AND ANTI MATTER

(&AM) is a creative studio founded by lovers and collaborators Þórey Björk Halldórsdóttir & Baldur Björnsson in the winter of 2016.

&AM explores the space/fields between design and art through objects and experiences. They believe that places and people need more aesthetic usability and functional strangeness in their existence. They work on a project basis and therefore tap into all catagories of design and sometimes art.

The founding lovers of &AM create their work by uniting their experiences and training in new forms. Þórey Björk is a fashion designer by training but has also worked in event management, creative direction and as a stylist, she has also been involved in company management. Baldur is a visual artist and electronic musician, he has worked as a graphic designer and parking attendant as well as releasing books and music.

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Anton Reijnders

(1955, Venray, NL) graduated at the Fine art Academy in ‘s-Hertogenbosh in 1981.

For more than 38 years Anton Reijnders has been active as a sculptor. Besides having taken part in exhibitions throughout the world Anton Reijnders has contributed to conferences, symposia and workshops in Korea, China, Australia, USA and throughout Europe. He has been three times visiting professor at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, USA. He contributed to the creation of the European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Currently he is teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Through his work Reijnders wants to offer opportunities for reflection and concentration.  He hopes his works evokes awareness of the automatism in which meaning is attributed and the conditioned way of perceiving while trying to make sense what surrounds us.  His works are sometimes referred to as sculptural koans. A part of the forms are sculpted, some parts are made in a mould.

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BAPTISTE SÉVIN &

 JAÏNA ENNEQUIN

Since 2017, Jaïna Ennequin and Baptiste Sévin form the Atelier Baptiste & Jaïna.

Their projects are animated by natural and theatrical references.

These references are activators of stories oscillating between reality and fiction.

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BORIS DE BEIJER

Boris de Beijer graduated as a jewellery designer from the Rietveld Academie in 2011. Since his graduation he has developed his practice in a multidisciplinary fashion, without being held back by the frameworks of any specific discipline. Instead he manoeuvres freely in between, whereby his work sometimes tends towards sculpture, sometimes towards applied design. In his work he often questions the existing hierarchical structures that exist within the context of various autonomous and applied art disciplines.

In Boris’ work form and function has an ambivalent status. It manifests itself in a ritualistic working method, in which he both uses and abuses the traditional and artisan aspects of his trade and applies them where one would not expect it.

Boris almost exclusively works in synthetic and non-traditional materials. Comparable to the peculiar processes of the ancient alchemic's, he transforms relatively cheap and common resources, into new materials that strongly reminds of higher valued materials. This process adds to the futuristic and often occult appearance of the arisen objects and artefacts. Boris has shown his work in both national and international galleries and cultural institutions, and has been included in various national collections such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Coda Museum.

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CAMILLE esnÉE

After studies mixing arts and object design, Camille Esnée's design practice is anchored in a desire to combine her knowledge, her curiosity about materials, her reflection around everyday uses and stories they tell about users. Camille also designs objects that enhance the user's everyday life by inviting him to rethink his way of interacting with them. From these two approaches results a hybrid practice of self-publishing which characterizes its object designer identity.

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CÉCILE BICHON

is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.

Originally trained in graphic design, she gradually turned to installation and sculpture before focusing on ceramics through discovery as a self-taught artist.

She creates unique pieces by merging sculpture and functionality, exploring the possibilities of the material to constantly renew her shapes and creative processes.

Her work is built around a "primitive" vision of the world, a way of looking at things by disregarding our rational knowledge in order to view each piece as if it were the first time and ask the fundamental question: "what is it?".

She creates objects by letting the slip flow, solidify freely to evolve in enigmatic shapes, lunar concretions, half-stone half-flesh.

She then looks at these objects with wonder as if these works were a complete stranger who had been self-generated without any human touch being involved at any point.

Just as the effort must disappear behind the dancer's movements to evoke emotion, she aims to erase the hand behind the object so each can come alive with its own presence.

Everyone is free to confront these evocative shapes to develop a simple hypotheses to complex mythologies.

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claire lézier

Born in 1988 in Angers (FR), Claire Lézier is a ceramic artist based in Brussels.

After a studying Applied Art, she redirected to the ceramic section of the ESMA (Art School of Arras, France). Based in Brussels since 2011, Claire approaches sculpture with humor and lightness. Her work is based on a semantic and heterogeneous juxtaposition of several registers that nourish sculptural objects and dreamlike installations.

She mixes and confronts outsider and mainstream cultures, baroque sculpture and extra-European artifacts.

Claire preaches a sculptural  gurative and generous ceramic, always anchors in a marvellous world.

