CV - Studio Wieki Somers Exhibition and projects (selection) 2018 Design ‘Tracks’ for Hermès; Exhibition Homo Faber - Centuries of shapes’, Venice; Exhibition Art Nouveau in Nederland, Gemeente Museum Den Haag; Exhibition Cool Japan, Tropenmuse- um Amsterdam; Design ‘Pepper & Salt’ set for Valerie Objects, Milan; Exhibition U-Joints, Milan; 2017 Solo exhibition Out of the Ordinary at mudac Lausanne; Solo exhibition Shields at Cooper Hewitt New York and Salone del Mobile in Milan; Design ‘Shields’ for Kinnasand/Kvadrat; Edida Award - tableware for ‘2016/ Arita’ porcelain; Exhibition Designing the Surface, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Exhibition Clouds Forests, Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art (curated by Yuko Hasegawa / MOT Tokyo), Russia; Exhibition Change the system, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Netherlands; Exhibition Beyond Generations, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Exhibition at Valerie Traan at Art Brussels, Belgium; Several exhibitions on show at Galerie Kreo; TEFAF Maastricht/New York, Design Miami/Basel, PAD London/Paris; 2016 Exhibition 2016/Arita at Rijksmuseum and Arita House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Exhibition Design Derby, Cuypershuis, The Netherlands; Design ‘Still Waters’ collection vases for Thomas Eyck (t.e.); Design ‘tea sets’ for 2016/Arita porcelain (Japan); ‘Frozen lantern’ exhibited at Design Basel 2016, Switzerland; Design ‘cabinet’ for Label Breed; Design ‘Pluto’ rug for Nodus; 2015 Exhibition Berlage Godfather of dutch Design, Beurs van Berlage, the Netherlands; Exhibition Lekker Licht, Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Netherlands; Exhibition Future Archaique, Mudac, Switzerland; ‘Aoyama’ lamp exhibited at Design Basel 2015, Switzerland; Exhibition 'Design Derby’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands; Launch ‘Cutlery’ Project Valerie_objects at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Exhibition In scène gezet, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands; Design ’Blossom Rain’ for Alexander McQueen Milaan at Salone del Mobile in Milan; Follow-up ’Blossom Rain’ for Alexander McQueen Milaan in Flagship store, Miami, USA; Exhibition Shades of Variety, Galerie Kreo London; Exhibition Fetishism, Trapholt Museum Kopenhagen’, Denmark; Exhibition Future Archaïque, Grand Hornu Belgium; 2014 Solo exhibition Out of the Ordinary(Ongewoon Gewoon) at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with additional book; Design ’Time Flies’ on show at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands; Design ‘Sprout’, special edition available: book ’Out of the Ordinary’ + Sprout; Exhibition To be Continued, Galerie Kreo London, UK; Several works at The salon New York, USA; Exhibition Light Reflections, 11 Columbia, Monaco; Exhibition Sense Nonsense,Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Exhibition A light introduction, Galerie Kreo London; Design ‘Aoyama’ lamp, Galerie Kreo London, United Kingdom; Exhibition Design Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Design 'Chimney Pots’, for Ymere and Haarlemmermeer, housing development Hoofddorp, the Netherlands; Exhibition Living Spaces: 100 years of Dutch Interior Design, TextielMuseum Tilburg, the Netherlands; Exhibition linked, Design museum Gent, Belgium; 2013 Solo Exhibition Mitate, Galerie Kreo, Paris; Exhibition Applied Design, MoMA New York, USA; Exhibition Design in Rotterdam 1988-2013, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Exhibition De 7 hoofdzonden, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands Exhibition Spring, Saint Petersburg Design Week, St Petersburg, Russia 2012 Exhibition Spring, Salone del Mobile, Milaan, Italy; Exhibition View of Delftware, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, the Netherlands; Design 'Chocolate Mill' for Vitra Design Museum, exhibition Confrontations, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Residency Tokyo Part 2, Japan, February 2012; Exhibition Dutch Design - Huis van Oranje, Paleis Oranienbaum, Germany; 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; CV - Studio Wieki Somers 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; Clients (selection) Galerie Kreo Paris/London, Kvadrat, Kinnasand, Tectona, Hermès, Alexander McQueen, 2016/Arita, Thomas Eyck (T.e), Pols Potten, Vitra Design Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Textile museum Tilburg, Ymere, Robeco, Label Breed, Droog Design, etc. Collections (selection) The Art Institute of Chicago; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; 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 Marie- mont, 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; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rein, Germany. Awards Dutch Design Awards 2013; 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 De- signs of the Year Awards 2009 (UK); Dutch Design Awards 2008; European Ceramic Context 2006 (Den- mark); Ceramic Prize 2005; Material Prize 2003; Rotterdam Design Prize 2003, Rotterdam Design Prize 2001 Tuition and other activities (selection) Tuition; The Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Living Department (regularly) and IM Masters Work- shop; Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg; ESAD Reims; Samara State University, Russia. Other Activities; WS is regularly member of juries of design awards or graduations (a.o. ECAL Lausanne); she have been member of the advisory committee of Design at Mondriaan Foundation/ Fonds BKVB; she was member of the advisory committee of Material Foundation, etc..