This art object was re-created in 2018 for the Abu Dhabi Edition hotel. In 2015, artists installed a grand-scale kinetic sculpture named In 20 Steps at Berengo Foundation's Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass during Art Biennale in Venice. In late October 2014, when Philips Wing of Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened after the 11-year renovation it featured studio's Shylight chandeliers. In October 2015, a second piece from this collection, a hanging wall mirror, was shown at Thing Nothing exhibition at Van Abbemuseum. In 2014, the studio presented a standing mirror named The Obsidian Mirror made out of the toxic waste during Salone del Mobile. In 2013, artistic duo presented first prototypes of Nola lighting system during the Dutch Design Week. It was commissioned for several private residential projects. The computer-controlled installation, that draws inspiration from the flock of birds, is composed of as many as 180 hand-blown glass tubes suspended from cables and outfitted with halogen lamps. In 2011, studio showed their kinetic art project Flylight during the Salone del Mobile and later in 2012 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. In 2010, the duo was invited to New York to make Fragile Future installation for the Dead or Alive exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design. In 2008, artists presented their Ghost Chair at the Milan Furniture Fair.
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Studio Drift's first commercial project was a series of outdoor benches made in 2007 for the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens named the Water Web Bench. and in Venice during the Art Biennale (2019)
It was displayed in many cities globally including New York (2010), Jeruzalem (2011), Abu Dhabi (2013), São Paulo, (2014) London (2015). In 2008 it won Light of the Future award from the German Design Council ( Rat für Formgebung ) and later different versions of this art work were included into permanent collections of Stedelijk Museum and Victoria and Albert museum. įragile Future turned out to be the most successful project of Studio Drift so far. Designers also created a miniature lamp Dandelight, following the same concept. They first collaborated on Gordijn's graduation project, Fragile Future, a number of ball-shaped LED lamps with real dandelion seeds glued onto them, giving the bulbs a flowerlike appearance.
Studio Drift was founded in 2007 by Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn. Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Venice Biennale Photo: by Juuke Schoorl Shylight, by Studio Drift at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) 2014 Photo: by Hesmerg 31st São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2014 Flylight, by Studio Drift.
It specializes in choreographed sculptures and kinetic installations, with the focus to re-establish the connection between humans and earth. Studio Drift is an Amsterdam-based artist duo founded by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn in 2007.
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