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CLÉMENTINE DUPRÉ

After majoring in Anthropology and pursuing research on the relationship between Art and Politics in China, Clémentine Dupré enters the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris. It is there, in the ceramics workshop, that she breaks new ground with her innovative modules being consumed by aggregations of tiny beads; ceramic embodiments of Eros and Thanatos.

During her several residencies in Japan, she turns her attention to architectonics and symbolic habitat.

Her work shifts more radically towards sculptural expression as she explores notions inherent to inhabiting a given space, time or existence.

Her personal sentience makes ceramics her medium of choice.

She shapes, assembles, and rethinks ceramics in order to create architecturalized spaces, where void and movement are central notions.

Building voids, offering a tangible and intangible interpretation of space, and testing the cycles of construction and deconstruction are fundamental principles underlying her work.

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COLINE ROSOUX

Born in France in 1984, Coline Roroux is a ceramic artist based in Brussels. While studying Fine Arts in Angers, she fell in love with ceramic. After her graduation in France, she began studies in La Cambre, Brussels, in order to learn all the aspects of this medium and started her career as an independent artist.

She is using ceramic to symbolize the major significant life events, positive or negative, such as birth, relationships or deaths. Through her handwork, she is emphasizing feelings, emotions and taking symbols in animist religion, primitive art and comics. Her sculptures, expressive as well as impressive, create a dreamlike world surrounded by humor and critical sens.

Among others, her work was already underlined during the exhibition ‘Body and Soul’, in the Museum of Art and Design, in New York (2013).

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DANIEL VALERO / MESTIZ

Since its origin, crafts and design have been under Mexico’s skin. We are a country full of traditions, colors, customs and aromas, an exquisite cocktail of feelings and emotions. Mestiz stems from the merge of industrial and craftsmanship techniques. Its aim is to develop stimulating pieces with a strong theoretical background. We seek to spread traditional craftsmanship and local talent into a contemporary lifestyle for its recovery and evolution. A New Mexican Craftsmanship era begins from the symbiotic collaboration between designer and craftsman.

Mestiz Collection arises from the teamwork of architect and designer Daniel Valero and local craftsmen. The aim is to develop innovative pieces using the region’s artisan traditions and techniques. All pieces are produced and executed in Mexico.

Each piece of Mestiz has a specific color, texture, and pattern, brought to life by the hands of the craftsman.

Mestiz is an examination of the symbiotic collaboration between designer and craftsman, and also aims to bring back attention to traditional Mexican craftsmen.

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DENIS MILOVANOV / SÒHA CONCEPT

SÓHA was founded in 2015 by Russian artist Denis Milovanov. Denis Milovanov (1975) Artist, cofounder of SÓHA brand, participant of several prestigious exhibitions and art fairs (PAD Paris, Design Miami/Basel, REVELATIONS. Grand Palais. Paris, Maison & Objets. Paris. SOHA stand, AD COLLECTION. Paris, Maison & Objet, Paris. DENIS MILOVANOV stand). Laureate of the Interni Design Awards 2016 in nomination «Industrial design». He collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects studio and Boris Vervoordt.

One of the most important tasks set by the SÓHA team - creation of a high-quality recognizable product with a pronounced national theme, adapted to the exacting taste of a modern buyer in Russia and beyond.The ideology of the brand is the search and translation of a new image of Russian culture in modern Russian and Western societies.

SÓHA offers a vast array of neo-primitivist interior objects. Kitchen appliances, wall panels, sculptures and furniture solutions are executed in one unique style based on the aesthetic properties of long-established wooden architecture in the North of Russia. Reclaimed oak blocks are masterfully hand processed with chainsaw, which produces an individual and expressive surface pattern. In accordance with traditional Russian woodwork principles the resulting shape is boiled in linseed oil to expel natural moisture and increase durability till wood attains a noble and reserved shade of color: from light hazel to pitch-black. Each piece by SÓHA is one-of-a-kind handmade article.

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EDViN KLASSON

(b. 1991) is an Oslo based product and furniture designer, exploring historic styles, symbolism and changing lifestyles through visual storytelling. Klasson carry out projects in collaboration with a wide diversity of manufacturers and local craft workshops.

Edvin Klasson holds a MA Master's Degree in Industrial Design from The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, including a one-year study at Offenbach University of Art and Design in Germany. Klasson has in addition studied Art History at the University of Oslo.

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FANNY RICHARD

After textile design studies in Paris, Fanny Richard learnt ceramic in Bruxelles.

Today she works in Paris.

Her hands are tools vectors of emotion and clay raw and alive material, the medium in the inspiration.

Because the craftsman thinks by making and makes by thinking

Fanny's ceramic becomes a language.

An echo of the original emotion.

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JULIA HUTEAU

"The volumes I create are forms and colours made up of ceramic materials.

