Today at 5pm (Amsterdam time), live on Instagram, @drooggallery. hosts the second artist in a series of talks: George Stamenov. You’re able to direct your questions directly to the artist, tune in!
In the coming months @droog invites a selection of artists from the exhibition Onward & Upward to talk about art! Every Wednesday at 5pm, we host an inspiring conversation with one of the artists through Instagram Live
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De culturele sector wordt hard geraakt door de pandemie. Theatermakers hebben nauwelijks werk vanwege beperkingen in aantallen bezoekers. @droog heeft ruimte genoeg in een van de mooiste gebouwen in het centrum van de hoofdstad. Daarom organiseert @droog lekker eten in combinatie met theater. Niet te lang, niet te kort, leuke makers. Iedere donderdag vanaf 29 oktober.
Programma (voorlopig)
29 oktober: Zomaargasten van Oscar Kocken en Patrick Nederkoorn. . De show waarin iedereen een hoofdrol kan spelen. Boek je tickets hier.
05 november: Leonora Carrington van Eva Bartels (vier sterren in Volkskrant). Boek je tickets hier.
12 november: Amsterdam Eet Door, wervelende talkshow over de Multiculinaire Samenleving. Onderwerp van de avond: het multiculinaire kookboek. Boek je tickets hier.
Er zijn twee dinervoorstellingen per avond 18 .00 en 20.30 uur. Voor de voorstelling serveren wij drie gangen heerlijk eten bereid door Sheila Struyck ism het droog-keukenteam. Sheila verruilde het pluche van Procter en Philips voor een plek achter de kachel. Onlangs haalde zij het felbegeerde diploma van koksopleiding Cordon Blue in Parijs. Op 12 november verzorgt Maureen Tan, schrijfster van de Bijbel van de Indonesische keuken, drie gangen eten uit de ‘Gordel van Smaragd’.
De kosten voor diner en theater bedragen € 50 euro inc een kop koffie of thee. Per shift zijn er slechts 30 plaatsen. Alles conform de richtlijnen van het RIVM. Er zijn nog enkele plaatsen beschikbaar.
Ps. Als je op de hoogte gehouden wilt worden van het programma, stuur dan een mail naar [email protected] onder vermelding van THEATER@DROOG.
Come visit the exhibtion to find comfort and joy in these uncertain times. Because of the exhibition our Amsterdam store is closed. But don’t you worry, you can still satisfy your design cravings through our webshop!
Artists:
Anthony Goicolea, Anya Janssen, Charlotta Östlund, Desirée Dolron, Driessens & Verstappen, Dora Lionstone, Elspeth Diederix, Emily Bates, Emma Prempeh, George Stamenov, Hugo Rocci, Joana Choumali, Jorge Mañes Rubio, Levi van Veluw, Margaret Lansink, Margriet van Breevoort, Mike Pelletier, Niek Hendrix, Sethembile Msezane, Sophie Ruigrok and Yi-Fei Chen.
ASA Vegan Sushi will take place @droog during the exhibition ONWARD&UPWARD, elevating the surreal feel of this healing, cleansing and refreshing garden experience, with her deceivingly fish-looking sushi.
Sunday 25 October: Sushi platter To Go Pick up between 15.00 – 17.00
Unfortunately the terrace is closed, but you can still drop by for your daily coffee to go and sit outside on the wooden benches at Groenburgwal . Hope to see you soon!
From October 2, @droog is hosting ONWARD&UPWARD – Art in the Garden of Life.
The group exhibition shows art as inspiration, guidance and solace in a life full of uncertainties.
The immediate cause for the exhibition ONWARD&UPWARD, which is curated by Droog’s co-founder Renny Ramakers and fashion designer Liselore Frowijn, is the unpredictable present we find ourselves in. However, have there ever been times full of certainty and security? The concept of ONWARD&UPWARD looks beyond COVID-19 to reflect on the insecurities and pitfalls of life, on the strength and power of life. Whatever happens, we must carry on moving ‘onward’ and ‘upward’ using all the means at our disposal.
The exhibition is on show in our gallery spaces from 2 October to 17 January 2021.
