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## Exhibitions

- [Dwell](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/dwell/) - Joseph Pintz’s functional and sculptural ceramic work explores the role that domestic objects play in fulfilling our physical and emotional needs. Inspired by his Midwestern roots, Pintz creates mundane forms based on utilitarian vessels and other implements associated with the hand. In the process, the dense meaning of these objects is transferred into clay.
- [Echoes in Clay](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/manuel-canu-echoes-in-clay/) - Manuel Canu's exhibition „Echoes in Clay: Nature, Craft, and Ephemeral Beauty" delves into the intricate relationship between nature and architecture, exploring contemporary craftsmanship's reimagination of clay as a medium for decoration and structure. A site-specific installation, rooted in dedication to craftsmanship, will visually narrate echoes of the past while resonating with the present through a scenographic aesthetic that intertwines with the Neo-Gothic architectural style of the venue.
- [Metaxy <br>The Condition of In-Betweenness](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/metaxy/) - The ‘Metaxy’ exhibition presented immersive art by young artists diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the Direktorenhaus from 4 to 30 September 2025. The works on display spoke of a state in which many people and projects find themselves today: being in between. Presented by the YUVEDO Foundation and Meisterrat, the show offered surprising perspectives.
- [Call me<br>Ornament 1](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/call-me-ornament-1/) - There are still today artists and designers, for whom harmony and wholeness play an incredibly significant role – creating atmospheres, whose daring interactions with the decorative, produce a magnified refinement in objects and interior spaces.
- [Sustainable Suisse](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/sustainable-suisse/) - They are everywhere: materials are indispensable innovation drivers for almost all sectors of the economy. New materials can contribute to solving urgent questions of the future, in areas such as mobility, climate and environmental protection as well as in architecture or health.
- [Call me Ornament 3](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/call-me-ornament-3/) - The third round of our Call me Ornament exhibition starts on 8.09. - 14.10. 2023 im Munich at the gallery of the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein. BAVARIAN CRAFTS COUNCIL (BAYERISCHER KUNSTGEWERBEVEREIN E.V.) Founded in 1851, the Bavarian Crafts Council (BKV) is today a professional association for the promotion of contemporary crafts with around 450 members. Located in
- [Sonja Danowski](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/sonja-danowski/) - At first, Sonja Danowski´s works seem nostalgic, as if they derived from personal memories fading over time. At first, Sonja Danowski´s works seem nostalgic, as if they derived from personal memories fading over time. They show common, almost trivial situations and objects but also loving gestures of affection even in the bleakest of surroundings. Her
- [Albane Simon](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/albane-simon/) - French artist Albane Simons challenges ideas of a linear notion of time: in her works, memories of the past interfere with visions of the future, laws of nature are being picked apart and nightmare-like architecture unsettles the gaze. French artist Albane Simons challenges ideas of a linear notion of time: in her works, memories of
- [Benjamin Courtault](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/benjamin-courtault/) - Benjamin Courtault´s illustrations tell stories of discovery and travel: his figures embark on a journey of exploration discovering at times psychedelic and then again plane and two-dimensional worlds. Benjamin Courtault´s illustrations tell stories of discovery and travel: his figures embark on a journey of exploration discovering at times psychedelic and then again plane and two-dimensional
- [Illustrative Preview 2018](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/illustrative-preview-2018/) - Illustrative preview I The Direktorenhaus is excited to present, as a precursor to the Illustrative 2018 in Beijing, a selection of the most exciting illustrators currently living and working in Berlin: Sonja Danowski, Valero Doval, Dean Reynolds, Steven Tabbutt, Chemin Hsiao, Benjamin Courtault, Albane Simon, Sarah Dineen and Chantal van Houten. These artists are characterised
- [Olmo Amato](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/olmo-amato/) - Olmo Amatos works are photographic reminiscence of a past Europe. As a photographer and professional videomaker Olmo Amato works in post-production and education since 2010. He becomes an administrator of photographic archives and starts working with fine-art digital printing. Since 2009 he has realized several personal photographic projects, among which “Sogni, memorie e incubi dalla
- [Nico Klein Allermann](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/nico-klein-allermann/) - Nico Klein-Allermann loves people, characacters, moments, and authentic feelings. He cherishes situations that stand out from everyday life. Nico possesses a rare ability to capture moments of vulnerability, all the while leaving the atmosphere and spirit of the moment unaltered and thereby authentic. Having started by taking pictures with a tic-tac carton as a child,
- [Call me<br>Ornament 2](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/call-me-ornament-2/) - The second round of our Call me Ornament-exhibition starts on 21.04.2023 with an expanded group of exhibitors. The three-part exhibition is inspired by artists such as Alfons Mucha or Henry van der Velde, whose life's work spanned the most diverse genres of design. They saw their environment as a scenery of life; a pragmatic programme with requirements already set, for which the best applies, namely an aesthetic pushed to the maximum.
- [David des Moutis](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/david-des-moutis/) - For the first time in Berlin, David des Moutis presented his new series Plant, which shows his light elegance combining massive stones with wooden elements. For the first time in Berlin David des Moutis presents his new series Plant – a work that beautifully combines light elegance with strong stone and wood elements.
- [Ecce Ancilla Domini!](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/ecce-ancilla-domini/) - The season is starting with a group of young artists that attract a soft shock for our aesthetic perception: Peter Diamond, Max Guther, Lauren Brevner, Anton Hjertstedt, Peter Opheim und Nico Klein-Allermann start where others stop. Welcome to the hynotic rapport. PETER DIAMOND Peter Diamond’s work owes much of its character to the album
- [Peter Diamond](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/peter-diamond/) - Peter Diamond is an illustrator based in Vienna, Austria. He works primarily in editorial illustration with clients in Europe and North America, notable among them The New York Times, The National Post, Plansponsor , Wired UK, and The Progressive. Peter Diamond is an illustrator based in Vienna, Austria. He works primarily in editorial illustration with
- [Max Guther](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/max-guther/) - Max Guther is currently studying at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences doing a BA in graphic design. Max Guther is currently studying at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences doing a BA in graphic design. He creates collaged worlds where the focus is on architectural details, interiors, and how the human body interacts with the
- [Lauren Brevner](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/lauren-brevner/) - Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Lauren Brevner grew up in a mixed heritage family rich with culture and inspiration. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Lauren Brevner grew up in a mixed heritage family rich with culture and inspiration. In 2009, she moved to Osaka, Japan in hopes of reconnecting with her roots. There,
- [Anton Hjertstedt](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/anton-hjertstedt/) - Graphic designer Anton Hjertstedt creates the kind of unexpected work we dream of finding. His website had us rubbing our eyes with joy, with 3D renders of the rude, the abstract and the plain bizarre. Attending Norwich University of the Arts, art school provided the perfect opportunity for Anton to hone his skills. Anton Hjertstedt
- [Peter Opheim](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/peter-opheim/) - Opheim navigates the unruly thicket of themes blending childhood with adulthood – concepts that we ordinarily prefer to keep separate – to unsettling effects, as Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid observed. Peter Opheim is an American artist, born in 1961, in Landstuhl, Germany. He lives and works in New York City, New York and in
- [Cristóbal Schmal](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/cristobal-schmal/) - Cristóbal Schmal creates picturesque stories that appear unforced, funny and somewhat strange at the same time. Cristóbal Schmal is a Chilean illustrator who currently lives in Berlin. After finishing his studies in graphic design at Valparaiso University in Chile in 2001, Cristóbal moved to Barcelona and worked as a designer and art director across various
- [David McConochie](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/david-mcconochie/) - The combination of different illustrative techniques is what defines this British artist´s works. He connects photography and painting, edits photography and collages in Photoshop and mixes different media. David McConochie is a freelance illustrator and artist from England. His creations are characterised by their diversity. With great joy he experiments with different genres, using graphic
- [Ryan Coleman](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/ryan-coleman/) - Ryan Coleman’s work intertwines elements of animation imagery with abstract expressionist painting.
