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27/2: Exclusive perfomance and artist talk by Diana Scherer

The sowing season is on at Droog. If you have not noticed yet, since a few weeks grass is growing on our gallery floor. This grass will be moved in a performance called Harvest on Thursday the 27th of February. After the performance, Diana Scherer will give an an exclusive artist talk in de gallery of Droog.

Programme

16:30 Doors open
17:00 Performance Harvest 
17:30 Break 
17:45 Artist Talk by Diana Scherer
19:00 End 

In the solo exhibition Hyper Rhizome Diana Scherer presents thirteen new works. Interweaving Scherer’s ongoing study of plant root systems, this exhibition presents a layered examination of how biological material can be transformed into sustainable textile. From a root-bound maxi dress to a knotted radicle tapestry, the exhibition explores the human-nature relationship and our compulsion to control our natural environment.

ABOUT DIANA SCHERER 

Diana Scherer is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam.  She was born in Lauingen in Germany and studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her practice encompasses photography, material research, plant-root weaving and sculpture. Her works have been exhibited in several international solo and group shows. Recent examples include Earth Matters at the Textile Museum Tilburg (2017); the Tasis 2019 Art & Science exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, Spring Tide at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam (2017); and A Queen Within – Adorned Archetypes at the New Orleans Museum of Art (2018). Her work Rootbound # 2, a dress grown from plant roots, is currently featured in the exhibition Fashioned from Nature at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Shenzhen. She received Rotterdam-based Het Nieuwe Instituut’s 2016 New Material Fellow for her work Interwoven.

Exhibition ‘Hyper Rhizome’ by Diana Scherer

From Sunday the 19th of January until 24th of Februari 2020

Gallery@droog

Staalstraat 7B, Amsterdam

Open Daily from 9.00 AM – 19.00 PM

In the solo exhibition Hyper Rhizome Diana Scherer shares with us a selection of growing objects, scientific research and plantrootweaving. For this installation she grew various wall hangings from roots.The new work is the continuation of the project Exercises in Rootsystem Domestication.

Charles Darwin was the first to watch the behaviour of roots. 
In his book The Power of Movements of Plants, he describes how roots do not passively grow down, but move and observe. A root navigates, knows what’s up and down, observes gravity and localizes moisture and chemicals. Darwin discovered that plants are a lot more intelligent, than everybody thought. For contemporary botanists, this buried matter is still a wondrous land. There is a global investigation to discover this hidden world. Scherer approaches the root system as if it were yarn. For example, the refined, white root structure of grass reminds her of silk and the powerful, yellowish strands of the daisy she compares to wool.  She developed a technique to control the growth of plant roots and with Hyper Rhizome the natural network of the root system turns into a textile. 

Diana explores the relationship of man versus his natural environment and his desire to control nature. The living material forms the basis of her investigation. She works with biological processes and develops her work by making interventions, both intuitively or by scientific means. Exercises in Rootsystem Domestication originated as an art project with an intuitive approach. It has also developed into an innovative material research and pursuit for a new and suistainable textile. Working on this project Scherer shifts between disciplines, from design to art, craft and science. To develop this biotechnique she collaborates with biologists and engineers from TU Delft Materials Experience Lab and Radboud University Nijmegen.

More about Diana Scherer

The project & exhibition is supported by Bank Giro Loterij FondsTU Delft, Mondriaanfonds, FondsKwadraat and Radboud Univerity Nijmegen.

On view: Opinion Cooler by Pauline Perrin

Are you yourself online? Visual artist Pauline Perrin uses a series of selfportraits to answer that question. Through digitally enhanced photography, she shows how media blurs our notion of reality, yet gives space vulnerability. On view until 12th of January in our gallery @droog!

20 Nov: Chef’s Favourites pop-up dinner

Join us Wednesday the 20th for an informal pop-up dinner. Our chef Laura prepares her favourite dishes in a three course menu (optional vegetarian). Enjoy a laid back evening in our cafe, together with your family and friends.

We also serve a vegetarian menu, please let us know when you make the reservation which menu you prefer.

