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Autonomus Rex. Drawing, 2006

Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen will celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus by presenting the major survey – The Bauhaus #itsalldesign. The travelling exhibition is organized by Vitra Design Museum and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; and curated by Jolanthe Kugler.

Works by Bauhaus artists and designers are presented alongside that of contemporary practitioners to highlight the importance and continued impact of historical institution.

Dates:
March 14 – Dec. 01, 2019

Additional details:
https://designmuseum.dk/en/

Abstract Expressions

Cityscapes and Silverscapes featured in group show – Abstract Expressions – Explorations in Jewellery Design, at Zaha Hadid Gallery, London.

Oct. 10 – 19, 2018.

Installation photos by Karoliina Helosuo Photography

The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
Autonomus Rex. Animation still, 2006

The Bauhaus #itsalldesign. (Travelling Exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn)

MUDAC, Lausanne.

Curator: Jolanthe Kugler

Sept. 20, 2018 – Jan. 06, 2019

Additional details:
https://mudac.ch/en/

Making Africa
High Museum, Atlanta. Photo John Paul Floyd

Splice included in Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design.

Travelling exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Bilbao, stopped at High Museum, Atlanta and Albuquerque Museum, USA.

Curated by Amelie Klein with Okwui Enwezor as consulting curator.

Exhibition dates at Blanton Museum: Oct. 14, 2018 – Jan. 06, 2019

Installation photo. Blanton Museum

Additional details:
https://blantonmuseum.org/
http://www.design-museum.de

SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection
B Table presented at SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection, Legno Arredo ITS Rosario Messina Foundation Training Facility, Lentate sul Seveso, Italy.

Special inaugural presentation Nov. 09 – 23, 2018

Photo courtesy DesignCommunication Blog

Artissima 2018

Cityscapes, Silverscapes presented by Elisabetta Cipriani at Artissima, Turin.
Nov. 02 – 04, 2018

Design Miami/ Basel 2018

Cityscapes presented by Elisabetta Cipriani at Design Miami/ Basel.
June 12 – 17, 2018

AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA

Ifeanyi Oganwu contributed to group show and publication for AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA, Rising Design/ Design Emergente. SaloneSatellite, 2018. Milan.

Curated by Hicham Lahlou and The Campana Brothers.

Apr. 17 – 22, 2018

Autonomous Rex, 2006

The Bauhaus #itsalldesign. (Travelling Exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum)
ADAM Art and Design Atomium Museum, Brussels, Belgium.

Curator: Jolanthe Kugler

March 16 – June 11, 2017

Additional details:
http://www.adamuseum.be

Cityscapes collection of wearable structures in 9k gold, presented by Elisabetta Cipriani at TEFAF Showcase Maastricht.

Dates: March 10 – 19, 2017

Additional details:
https://www.tefaf.com/fairs/tefaf-maastricht

B Table, presented at Collezione SaloneSatellite 20 Anni, Milan Design Week 2017.

In April 2017, SaloneSatellite turned 20 years. The milestone was celebrated by showcasing important collaborations between selected designers and producers, some presented for the first time.

Organiser: Marva Griffin Wilshire
Curator: Beppe Finessi

Dates: April 4 – 9, 2017

Additional details:
http://www.salonemilano.it/en/manifestazioni/salone-satellite.html

REBORN

Two-Person Show with multidisciplinary artist Christina Oiticica.

Presented at Gallery Elle, Zurich’s premier gallery with an emphasis on contemporary design programming.

Organized by Galerie Armel Soyer and Gallery Elle.

Exhibition Start Date: Oct. 21, 2016

Additional details:
http://galleryelle.com/

Photos Courtesy of Gallery Elle.

Seeking Africa
Pedestal + Duniake presented in Seeking Africa, Design / Art Across A Continent. A group show organized by West London Gallery – Themes & Variations, highlighting the work of over 20 artists and designers from the continent and diaspora.

Accompanied by illustrated catalogue available through the gallery.

Exhibition Dates: Nov. 16 – Dec. 16, 2016

Additional details:
https://www.themesandvariations.com/

Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design

Travelling exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Bilbao, stopped at Kunsthal Rotterdam.

Curated by Amelie Klein with Okwui Enwezor as consulting curator.

Exhibition Dates: Oct. 1, 2016 – Jan. 15, 2017

Additional details:
https://www.kunsthal.nl/en
http://www.design-museum.de

Photo by Mark Niedermann, Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum.

Design Miami/ 2016
Cityscapes debut presentation by Elisabetta Cipriani.

Dates: Nov. 30 – Dec. 4, 2016

Additional details:
http://miami2016.designmiami.com/

Photos by Victor Raison.