- [Matt Phillips](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/matt-phillips/) - Matt Phillips (born 1979) has shown his paintings and drawings in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Matt Phillips (born 1979) has shown his paintings and drawings in Europe, Israel, and the United States. He has had two solo shows at Steven Harvey Projects (NY, NY) as well as solo exhibitions at The University of
- [Nikogosian](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/nikolai-nikogosian-moscow-classic-in-the-double-mirror/) - Nikolai Nikogosian, at the age of almost 100 years, counts as one of the most important Russian sculptors and painters. The exhibition Nikolai Nikogosian – Moscow Classic in the Double Mirror is dedicated to a living legend of Russian art: Nikolai Nikogosian, at the age of almost 100 years, counts as one of the most
- [Illustrative 16](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/illustrative-16/) - A stage for scurrilous compositions, graphical studies and trenchant collages. On October 14th the Opening of the Illustrative 2016 took place at the Direktorenhaus. The eighth edition of Illustrative in Berlin shows 32 appreciated illustrators and graphics from different countries. More than 500 guests joined us for the Opening of the festival. Artists, collectors, galerists,
- [Illustrative 2015](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/illustrative-2015/) - Annually the Illustrative devotes itself to an under-represented art genre. On October 30th, the opening party of the Young Illustrator Award exhibition took place at the Direktorenhaus. As an unique connection between illustration and craft also the beginning of the Deutsche Manufakturenstrasse has been celebrated on this evening. A renowend jury has been chosen 30
- [Tina Winkhaus](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/tina-winkhaus/) - The Direktorenhaus presents ‘Unter Tage’ the new solo exhibition from Tina Winkhaus. The artist has quit her familiar surroundings and ventured to the underworld. The 14 large-format photographs offer an entrance into the clandestine, labyrinth-like mountain passages that are populated by these strange figures. The belly of the mountain should not be seen as a
- [Casey Gray](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/casey-gray/) - With a primary focus on still life painting, Gray regularly uses historical tropes and frameworks as a point of departure for simultaneous bodies of work. Casey Gray has lived in California all his life, growing up in San Jose and finally settling in San Francisco after college and graduate school. He has exhibited his work extensively across
- [Lutz Könecke](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/lutz-konecke/) - Lutz Könecke focuses his research in the assembly of two or more parts into a vessel. He began to fit them together by two shells leaving the signs of the mounting seams. That was for him the beginning of a conscious composition and, when he finished the first pieces, he realized what an incredible variety
- [Helsinki Fresh](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/helsinki-fresh/) - Helsinki-Berlin – The Direktorenhaus presents design and illustration from Finland. The three week exhibition at Direktorenhaus was showcasing the 25 most interesting fashion designers, accessory designers, illustrators and photographers from Helsinki. The Exhibition opening took place on 14.6. and lasted until the Fashion Week of Berlin ending on 8.7.2012. The Helsinki FRESH Agency, established in
- [Daniel Emma](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/daniel-emma/) - Our design aims to be just nice’ – Daniel Emma stands for design in detail. “Our design aims to be just nice”, says Daniel and Emma, two young designers with experience in some of the most renomated design studios: Marc Newson, Thorsten Van Elten, Commitee and Philips design to name just a few. They have
- [Masterpieces 2016](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/masterpieces-2016/) - The finest German manufactory products. The pre-Christmas winter exhibition shows 45 new and partly undiscovered masterpieces of German manufactories. The selected objects are exemplary in design, conception and workmanship and depict a wide range of design and manufacturing alternatives. Taking part in the exhibition are manufactory products from the competition “Manufactory Product of the Year”
- [Essam Marouf](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/essam-marouf-piece-of-me/) - The contemporary portrait painter Essam Marouf succeeds in lending character and face to his protagonists, without de nitively and exhaustively de ning their roles. Essam Marouf, born in Cairo in 1958, studied painting from 1976 at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Cairo and graduated in 1981 at the Mural Painting Section.
- [Tal Granot](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/all-inclusive-von-tal-granot/) - Direktorenhaus is pleased to present new works by Tal Granot. In her residency period in Direktorenhaus Tal Granot choses to continue with the subject of Resorts, which she has been studying for a few months now. This is part of an on-going project named “All inclusive”, in which she explores, in different mediums, the aspects
- [Carolina Simonelli](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/carolina-simonelli/) - Moved by her love for impressionism and nature, Carolina’s work grows in productivity and size, as she goes into a deep exploration in the use of papers as painting. Carolina Simonelli was born in 1979 in a little town in the south of Argentina. She works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After studying Advertising and
- [Anschlag Berlin](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/anschlag-berlin/) - Modern poster design - an hommage to the supreme discipline of the graphic design. The ambitious poster art project »Anschlag Berlin – Zeitgeistmedium Plakat« will be exhibited at the Direktorenhaus. The exhibition provides an overview of outstanding contemporary posters by designers working in Berlin. Following the zeitgeist in design and the Berlin design scene in
- [What is mastership?](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/what-is-mastership/) - Stefan Berg explores the identity of craftsmanship. Prompted by texts about the philosophical, sensually charged esteem for craftsmen’s work in Japan, the photographer Stefan Berg pursued the question of how far practical work can lead to an ideal of mastership. Berg wanted to explore photographically whether one can see this mastership in the corresponding people
- [Katerina Belkina](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/katerina-belkina/) - Katerina Belkina propels the characteristics of the Neo-Renaissance into the centre of topical issues. With the series Revival Katerina Belkina reinterprets the historical style of the neo-renaissance and formulates contemporary problems in context with art and psychology. In the last years her work is mainly influenced by staged self-portraits. In her award-winning work “Die Sünderin”
- [Belkina](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/katerina-belkina-dream-walkers/) - In the time of Romanticism thinkers kept dreaming of a world where material essence would be under control of the spirit. They were very loyal to an ideal. Nature, love, fantasy just as well as science – were the ways of perception and discovery of the human being.
