Jenske Dijkhuis (born 1980, in Amsterdam) is Dutch designer, working primarily with spatial concepts, currently living in Amsterdam and working in an old factory building in Zaandam.
Dijkhuis attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy [1] where she studied under Frank Tjepkema, [2] Peik Suyling, [3] and Thonik. [4] While there, she worked under Marcel Wanders [5] and interned at Droog Design. [6] Since graduating, DIjkhuis has founded her own studio and won the Wood Challenge 2007. [7] This project has been widely covered and can found in Frame Magazine [8] and a number of books including Spacecraft (Klanten/Feireiss 2007) [9] and Bodyscape (Danoi 2007). [10] Other projects include a design that was included in Robodock, [11] a festival of art and theater in Amsterdam. In Platform 21, [12] an exhibition of architectural maquettes, as both examplar and concepts.
Currently, she is working on an exhibition design for Amsterdam International Fashion Week [13] at Horse Move Project Space, [14] a pavilion for the art and theater festival Licht aan Zee (Light at Sea) in Den Helder, as well participating the exhibition Jong Land at the Kunstzomer in Anna Paulowna. [15]
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.
Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition.
Paola Antonelli is an Italian author, editor, architect, and curator. She is of Lombard ancestry. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City.
Droog is a conceptual Dutch design company situated in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Droog has realised products, projects, exhibitions and events. Droog is an internationally renowned design label [1] and one of the most famous exponents of Dutch Design. Droog worked with well known designers such as Marcel Wanders, Hella Jongerius, Tejo Remy, Richard Hutten, Ed Annink, Jurgen Bey and Joris Laarman.
Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer, and art director in the Marcel Wanders studio in Amsterdam, who designs architectural, interior and industrial projects.
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is a Dutch academy founded in 1924 for the study of fine arts and design in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Antonio Jose Guzman is a Dutch Panamanian visual artist, communication designer and lecturer. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Panama City and Dakar.
Gijs Bakker is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
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.
Dadara or Daniel Rozenberg is a Dutch artist of Polish ancestry known for his flyers, paintings, album covers, statues and performance artwork. Son of renowned computer scientist Grzegorz Rozenberg.
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, also known as Michel Cardena, was a Colombian-Dutch, New Realism and Pop Art painter and a pioneer of video art in the Netherlands. His works cover a variety of artistic media, including painting, drawing, video, photography, object assemblages and digital art.
Frank Tjepkema is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam. He works in interior design, architecture, product design, visual design and jewellery. He is most known for his collections, Bronze Age, Future Nostalgia, Clockwork Love, and his interior design projects. In 2014, at the Amsterdam Light Festival, he installed Light Bridge on a bridge along the Amstel river that received considerable media attention.
Hans de Jong was a Dutch sculptor, designer and ceramist.
Moooi is a Dutch furniture, interior, and lighting modern design company. It was founded by Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers in the Netherlands in 2001.
Kristin Feireiss is a German architectural and design curator, writer, and editor. Her career has included co-founding the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, serving as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and participating as an international juror and commissioner at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2013, Feireiss became a Pritzker Architecture Prize juror.
Luis Berríos-Negrón is a Puerto Rican artist working with sculpture and installation, in public and environmental art.
Job Smeets is a Belgian contemporary conceptual and sculptural artist and designer and founder of Studio Job based in Antwerp, Belgium. Known for producing "high-end works toying with politically loaded signifiers", he combines traditional and modern techniques to produce art and design objects.
Renny Ramakers is a Dutch art historian, curator, design critic, and co-founder and director of the Droog design foundation. Ramakers writes articles, gives lectures, initiates projects and curates exhibitions in the field of art and design. In 2007 she was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize, in 2019 the IJprijs for her cultural contribution to the city of Amsterdam, and in 2018 she received a Dutch Royal Award for her work in the field of Dutch Design.
Annelys de Vet is a designer, educator and researcher. She runs her own design practice under the name DEVET. From 2009 until 2019 she headed the MA in Design ‘Think tank for Visual strategies’ at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, the master's course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. There she initiated the temporary masters course Disarming Design, from 2020 until 2022.