Joris Laarman

• Born in 1979, Borculo, The Netherlands
  Lives and works in The Netherlands

Education

• 2003  Design Academy Eindhoven (cum laude), Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2018
  Joris Laarman Lab: Gradients, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston US
  Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age , High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  
  2017
  Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age , Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, US
  
  2015
  Joris Laarman Lab, Groninger Museum,  Groningen, The Netherlands
  Joris Laarman Lab, Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
   
  2014  
  Joris Laarman Lab: Bits & Crafts,  Friedman Benda Gallery,  New York, US
  
  2013
  Solo exhibition, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US
  Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, Italy
   
  2012
  Solo Exhibition,  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
   
  2010
  Joris Laarman, Friedman Benda Gallery,  New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2019
  Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Japan
  Designs for Different Futures, Philadlphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  La fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  An Accelerated Culture, Friedman Benda, New York, US
  
  2018
  Design et Merveilleux, Musee d'art moderne, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
  When Attitude Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, US
  
  2017-18
  Mind the Digital, Design Society, Shenzen, China
  NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2017
  Minding the Digital, Design Society, Shenzhen, China
  Printing the World, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Le Grand Detournement, Galerie Poirel (CNAP), Nancy, France
  DNA10, Friedman Benda Gallery, NYC, US
  Wood, Revisited, The Centre for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, US
  Channeling Nature by Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  3D Print: NOW!, Cube Design Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
  Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Mutation-Creations/Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidiou, Paris, France
  3D. Print the world. Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
  Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
  
  2016
  Dutch Art & Design, The Penthes Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  2016-17
  Prototype/Production, The Museum of Fine art, Houston, US
  Lightoptia, Center for Arts and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
  
  2016
  Lightoptia, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
  
  2015-6
  New Dutch Masters, Chateau de Penthes Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
  Lightopia (traveling exhibition), Hofmobiliendpot Vienna, Austria
  Out of Hand, Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney, Australia
  Atoms + Bytes: Redefining Craft in the Digital Age, Bellevue Ars Museum, Bellevue, US
  
  2015
  Crosscurrents, Design Miami/Miami, Friedman Benda, Miami, US
  Berlage, Godfather of Dutch Design, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  A 21st Century Show Home, Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, Swiss Institute, New York, US
  Lightopia (traveling exhibition), Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
  How We Work, Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  What is Luxury, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, Museum of Modern Art,  New York, US
  
  2014-5
  Collection of Ideas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  2014
  GO3D, Museum voor Communicatie, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  Dragon Bench, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Sense Nonsense, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Slow Tech, WOW-Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Van stoelen bezeten, Gorcums Museum, Gorchum, The Netherlands
  What would Mrs. Webb do? A Founder’s Vision, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
   Lightopia (travelling exhibition), Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
  
  
  2013-14
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Rovereto, Espoo, Finland
  Out of Hand: Materializing the Post Digital, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
  Archilab 9: Naturalizing Architecture, FRAC Centre, Orleans, US
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Museum of Modern Art Finland, Helsinki, Finland
  
  2013
  Save the Arctic Project, in collaboration with Greenpeace, The North Pole
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
  Anti- Gravity Object Modeling, Institude of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain
  The Future is Here, a New Industrial Revolution, Design Museum, London, UK
  Biodesign, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Reopening 2013, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Harrie Tillieprijs, Cuypershuis, Roermond, The Netherlands
  Light-Exhibition, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
  Archilab 2013, Centre Pompidou/ Frac Centre Orleans, Orleans, France
  Contemporary Jewelry, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  
  2012
  Topstukken, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Winter Groupshow, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US
  DESTRØY DESIGN, The Taipei ne Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  New Acquisitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  Bio.23, Museum of Architecture and Design,  Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Dutch Design - House of Orange, Royal Palace Oranienbaum, Germany
  
  2011-12
  Water, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
  New Energy in Design and Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
  
  2011
  Now, Perceptions of Time and Contemporary Design, Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the everyday (traveling exhibition), MAK Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the everyday (traveling exhibition), Kunsthal Stuttgart, Stuttgart, The Netherlands
  Ideen sitzen, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
  Modern by Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  New Energy in Design and Art, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Creative Junctions, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
  Material World, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
  100 Masterpieces of Design, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Temporary Stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  New Acquisitions, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
  Over leven, Grenswerk art festival, Enschede, The Netherlands
  Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, US
  Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel
  High Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Grenswerk (art festival), Enschede Boijmans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
  2010
  European Design Since 1985 Shaping the New Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
  Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Kunsthal Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, The Netherlands
  Action! Design over Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Hyper:Links between Architecture and Desin, Art Institue Chicago, US
  EcoDesign, Helsinki Exhibition and COnvention Centre, Helsinki Finland
  Utopias of Everyday, Porzelanikon, Selb, Germany
  The State of Things, Design and the 21st Century, Design Museum Holon, Israel
  European Design since 1985: Shaping the New Century, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation, 21_21 Design, Tokyo, Japan
  Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  
  2009
  Design High, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
  European Design since 1985, Shaping the New Century Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US
  Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
  Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain
  