- [Casey Gray](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/casey-gray-still-blue-skies/) - Through his work, San Francisco based artist Casey Gray examines our collective entanglement with the dignity and reality of the everyday.
- [Radical Craft 2](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/radical-craft-2/) - The second exhibition “Radical-Craft 2” continues the theme started in 2020. In the first exhibition, it is about conveying the arts and crafts with design positions in order to show how artistic craft and design interact (e.g. with collectible design The following issue of Radical Craft 2 poses the question even more explicitly: Why radical? What should (or can) be radical about handicrafts?
- [Radical Craft 3](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/radical-craft-3/) - A whole new generation of craftspeople, designers and artists are bringing fresh perspectives to field of craft discourse. Today, there is a lively crossover between craft, design, sculpture and technology that is rethinking the definitions of art and design.
- [Radical Craft 1](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/radical-craft/) - The Direktorenhaus’ annual exhibition, “Radical Craft”, presents 60 designers and artistic craftworkers, who show how important artistic craft is today in creating future designs for society. For modern consumer products the market is no longer trending with static goods, but only with improvements – not with fixed features, but only with product enhancements and superior
- [Erik Mark Sandberg](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/erik-mark-sandberg-down-by-the-river/) - “Down by the river” is the second solo exhibition in Berlin of LA based artist Erik Mark Sandberg. Since graduating with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2002, Sandberg has been in over 50 group exhibitions throughout all around the world, including International Art Fairs in Cologne, Spain, Seoul, London, Helsinki,
- [H. A. Weizenegger](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/hermann-august-weizenegger/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [wall power](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/wall-power-contemporary-australian-photography/) - Insights into the Australian identity presented by a selection of contemporary photographs. Michael Reid Sydney and Berlin, in collaboration with the Australian Government will stage an exhibition of Australia’s most signifcant contemporary photographic practitioners. Wall Power will ofcially be opened on the evening of December 1st and forms a core part of the programming
- [Alison Blickle](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/alison-blickle/) - Alison Blickle paints sensual, wild women as her own fearless alter-ego. Alison Blickle is an artist based out of Los Angeles, CA who creates oil on canvas paintings. In Blickle’s work, she paints sensual women, combining aspects of classical painting techniques with visual elements from landscapes. Alison received her BFA from the California College of
- [Breaking the Mould](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/breaking-the-mould/) - Breaking the Mould brings together innovation and tradition in form of Murano-Glas-Objekten. Breaking the Mould are seven designers and a material scientist that teamed-up to investigate the possibility to introduce innovation in the production respecting the specificity of the Muranese tradition. Breaking the mould started from a focus on the mould. Historically this is
- [Olaf Hajek](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/olaf-hajek/) - Flowerheads With the exhibition “Flowerhead” Hajek presents his new versions of natureman, flowerhead and forest themes in which the artist’s use of mezzotint technique are combined with references to South American folk culture, mythology, religion, history and geography. Hajek combines reality, mythology, fantasy and dream in the tradition of magic realism. In a
- [Valero Doval](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/valero-doval/) - During his visual arts studies the Spaniard Valero Doval started to experiment with collages. During his visual arts studies the Spaniard Valero Doval started to experiment with collages. His colourful and lively works are hence influenced by most diverse sources: he combines antique statues with geometric shapes and scientific mapping of old encyclopaedias with
- [Steven Tabbutt](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/steven-tabbutt/) - Steven Tabbutt´s works depict celebrities as much as monsters or folkloristic figures. Steven Tabbutt´s works depict celebrities as much as monsters or folkloristic figures. Subjects find themselves in chaotic acrylic or oil based worlds, in inc or photo montages. Curved and flat patterns collide with glaring colours and hardly allow a point where the
- [Chemin Hsiao](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/chemin-hsiao/) - Merging colours form petals and strong brush strokes create branches weltering in the wind. Merging colours form petals and strong brush strokes create branches weltering in the wind. Alongside them appear the delicate stems of a wild flower and single dashed lines depicting a squirrel´s whiskers, drawn to precision. Chemin Hsiao is an illustrator, painter
- [Peter Nencini](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/peter-nencini/) - Peter Nencini befasst sich mit Bausätzen, dem Raum zwischen Bildern und Wörtern, Make-Do-Modernismus und lokalen Universen. He is thinking about kits, the space between pictures and words, make-do-modernism and local universes. He is looking at Enzo Mari, Herzog & De Meuron’s models, Isotype, the Pitt Rivers Museum and the AA ‘Book of British Birds’. He
- [Handmade in Germany 2012](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/handmade-in-germany-2012/) - German manufactories and design labels lay the foundations for a world tour. On October 26th we were happy to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Handmade in Germany 2012”. What a night! Thanks to everybody who joined, and a special thanks to all exhibitors and partners.
- [Graphic Detour](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/graphic-detour/) - If art and design collaborate there is Graphic Detour – this exhibition shows 8 of this collaborations. Design is not what it used to be. The time when art and design was still about ink on your fingers and individual skills seems to be far behind us. Current techniques have made these professions more transparent
- [Michel Lamoller](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/michel-lamoller/) - Apart from finding and photographing the right moments and places Michel Lamoller is challenged by the right balance in ‘melting’ the figures with the environment, to make it subtle and intense at the same time. Michel Lamoller was born in 1984 in the Black Forest in Southern Germany where he started doing art at the
- [Benjamin Hubert — Materiality](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/benjamin-hubert-materiality/) - Benjamin Hubert exercises a materials driven design approach. As indicated by the title of the exhibition “Materiality”, Benjamin Hubert exercises a materials driven design approach. Much of the studios inspiration originates from a tactile response to raw material and the experience of a close working relationship between product, process and craftsmen. The exhibition at
- [Daniel Becker](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/daniel-becker/) - Daniel Becker presents two ideas for shelving systems, which originated in a close aesthetic relationship to his latest lighting designs. Becker attempts to design sustainable pieces, which means in the first instance durable products with long life-cycles. According to him, durability means not only flawless functioning but especially emotional durability, which is most difficult to create.