I’m certainly most interested in Learning, whether in my work or in life in general. The complete aspect of ceramics is also fascinating to me, for historic, artistic as well as  scientific dimensions. I constantly go back and forth between these facets and subjects depending on my wants and needs.

My artistic universe is made up of questions, research and multiple selections and choices which end up shaping my work. I’m strongly influenced by numerous subjects I love, physics, light, space.

Today, the spatial installation of the shapes I create has become fundamental. I don’t necessarily work to make self-sufficing objects but towards considering the empty space around and animating them, from pure object to a form in a given space.

I deeply wish to carry on learning and discovering new dimensions of Art.

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HITENCHO

is a design studio running by a designer Cho Sanghyeon, based in Seoul, Korea.

Designing production processes using hign-tech mechanical devices and hand craft. The furniture and objects are made from the result.

Pop series is inspired by the expanding foam insulation technique used in building construction.

Pigmented polyurethane foam(PUR) applied to gaps between pigmented plaster boards and between boards covered with the aluminum foil tape. The expansion formed to the quirky decoration and stuck boards together.

Pigmented plasterboards are used again from my previous projects ‘Cymatics series, 2017’

Cymatics is a scientific phenomenon, visualize a sound.

Plasterboards with a cymatics effect made by modifying the frequency of sound through the solidified process.

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ELENA GILEVA

Elena Gileva (was born 1992 in Russia) begins her artistic education in St-Petersburg. After two years of classical sculpture study, she decided to go to Paris where she obtained a BFA at the Parsons Paris School of Art and Design, and be Kristin McKirdy's student. After a residency in Japan in 2015, she decided to focus on ceramics. She got a Master at the Royal College of Art London in 2016. She now lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Fascinated by the historical and cultural aspects of objects, she tries to understand the formal aspects of artefacts and translates them in a contemporary way. She uses a rich and mysterious formal language, ignoring all minimalism in favor of the exploitation of ornamentation.

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ELISABETH LINCOT

(Born in 1992, FR)

Lives in Paris. Graduate in 2016 of the ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris’.

Elisabeth Lincot’s collection of drawings and sculptures in cera- mics evokes a naturalistic universe populated by birds and child- ren’s figures. In the artist’s world, flora proliferates, fauna colonizes and the marmaille becomes a tribe. The artist’s universe plunges the visitor into a world where fantasy meets strangeness, candor, disenchantment and where the hunting table flirts with treasure hunting. Animals are living beings whose human characteristics are constantly being detected. At the same time, they refer us back to our own animality, to our most primitive instincts. Through them, the artist reflects on our human nature and addresses the relationships of domination and predation.

Elisabeth’s Trophies are an abundance of animals mixing reality and imagination, some sculptures being almost naturalistic stu- dies, others fantastic. Elisabeth started this work in 2015 and continues it today with more than 2000 heads produced.

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GERT WESSELS

Gert Wessels searches for the limits of functionality and form. With his project ROSA SAKER / PINK THINGS, he investigates with various elements the corresponding and contradictions within our everyday objects. The results are recognizable and surprising and sometimes even a bit challenging.

Gert Wessels lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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LAURIN SCHAUB

born in 1984, works in Bern, Switzerland.

He graduated in Ceramic Design in 2008 from Schule Fur Gestaltung in Bern. Since then, Laurin has developed his experience in the ceramic field by integrating several traditional factories while developing his personal work. As a member of the "GoodLife" collective, Laurin co-founded a platform for contemporary ceramics in Zurich in 2012/13. In 2014, he joined CERCCO at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design in Geneva with the aim of obtaining a diploma in Advanced Studies in Ceramics. In 2015, Laurin Schaub, in collaboration with Damian Fopp, won first prize at the Carouge International Ceramics Competition, followed by a nomination at the Swiss Design Awards in 2016. In August 2017, joined the Schule Für Gestaltung in Bern as a teacher following his experience as a workshop coordinator at Linck Ceramics in Worblaufen during the previous two years.

" I am interested in exploring the landscape of the tabletop referencing the symbolic and narrativ found within historic table settings.

Everyday objects – Vases, bowls and plates – made of porcelain. "

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MESSGEWAND

Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux are two freelance designers who regularly work together under the name of Messgewand. Which is like a collaborative practice based between Paris and Amsterdam

They see themselves as designers/researchers which already brings ambiguity in their practice. This position especially make them using object design as a medium in order to answer to professional assignments as much as self-initiated projects with a critical approach toward modes of production and representation. Their experimentations are visualised using object, furniture, sculpture, illustration, and drawing. That’s also why they can get this idea of ambiguity through their projects.

Each of them is an opportunity to experiment and precise their personal aesthetic language. All these projects put together are determining a large research area located at the crossroads of many disciplines and medium.

