DDW: Thing Nothing
In Thing Nothing Design Academy Eindhoven and the Van Abbemuseum research the meaning, value and future of things. The exhibition addresses the relation between form and counter-form, between the real and the virtual, between technological possibilities and moral issues.
The exhibition looks at the way design, in dealing with actual materials, shapes and production processes, can also script the intangible qualities of the material world. Over the years, the academy has encouraged students to look beyond the material properties of things, and to search for a presence that Taoists might describe as 鈥榥othingness鈥�: the space in and around the object. As virtual space becomes an integral part of our daily environment, designers venture more and more into this world of the unseen, the unspoken, the unmade.
In Thing Nothing Design Academy Eindhoven and the Van Abbemuseum research the meaning, value and future of things. The exhibition addresses the relation between form and counter-form, between the real and the virtual, between technological possibilities and moral issues.
The exhibition looks at the way design, in dealing with actual materials, shapes and production processes, can also script the intangible qualities of the material world. Over the years, the academy has encouraged students to look beyond the material properties of things, and to search for a presence that Taoists might describe as 鈥榥othingness鈥�: the space in and around the object. As virtual space becomes an integral part of our daily environment, designers venture more and more into this world of the unseen, the unspoken, the unmade.
Artists on show
- Ai Weiwei
- Aldo Bakker
- Alison Crank
- Alix Gallet
- Atelier Montè
- Atelier Yuri Veerman
- Auger & Loizeau
- Bastiaan de Nennie
- Chris Kabel
- Dmitry Gelfand
- DRIFT
- Dunne and Raby
- Edith Dekyndt
- Emilie Pallard
- Eva Jaeger
- Evelina Domnitch
- Floris Kaayk
- Giuditta Vendrame
- Guillemette Legrand
- Hannah Hiecke
- Heath Bunting
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg
- Hongjie Yang
- Imme van der Haak
- Jalila Essaïdi
- James Bridle
- Jetske Visser
- Jólan van der Wiel
- Julijonas Urbonas
- Lucas Maassen
- Mark Bain
- Marlies Kolodziey
- Mediengruppe Bitnik
- Metahaven
- Niels Heymans
- Niels Hoebers
- Olivier van Herpt
- Sander Wassink
- Ted Noten
- Y Lo
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