- [New European Textile Craft](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/new-european-textile-craft/) - Direktorenhaus presents the new show of 4 young textile designers: The 5th Element. From 5th of July until the 30th of July 2011 the Direktorenhaus changes into a mazy wintergarden of knitted materials, woven textiles, organic objects and hand-stitched fabrics. The exhibition is showcasing for the first time works of Signe Emdal (Kopenhagen), Hao-Ni
- [Sarah Dineen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/sarah-dineen/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay. Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay. She lives in London and works in Studio Manifold with a group of artists and designers who founded the studio in
- [Tessa Eastman](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/tessa-eastman/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Alessi](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/alessi/) - Wasistdas? The Alessi Museum provides insight of the practice of Italian Design Factory. Amphibious coffee makers, Super Normal cookware, frozen projects designed by excellent designers…the Alessi Museum with a the collection of 23.000 objects provides an amazing cross-section of contemporary design and a wonderful point of view to understand the various design approaches. Items that
- [Thomas Kuhlenbeck](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/thomas-kuhlenbeck/) - The fragmented works by Thomas Kuhlenbeck open up the dynamics of a woman’s body. Thomas Kuhlenbeck’s puzzling image combinations show a reduced color palette and display predominantly female figures in dramatic, frozen poses in front of a secular background with the means of drawing and collage. Conceptually, the work is close to surrealism, but
- [Thomas Danthony](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/thomas-danthony/) - Danthony ascribes new experimental meanings to expression and dialog. Thomas Danthony is a French Illustrator based in London. Inspired by music and cinema he is used to play with lights and colors to create bold compositions. His artistic creations express the need to tell stories. He likes to create mystery whilst allowing room for
- [… Yet to be Discovered](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/yet-to-be-discovered/) - Six young, international design studios are discovering the emotionalism behind design. ANNA BADUR The Concrete Bench fools the eye with it’s authentic cushion-impression. The distance between the buttonholes has been adjusted to the human anatomy providing a surprisingly comfortable seating experience. Rain water can easily run off through the holes, so there will never
- [Adrian Kay Wong](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/adrian-kay-wong/) - Adrian Kay Wong’s paintings offer intimate depictions of adolescence, balancing his own sentimentalities that settle between nostalgia and estrangement. Adrian Kay Wong’s paintings offer intimate depictions of adolescence, balancing his own sentimentalities that settle between nostalgia and estrangement. Wong carefully pries meaning from what it is to grow up through investigation of familial relations—what
- [Dean Reynolds](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/dean-reynolds/) - Dean Reynold´s pictures appear palpable at first, but in a mysterious way, slip one´s mind after all. Dean Reynold´s pictures appear palpable at first, but in a mysterious way, slip one´s mind after all. He draws strangely absent, sometimes deformed or godlike mythical creatures – chimaera of man and beast. Notions of
- [Caleb Reid](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/caleb-reid/) - Reid creates emotionally charged works that confront the viewer with their primal, abstract imagery and sumptuous colour. Caleb Reids‘s works consist of three different organs, united by a process of play, chance and intuition. His visceral works are a sensual answer to form and color, exploring different themes, from the act to the artist‘s own
- [Alex Gross](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/alex-gross/) - The large-scale oil paintings by Alex Gross refer to modern invasions of private space. The artist Alex Gross lives and works in Los Angeles, California. In 1990, he received his bachelor’s degree at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Since then he has participated in eight individual exhibitions in various galleries, museums and
- [Claire Oswalt](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/claire-oswalt/) - Oswalt seeks to juxtapose spontaneity with restraint, dynamic with static, until reaching a harmonious form, largely worked over, yet clear in its intention to never show it. Claire is an Austin based artist whose work spans various disciplines – drawing, painting, and sculpture. After two years of designing textiles with a fellow artist, she
- [Ilustrative 13](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/ilustrative-13/) - Papercraft, book art and painting – illustration connects art and life. The 6th edition of Illustrative Festival showed numerous leading illustrators, graphic artists and collectives from all over the world in a central exhibition in the heard of Berlin. The range is from the established illustration art to the latestgeneration of young artist; from painting,
- [Martina Mrongovius](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/martina-mrongovius/) - Martina Mrongovius creates holograms that tell stories about urbanity and absurdity. Martina Mrongovius creates holograms of urban adventures and strange architectural encounters. Her holographic works are a form of urban narrative – compositions of multiple perspectives and intertwined dynamics. Using hundreds of photographs these scenes are structured by emotive and imaginative forces. The installations she
- [Californicon](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/californicon/) - Mark Bryan, Clark Goolsby, Casey Gray, Alex Gross, Adrian Kay Wong and Caleb Reid With CALIFORNICON the Direktorenhaus presents the currently most celebrated Californian artists in a group exhibition in Berlin. CALIFORNICON examines current trends in the art of the sunny American west coast – except for Caleb Reid, who grew up under the sun
- [Gustav Weiss](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/gustav-weiss/) - Gustav Weiss’ life and work lead to the boundaries of ceramic art. Gustav Weiss is known for his leading role in the area of ceramics, as well as for his intellectual research on the materials, the ceramic scene, on craft and the neo-craft-movement. The corollary of his numerous publications was the foundation of his publishing
- [Summer Break VA](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/summer-break-va/) - Direktorenhaus is pleased to present new works by 9 designers. The gallery of Direktorenhaus has been in existence now for 5 years and can look back over more than 50 exhibitions. For almost half of this time one worked without the internet and electronic media that is hard to believe in the digital era.
- [Analog Mensch Digital](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/analog-mensch-digital/) - How is, becomes and morphs man at the interface between analog and digital? ‘Analog Mensch Digital – Design at the point of intersection’ – Title of the current exhibition from Shutterstock, Inc and 10 leading design studios from Germany. Shutterstock’s goal with this exhibition is to bring exceptional works of design to the
- [Clark Goolsby](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/clark-goolsby/) - Goolsby’s work is a free flowing balance between variations in art constructing and can never be categorized into one style. Born in 1980 in Santa Rosa, California, Clark Goolsby developed enthusiasm for art during high school. In 2002, as a logical consequence, he obtained his bachelor‘s degree from the University of San Diego. Goolsby‘s
- [Mark Bryan](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/mark-bryan/) - At first impression, Mark Bryan’s surreal and whimsical work seems just for fun but usually contains underlying symbolic comment about life in these times and human nature in general. When the time came to choose an occupation Bryan studied architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo but eventually realized art was his best path
- [German Craft at the Grand Palais Paris](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/german-craft-at-the-grand-palais-paris/) - In May the Direktorenhaus, as the representative of the German manufactory work, will make a guest appearance at the imposing Grand Palais in Paris. In May 2017, German manufactory work, presented by the Direktorenhaus, is going to visit the Révélations – Biennial in Paris.
