With her solo exhibition STIMULI, the designer Patrycja Domanska provides personal insight into her work methods. In addition to a selection of realized projects, new products will also be seen for the first time. 
19.10.2016—14.5.2017
Creative Climate Care Gallery
The objects encounter one another in a variety of settings in a display conceived of by the designer. The three-dimensional works are accompanied by representations of the products, which are confronted with “stimuli” and central themes from Domanska’s creative process.
 
The definition of inspiration is always individual. For Domanska it is a process that takes place in the unconscious mind long before it actually becomes a “tool.” Everyday urban objects can act as “stimuli,” as can nature or images from the Internet. Patrycja Domanska collects, prepares, and revises these visual or haptic stimuli into leitmotifs for her projects by way of abstraction. Lightness, freedom of movement, and modularity are a central ambition in this process.
 
The exhibition contrasts object and “stimuli” as two independent components of the work of a designer. Visitors are invited to delve into the intimate moment of the creative process and to explore the interplay of everyday stimuli with Domanska’s subjective perception.

Curator: Marlies Wirth, MAK Curator

Artist Talks

with Patrycja Domanska and Marlies Wirth, exhibition curator
Tue, 13. Dec 2016, 6 p.m.
Tue, 14. Feb 2017, 6 p.m.

 

EXHIBITION SERIES
APPLIED ARTS. NOW

A cooperation between MAK and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

The exhibition series APPLIED ARTS. NOW intends to provide a platform for contemporary forms of applied arts in order to generate greater visibility for especially interesting positions taken by graduates from the University of Applied Arts living and working in Austria.

 

EXHIBITIONS
APPLIED ARTS. NOW

Patrycja Domanska. Stimuli
19 Oct 2016 - 14 May 2017
Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time
20 Apr – 2 Oct 2016
Alfredo Barsuglia. Cabinet
4 Mar – 10 May 2015

Valentin Ruhry. Grand Central
8 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015
soma Architecture
13 May – 14 Sept 2014
Lisa Truttmann. My Stage is Your Domain
19 Jun – 6 Oct 2013
Marco Dessí. Still Life
30 Jan – 5 May 2013
taliaYsebastian. The Committee of Sleep
3 Oct 2012 – 6 Jan 2013
Stiefel & Company Architects. Faux Terrains
23 May – 16 Sep 2012
Patrick Rampelotto. Adventures in Foam
25 Jan – 6 May 2012