Participants in the exhibition get a diploma and their contributions will be presented together with the jury’s verdict in the exhibition catalogue. Contributions will be shown on the exhibition which will tour in Sweden and abroad for a year and a half. The jury has the possibility to award scholarships to exceptional applicants. Read more here >>
Mapping the country side of Småland...
The seminar series Design Research in the Gallery will explore this, materially, verbally and in action during 2016. The invited design researchers will do talks, workshops, installations or activist-events open to the public. By facilitating these meetings the aim is knowledge making and creative exchange between the participants / visitors.
Going into the second part of the seminar series Design Research in the Gallery, it can be confirmed that the aim of knowledge-making and creative exchange have been successfully met in the first five seminars. During the fall of 2016 the series will continue to explore the junction between design research, the gallery and the home – materially, verbally and in action, through the work of four new researchers.
The series starts on September 4th with Gunnel Pettersson, artist and senior lecturer at the School of arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University. Link for more detailed information.
Petra Lilja is taking part in three different exhibitions in Finland during the summer of 2016. Objects of Desire at Design Museo, Helsinki, is showing a selection of limited edition and unique pieces from international designers working conceptually. Galleri Lokal, Helsinki is showing a satellite version of the Kasvu / Tillväxt / Growth exhibition at Onoma, Fiskars Village. Work from the whole collection of 1+1+1 objects are displayed. 1+1+1 is a collaboration between Petra Lilja (SE), Aalto & Aalto (FI) and Hugdetta (IS). Thanks to a grant from Iaspis, Petra will to travel to Finland for the exhibitions.
Petra Lilja got a grant from Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme for Visual and Applied Artists! The grant allows for her to travel to Finland where she is part of three different exhibitions during the summer of 2016:
Objects of Desre at Design Museo, Helsinki - Galleri Lokal, Helsinki - Kasvu / Tillväxt / Growthat Onoma, Fiskars Village
The Nordic design group 1+1+1, Hugdetta (IS), Aalto+Aalto (FI) and Petra Lilja Design Studio (SE), is exhibiting their new collections at Beirut Design Week.
Photo: Hugdetta design studio
One year has passed since Petra Lilja Design (SE), Hugdetta (IS) and Aalto+Aalto (FI) exhibited their first collaborative object – a lamp – at Design March, Reykjavik. two more Scandinavian design weeks later they launched their fourth object along with exhibiting the whole collection at renowned SPARK DESIGN SPACE during this years Design March in Iceland. Each design studio produced 9 candle holders in three parts (not knowing the others shape, materials or techniques) and displayed all possible 27 combinations, which along with the mirrors (launch at Stockholm Design Week in February) are for sale at the gallery.
Article from DEZEEN.
1+1+1 website.
1+1+1 is an experimental collaboration between established designers from three Nordic countries – Hugdetta from Iceland, Petra Lilja from Sweden and Aalto+Aalto from Finland.
During Stockholm Design Week the group launched their third volume – a collection of mirrors at Il Caffe Söder, February 9-13, Tue-Fri 8-10, Sat 9-19.
The 1+1+1 project examines and re-imagines objects by having each studio design an object consisting of three distinct parts and then mixing the parts up into unpredictable combinations.
1+1+1 is a rare kind of collaboration with no compromises as each studio designs their objects according to their own philosophy. Combining the different parts into new combinations is an almost brutally concrete form of cooperation.
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Friday November 27th the design exhibition Irrational Times by Petra Lilja and Kosmos Project (PL) and curator Magdalena Popławska will open in Malmö, Sweden. Read more about Irrational Times here.
„Irrational Times” is a Polish-Swedish exhibition of contemporary design based on found similarities in Slavic and Swedish culture, observed through saved elements of material culture as well as legends and myths from 6th to 10th century of our era. The objects exhibited are created by Petra Lilja Design studio based in Sweden and Kosmos Project studio based in Poland. The curatorial team is working on the project by leading constant dialogue, and is made of polish curator Magdalena Popławska and participants of the exhibition. First presentation will take place in Kalmar Konstmuseum in Sweden 22.10-22.11.2015.
Irrational Times project is financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Polish Institute in Stockholm.
Partners of the project: Kalmar Konstmuseum, Form/Design Center in Malmö, Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polish Institute in Stockholm – in the frame of Polish Leadership in the Council of the Baltic Sea States, Embassy of Poland in Stockholm, Embassy of Sweden in Warsaw.
Media partners: Design Alive, Form Magazine, FUTU, TVP Kultura, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Materialiści.pl, Kulturaonline.pl
As a guest exhibitor, Petra Lilja showed three objects made from straw at the the exhibition Hjemelighed in Copenhagen. The exhibition brought together various artists, designers and crafts people during the biannual craft event Kunsthåndverksbiennalen in town.