- [Diego Lorenzini Correa](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/diego-lorenzini-correa/) - Lorenzinis drawings knot a reciprocal net of seriousness and humor. In times where everything can be art, it is sometimes refreshing to come across extraordinary skill. Young Chilean Diego Lorenzini combines realistic drawings of almost photographic quality with casual sketches and cartoons. He uses everyday materials like pencil, biro and notebook, creating an immediacy
- [Jan Lambert Kruse](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/jan-lambert-kruse/) - Swede Jan Lambert Kruse molds fine reminiscences of natural phenomenon. In spite of being united in a long tradition of crafts, glass and iron could hardly oppose one another more. One exemplifies fragility and transparence; the other metallic strength. Swedish artist Jan Lambert Kruse playfully uses these oppositions to create his fantastic glass objects.
- [Melissa Loop](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/melissa-loop/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Ferris McGuinty](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/ferris-mcguinty/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Jenny Lee](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/jenny-lee/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Lauren Coleman](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/lauren-coleman/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Alexander Pelikan](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/alexander-pelikan/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Taste Festival Berlin](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/taste-festival-berlin/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Céline Lachkar](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/celine-lachkar/) - Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
- [Valentin Loellmann](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/valentin-loellmann/) - The furniture by Valentin Loellmann combines classic elements with organic shapes. Valentin Loellmann is born in Germany. He studied in the academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht (NL), where he graduated in 2009. After his graduation, he established his own studio and started to work on his own projects. His works are inspired by
- [Daniel Mullen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/daniel-mullen/) - As a child, Mullen was fascinated by constructed space. This fascination, in combination with Lego, became the playground for his imagination. While studying at the Gerrit Reitveld Academie, he rediscovered his passion for architecture. This lead to his first series of highly representational paintings based on modern architecture. After his graduation in 2011, Mullen
- [Husmann Tschäni Poultry Poetry](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/exhibitions/husmann-tschani-poultry-poetry/) - The works of both artists seem to merge into one Werk. They received further education at the National Institute of Design in India and a residency in Berlin. Since 2003 they developed a unique collaborative style encompassing the worlds of painting, comics, illustration, installation performance. They also exhibited between Mumbai and Melbourne. They work backwards,

## Fellows

- [Sarah Schrof](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/sarah-schrof/) - Sarah Schrof is a visual artist based in Stuttgart, Germany, working across process-based art, spatial installation, and abstract sculpture. Her practice conceives of material as a living system, shaped through the interplay of observation, time, and transformation — organic, self-evolving movements in which repetition, layering, and physical transformation operate with equal agency. Through repetitive gestures
- [Augmented Weaving](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/augmented-weaving/) - Augmented Weaving was initiated in 2021 by Anita Michaluszko and Flavia Bon to explore novel ways of working around the technique of jacquard weaving and digital forms of craft. Their research focuses on the creative exploration of physical, digital, and virtual tools in fabric and textile shape creation. Results of their work were shown at two group exhibitions during Dutch Design Week 22 and nominated for the Swiss Design Awards 23.
- [René Odermatt](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/rene-odermatt/) - René Odermatt is a Zurich based designer who graduated from Zurich University of the Arts in 2016. After completing his studies, he established his own design agency. René gained recognition in 2020 when he was awarded the Design Preis Schweiz for his innovative design of the home assistant, Caru. While his early career focused on
- [Fabio Rutishauser](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/fabio-rutishauser/) - Founded in 2021, Studio Fabio Rutishauser’s work is characterized by the interplay of local traditions and cultures, constantly changing needs, and technical possibilities. Every product should tell a story. In self-initiated projects, this story can take a philosophical approach. When collaborating with manufacturers, the story emerges through intensive exchange and the design process. Rutishauser strongly
- [Carlo Clopath](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/carlo-clopath/) - Carlo Clopath (*1986) is a Swiss industrial designer who works with craftsmen, producers and research institutions primarily in Europe and Japan. Clopath feels connected to the tradition of craftsmanship, meaning the concentration on the essential and the continued development of the proven. The designer’s sensitivity for the material surroundings and openness to its possibilities are
- [Nebil Zaman](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/nebil-zaman/) - Nebil Zaman (b.1985) is a Kurdish / Norwegian designer living and working in Oslo. After beginning his studies in Art direction and advertising, Zaman took a turn and went to study traditional woodworking and furniture design at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Since graduating Zaman has merged furniture making with his fascination and
- [Zuber Salzmann Studio](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/benjamin-motoc/) - Zuber Salzmann Studio is a pioneering artistic enterprise at the intersection of craftsmanship and collectible wallpaper design. Founded by the visionary duo of Franziska Zuber and Thomas Salzmann, this studio has emerged as a trailblazer in redefining how we perceive and engage with the walls that surround us. Zuber Salzmann Studio is not merely an
- [Boris De Beijer](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/boris-de-beijer/) - Boris de Beijer was originally trained as a jewellery designer at the Rietveld Academie in 2011. Since his graduation he has developed his practice in a multidisciplinary manner, without being held back by the boundaries of any specific discipline. Instead he manoeuvres freely in between, whereby his work sometimes tends towards sculpture, sometimes towards applied design.
- [Helen Johannessen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/helen-johannessen/) - Helen Johannessen plays with subtle texture and illusionary effects, experimenting with surfaces, how they shift with light, movement, tones, scale and detail. She received The HRH Presidential Medal Award 2020 for her dedication and contribution to the skills currently listed on the Endangered Red List. Straight after graduating from university, she started working in a
- [Pernille Braun](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/pernille-braun/) - Sculpting with glass for more than two decades, Pernille Braun has participated in a large number of exhibitions internationally and has had solo exhibitions in France, Denmark and USA. Pernille is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her work, Pernille Braun investigates aspects of time, place and matter, which with great craftsmanship she explores in
- [Amandine David](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/amandine-david/) - Amandine David is a designer and researcher based in Brussels. She graduated in Product Design at La Martinière-Diderot (FR) and obtained her Master in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL). In her practice, objects appear as material traces to a surrounding process of learning, sharing and collaborating. By working with craftspeople, programmers and architects
- [Audrey Large](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/audrey-large/) - Audrey Large (born 1994) is a French designer based in the Netherlands. She graduated with Cum Laude from the Design Academy of Eindhoven (NL), MA Social Design, in 2017 and then joined the artist residency program of the Jan Van Eyck Academy (NL), 2019-2020. Straddling between art and object design, her practice explores the potential of
- [Thijmen Van Der Steen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/thijmen-van-der-steen/) - Shortly after graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2012, Thijmen moved to Amsterdam to open his own design studio. In his work, he aims to make objects that are timeless and understandable in shape and in use. Thijmen likes to strip down form and material, so that only the necessary elements remain. He finds simple
- [Sarah Purvey](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/sarah-purvey/) - Sarah Purvey completed an MA in ceramics at Bath Spa University in 2009 having completed her BA twenty years previously in 1991. Predominantly she works in clay and on paper and explored an intensely physical relationship with drawing throughout her practice.
