TED NOTEN WHO IS TED NOTEN? “Ted Noten is one of today’s most original, radical designers. His transparent acrylic bags – containing objects ranging from animals, jewels and cocaine to pistols – have seduced collectors, confused the establishment, inspired fellow artists and challenged students all over the world. Beauty and violence, perfection and decay: these are themes that have never been absent from his oeuvre since he made his famous pendant featuring a mouse wearing a pearl necklace. In his projects, Noten demonstrates a mastery of both the commercial arena and the art scene. He blends the idiom of the streets with the strict marching order of the catwalk, combining them in a way that simultaneously highlights the appeal and exposes the hypocrisy of museums, the world of fashion and bourgeois morality. Ted Noten’s designs act as a critique on contemporary life and on the history of jewellery, as well as on the wider context of product design. Interestingly, his work equally relates to architecture. The underlying, recurring, theme of his work is to challenge convention and processes of habituation, the familiar and the unusual. With seemingly effortless ease Ted Noten is one of the very few who manages to venture into projects that fall under the heading of product design. Thus Noten teamed up for several projects with Droog Design and has presented his spoils at the Furniture Design Fair in Milan. For other projects he sought out artists to work with. Yet it is essential that Noten emphatically and symptomatically keeps coming down on the side of design, and more specifically for design that employs, feeds off and expresses itself in terms of jewellery design. Because it is from this inside track of the craft that he comments on what jewellery design actually is and that he is able to best challenge representatives operating in other areas of the Arts.” Ageeth's Dowry bag (commissioned bridal handbag containing large amount of gold jewellery donated by the bride's family, with double pearl string carrying strap) Avondvlinder (Ring in 18kt gold) Black Widow (black diamonds weight: 13.25 ct.) Lady K Bag 6/7 (gold plated walther ppk pistol, cast in acrylic, repurposed handbag top) Fashionista Golden Girl - small heelplate (glassfiber nylon thumbled, 2.0 grams 18kt gold) Conversation Table (copper bell gold plated, steel tray heavy silverplated, Pig bracelet 3D printed; thumbled glass filed nylon, 18kt golden ears and tail, sweet water pearl necklace, Design Icon Ring, silver 925/1000; Lady K -TN engraving, 6kt stone necklace 24kt goldplated, antique brush with horn and hair, heavy silverplated spoon and fork, divers precious stones, 3D printed heart ring (Mathilda), ceramic table piece, gold tooth cap- cast in PPMA) CHEW YOUR OWN BROOCH (Atelier Ted Noten has produced a project called Chew Your Own Brooch (1998) in which he provides you with a chewing kit. You chew your gum, return it to him and get back a replica brooch cast in sliver or gold - a small sculpture fashioned by your mouth. Noten has given the chewer a creative influence on the end product and the anxiety of being an artist for a few minutes, tapping into the creative child within us and poking fun at our silliness.) Muse (18kt golden ring: 47gr) Precious (necklace; 18kt gold,diamonds, precious stones, zirconia casted in acrylic) Chanel001 (It conceals Chanel lip gloss, an antique hairpin, a 18k gold toothpick, a perfume bottle with an 18k gold mechanism, a 50-gram 24kt gold bar, a USB stick, and a Viagra pill. In short, all the stuff a girl wouldn't leave home without) EXHIBITIONS (Selection from the last decade) 2016 ‘Illusion Interior’, Petofi Literary Museum, Budapest (HU) ‘Hair! Human hair in Fashion and Art’, Central Museum Utrecht, Utrecht (NL) 2015 ‘Non-Zone’, solo exhibition, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) ‘Hands Off: New Dutch Design at the Confluence of Technology & Craft’, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA (US) ‘You and Me’, solo exhibition Gallery Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam (NL) The Wunderkammer Visionnaire in Milan (IT), in collaboration with the Spazio Nuovo gallery in Rome, presents ‘Eternity’, a selection of works by the famous portrayer and photographer Olivier Roller 2014 Design Miami – ‘Ted House’ in collaboration with Ornamentum Gallery, Miami, FL (US) SALON/Dantel, IKVS Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul (TR) ‘Blood, Sweat & Pearls’, solo exhibition Gallery Putti, Riga (LT) ‘Beauty of Violence’, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL) 2013 ‘Framed – by Ted Noten’, Museum for Contemporary Art & Design ’s- Hertogenbosch (NL) ‘From Under Sea Level: Jewellery from the Netherlands’, Galleri Format, Oslo (NO) 2012 ‘Connecting