Price: €32,50 (ex. service fee)


Book your tickets here!

menu

poultry parfait
balsamic onion, crostini

fillet of sea bass
tomato, tarragon, green asparagus, couscous

chocolate mousse
almonds, raspberries

vegetarian menu

zucchini carpaccio
lemon, rocket, parmesan

stuffed bell pepper
tomato, tarragon, green asparagus, green peas, couscous

chocolate mousse
almonds, raspberries

15 Nov: Latin pop-up dinner

 

Join us Friday November 15th for a very special dinner. A little hint of one ingredient returns in each course: the banana.

One of our favourite part-time chefs cooks for us. Felix travels the world as a cabin attendant, and gets to taste the world’s different flavours. At droog he will serve his interpretations in a surprising Latin four-course dinner.

Enjoy a laid-back latino evening in our cafe, together with your family and friends.

 

€45,- per person (ex. service fee)

Book your tickets here.

 

four-course menu
patacones
onion, beetroot, chervil

iñame salad
avocado, tomato, salsa verde

ceviche red snapper
mango, coconut, sweet potato, cilantro

liquido merengue
maracuja, tequila icecream

vegetarian menu available on request

Workspaces for rent

Work@droog

When you’re looking for a workspace in Amsterdam there are numerous options, but here at work@droog you can build your entrepreneurial dream.

Get together for meetings in the cafe or the meetingrooms, take a break in the fairy tale garden, get inspired by the exhibits and events. @droog has been the destination for creative minds for years. With work@droog we want to connect ambition and creativity. The 17th century building @droog is situated in has an inspiring history: Rembrandt painted his “Staalmeesters” here, in the monumental part of the building. The first Chemestry Nobel prize winner did his groundbreaking research here and now it’s filled with contemporary design.

The open, light work@droog spaces overlook the lively Staalstraat and the quiet courtyard. We offer 40 flexworkspaces and two private offices (up to max. 7 people).

For more info or would you like to work@droog yourself, send an email to [email protected]

Opening hours holidays

We are open daily from 9am till 7pm, but for the holidays we have alternate opening hours:

December 24th – open till 5pm (kitchen closes at 4pm).

December 25th – closed

December 26th – closed

December 31st – open till 5pm (kitchen closes at 4pm).

January 1st – closed

View our cafe menu here.

Visit our online shop here.

 

On view: Space is the Place

Space is the Place

Het is de vraag of de mens het gaat overleven in de voortdurende strijd tussen de technologische toekomst en ons gewone mensenleven. Elon Musk bouwt een Starhopper voor 100 mensen die 1000 keer per jaar naar Mars zal vliegen. Een speculatief project dat onze dromen zal waarmaken. Want wie wil er nou niet naar Mars? Ondertussen wennen wij vast aan het idee de planeet te verlaten door steeds meer in de virtualiteit te leven. Ons lichaam past zich aan door het gebruik van de smartphone en infobesitas is geen ziekte meer, maar een standaard levensvorm. We leven als systeemwezens, we worden robots zonder dat we het in de gaten hebben. Menselijke condities veranderen, de evolutie gaat door. 

Space is the Place is een installatie van Geoffrey Lillemon en Mieke Gerritzen.
Tentoonstelling: @Droog, Staalstraat 7 in Amsterdam.
Van 9 Oktober tot 30 November. Opening 9 Oktober 17 - 19.00 uur.
Openingstijden: dagelijks van 9.00 tot 19.00 uur.

Geoffrey Lillemon (1981, USA/NL) combineert een absurdistische visuele stijl met nieuwe technologie. Als toonaangevende kunstenaar in digitale media, plaatst Lillemon de wisselwerking tussen de digitale en fysieke wereld op de voorgrond. Lillemon was de Invite d’Honneur in Centre Pompidou, werd in Boijmans van Beuningen geïntroduceerd met zijn werk “Like to Death” en was een centrale figuur/kunstenaar voor de Adidas Global “Collider” Campagne. Lillemon heeft onder andere gewerkt met Bernhard Willhelm, MGMT, Widen & Kennedy, Iris Van Herpen en Beyoncé.

