Christine de Baan

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Christine de Baan
Bornca. 1956
Nationality Dutch
Education Leiden University ; Willem de Kooning Academy
Occupation Art historian, [1] ; art
Years activeSince 1985
Known for Rotterdam Design Award (founding director)

Christine de Baan (born ca. 1956) is a Dutch art, curator, policy advisor and director, known for numerous contributions in the field Dutch Design. She participated in the organisation of the Prix de Rome, the Rotterdamse Kunststichting where she was founding director of the Rotterdam Design Award in 1993, the Fonds BKVB, and the International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam. [2]

Dutch Design Dutch-style industrial design after 1980 by a group of designers with characteristics minimalism, innovation, experiments, unconventionality and sense of humour

Dutch Design is a term used to denote an informal artistic school of design in the Netherlands, particularly product design. More specifically, the term refers to the design esthetic common to designers in the Netherlands.

Prix de Rome French scholarship for arts students

The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803, and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, the Minister of Culture.

Rotterdamse Kunststichting

The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into he Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body, while the other tasks were transferred to the Art and Culture department of the municipality of Rotterdam.

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Biography

Studies and early career

De Baan studied French at the Leiden University from 1975 to 1977, and architectural design at the Willem de Kooning Academy from 1979 to 1986. In the last year she started working together with the designer Ed Annink.

Leiden University university in the Netherlands

Leiden University is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange; leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War; as a reward to the town of Leiden for its defense against Spanish attacks, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the Netherlands, and the twelfth-oldest in Europe.

Willem de Kooning Academy Dutch academy of art and design

The Willem de Kooning Academy is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It was named after one of its most famous alumni, Dutch fine artist Willem de Kooning.

After her studies in 1987 De Baan, Renny Ramakers and Ed Annink founded the Foundation Products of Imagination, which initiated and organized multiple design projects and publications. In 1989 she created an exhibition in the Jaarbeurs about the 150 year of Dutch railroads and the romances, that had taken place there. [3]

Renny Ramakers

Renny Ramakers is a Dutch art historian, design critic, and co-founder and director of the Droog design foundation. In 2007 she was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize.

Jaarbeurs

The Jaarbeurs is an exhibition and convention centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Noted events include the former Space '86, the Hobby Computer Club Days, and the Mega Record & CD Fair. The venue is also a regular base for music festivals like ASOT festival and Thunderdome.

De Baan participated in the organisation of the Prix de Rome from 1990 to early 1993, and edited some of its publications. Early 1993 she joined the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, were she was founding director of the Rotterdam Design Award, which she managed the next six or seven years. [4] [5] [2]

Rotterdam Design Award Dutch award for design

The Rotterdam Design Award was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal, and afterwards in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely.

Later career

In the new millennium De Baan joined the Fonds BKVB, later the Mondrian Fund, were she chaired the advisory board of the national funding for art and design for four years. She was program director of the International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam from 2006 to 2008. [2] From 2008 until 2013 she was director of DutchDFA, the Dutch design Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture. [6] [7]

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is a bi-annual international event bringing together international knowledge and experience in various design disciplines, and presenting this knowledge and experience to a broader audience.

Afterwards De Baan continued a program director, advisor and/or lecturer nationally and international form Dublin, to Cape Town and Beijing. In Arnhem she was advisor for the Arnhem Fashion Biennale in 2014-15 and directed the Sonsbeek and State of fashion foundation in Arnhem for a year.

Work

Products of Imagination

Around 1985 De Baan had started cooperating with the designer Ed Annink to research the state of the design and young designers in the Netherlands. Ed van Hinte explained: [8]

Along with Christine de Baan, Ed Annink went in search of the nameless generation of new designers of the late 1980s. Together they travelled all over the country talking to young designers about their dreams and ideas. They looked at the work and tried to ascertain its quality. There were real gems amongst that work, but more often it was arty-farty stuff with nothing Annink could discern to connect it with reality 'cottage craft', which seemed to attract museums more than anyone else. Only later would he speak out more explicitly on economy of design, but in fact the seeds of his interest in industrial design had already been sown during this round trip of the Netherlands. Yet in the final selection of works it was the cultural significance above all that resonated in the products. And it was on that basis, as others also remember, that discussions took place. [8]

A similar research in those days had been performed by Renny Ramakers for a series of her articles in de Volkskrant. The three of them decided to join forces to promote the new wave of ideas of those Dutch designer. They started a foundation in 1987, and named it "Products of Imagination," abbreviated POI or P.O.I. Their cooperation resulted in the publication of a book under the same name , and the organization of multiple design exhibitions. [9]

DutchDFA

In 2013 the DutchDFA came to and ending, and its funding tasks merged into the Stimulation fund for the Creative Industry (Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie). [7]

Selected Publications

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Droog (company) Dutch design company

Droog is a conceptual Dutch design company situated in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Neutelings Riedijk Architects is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk in 1992.

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Gijs Bakker Dutch jewelry designer

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Suzanne Oxenaar

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Gert Staal (1956) is a Dutch researcher, publicist and critic in the fields of design, architecture and urban design. Educated as linguist and art historian over the years he was active as journalist, editor, author, manager and teacher particularly in the those fields of Dutch design.

Netherlands Design Institute

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References

  1. ↑ Christine de Baan ; female / Dutch ; art historian at rkd.nl. Last modified 2015-11-11.
  2. 1 2 3 Tracy Metz. "Van design via netwerk tot product," NRC Handelsblad. 16 december 2008
  3. ↑ Edwin Oden. "Bloeiende liefdes tussen de rails." De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, 1989/03/22, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Jaap Huisman, "Synthetisch tapijt rolt dank zij designprijs," De Volkskrant. s-Hertogenbosch, 1995/01/28, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Editorial, "KUNST De opwindende ervaring van lopen over lucht," Trouw. Meppel, 1995/02/09 00:00:00, p. 21.
  6. ↑ Jacco Hupkens. "Hoe groot is Dutch Design nou eigenlijk?," NRC Handelsblad. 21 oktober 2011.
  7. 1 2 Daan van Lent. "Toen wij begonnen was er nauwelijks crisis," NRC Handelsblad. 5 April 2013
  8. 1 2 Ed van Hinte. Ed Annink, Designer, 2002. p. 126
  9. ↑ Ivo Weyel, "Ontwerperssalon een netwerk van verrassingen," Het Parool. Amsterdam, 1990/02/28, p. 15.
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