The straw objects are a touch down in Petra’s phase of getting to know straw as material. Part of the research was the discovery of the hanging mobiles called “oro” (worry), an old traditional model common in farm houses in the south of Sweden in the 19th Century. In her experimentation, Petra’s aim is to combine the straw with contemporary methods, techniques or material to find new expressions and suggest contemporary usage of this traditional material.
Johan and Anna-Linda in action last week at Boda Glass Factory. Love this place
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Petra Lilja (SE) Hugdetta (IS) and Aalto+Aalto (FI) launched cabinet designs at Helsinki Design Week, Sept. 2015. The cabinets are the second object to be mashed up by the designers in their common project 1+1+1 Nordic Mash Up. The first part (lamps) was launched earlier this year at Design March in Reykjavik.
Petra Lilja is part of the exhibition Map of the New Art, Imago Mundi, showing in Venice Italy. The Swedish collection, Archive of visions and actions, is curated by Paula von Seth and on display at Cini Foundation August 31 – November 1, 2015.
The exhibition Emerging Tendencies in Scandinavian Design is an exhibition curated by Swedish designer and curator Petra Lilja. In cooperation with the Embassies of Sweden and Finland in Romania, the exhibition is displayed during the Romanian Design Week, an annual event in Bucharest that promote design and architecture. May 16th to 24th, 2015.
The exhibition shows a selection of design objects that represent three strong tendencies in the contemporary Scandinavian design scene: designers working with small-scale and artisan production, designers working conceptually rather than commercially and designers that bring together social commenting with design at the frontier of art.
Many of the emerging designers of Sweden and Finland are interested in contemporary artisanship and although their work honor craft and reflect it’s traditional values it also seeks new meaning of it’s own.
– As a curator, I’m interested in bringing these tendencies forward in order to inspire designers, producers and consumers. The storytelling behind the objects reveals the thinking and making of products and make them more than just materials and shapes. By using local resources of production and materials the designer has the potential to create unique design, full of stories – one way forward towards a sustainable future, says Petra Lilja.
Designers: Aalto+Aalto (FI), Andréason & Leibel (SE), Company (FI), Daniel Svahn (SE) Folkform (SE), Jenny Nordberg (SE), Anu Penttinen (FI), Kristoffer Sundin (SE), Lisa Hilland (SE), Louise Hederström (SE), Minna Palmqvist (SE/FI), Som Supawan (SE), Stina Löfgren (SE)
Emerging Tendencies in Scandinavian Design is made possible by the collaboration between Petra Lilja, The Embassy of Sweden in Bucharest, The Embassy of Finland in Bucharest, The Institute and Fiskars.
Petra Lilja’s first table mirror “Portal/Steps” made of ashwood is sold at renowned Stockholms Auktionsverk online auction of contemporary art and design.
”Stairs” a collection of vases and mirrors by designer Petra Lilja for Made & Merged is exhibited at Salone del Mobile – Swedish Design Goes Milan. In this new collection, archetypal form meets symbolism and industrial production meets local materials and craftsmanship.
14th–19th of April, 2015
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Petra Lilja will give a short speech, representing the jury of the Swedisch competition Ung Svensk Form when this years will open at Form/Design Center in Malmö Saturday April 2nd, 14-16.
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Designer Petra Lilja exhibited at Design March, Reykjavik, Iceland for the third year in a row. March 12th-15th, 2015. This time in the exciting project 1+1+1 by five Nordic designers.
1+1+1 is an ongoing, experimental collaboration between designers from three countries. Hugdetta from Iceland, Petra Lilja from Sweden and Aalto+Aalto from Finland have all designed a table or floor lamp consisting of three separate parts – a pedestal, a leg and a shade. Although the points where one part joins into another have been decided on together, each design remained a complete mystery to the others until the group meet up in Reykjavik for the Design March festival. The lamps where mixed up together and exhibited at Hotel Alda, March 12th-15th. It was be unpredictable, probably awesome, possibly a catastrophe – but the revealed end-results where a success. All five designers are very happy about the interesting process and 1+1+1 will tour the design weeks of Helsinki and Stockholm during the following year. For each new venue, a new object in three parts and 27 combinations will be designed, ending up with a Nordic mash up collection of objects.
The three original lamps. From the left: Hugdetta, Iceland, Petra Lilja, Sweden and Alto+Alto, Finland.
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Hugdetta, Iceland
Alto+Alto, Finland
Petra Lilja, Sweden
The three lamps built up by three parts each can make a total of 27 combinations.
The designers of 1+1+1: Elina & Klaus Aalto, Róshildur Jónsdóttir & Snæbjörn Stefánsson and Petra Lilja.