- [Camilla Bliss](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/camilla-bliss/) - Camilla Bliss is a Mixed-Media Artist who lives and works in London. She completed her BA at the University of Brighton in 2012 before going on to receive an MA in Fine Art Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2021. In her work she blends the digital and the handmade through her practice,
- [Silke Spitzer](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/silke-spitzer/) - Silke Spitzer studied traditional jewelry making at the University of Applied Arts and Design in Pforzheim, Germany. She received a DAAD Scholarship from the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 2002, graduated with a MFA in Jewelry Design. Since then, she has worked as an independent artist in Berlin, where she teaches at Coop Gold,
- [Daniel Widrig](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/daniel-widrig/) - After graduating from the Architectural Association Daniel Widrig worked for several years with Zaha Hadid where he was significantly involved in designing some of Hadid’s most iconic buildings and products. In 2009 he founded his studio in London. Daniel Widrig’s studio now works in a broad range of fields including sculpture, fashion, furniture design and architecture.
- [Marie Schumann](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/marie-schumann/) - Marie Schumann is an artist who lives and works in Zurich. In 2020 she was nominated for the Swiss Design Awards. In her works Schumann deals with production processes and and looks for unexpected and poetic moments that ask questions, show the old and bring forth the new. Marie Schumann's main interest lies in exploring how
- [Marie Eklund](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/marie-eklund/) - Marie Eklund is an artisanal woodworker based in Sweden. She creates unique handmade objects that embody a pure expression of the art of carving.
- [Marianne Johnstad](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/marianne-johnstad/) - Marianne Johnstad’s work is inspired by change; in the transition between light and darkness, between what is immediately visible and that which can be sensed only in deeper layers, in fluctuating moods and sensations.
- [Laurids Gallée](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/laurids-gallee/) - Laurids Gallée (*1989) is an Austrian designer who opened his own studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2017. While the designer names resin as his favorite material to work with to date, despite its non-traditional nature, he’s eager to continue experimenting with others. Gallée graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015. He worked in
- [Kristine Mandsberg](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/kristine-mandsberg/) - Kristine Mandsberg works as an artist on visual, sensory and spatial experiences, creating installations, decorations, objects and surfaces.
- [Laurin Schaub](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/laurin-schaub/) - Laurin Schaub is a ceramic artist from Bern, Switzerland, who creates everyday objects such as vases, bowls and plates from porcelain. Schaub is particularly interested in researching table habits, examining historical placemats and tracing symbolism and narratives. He creates everyday objects for the table. These differ in surface design, some are sanded, others glazed, for
- [Edu Tarin](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/edu-tarin/) - The Spanish goldsmith Edu Tarin lives and works in Idar-Oberstein. He grew up in Valencia as a son of jewellers and was trained in the family business. During his studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier in the field of gemstones and jewellery, he dealt extensively with the new technologies of jewellery design (such
- [Babette Wiezorek](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/babette-wiezorek/) - Babette Wiezorek lives in Berlin and works primarily with ceramic materials such as porcelain. She has been using additive and computer-aided manufacturing processes (3D printing) for several years. While still at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, Babette Wiezorek had studied the possibilities of ceramic 3D printing in detail.
- [Estelle Bourdet](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/estelle-bourdet/) - Estelle Bourdet is a Swiss-Swedish textile designer and hand weaver offering production, design and consultancy on textiles and materials for interior and product. She investigates the domestic environment by exploring the handcraft of textile making with a focus on analog weaving techniques and digitally processed motifs and patterns. With textile as main medium, she graduated
- [Jordan Artisan](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/jordan-artisan/) - After completing his education as a carpenter, and engineering Jordan Artisan decided to go on. He always felt the need to create, to use his creative and intuitive skills. Therefore he attended the Fine Arts at Academy St’ Joost, Breda and graduated in 2005 as an Autonomous Artist. Since then Artisan has worked with unconventional
- [Arno Hoogland](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/arno-hoogland/) - Arno Hoogland is an Amsterdam based artist and interior designer. With a background in design and woodworking he combines modern production techniques with traditional crafts and model making. Creativity and making has always been the red thread in his work. Through experimentation with movement, light, form and texture, his work explores human behavior within spaces and
- [Berenice Hernández](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/berenice-hernandez/) - Born in Mexico City in 1982, Berenice Hernández resides and works in Leksand. After completing her ceramic training in Mexico City, she pursued ceramics at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), and earned an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm (2020–2022). Hernández's ceramic sculptures and installations resemble miniature
- [Sverre Gullesen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/sverre-gullesen/) - Sverre Gullesen (born 1980, Mo i Rana, Norway) is a visual artist educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. He has previously worked with performance and social choreography, but since 2015 he has worked primarily with sculpture and reliefs in
- [Magnhild Kennedy](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/magnhild-kennedy-2/) - Magnhild Kennedy works with masks as autonomous works of art as well as action-objects. The mask is a place where different elements come together as a situation. The work is about this place-situation, more so than the mask as a theme or category of form. The mask is a place. Kennedy is led by the
- [Pettersen & Hein](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/pettersen-hein/) - Pettersen & Hein is a design practice founded in 2015 by the Norwegian artist Magnus Pettersen and the Danish furniture designer Lea Hein. The different background and the aim to collaborate are allowing the duo to investigate new practices and experiment, with beautiful results. The beauty of their works is a design without the typical
- [Jojo Corväiá](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/bodil-manz/) - Jojo Corväiá is an American Berlin-based artist. He studied architecture and other disciplines such as graphic design, photography, multimedia work and ceramics. His only tools are his hands, and this gives him the opportunity to get intimate with the material. In an introspective understanding of “life before death”, Jojo Corväiá’s pieces suggest to have life
- [Dovilė Bernadišiūtė](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/dovile-bernadisiute/) - The artist Dovilė Bernadišiūtė was born in Vilnius but is now based in Stockholm. Her jewellery is made through a process of casting and imprinting interior and exterior surfaces. She wants to establish a connection between the human body and the space around it. Bernadišiūtė has studied jewellery and design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie,
- [Martin Schatz](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/martin-schatz/) - Martin Schatz learned carpentry and studied product design. After graduating from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, he did design-historical research on the duration and transience of material culture at Hiroshima University.
