Hella Jongerius
Guest at Moviment
Hella Jongerius (1963, the Netherlands) is one of the world’s leading designers, known for her research-driven approach and vigorous work on uniting craftsmanship and industrial production, infusing mass produced objects with imperfection, sensibility and character.
She founded her Jongeriuslab design studio in 1993, and has worked on commissioned projects for Vitra, Maharam, the interior design of the Delegates’ Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters and the cabin interiors for the Dutch airline KLM. She has also initiated many independent projects, with exhibitions at the Design Museum London (2017), Die Neue Sammlung at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2017), the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (2018), Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2019) and Gropius Bau in Berlin (2021). Jongerius’s work can be found in the permanent collections including the MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Die Neue Sammlung and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
Since 2009 she has lived and worked in Berlin.
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© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
![Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Sophie-Henriette Taeuber, dite), Quatre espaces à croix brisée [1932]](/_elastic_filemount/media/picture/fb/30/fb30495596ee70fc014d3b6cca5ebe83/thumb_large.jpg)
Domaine public. Photo © Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. Rmn-Gp
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
In this first chapter, the exhibition showcases geometric abstractions.
The selection comprises works by some of the leading artists in the genre, such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Max Bill, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly and Vera Molnár. They represent the long history of these visual studies, in which mathematical considerations are as important as the systems of repetitions, the variations or the quest for the basic structures of objects.
As a counterpoint, the almost cartographic reminiscences of Andrea Branzi and Julie Mehretu’s subtly rearranged places echo, a century later, the drawings and engravings of Wassily Kandinksy inspired by his wanderings between Russia and Germany during the Bauhaus/Weimar years (1921–1925).
"Points and lines" also encompasses Maurizio Nannucci’s big neon Red Line, Hella Jongerius’ experiments with textiles, the echoes of pain in Moshe Gershuni’s wreaths, and other works without any apparent reciprocal link, which are touched on here.
Continuous exhibition
Guided tour with curator – Sunday, 7 May 2023
