Art and design always went hand in hand but there was not a market place for this. That’s the reason why we started Object Rotterdam next to Art Rotterdam. Also to show the cutting edge between the two. A lot of international art collectors who are coming to Art Rotterdam also collect design and appreciate the fair highly. The combination with Art Rotterdam gives also a broader experience to the visitors. However design is very connected to art, you still step in a completely different world with a different language, approach and canon.
Fons Hof, director of both Art & Object Rotterdam
Kiki van Eijk / Floating Frames / Vivid gallery
Photo: Mariëlle Leenders
Joost van Bleiswijk / screw no glue rough/ Vivid gallery
photo: Yves Krol
VIVID Gallery
Situated in the centre of Rotterdam Saskia Copper and Aad Krol started in 1999 VIVID Gallery. VIVID organizes six exhibitions each year on contemporary design. Solo exhibitions presented designers such as Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, Wieki Somers, Studio Job, Ineke Hans, Studio Glithero, Atelier van Lieshout and Jaime Hayon. Once a year a VIVID exhibition is devoted to a single designer from the past, who’s work is inspiring and influential both for present and future generations. Examples are, Joe Colombo, Kho Liang Ie, Wim Crouwel, Centre for Cubic Constructions and Ettore Sottsass. Over the past 10 years Dutch designers have become established names and several new Dutch design classics were first shown in the VIVID Gallery. The gallery maintains a strong relation with Dutch designers, but at the same time its scope remains truly international.
Merel Karhof/Zuiderzeemuseum
Photo: Maarten Schets
Richard Hutten/Zuiderzeemuseum
Photo: Maarten Schets
Zuiderzee Museum
The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen focuses on the art, culture and heritage of the region around the former Zuiderzee and the present and future IJsselmeer region. The Museum has an international allure and attracts visitors from many countries because of its activities, signature approach and forms of co-operation.
Walter van Beirendonck/ Fck the Fragrance/Gallery Zand
Photo: courtesy GALERIE ZAND
Galerie Zand
Galerie “ZAND” is a young and ambitious gallery. It concentrates on presenting contemporary visual art. Whereever possible it explores the interfaces between visual art and disciplines as design, fashion, architecture and photography. “ZAND” likes the friction between these elements; the ‘sanding’ between these disciplines
Aldo Bakker/copper collection
Photo: courtesy by Thomas Eyck
Thomas Eyck
Thomas Eyck is a publisher and distributer of characteristic and exclusive contemporary design products. Keywords in the philosophy off his company are: care, attention and love for material, technique and design. Thomas Eyck works together with designers of his own choice. In his view the union of design and material, and a careful process of product development from the first idea until the ‘finishing touch’ are very important. The collection of Thomas Eyck will develop slowly by commissioning one carefully chosen designer to design a series of products each year. Material and techniques will be chosen with the utmost care, and the company will only cooperate with the best craftsmen and producers. In this way series of products in different materials will be created.
Carolina Wilcke/4D Cabinet for Priveekollektie 2010
Wouter Scheublin/ToyCar for Priveekollektie 2010
Photos: Courtesy of Priveekollektie
Priveekollektie/Gallery OR2010
Photo: Jelle Mollema
Studio Makkink & Bey/Gallery Helmrinderknecht
Photo: Gallery Helmrinderknecht
Gallery Helmrinderknecht
HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design gallery stands for contemporary design at the interface of art and design. The Berlin based gallery symbolizes great passion in material, solid handcraft, vision and complexity in creation and a poetical approach to it. Art and design is unterstood as mutually inspiring and enriching creative ï¬elds to guide form, function and content. HELMRINDERKNECHT creates solo- and group shows with national and international designers in constantly changing new and exciting locations in Berlin as well as in other cities and countries. Prototypes, models, unique pieces, installations and limited editions in small numbers are exhibited, most of them exclusively available at HELMRINDERKNECHT.
Studio Makkink & Bey / commissioner: Mitterrand+Cramer
Photo: Claude Cortinovis
Studio Maarten Baas / Grey Derivations / Mitterrand + Cramer
Photos: Courtesy Mitterrand+Cramer Gallery/ Design
ArikLevy/Mitterrand + Cramer
Photo: courtesy Mitterrand + Cramer Gallery
Tom Dixon/Candle Holder/Mitterrand + Cramer
Tom Dixon/Cast Series – Chair/Mitterrand + Cramer
Frank Tjepkema for Galerie Ra
Photo: Jelle Mollema
Scholten Baijings for Total Table Design project
Photo: Jelle Mollema
Rabih Hage Gallery OR2010
Photo: Jelle Mollema
OBJECT ROTTERDAM
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Object Rotterdam is the official side fair of Art Rotterdam and was held in the Las Palmas building opposite to Art Rotterdam during 10-13 February 2011. Object Rotterdam is the international fair for ‘autonomous design’ and the first fair in the world that focuses exclusively on the most current developments within autonomous design. The fair is a platform for the latest designs of unique or limited edition functional objects by international designers. In short: the place where the cutting edge between art and design becomes evident.
Object Rotterdam
Postbus 24199Â
3007 DD Rotterdam
The Netherlands