibition Tabourets, Galerie Kreo, Paris, France; Exhibition Smart Deco 2, Droog Design, Milan, Italy; 2006 Design ‘Blossoms’ for Cor Unum contemporary ceramics, Den Bosch, The Netherlands; Design ‘Phantom’ for Domestic, France; Exhibition NLA: Netherlands to Los Angeles, ACME,, Los Angeles, USA; Exhibition Bêtes de style, MUDAC, Switzerland; Exhibition Nest: Proposals for Municipal Art Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2005 Design ‘Bathboat’ and exhibited at Grazie dei Fiori, Milan Furniture Fair, Italy; Design ‘My Precious’ for Chi ha paura…?, the Netherlands; Solo exhibition My First Show, Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Solo exhibition Being in Your Own Bubble, National Glass Museum, Leerdam, the Netherlands; Exhibition Dutch Village, Stephan Weiss Studio, New York, USA; 2004 Design ‘Trophees’, Droog Design for Arc International, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe; Design ‘Clouds & Birds’ for Textile Museum Tilburg, the Netherlands; Exhibition Simply Droog, 10+1, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; 2003 Established ‘Studio Wieki Somers’ together with Dylan van den Berg; Design ‘High Tea Pot’ for Het Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands; Sketch proposal for gifts for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands; Stokroos Scholarship, glass experiments; 2002 Residency at European Ceramic Workcentre, Den Bosch, the Netherlands, Designs ‘Mattress Stone Bottle’, ‘Frozen Bath’ and ‘Bufferlamp’; 2001 Design ‘Big Boxes’ for Droog Design; 2000 Graduation Wieki Somers at Design Academy Eindhoven; 1998 Graduation Dylan van den Berg at Design Academy Eindhoven; Collections (selection) Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch; Het Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden; Audax Textielmuseum, Tilburg; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France; Droog Design, Amsterdam; Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz; MoMA, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Awards Rotterdam Design Prize 2009; Winner Dutch Design Awards 2009 and Golden Eye (best of the best Dutch Design); Audi awards 2009; The Great Indoors awards 2009; Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards 2009 (UK); Dutch Design Awards 2008; European Ceramic Context 2006 (Denmark); Ceramic Prize 2005; Material Prize 2003; Rotterdam Design Prize 2003, Rotterdam Design Prize 2001 Teaching (selection) The Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Living Department (regularly) and IM Masters Workshop; Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg; ESAD Reims; Samara State University, Russia..