DRIFT

BIOGRAPHY INFORMATION

DRIFT re-connects humanity with nature through technology.

Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded DRIFT in 2007. With a multi-disciplinary team of 64, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances.

DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it.

With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s works of art illuminate parallels between man-made and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes. The artists raise fundamental questions about what life is and explore a positive scenario for the future.

All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery does not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture. DRIFT brings people, space and nature on to the same frequency, uniting audiences with experiences that inspire a reconnection to our planet.

DRIFT has realized numerous exhibitions and projects around the world. Their work has been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum (2009, 2015); Met Museum (2010); Stedelijk Museum (2018); UTA Artist Space (2019); Garage Museum (2019); Mint Museum (2019); Biennale di Venezia (2015); Pace Gallery (2017) amongst others. Their work is held in the permanent collections of the LACMA; Rijksmuseum; SFMOMA; Stedelijk Museum; and Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2014, Drift was awarded the Arte Laguna Prize, Venice.

Awards

2019
/ Deezen Awards: Designer of the Year | Winner with the work Franchise Freedom

2015
/Dutch Design Awards | Nominated with Shylight

2014
/ Best piece of Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venezia (Flylight)
/ Artist in Residence ‘ART STAYS’, part of the Premio Arte Laguna Art Prize (Flylight)

2012
/ Finest light sculpture / Interieur, Kortrijk (Fragile Future 3)

2011
/ 1st Prize ‘ZomerExpo’ / Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands (Fragile Future 3.5)

2010
/ The Moet Hennessy Pavilion of Art and Design London Prize 2010 (Concrete Chandelier)

2008
/ International Design Prize ‘Lights of the future’ / German Design Council (Fragile Future)

2006
/ Art prize 2006, 1st Prize Stichting ArtiParti (Fragile Future)
/ Young Talent Award, Stichting MS Research (Fragile Future)

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