Concepts’, opened by Queen Máxima, Museo de Arte Brasiliera FAAP AT, São Paulo (BR) Design Miami, ‘7 Necessities Collection’, Gallery Ornamentum, Miami, FL (US) ‘KAMA Sex and Design’, Triennale design Museum, Milan (IT) ‘Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU) / Design Museum, London (UK) ‘Jewellery Unleashed!’, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich (CH) 2011 ‘Koekoekschmuck 2’, solo exhibition Miljoenenkwartier, Villa de Bondt, Ghent (BE) ‘Open Mind: International Metal Art/Contemporary Jewelry’, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul (KR) ‘Van Ons, project’, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam (NL) ‘Glasstress 2011’, 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Berengo Center for Contemporary Art and Glass, Murano (IT) ‘Museumaker2’, MIMA, Middlesbrough (UK) ‘Connecting Concepts’, travelling exhibition Berlin (DE), Mumbai (IN), São Paulo (BR), Eindhoven (NL) 2010 ‘Ten Ten Ten’, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC (US) ‘Catalysis for Life – New Language of Dutch Art & Design’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP) ‘The Hoerengracht’, Amsterdam Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (NL) ‘Atelier Ted Noten’, solo exhibition, SODA, Istanbul (TR) 2009 Launch Yo Sunshine collection, exclusive to Skitsch Store, Milan (IT) ‘Haunted by 36 Women’, solo exhibition, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam (NL) Hasselt Triennial, ‘Superstories’, Modemuseum, Hasselt (BE) 2008 ‘Françoise van den Bosch Award’, ‘Tedwalk’ and exhibition, Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) Art Miami, gallery Ornamentum, Miami, FL (US) Galerie Metal, ‘Exquisites and Ted-a-Porters’, Copenhagen (DK) ‘Sales’, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam (NL) Galerie Hnoss, ‘Global Tactile Pieces, Volume 1’, Göteburg (SE) 2007 Colette, Paris (FR) Liljevachs Konsthall, ‘Global Tactile Pieces 2’, Stockholm (SE) 2006 ‘Global Tactile Pieces, Volume 2, Tokyo-Amsterdam’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) ‘Global Tactile Pieces, Volume 1’, Amsterdam, Gallery Deux Poissons, Tokyo (JP) WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTION (Selected) ARCO, Lisbon (PT) Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (GB) Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL) City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Historisch Museum Depot (NL) CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL) D.S.M., Sittard (NL) Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (US) Droog Design, Amsterdam (NL) F.N.A.C., Paris (FR) Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL) Gallery of Art, Legnica (PL) Hiko Mizuno Jewellery College, Tokyo (JP) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (US) MAD Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY (US) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US) MIMA Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough (GB) Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC (US) Museé-Espace Solidor, Cagnes sur Mer (FR) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) Museum for Ceramics Princessehof, Leeuwarden (NL) Museum of the Bohemian Paradise, Turnov (CZ) Museum voor Moderne kunst, Arnhem (NL) National Museum of Arts, Architecture and Design, Oslo (NO) National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim (NO) R.I.S.D.-museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (US) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) Röhsska Museum for Arts, Crafts, Design and Fashion, Gothenburg (SE) Museum for Modern Contemporary Art & Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL) Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (US) Victoria and Albert Museum, London (GB) XS4ALL, Amsterdam (NL) Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen (NL) AWARDS 2013 Finalist Dutch Design Awards 7 Necessities Collection 2012 Golden Oyster Award, Stichting Kunstboek, Bruges (BE) 2011 Dutch Artist of the Year, Kunstweek Foundation 2010 Short listed for the Rotterdam Design Prize with Be Nice to a Girl Buy Her a Ring 2008 Nominated for the Dutch Design Awards with Haunted by 36 Women, 2009 2009 Finalist Dutch Design Awards 2008 Françoise van den Bosch Award 2006 Best Dutch Book Design for CH2=C(CH3)C(=O)OCH3 and Other TN’s (010 Publishers, design Joost Grootens) 2003 Harrie Tillie Award, City of Roermond (NL) 2002 First prize A Tiara for Máxima, Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) 2001 Nominated for the Rotterdam Design Prize for Chew Your Own Brooch 1999 Nominated for the Rotterdam Design Prize for Mercedes Benz Brooches 1998 Herbert Hofmannpreis, Munich (DE) www.tednoten.com www.everybodyneedsart.com Contact: Peter Bencze +36-30-339-50-65 [email protected] .