“We must cultivate our garden”, Voltaire wrote at the end of his novel Candide. In other words, let’s do what is in our power to bring change and improvement to the world by starting close to ourselves. In line with this, you could say that, in order to grow ‘onward’ and ‘upward’, we need art that brings us close to ourselves.
The scenography of the exhibition, designed by Liselore Frowijn, is a surreal garden. A garden is continuously evolving and in need of constant care. The garden is a visual feast, but it can also contain poisonous plants and roses with mean thorns. Unwanted elements keep popping up too: fungi, weeds, dead leaves. Yet it is the place that moves you, gives you comfort and joy, a place that both gives peace of mind and puts you to work.
The art that appears in this scenography leaves aside the major social issues. First comes the visual power of art, poetic art, art that moves us, art that comforts us, art that gives hope and love, art that makes us happy, art that embraces us, evokes emotion, art that inspires and stimulates us… art that is close to our skin, art on a human scale. But also, art that in this context astonishes, scrapes, stings and offers unexpected points of view. In short, art that guides us to deal with uncertainty.
Artists
Anthony Goicolea, Anya Janssen, Charlotta Östlund, Desirée Dolron, Driessens & Verstappen, Dora Lionstone, Elspeth Diederix, Emily Bates, Emma Prempeh, George Stamenov, Hugo Rocci, Joana Choumali, Jorge Mañes Rubio, Levi van Veluw, Margaret Lansink, Margriet van Breevoort, Mike Pelletier, Niek Hendrix, Sethembile Msezane, Sophie Ruigrok and Yi-Fei Chen.
ONWARD&UPWARD is open from Wednesday till Sunday from 11.00 to 18.00 hrs.
Droog launched at Milan design week in 1993 with an exhibition of work by young Dutch designers selected by Ramakers, a writer and curator, and Gijs Bakker, a designer.
In sharp contrast to most other Milan exhibitions at the time, the objects presented were rough and unrefined, made from repurposed materials and found objects.
Droog co-founder Renny Ramakers. Portrait by Wendelien Daan
The exhibition caused a storm and established Droog as one of the world’s leading platforms for cutting-edge design.
“At a certain moment, I became bored. I thought: ‘I’m not interested anymore in what I do’. And then suddenly I saw very young designers coming up with something totally different.”
“They looked at the design world in a totally different way,” she continued. “They were not interested in styling, in refined products. They made things from scrap food, from used materials. They didn’t do decoration or whatever. And the products were so beautiful. I found a new kind of aesthetic.”
Before Droog, “everything looked the same”
Droog, which means “dry” in Dutch, was a reaction against two very different approaches to design that were prevalent at the time, Ramakers said.
On one hand, there was the highly decorative, postmodern approach espoused by the likes of the Memphis Group, which had gained in popularity throughout the 1980s.
On the other, many designers were trying to ape the success of British designer Jasper Morrison by creating extremely simple products, according to Ramakers.
You Can’t Lay Down Your Memory chest of drawers by Tejo Remy was one of the designs Droog presented in Milan in 1993
The work Droog presented was completely different from both.
“Without the postmodern movement, it couldn’t have happened,” Ramakers said. “And also, without Jasper Morrison, it couldn’t have happened either.”
“[Morrison] was so influential that at the beginning of the 90s, when you went to Milan, everyone was making simple products: simple chairs, simple tables, either in wood or in metal or plastic. And it was so boring. It was so boring because it was just simple furniture. And everything looked the same.”
Droog combined “rough design with storytelling”
Ramakers made the comments while presenting a diverse range of Droog products and exhibitions, as well as other projects she’s been involved in throughout her career.
Knotted Chair by Marcel Wanders was presented by Droog in Milan in 1996
Influential Droog designs she presented include Tejo Remy’s You Can’t Lay Down Your Memory chest of drawers, which was first shown at the 1993 Droog exhibition in Milan. It comprises a series of found drawers held together by a belt.
According to Ramakers, what unites the Droog designs and makes them stand out is that they each have a story behind them.
“Before that time, design didn’t have a real narrative,” she said. “It was about form and function. And here you saw designers talking about daily life and making a connection with daily life. And I thought: ‘I can make a group out of it. I can make a group of products designed by these young designers.”
“There were interesting stories,” she added. “So it was the culmination of a rough kind of design with storytelling.”
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 RhizomeDiana 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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]
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