MARTIN RIGTERS

Martijn Rigters is a Dutch designer based in London and Vienna, holding a bachelor's degree from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London.

Combining design research with experimental product design, he pursues alternative forms of present production and future practice.

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RÉJEAN PEYTAVIN

Born in 1986, Réjean lives and works in Paris.

His process is midway between object poetry and fantasy imagination, and consists in creating a domestic landscape with displaced comfort, in which irony mingles with dreams.

Drawing from his longtime fascination for ecosystems, Réjean creates combinations of shapes and materials by combining factual elements from various fields, such as architecture, sports, ethnology, etc.

Amidst this intertwining that induces major shifts, he is committed to finding new subtle or rational pathways for production and function of objects, suggesting new rituals that immerse the user in another level of dialog, between gesture and thought.

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RIES

Ries is a Buenos Aires based studio devoted to designing and producing furniture, objects, and spaces.

The studio’s approach is influenced by the mixed background in architecture and industrial design of its members, who through a shared vision achieve to combine different materials with production processes that are rooted both in craft and industry to create pieces that seek to elevate the experience of the everyday living.

Being present in production allows the studio to pay special attention to constructive details, the quality of materials and their finishes, as well as offering a wide spectrum of alternatives for their clients. Every piece by the studio is made in Cha co., the workshop they share with woodworkers Sur Del Cruz in Chacarita. This space functions parallely as a manufacturer where both studios collaborate to develop projects of diverse types and scales.

The studio was founded in 2016 and is currently directed by Marcos Altgelt and Tasio Picollo.

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SARAH PSCHORN

Sarah Pschorn is born in 1989 in Germany. She is a visual Artist and experimental object maker. She works primarily in the  elds of contemporary ceramics, installation and photography.

“I think of my work as a statement in favour of sweetness and sentimentality. A playful discovery of the space in between joy and melancholia, it aims to loose in details, characteristics of shapes and negotiating the nature of impermanence. As a result, ideas and conclusions about our contemporary era as well as questions regarding the current zeitgeist emerge.”

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RODRIGO PINTO

Rodrigo Pinto is a Chilean artist from Santiago and studied Industrial Design in a local school.

While his work was exhibited a few times in Santiago, he also made an internship at Nacho Carbonell Studio in 2016.

Nowadays, he is part of a Collective of furniture designers and is an objects designer since 2017.  Over the past few years he also started to work with galleries from U.S, Brazil and Belgium.

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STUDIO MATÉRIEL

is a Parisian studio created in 2015 by Antoine Soler and Fannie Robert. Coming respectively from the world of design and art, they have in common to think about habitat and the way we commit in it. Mindful to confront the sacredness of objects with their useful and accessible aspect, they work between craft and industrial design. The studio publishes its objects in small and medium series.

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LISA ALLEGRA

Born in 1986 in Paris,

Lisa Allegra has earned in 2010 a degree in furniture design from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. She has worked for Tsé&Tsé Associées and Constance Guisset while working as a freelance designer and made furnitures and objects, which has been shown by the VIA or Nelly Rodi. Following a competition, the brand FLY has edited her coat rack ITA. After travelling through Asia, the United States and Brasil for almost a year, she joined in 2014 the visual merchandising team of the brand Diptyque Paris. She was in charge of all of the creation of boutiques’ windows worldwide. She now creates her own brand of ceramic objects and is co-founder of BCN CLAY STUDIO. The choice to work with a specific material, clay, allowed her to be in a logic of small series, durable objects and to control the manufacturing process. Her pieces are designed to be developed in collection and declination but each one is unique because she shapes them by hand. This choice to correlate her profession as a designer with a know-how allows her to meet and collaborate with partners and brands who want to promote and support a different and responsible model.

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MERCURY BUREAU

Mercury Bureau is a Toronto-based studio founded by Shane Krepakevich, working across object, exhibition, and graphic design. Mercury Bureau’s work is founded in a love of the varied forms and materials of objects; the way we live with objects and the difference they make in our lives. These inspirations are used to develop new aesthetic and functional possibilities. Drawing from Krepakevich’s background in art and geology, Mercury Bureau creates focused, sculptural products that achieve complex results with the simplest means.

Studying geology in his undergraduate degree, Shane Krepakevich first started making objects as an artist. His skill set as a designer developed organically through nearly a decade of activity in the Canadian contemporary art scene, leading to work with Montreal-based lighting studio Lambert & Fils. Leaving Montreal for Toronto, Shane focused his talents in design by launching Mercury Bureau. His work as a designer is undeniably influenced by his practice as an artist. Shane is investigative at heart and uses this experimental drive to create individual solutions and expressions for Mercury Bureau.

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