 

Mieke Gerritzen (1962, NL) is ontwerper/kunstenaar en voormalig directeur van MOTI, Museum of the Image. Als curator/kunstenaar initieert en realiseert ze artistieke producties en publicaties. In haar werk reageert ze op ontwikkelingen in technologie. Met een kritische blik kijkt ze naar de effecten van digitale media met bijbehorende economische strategieën. Haar werk is opgenomen in de collecties van de San Fransisco MOMA en Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Gerritzen heeft 10 publicaties op haar naam staan en richtte in 2016 The Image Society op. Ze werkt regelmatig samen met Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures) en Koert van Mensvoort (Next Nature).  

 

Gerritzen maakt momenteel op uitnodiging van Renny Ramakers een programma voor Stichting Droog Design. Space is the Place maakt daar onderdeel van uit.

Space is the Place is mede mogelijk gemaakt door Stichting Droog Design en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. 

 

https://imagesociety.nl/projects/space-is-the-place

Informatie: [email protected]

Coming soon: Expo by Mieke Gerritzen

Till the end of september our gallery is filled with some of the most iconic droog items. After that Mieke Gerritzen will come back with a whole new expo. Curious? Keep an eye on our site, or follow us on our socials: instagram, facebook and twitter.

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@DROOG
Staalstraat 7A/B
1011 JJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Open daily
9 am – 7 pm

 

Now in our gallery: the droog collection

Our gallery is filled with some of the most iconic droog items. Come see the knotted chair, walk around the milk bottle lamp and experience the come a little closer (bench). The exposition is open till the end of september, then Mieke Gerritzen will come back with a whole new expo.

COME AND VISIT US

shop eat drink work sleep think

@DROOG
Staalstraat 7A/B
1011 JJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Open daily
9 am – 7 pm

 

Amsterdam Design Debat: 28 mei @droog

Info Amsterdam Design Debat
Dinsdag 28 Mei | 17.00 uur | inloop 16.30 uur
Adres: @Droog, Staalstraat 7 Amsterdam
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2JhNtas

Waarom een debat over design?
Het label design wordt letterlijk overal opgeplakt. Het vakgebied waait alle kanten uit en beweegt misschien wel weg van de kunst. Wat is er aan de hand en waarom is design zo populair?

Deelnemers:
Jasper van Kuijk (cabaretier en columnist), Yuri Veerman (ontwerper en performer), Anja Groten (ontwerper Hackers en Designers), Caroline Nevejan (wetenschapper, Chief Science Officer Amsterdam), Nikki Gonnissen (directeur Thonik/president AGI), Jurgen Bey (directeur Sandberg Instituut), Richard van der Laken (ontwerper, directeur What Design Can Do), Hans Gubbels (directeur Cube Design Museum), Ruben Pater (designer), Mark van Iterson (Heineken Design), Tessa de Boer (Maison the Faux), Angelique Spaninks (MU), Marleen Stikker (Waag Society), Roosje Klap (designer), Geke van Dijk (STBY), Guus Beumer (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Ben Schouten (HvA), Dirk van Weelden (schrijver) e.a.

Moderator: Dagan Cohen (Social Inc, What Design Can Do Challenge)

Het debat wordt georganiseerd door Mieke Gerritzen. Zij is momenteel curator op uitnodiging van Droog in het kader van het ‘innovative laboratory’ programma. Meer informatie: [email protected]

 

Amsterdam Design Debat dinsdag 28 Mei | 17.00 uur | inloop 16.30 uur | Tickets: http://bit.ly/2JhNtas

Book presentation: “Renny Ramakers Rethinking Design”

By the end of April, the new book by Aaron Betsky “Renny Ramakers Rethinking Design” will be presented. As one of the first and few women in design, Droog’s co-founder Renny Ramakers established herself and her brand in the scene and gained international reputation. As a writer, curator, and thinker, she has worked to redefine our human-made world for more than a quarter century. She has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as a way to re-imagine today’s world, re-thinking design as a project of reuse and critical action that can effect a better future.

In 1993 Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker started Droog as an anti-statement; a no-nonsense, down to earth design mentality that opposed the high style and form-based world of design. 

In all her projects Ramakers focuses on creating interaction with the public, new collaborations, tools and systems. She is challenged by highly innovative art and design projects that are embedded in the social context but that always have a twist. 

Shop the book in our store or online. 

Book presentation
Join us for a festive evening with an open table discussion hosted by Wim Pijbes. In conversation with Aaron Betsky, Irma Boom, Renny Ramakers and others, the evening is dedicated to their ideas on design and the future of Droog.

