Ego at DRIFT in Carré

2021

In June the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam opened its doors for a unique collaboration with DRIFT, exploring the synergy between theatre and visual art. On the majestic theatre stage, EGO, the large kinetic sculpture, was performed as the final stop of the exhibition tour.

“Art has the power to connect people. We notice how important that is, especially in times of crisis. We feel a great need to continue to reach the public physically.” - Lonneke Gordijn, DRIFT artist.

 

Franchise Freedom AT NASA

Franchise Freedom is represented by Pace Gallery & THERME ART PROGRAM

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a custom edition of Franchise Freedom, lifted off at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex with a live music performance by Duran Duran. The Franchise Freedom performance marks a tribute to iconic shifts in technology, back then and now, that positively impact the evolution of mankind. 

Created with Intel® technology.

 

EGO - THE MAKING OF

EGO is represented by Pace Gallery

EGO is a time-based sculpture, portraying the perspective of a human, and how our hopes, truths, and emotions are a direct result of the rigidness or fluidity of the mind.

Created for the opera production of L’Orfeo by Monteverdi, in co-production with Nederlandse Reisopera, and in collaboration with Dance Company Nanine Linning.

 

Materialism - the bag project 

materialism is represented by Pace Gallery

 

Materialism - The bag project is part of the Materialism series, an ongoing research project that explores the de-construction” or “de-production” of everyday objects. The project , visualizes the physical amount of plastic that exits each Albert Heijn supermarket on an average day in Eindhoven.

 

Franchise Freedom a flying sculpture 

Franchise Freedom is represented by Pace Gallery

 

Franchise Freedom - a flying sculpture by Studio Drift is a performative artwork at the interface between technology, science, and art. An autonomous flying swarm of 300 drones, Franchise Freedom exposes the tension between individual freedom and safety in numbers.  Music composed and played by Joep Beving.

 

Walkthrough Stedelijk Museum 'Studio Drift: Coded Nature'

Studio Drift: Coded Nature, showed an overview of 10 years exploring fluctuating relationships between nature, technology and mankind. In addition to early work, the exhibition featured new and previously unseen work. In total the presentation comprised eight room-filling installations, together with a selection of films, sculptures, prototypes and models. 

Stedelijk Museum, 25 April 2018 – 26 August 2018. Press release More information about the exhibition: stedelijk.nl

 

Short documentary Studio Drift: Coded Nature

We follow the Dutch duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta – the founders of Studio Drift – while they are preparing themselves for their first ever museum solo in the Netherlands. The exhibition Studio Drift: Coded Nature was on view in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam until August 26, 2018. Film by Xinix Films 

 

DRIFTER at the Armory show in New York

DRIFTER IS REPRESENTED BY  PACE GALLERY 

 

Drifter calls on the viewer to reconsider our relationship with our environment, which is often accepted as static and lifeless. 

Technology partner: SkySpirit

 

TREE OF TÉNÉRÉ

Tree of ténére IS REPRESENTED BY PACE GALLERY. Debut performance at BURNING MAN 2017

 

The Tree of Ténéré is an interactive light sculpture with 175.000 led's, referring to the strongest natural symbol of life flourishing in the most difficult circumstances. The Tree of Ténéré is a collaboration between Zachary Smith, Alexander Green, Mark C. Slee and Studio Drift. 

 

MEADOW A PERMaNeNT SCULPTURE IN PRAGUE

 

Meadow is an interactive site specific installation. Most man-made objects have a static form, while everything natural in this world including people, are subject to constant metamorphosis and adaptation to their surroundings. Meadow is the result of the question how an inanimate object can mimic those changes that express character and emotions.

 

Studio drift with Semblance selected as key innovators by AD

A film by James Harris / Jose Gomez for Architectural Digest 2016

 

Studio Drift's first major outdoor commission called Semblance. 14 falling and retracting pieces, dancing over 25 meters in the centre of London. Find them at Citizen M London Bridge.

 

The making of FLYLIGHT 

flylight is represented by carpenters workshop gallery

 

A film about how and why we create Flylight. This film shows the development and production of a commission in Miami.

 

www.studiodrift.com Studio Drift is part of the group exhibition ‘Glasstress 2015 Gotika’ during the Venice Biennale 2015. We present our new site specific installation In 20 Steps on Murano at the Berengo Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum Sint Petersburg. An installation about the movement of Flight. 'Glasstress 2015 Gotika' Venice Biennale 9 May - 22 November, 2015

IN 20 STEPS at the venice art biennale 

in 20 steps is represented by pace gallery

 

A film about Studio Drift exhibiting at ‘Glasstress 2015 Gotika’ at the Venice Biennale 2015. We presented our new site specific installation In 20 Steps on Murano at the Berengo Foundation curated by the State Hermitage Museum Sint Petersburg. An installation about understanding the human desire of Flight.

 

The making of Shylight at the rijksmuseum

Shylight is represented by pace gallery

 

A film about the creation and making of our Shylight installation in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam the Netherlands. 

 

the making of Fragile Future

Fragile future is represented by carpenters workshop gallery

 

A film about how and why we create Fragile Future. This film shows the production of our first ever museum piece. At MAD in New York.

 

http://www.studiodrift.com/projects/commissions/pad-paris The Pavillion of Art+Design (PAD) affirms its role in the international Contemporary Design scene by commissioning, with the support of HSBC, a work by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of Studio DRIFT for the entrance of the fair. This occasion is a premiere in many ways. It is in fact the first time that a work is created in situ for PAD. Studio DRIFT will create a new version of Flylight for the occasion, in spectacular dimensions never shown before. Flylight is a poetic and interactive light installation, monumental and fragile, that is inspired by the movement of flocks of birds, illuminating and deploying patterns at the discretion of the viewer. This installation will welcome and greet each visitor, creating a breath in the entrance area, an invitation of vibrating light, and confirms PAD’s will to be a ‘lieu à vivre’. Studio DRIFT fondly remembers their first appearance at the PAD in 2009 when the prototype of their "Fragile Future", was revealed to the public in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery and immediately caught the attention of prestigious collectors. This work also won the PAD London 2010 Prize and within this prize donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. This collaboration is therefore a natural continuation for PAD, with artists who shape the forms and values of Decorative Arts of the XXI century with sensitive and intuitive work that seeks to find a balance between design, nature and technology. HSBC partners with PAD in this project within their framework of assistance and support to young art talent. By this action, and on the occasion of this 17th Parisian edition of the fair, HSBC also shows that their partnership with PAD illustrates the common goal of linking education and culture, heritage and future. PAD March 27 - April 1 Jardin des Tuileries Paris, France

Flylight at Pad Paris 2013

flylight is represented by carpenters workshop gallery

 

The Pavillion of Art+Design (PAD) commission, with the support of HSBC, Flylight, a work by Studio Drift for the entrance of PAD Paris 2013.