- [Irina Razumovskaya](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/irina-razumovskaya/) - Born in the USSR, designer and artist Irina Razumovskaya creates modern as well as archaic forms from ceramics and simultaneously exposes them to a destructive process. The results are one-of-a-kind, fragmented and peeled off structures, which sometimes resememble wood, sometimes archaelogical findings. Razumovskaya studied ceramics and glass-design at the prestigious Royal College of Art in
- [Joseph Pintz](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/joseph-pintz/) - US-born designer Joseph Pintz makes functional and sculptural ceramic work that explores the role domestic objects play in fulfilling our physical and emotional needs. Inspired by his Midwestern roots and the working class, Pintz creates commonplace forms based on utilitarian vessels and other implements associated with the hand. The dense meaning of these objects is
- [Iva Viana](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/iva-viana/) - Iva Viana – Sculpture Atelier is born in 2013, in Viana do Castelo, as a personal creative space, and as a result of the will to explore, with absolute freedom and autonomy, the experience gained, namely related to the traditional technique of ornamental sculpture in plaster, creating signed works and pieces. Captivated by the traditional techniques
- [Maxime Louis-Courcier](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/maxime-louis-courcier/) - Maxime Louis-Courcier is a Paris-based designer, fascinated by objects, their multiple functions, and their mechanics. Maxime’s constant curiosity about everything and especially about how objects worked, led him early on to clearly understand the path that he wanted to follow. To create objects. Graduated from ENSCI Les Ateliers in 2018 and awarded a Red Dot Best
- [Maarten de Ceulaer](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/maarten-de-ceulaer/) - Maarten de Ceulaer is a designer and an artist from Belgium. The highly expressive, poetic and playful touch Maarten puts in his pieces is what makes his work remarkable. Through his objects he tells stories, evokes emotions, stimulates the imagination, and inspires wonder. Born in Belgium in 1983, Maarten de Ceulaer studied Interior design at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels.
- [Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/anna-maria-ofstedal-eng/) - Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng (b.1993) graduated with a Master in Product design from Oslo Metropolitan University, where she explored abstract, yet functional and aesthetic expressions in local materials, such as spalted birch and Norwegian blue clay. Her objects are developed intuitively and experimentally, in an aesthetic interaction between the hand and the machine. Her objects
- [Naama Haneman](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/naama-haneman/) - Naama Haneman is a London-based silversmith, member of Contemporary British Silversmithing. She is MA graduated with distinction from The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design (CASS) in London and graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. As an artist-metalsmith she believes creating in metal is equal to creating in
- [Håvard Homstvedt](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/havard-homstvedt/) - Håvard Homstvedt (b. 1976) lives and works in Oslo. Homstvedt received his artistic education from Yale University School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design. His paintings have been characterized by their textile-like surfaces and thoroughly treated canvases with varied materiality. He has simultaneously worked with multifaceted sculptural expressions, surreal painted bronze busts, idiosyncratic
- [Joseph Töreki](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/joseph-toreki/) - Joseph Töreki is a multidisciplinary artist from Germany with an enormous fascination for craftsmanship, technology and nature. After his vocational training as a graphic designer and working in an agency for many years, he started to teach himself metal and woodworking skills, followed by ceramics and 3D. One of his concerns is to translate and reinforce
- [Ward Wijnant](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/ward-wijnant/) - WARD’s work is characterized by experimenting with materials. It is his mission to interpret the diversity of techniques and materials and translate them in contemporary designs that pay attention to detail and finish. WARD wants to show how the materials, and the way in which they are processed, influence the shape. The element of surprise
- [Julien Feller](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/julien-feller/) - Julien Feller is a Belgian born sculptor. He studied for three years at the Institut Saint-Luc of Tournai where he succeeded brilliantly, having received multiple prizes from his art academy. While studying Julien trained under the carver Master Patrice Degand.
- [Orson Oxo Van Beek](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/orson-oxo-van-beek/) - Orson Oxo Van Beek is a Bruxelles-based Belgium designer, graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2019. Operating within the spatial design realm, the line of work he follows fluctuates between furniture, interior to scenography. These versatile disciplines are often linked in his approach to tackle a particular subject matter. While the furniture-oriented work delves
- [Troels Flensted](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/troels-flensted/) - Troels Flensted Studio is a Danish design studio founded with the desire to challenge materials and production processes. By exploring characteristics and expressions of materials he creates products which tell new and meaningful stories. His fascination lies in materials, colours and how things are made, and to find inspiration in the aesthetic and undiscovered possibilities
- [Lucia Massari](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/lucia-massari/) - Italian product designer born in Venice, Lucia gained a Master’s degree in product design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2009. While there, she studied under the tutelage of Martino Gamper and Jurgen Bey. She launched her eponymous studio in 2010, splitting her time between Venice and London. In 2013, she formally
- [Studio Melli](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/studio-melli/) - Studio Melli is an independent graphic design studio founded by Omid Nemalhabib and Mahsa Gholinezhad, currently based in Tehran and Rotterdam with a bold focus on multilingual typography and visual identity design. To gain a particular design language Studio Melli expresses itself by dint of exploring nature, visual culture, art, literature, philosophy, and the aesthetics
- [Joshua Kerley](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/joshua-kerley/) - Joshua Kerley is a British artist, designer and kiln-glass specialist, who’s practice is characterised by an experimental and progressive engagement with materials and process. In 2011, he completed his BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts degree at Falmouth University, and received an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art in 2019. Kerley has
- [Jonas Lutz](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/jonas-lutz/) - Jonas Lutz is a Finnish born designer and sculptor who is keenly interested in exploring the physicality of natural materials and creating objects that communicate a bold simplicity and tactility. In his project Void - Vessel Jonas explores emptiness as a means to create physical objects. Turning the age old process of slip casting
- [Lab La Bla](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/lab-la-bla-2/) - Axel Landström and Victor Isaksson Pirtti founded their design practice Lab La Bla in 2018 but their connection sparked way before that. The pair first met as toddlers in their native town of Luleå on Sweden’s Lapland coast, a remote region known for its subarctic climate, dense spruce forests, and history of iron mining —
- [Théophile Blandet](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/theophile-blandet/) - In Théophile Blandet's (1993, France) practice he focuses on new processes, skills and technologies. He focusses on the subversive value of plastic. Blandet's work revolves around materials that will no longer exist in the future - such as plastic, which he believes will be banned due to its negative impact on the environment. He sees
- [Manuel Canu](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/manuel-canu/) - Manuel Canu is a visual artist educated from Bath Spa University, England who lives and works in Denmark. The point of departure for his works is the historical use of nature by architecture as a reference, for example ornamentation. Over the years, Canu has produced ceramics and raw clay sculptural work, as the basis for
- [Zaratea Gården Hurtig](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/zaratea-garden-hurtig/) - Zaratea Gården Hurtig, originally from Norway, studied at the Royal Danish School of Design at the island of Bornholm and has a MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art.