Program 23 April 2019
@Droog, Staalstraat 7, Amsterdam
Walk-in: 18:00 – 18:30
Open table discussion: 18:30 – 19:15
Bites & drinks: 19:15 – 21:00. 

Exhibition Disarming Design from Palestine – Thought provoking December gifts

Disarming Design from Palestine – thought provoking December gifts
On display from 4 December 2018 until 6 Januari 2019


Foto: Nieuwe Beelden Makers

In the month December the thought provoking products by ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’ will be exhibited and sold at Hôtel Droog.

 ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’ is an unusual design label with products from Palestine. The platform develops, presents and sells design pieces, designed by contemporary designers, artists and students in collaboration with local producers and artisans.

The label wants to spread alternative narratives about contemporary Palestine and reflect upon the function of creative practices in situations of conflict.
The products embody — often in a poetic and unusual way —the characteristics of Palestinian life today, and enable us to look at this reality from another angle.
The products are objects for everyday use. From silk scarves to T-shirts, from earrings to eye mask, but also honey, spices and olive soap.

All proceeds from the sales will go to the Palestinian design label and will be used for further development and production of new designs.

Saturday 8 December between 11 am-5pm Raed Hamouri from the design label will be present at Hôtel Droog. He will talk to visitors and customers about the label, the products and the context in which this label was founded.

For more information and more products: www.disarmingdesign.com
This exhibition has been generously supported by: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)

New Material Award 2018 exhibition @droog


foto: Nieuwe Beelden Makers

New Material Award 2018 exhibition @droog from 30 October-2 December 2018
 
More and more designers are thinking about the effect of their designs in the circular chain from raw material to raw material. The role of the designer and design research are crucial in this. They contribute to a better and more sustainable society. The fifteen design and research projects nominated for the New Material Award 2018 are uncomfortable, confrontational, optimistic and visionary.
 
Material innovation encompasses much more than just the development of completely new materials. Generally, it revolves around a revaluation of raw materials, techniques, or residual products that are currently overlooked by industry as unsuitable for the intended purposes. This is done by exploring – without prejudice – new possibilities through research. From a loaded substance like animal blood, to bamboo that has been used for centuries; and from hair that we leave behind at the hairdresser, to waste glass that, according to established industries, would be impossible to reuse.
 The fifteen nominated projects for the New Material Award 2018, including the winning projects ‘Algae Lab Luma’ and ‘Blood related’, are on display at Hôtel Droog from 30 October until 2 December 2018.
 
Museumnacht Amsterdam 2018
Hôtel Droog is one of the new locations for this years’ edition of the Museumnacht Amsterdam. On Saturday 3 November, winners Eric Klarenbeek & Maartje Dros (Algae Lab Luma) and Basse Stittgen (Blood related), are present at Hôtel Droog to explain and demonstrate their projects. Nominated Designer Alexander Marinus developed a special make-your-own workshop, based on his project into the material of jute.

New Material Award
The New Material Award stimulates the development of sustainable materials through projects that provide smart solutions to the issues surrounding raw materials, energy and reuse – both in design and production.
This 7thedition of the biennial New Material Award is organized by the DOEN Foundation, the Kwadraat Fund and Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

The fifteen nominated designers are:
Agne Kucerenkaite
Alexander Marinus
Daria Biryukova
Envisions
Inge Sluijs
Iris de Kievith & Annemarie Piscaer
Ekaterina Semenova
Overtreders W & bureau SLA
Sanne Visser
Shahar Livne
Studio Chris Kabel
Telesilla Bristogianni & Faidra Oikonomopoulou
Xandra van der Eijk

Or visit the website of the New Material Award.

New product: Glass lantern by Richard Hutten

glass lantern richard hutten

We are proud to announce a new product: the glass lantern by Richard Hutten. 
In the project The New Original (2013) Droog investigated the copy culture in Shenzen, China. Droog wanted to advocate copying as a source of creativity. One of the participants in this project was Dutch designer Richard Hutten. He copied the traditional Chinese lantern but he used glass instead of paper and he modernized the design by reshaping the lantern. The lantern is available now!

Download the press release here