SEASON 02 — GROUND · Gallery 4 — Floor
From Residue to Form
When does something become waste, and when does it become material again? ECHO is a recurring exhibition exploring the potential of residual materials from industry. This edition: aluminium, sourced from Nedal Aluminium. 13 designers and artists work with what already exists, transforming the material into objects and spatial works.
Furniture designer and maker working under the name Studio Beeks. His practice focuses on honest construction and the inherent qualities of the materials he works with.
Studio Kars + Boom operates at the intersection of art and design, translating observations into colourful compositions, objects and installations. Colour, rhythm and material form the foundation of their visual language.
Message Maaike about Cynthia's work · Instagram — @karsenboom
Dutch-Canadian photographer working between photography and fine art. Her series Broad Daylight — photographs of street lighting poles as stand-ins for human presence — was born from a period of grief.
Message Maaike about Billie-Jo's work · Instagram — @billiejo.fotografie
Explores the relationship between technology, nature and perception. His work investigates how materials and objects can be experienced differently when removed from their original context.
Message Maaike about Ritsert's work · Instagram — @ritsertmans
Designer and maker whose work is grounded in material research and spatial presence. Not expression as a goal, but presence as a prerequisite.
Message Maaike about Frank's work · Instagram — @frank_penders
Initiator and curator of ECHO, working under the name Eenvoud Ontwerp. Her practice is rooted in the conviction that what already exists contains its own design logic.
Message Maaike about Maaike's work · Instagram — @eenvoudontwerp
ZOWA designs objects with a focus on material and simplicity. No superfluous components. No additional finishing. The material is worked until it achieves the desired appearance.
Product designer working with a hands-on collaborative approach. For ECHO, he focuses on flexible connections — designs that can shift and transform depending on the specific piece of residual aluminium available.
Message Maaike about Marc's work · Instagram — @marc.th.vandervoorn
Designer working with found and residual materials, using their existing properties as the starting point for form. Economy of means: doing as much as possible with as little as necessary.
Message Maaike about Jan's work · Instagram — @janwillemvanelten
Product and exhibition designer based in Utrecht, shaped by a deep interest in animism. He designs for permanence: objects that are unique in form, colour and material, and built to last.
Message Maaike about Jeroen's work · Instagram — @studiojeroenvanveluw
Studio Wantia is a design studio focused on graphic and playful pattern. For ECHO, aluminium tubes became an integrated weaving material — rigidity meeting tactility.
Message Maaike about Sophie's work · Instagram — @studio_wantia
Aluminium expert welder at Nedal. His work begins with the profiles that do not make it through quality control — pieces the production process refuses. He presents them as objects in their own right.
Message Maaike about Frederik's work · Instagram — @fre.wasseur
Craftsman and product designer working under the name EWOL — known for handmade electric guitars, each individually stamped. His practice is rooted in material honesty and the pursuit of form through direct making.
Message Maaike about Erwin's work · Instagram — @ewol_guitars