- [Edmond Byrne](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/edmond-byrne/) - Edmond Byrne’s sculptural glasswork considers the concept of the environment most adeptly through the use of texture and colour. The work can take on the natural hues and qualities of autumnal leaf glows, the inner sheen of gemstones and the eroded patterns of the landscape. In his current work, new glass vessels carry marks
- [Christopher Riggio](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/christopher-riggio/) - The Canadian Christopher Riggio studied at the Concordia University, Montreal, in Sculpture and later on at the Royal College of Art, London, doing his Masters in Ceramics and Glass. Participating in diverse exhibitions in London over the years, he also works as an assistant to ceramicist Martin Smith and learned and worked alongside Hitomi Hosono
- [Anders Holen](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/anders-holen/) - Anders Holen’s sculptural installations can be viewed in the light of a new interest within the art world for the human body as a building material. However, his works stand out because of their almost baroque richness of detail. For Holen, the body, usually in a fragmented form, constitutes a sort of post-human ensemble along
- [Yoann Piccardi](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/fellows/yoann-piccardi/) - During a path passing through the applied arts, the fine arts and then textile design, this artisanal sector of reuse was developed by and for an utopian goal. This process transforms molded cellulose honeycomb trays (initially serving to transport eggs). This raw material is 100% recycled, 100% recyclable and 100% biodegradable and is also an

## Research projects

- [Manufakturen Guide](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/manufakturen-guide/)
- [Gentle Traveller](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/gentle-traveller/) - The Gentle Traveller One can imagine the Gentle Traveller as a romantic wanderer: he sees the aesthetic transformation of the world and fails miserably in his attempt to come to terms with tourism and its social and ecological consequences. The Gentle Traveller takes other paths as he sets off on his expeditions. He roams through
- [Manufakturenstraße](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/deutsche-manufakturenstrase/)
- [Solarschindel](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/solarschindel/) - Photovoltaikanlagen auf Hausdächern haben aus Gründen der Umweltbilanz eine große Zukunft. Sie bieten Unabhängigkeit von der Stromversorgung und verursachen nur einen Bruchteil der Umweltbelastungen fossiler Energieträger. Einen Nachteil haben die PV-Anlagen jedoch: Die aufgesetzten Solarmodule wirken auf Dächern wie Fremdkörper – optisch bleiben sie technische Anlagen, die sich nicht in das Gestaltungsprinzip verbreiteter Dachformen einfügen.
- [Urban Maker Club](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/urban-maker-club/) - The Urban Maker Club is a creative, high- tech workshop, giving the pupils access to materials, tools, and software. It also creates the possibility to have a creative community. It is affiliated to the school grounds and works as an outdoor studio.
- [Synaestetica](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/synaestetica/) - Das Projekt "Synaestetic Reality" erforscht das ganzheitliche Raumerlebnis. Auf der Basis der Erkenntnisse von Neuro-Architektur und Sensory Design nimmt das Projekt die emotionalen Qualitäten von räumlichen Umgebungen ins Blickfeld. Synaestetic Reality fragt nach den Möglichkeiten von Architektur, Design und Kunst, Atmosphären zu schaffen, die über das gewohnte Spektrum der Wahrnehmung hinausgehen. Neben der Gestaltung von Faktoren wie
- [Fachwerk Lab](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/fachwerk-lab/) - Das „Fachwerk Lab" untersucht die Potentiale, die das historische Holzfachwerk für die Konzeption von zeitgenössischen energieautarken Landhäusern bietet. Wie beim Degroth Pod liegt auch bei den Fachwerkhaus-Prototypen ein geometrisches, modulares Prinzip zugrunde, das die ökologischen Vorteile eines Fachwerk-Skeletts und dessen auf natürlichen Materialien basierende Ausfachung nutzt. Die Dacheinkleidung (teilweise auch die der Fassade) erfolgt über Solarschindeln, die einen Großteil
- [Craft Atlas Ethiopia](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/craft-atlas-ethiopia/) - Craft Atlas Ethiopia is an online platform which renders artists specialising in handicraft visible, whose cultural assets come from inside and outside Ethiopia; those artists who were merely visible before will be incorporated online and will be portrayed through photographs and descriptive texts, so that they become more accessible. Craft Atlas Ethiopia wants to facilitate
- [Call me Ornament](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/call-me-ornament/)
- [De/Pod](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research/de-pod/) - Das Forschungsprojekt „Degroth Pod" (kurz: De/Pod) beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung eines adaptiven Ultra-Leichtbau-Pavillons. Er eignet sich für temporäre Unterkunftssysteme wie Flüchtlingszelte, temporäre Schulen, Kioske, Glamping oder kleinere Ferienhäuser. Der Degroth Pod basiert auf einem geometrischen Grundprinzip, das von gotischen Rippengewölben und Spitzbögen inspiriert ist. Der Pod ist in seiner Grundform beliebig konfigurierbar. Die kleineste Einheit eines Pods kann

## Disciplines

- [Ceramics](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/ceramics/)
- [Furniture](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/furniture/)
- [Glass](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/glass/)
- [Jewellery](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/jewellery/)
- [Metal](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/metal/)
- [Textiles](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/textiles/)
- [Woodworking](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/woodworking/)
- [Design Lab](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/design-lab/)
- [Sculpture](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/sculpture/)
- [Visual Art](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/visual-art/)
- [Art](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/discipline/art/)

## Research series

- [Intangible Heritage](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/intangible-heritage/)
- [Design and Society](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/design-and-society/)
- [Future Refugia](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/future-refugia/)
- [Deutsche Manufakturenstraße](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/deutsche-manufakturenstrasse/)
- [Gentle Traveller](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/gentle-traveller/)
- [Manufakturen Guide](https://www.direktorenhaus.com/research_series/manufakturen-guide/)