  2008
  Design and the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US 
  Rococo: The Continuing Curve, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, US
  Family of Form, Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Small Show. Huge Talent, by Janice Blackburn, London, UK
  
  2007
  Design contre Design, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France 
  Nature Design: From Inspiration to Innovation, Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
  Designtide, Tokyo, Japan
  Rotterdamn Antwerpt: 400 Years of Design in Rotterdam, Historic Museum of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Rotterdam Design Port, Milk Gallery, New York, US
  Human Touch, The New Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
  Design Prijs Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
  2006
  Simply Droog: 10 + 3 years of creating innovation and discussion, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
  Bone Series, Design Miami, with Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design, Miami, US
  Ideal House, The International Furniture Fair IMM Cologne, Germany
  GEBORDUURD exhibition, Textiel Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands  
  Cut for Purpose, Fruitport studios, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Human Touch, Droog Design Exhibition, Shanghai, China; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
  Design Museum London, Traveling European design show 
  Mutations Ceramiques, Musee de la Ceramique de Rouen, Rouen, France
  MISS/FIT, Pure Austria Design, Vienna, Austria
  
  2005
  Over de Mensen en de Dingen, Museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
  Biennale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Chateauroux, France 
  Arco 12, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design, Museum Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
  New Dutch Designers, Droog Design Gallery, The Netherlands
  European Design, Design Museum London, UK
  The Value for Money, Exhibition of Droog Design, Stakhanov ceramics, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy 
  Chi ha paura…? Exhibited Credit Brooch. Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy 
  Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  100 jaar Arco, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  
  2004
  Go Slow, Droog Design, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
  Concrete Poetry, Design Academy at the Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
  Improvisare, Chelsea Hotel, New York, US
  Just what it is. Lille 2004, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France
  10 + 1 Years Simply Droog, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  
  2003
  Ceramics exhibition, Bijenkorf Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Graduation show, Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Lekker Decadent, Museum Princessehof Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
  Painfully Beautiful and Ivy, Traveling Exhibition
  Reinventing Functionality, The NAI (Dutch Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Selected Awards

• 2016
  Amsterdam Prize of the Arts
  
  2013
  Harry Tillieprijs nomination
  
  2011
  Wall Street Journal Innovator of the year
  
  2009
  Woon Award
  
  2008
  International Elle Decoration award
  
  2007
  Woon award
  
  2006
   Red Dot design award
  
  2004
  Interior Innovation award, International furniture fair in cologne  
  
  2004
  Young Designer of the Year award, Wallpaper magazine
  
  2004
  Domestic product of the year (heatwave)
  
  2004
  Winner of the Brabantse spelen competition Hertogenbosch
  Nomination (Heatwave), Domestic Product Design of the Year. Wallpaper Magazine
  Interior Innovation Award 2004. The International Furniture Fair, IMM Cologne
  Red Dot design award
  Winner of the Brabantse spleen competition Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  
  2003
  Rene Smeetsprijs nomination

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
  MoMA , New York, US
  Centre Pompidou, France
  Cooper-Hewitt, US
  FNAC, France
  Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
  High Museum Atlanta, US
  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
  Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Spain
  Houston Museum of Fine Arts, US
  LACMA, Los Angeles, US
  Vitra Design Museum, Germany
  Museum voor Communicatie, The Netherlands
  Art Institute of Chicago, US
  Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Museum Kunst Paviljoen Groningen, The Netherlands
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, US
  Museum of Art and Design, NYC, US
  Boymans van Beuningen, The Netherlands
  National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, US
  Droogdesign collection, The Netherlands
  Museum of Modern Art Den Bosch, The Netherlands
  DSM art foundation, The Netherlands
  Textiel Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands
  Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
  Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
  Museum of Rouen, France
  Centraal Museum, The Netherlands
  Milwaukee Art Museum, US
  Indianapolis Museum of Art, US
  CNAP, France
  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, US
  Musee des arts decoratifs, Paris, France
  Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel