This comprehensive retrospective traces the influential career of designer Hella Jongerius. Visitors can explore her critical approach to making and caring for everyday objects through four thematic chapters. The display features a diverse array of furniture, textiles, and ceramics drawn from her extensive archive.
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This retrospective exhibition traces the career of influential designer Hella Jongerius, exploring her critical approach to making, using, and caring for everyday objects. Featuring over 400 works from her extensive archive, the show examines themes of materiality, sustainability, and the sensory narratives embedded within design.
Hella Jongerius has long been a leading figure in contemporary design, known for her ability to blend critical inquiry with poetic sensibility. 'Whispering Things' is the first major comprehensive retrospective of her career, bringing together early experiments from her time with the Droog Design collective alongside her celebrated product designs and recent sculptural ceramics. The exhibition serves as a profound investigation into the role of the designer in a world already abundant with objects, questioning how we might foster a deeper appreciation for the things we produce and inhabit. Drawn from the designer’s extensive archive, which has been housed at the Vitra Design Museum since 2024, the show features a diverse array of furniture, textiles, ceramics, sketches, and prototypes. The exhibition is organized into four distinct thematic chapters that guide visitors through Jongerius’s evolution. 'Dirty Hands' examines her formative interest in material behavior and the interplay between craft and industry. 'Business Class' explores her collaborative work with major international companies, revealing the negotiation and reflection involved in industrial design. 'Feeling Eye' focuses on her dedicated research into color, light, and tactile phenomena, while 'Cosmic Mind' considers the agency of nonhuman beings and our connections within a broader cosmological context. Together, these rooms offer a nuanced view of a design language rooted in complexity, layering, and the expressive power of the handmade.
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