In collaboration with Galerie Armel Soyer, textile design firm Toghal, and visual artist Phoebe Boswell.

A series of special objects for the 2016 Edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, held at Somerset House, London.

The installation developed specific spatial devices to amplify the porosity between the exterior and interior of the main lounge. The external terraces were transformed into soft rooms from which to take in sights and sounds of London. Meanwhile, the lounge was defined by waveforms of various scales. In the bookshop, new works are adapted to explore both the circularity and vertical axis of the room; overall the dynamic presentations encouraged flexible use of the spaces.

Dates: Oct 6-9, 2016.

Additional Information:

http://1-54.com/london/

http://armelsoyer.com/

http://toghal.com/

https://www.phoebeboswell.com/

Autonomous Rex – a speculative architectural project from 2006 which envisions a radical extension to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, is included in Vitra Design Museum’s travelling survey of the Bauhaus.

The exhibition titled The Bauhaus #itsalldesign is curated by Jolanthe Kugler and offers a contemporary reading of the historical institution.

Catalogue available HERE.

Exhibition dates:
01/04/2016 – 14/08/2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
14/10/2016 – 07/01/2017, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Gallery Elle has partnered with Armel Soyer to present Zurich’s only gallery dedicated to contemporary design.

The space located at Mommsenstrasse 18, opened on May 19th with a group show that includes Blue Milk.

03/2016 – 08/2016
Splice presented at Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design.
Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.
http://www.cccb.org/en/

10/2015 – 02/2016
Splice presented at Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.
http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/

Travelling exhibition curated by Amelie Klein with Okwui Enwezor as consulting curator.

03/2016 – 04/2016
Blue Milk, presented by Galerie Armel Soyer at Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris.
https://www.pad-fairs.com/paris/en/

12/2015 – 02/2016
Shwisty presented at Maker Maker exhibition, part of the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen.
http://en.szhkbiennale.org/

Curated by Benjamin Ward.

BULGY Inverted, 2014

PDLEN, Installation View

BULGY Inverted is featured in the Swiss Institute’s Annual Architecture and Design Series: 2nd Edition.

The exhibition titled “PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home,” is curated by Felix Burrichter and revisits Le Corbusier’s 1925 project to propose radical domestic environments for the 21st century.

The show takes a critical view on technology and domesticity assembling works by over 30 designers in a conceptual show home designed by Shawn Maximo where visitors are transported to virtual environments also by the architect.

PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home
Curated by Felix Burrichter
September 25 – November 8, 2015
Exhibition essay by Carson Chan available via:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Exhibition-Essay-Carson-Chan.pdf

For additional details and installation views please visit:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/swiss-institute-annual-architecture-and-design-series-second-edition-pavillon-de-lesprit-nouveau-a-21st-century-show-home-curated-by-felix-burrichter/

Photos by Daniel Pérez, courtesy Swiss Institute.

Autonomous Rex, 2006

Autonomous Rex – a speculative architectural project from 2006 which envisions a radical extension to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, is included in Vitra Design Museum’s broad survey of the Bauhaus.

The exhibition titled ‘The Bauhaus #itsalldesign’ is curated by Jolanthe Kugler and offers a contemporary reading of this historical institution.

The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
Curated by Jolanthe Kugler
September 26, 2015 – February 28, 2016

The show travels to Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn in Spring 2016.

For additional details please visit:
http://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailseiten/bauhaus.html

For the tenth anniversary edition of Design Miami/ Basel, Armel Soyer featured Bulgy Inverted in a salon-themed presentation which grouped a selection of works from gallery artists.

Booth installation.

Bulgy Inverted, 2014.

Photos by James Harris

For the 2015 edition of Art Paris held at the Grand Palais from March 26th – 29th, Armel Soyer presented a selection from the gallery, including Contoured Crater Desk and Bench.

Photo Courtesy Galerie Armel Soyer.

Vitra Design Museum’s ‘Making Africa‘ is now open until the fall when it travels to the Guggenheim Bilbao.

Divided into 4 parts, the show presents a unique perspective on the creative diversity of the continent with the examples drawn from art and design connected by the strand of multidisciplinarity. In the words of curator Amelie Klein, ‘making’ here is presented to “challenge our complacency with mass production,” as well as illustrate the “transformative potential of design” in parallel to socio-political advancements on the continent.

Part 1, The Prologue, explores ways of seeing.

Part 2, I and We, explores identity and belonging.

Part 3 explores the theme of ‘space and object’ in relation to the urban environment, emphasising informality as engine driving the continent.

Part 4 explores the theme of ‘origin and future’.

Enjoy this wonderful video presentation from Vernissage TV.
Video stills by Vernissage TV.