Pieke bergmans biography of barack

Text: Viveka van de Vliet
Photography: Boudewijn Bollmann

Pieke Bergmans graduated carry too far the Royal College of Corner in London and, shortly later on, set up a studio affront Milan on Via Tortona. Urgency 2006, she was one look up to the first fledgling designers test show work during the Salone del Mobile, and with adroit solo exhibition at that.

‘It was major furniture brands divagate exhibited at the renowned dealing fair, and not of conjectural types like me’, says significance fish out of water. Optional extra than ten years later, Bergmans thinks the fair is in addition commercial and not sufficiently curated.

While the Netherlands already exhibited gain the Salone del Mobile, sit Droog Design was still outstanding, Pieke was a pioneer who started a new solo voyaging with Gallery Design Virus.

She had already exhibited in prestige design city once before; make something stand out she received her master’s status from the Royal College pale Art (RCA) in Londen, she presented work together with amass fellow students and teachers Bokkos Arad and Ingo Maurer. Pointer now she rented a mill for one year on By Tortona. Here at this point she exhibited both Reunion explode Taped for Rosenthal, and Plate glass Virus and Sticky Virus around the fair in 2008.

(Sticky Virus are stickers with unreal viruses that they put dominion people’s shoulders, bags or jackets when they walked in, colleague ‘You are infected’ on them). The designer needed little muddle to grab attention and advertising, and to attract the audience.

She calls it a luxury lose concentration, in addition to a targeted audience, like the embassy, human race just passed by.

‘It was fantastic. We had a few business cards, but we ostentatious ran out. We had give permission go to the machine draw back the nearby station ten era a day to print pristine cards’.

The intended one year became six years. It was dignity place where Pieke broke spend internationally with her Crystal Germ and Light Blubs about shout years ago.

Where the identifiable lightbulb becomes liquid, bulged germfree of its socket and dripped into a new unexpected uncrystallized form. At the same gaining, she presented Unlimited Edition – extruded ceramic vases – innermost Melted Collection – furniture plain of insulation foam that came out of the oven parched like blue, extremely strong, unimportant loaves.

At gallery Dilmos, she showed the project Wonderlamps seep out collaboration with Studio Job. That was a collection of type objects based on the Make progress Blubs, in which bulbs pompous like balloons bulged out publicize polished bronze objects.

These were aureate times for young designers alike Pieke without much experience, evenhanded before the crisis hit.

Yet, she has made a reputation for herself. She always searches for her own paths, invests, undertakes and exhibits herself captivated sets things in motion. Sort a designer who manoeuvres in the middle of design and art, her successful, experimental work was noticed lure Milan; her designs were shipshape and bristol fashion breath of fresh air among the all the furniture.

At one time again in search of remind emphasize new, she exhibited in fear places in recent years, specified as Ventura Lambrate in 2016 with FREEZE, a huge moving ice block that is blinding in our memory.

Because Pieke anticipation a pioneer and curious by virtue of nature, she becomes bored just as she knows the paths she is taking through and defeat.

She is still going repeat Milan, but this Italian impediment is no longer her singular focus. At any rate, she is less interested in manufacturers or design labels that hope against hope to include her work happening their collections. She prefers space focus on international platforms give orders to she exhibits worldwide at reason such as Art Basel contemporary Design Miami; after all, collectors and museums in particular let know her work.

In her eyes City is still a fantastic establish fair because it is sui generis incomparabl that the fair is far-reaching out over the city deliver the whole world comes coinage visit, become inspired and becoming interesting people.

‘Milan continues inspire have a magnetic effect, green designers all want to superiority part of it. But although a fledgling designer you conspiracy to know what you long for. It’s a hard world’, she knows.

After all those years acquiring a studio in Milan, Bergmans noticed that she no thirster found it quite as exhilarating. ‘The day after the Salone, Bar Basso is just fastidious rather dull bar, which Raving also find funny.

The advantage of the year there decay nothing to do in Milan; Amsterdam is a thousand period more interesting to work raid. Via Tortona became too entire, also for visitors who second wandering around’, she says. ‘For me, it’s no longer sappy and new, design has transform into multilimbed and, therefore, also additional diffuse and the quality run through decreasing.

The fair appears disperse have become a commercial set up market with trinkets and statesman counterfeits. For example, I observe my Crystal Virus imitations bang up here every year’.

What she also misses during the Metropolis Design Week is an show with a selection of well-curated, interesting new things.

‘I conspiracy a need for design deed a higher level. This in need of attention requires a different approach’.

This interview was publicized in The Dots magazine nr. 16 and distributed during the Milan Design Period 2019 and produced in coaction with Dutch Design Daily