current exhibitions: “A Decade of Design” Design/Delight Shanghai - 2nd Edition Westbound Art Fair 2025/2026
A Decade of Design
A traveling solo exhibition by Victor Miklos Andersen, presented by Design/Delight, Westbound Art & Design, and K11, Shenzhen.
Shanghai: 13–16 November 2025
Shenzhen: March–June 2026
A Decade of Design marks ten years (2015–2025) of Victor Miklos Andersen’s sculptural furniture-making, material experimentation, and collaborative practice. Rather than framing the decade as a series of closed chapters, the exhibition traces an unbroken current of experimentation, a continuous conversation between object, maker, and environment. At its heart runs a timeline of sculptural chair experiments, forming a connective thread that both honors formative milestones and gestures toward new directions.
Over 22 existing works will be shown alongside three new pieces created in China, together revealing the evolution of Andersen’s signature technique, first developed in 2015 and continually transformed by time, place, and circumstance. The presentation expands beyond the physical object to include sound, video-game environments, film, public talks, and live material research throughout the exhibition period, inviting audiences to inhabit Andersen’s world from multiple angles.
Torn Together
Rubber Animal was showcased as part of Torn Together curated by Max Radford, as part of London Art Week 2025. The group show includes: Nicolas Zanoni, Flora Lechner, Pauline Leprince, Victor Miklos Andersen, LS GOMMA, and Kingsley Ifill.
Nuovo Gotico Veneziano / New Venetian Gothic
Venice Design Biennial 2025
Nuovo Gotico Veneziano responds to the overarching theme of VDB 25 Extinction–Salvation by staging a speculative scenario: a floating pavilion presented as a stage, imagining a hypothetical life after Venice’s partial submersion predicted in 2050.
The pavilion takes inspiration from the Venetian Gothic silhouettes of the palazzi, while simultaneously merging with the raw and durable materials of construction yards and shipbuilders, such as aluminum.
The pavilion is presented as a hypothetical unit for the preservation of post-flooded Venetian life. As a speculative prototype, the aluminum structure imagines a future role for Venice once the waters have risen: performers from the Centro Sperimentale of Cinema are going to explore this post-venetian possibility, by moving and floating on Miklos’s staging sculpture guided by the music and live performance of composer and guitarist Sviatoslav Avilov, expanding the pavilion into an immersive experience.
Curated – The Reality of The Virtual
Curated by Brecht Wright Gander Collectibles Brussels 2025
Rubber Animal was showcased as part of the Curated section, The Reality of the Virtual, which was a compelling highlight—especially for fans of experimental design. Standouts included works by Victor Miklos (Copenhagen), Studio Elena Genesio (Netherlands), Thilo Reich (Germany), and Mati Sipiora (Poland). A personal favorite was the work of Adir Yakobi, his “treasure box” and lamp from his Clam season collection, pink and otherworldly. The scenography was as strong as the work itself, pushing the conversation forward about how collectible design exists both materially and conceptually.
Sketches In Concrete
Rotterdam Biennial 2025
Sketches in Concrete was part of the Rotterdam Biennale 2025 and continues Victor Miklos’ investigation into the physical and emotional qualities of materials. First developed ten years ago with Reform Design Biennale and Krabbesholm, the technique aims to challenge how concrete is typically used and perceived. By casting it inside textiles instead of rigid molds, Miklos allows gravity and fabric to shape the material into irregular, human-like forms.
Using the structure of leggings as a mold, the work explores how a material usually linked to stability and control can also suggest softness and flexibility. The resulting “liquid nest” offers space for one person and reflects on the uniformity of modern concrete architecture and its link to feelings of isolation and predictability. During the installation, Miklos eats food produced through industrial processes, drawing a parallel between material production and daily routines. Sketches in Concrete invites reflection on how design and environment influence personal and emotional experience.
Speculative Evolution – Tranen Contemporary Art Center
November 2024
Victor Miklos Andersen’s Brut Nouveau is a bronze and aluminum chair that fuses botanical history with algorithmic design. Drawing inspiration from Flora Danica (1761–1883)—the world’s first national encyclopedia of plants—Andersen analyzes DNA mappings of Denmark’s endangered flora and translates them into generative floral structures. The work imagines how natural forms might evolve when guided by both biological memory and computational logic.
In the casting process, Andersen intentionally embraces unpredictability, allowing small “explosions” in the molten metal to interrupt and reshape the form. These material ruptures function as acts of “rewilding,” resisting human control and echoing the precarious state of natural ecosystems.
Presented as part of Speculative Evolution, an exhibition examining how rapid shifts in climate, biodiversity, and technology shape future life, Brut Nouveau stands as a meditation on nature’s resilience—and its uncertain transformations in the age of digital and ecological change.
You're driving me nuts!
Group show at Studio Hannibal, Berlin 2024
FLESH UPON IMPACT, exhibited at You're driving me nuts!, Berlin, is presented pierced by aluminum rods and tightly suspended between the sealing and the floor.
The flesh is frozen in the moment of impact. A reflection on peer pressure
The Mindcraft Project
2024 Edition
The Carcass Chair by Victor Miklos Andersen presents the culmination of investigations into how the merging of digital and physical processes can combine within contemporary craft. Developed in close collaboration with Italian designer Antonio Davanzo, the pair alternate between traditional sculpting techniques – evident through a sand-cast aluminium skeletal framework, alongside developments into 3D building techniques. Crafted within a digitally augmented workspace, the chair’s back and arms combine a fluid structure in 3D printed plastic with foam and rubber inserts. The final 3D printed form is then finished in a high-gloss car paint, providing a gradient of colour. Closely resembling the classic form of Hans J Wegener's Ox Chair, Andersen’s Carcass Chair highlights the contemporary methodologies and processes utilised throughout its creation.
Laguna Antropica
Lo Studio Nadja Romain X Venice Biennale Art 2024
For Laguna Antropica, Victor Miklos Andersen reimagines Venice as a site of hybrid evolution—where history, ecology, and technology merge. Raised near the lagoon, Andersen engages Venice not as a frozen heritage spectacle but as a living system of contradiction: facades locked in time, interiors quietly modern, nature pressing back against artifice.
His sculptural works combine algorithmic botanical forms, cast metals, carbon-fiber filaments, and rescued historic woods. Andersen embraces controlled chance—material ruptures, molten “explosions,” and organic irregularities—so the works appear to grow rather than be constructed.
Instead of depicting Venice, Laguna Antropica proposes a parallel ecosystem where objects are not decorative but alive with intent. In Andersen’s world, materials remember, mutate, and shape the future as much as the past.
Flora Bellica
An exhibition by Bloko748 X TABLEAU STUDIO at Grønnegade 41C
Within this exhibition, Bloko748 explores the role of 3D printing in warfare and its applications in the production of domestic weaponry.
The collection delves into the automation of modern warfare, featuring unmanned vehicles and autonomous weapons systems that reshape the dynamics of combat. It also examines the pervasive aestheticization of arms design, focusing on its compelling allure and display of might.
Open Process
Lo Studio Nadja Romain 2023
Rubber Chairs, Fauves, and other works by Blokos 748 –the duo of Victor Miklos Andersen and Antonio Davanzo – were featured in Open Process at Lo Studio Nadja Romain in Venice. The exhibition brought together artists, artisans, and designers to explore how making, technology, and collaboration inform artistic production today.
Set in Venice, a city long defined by exchange and craftsmanship, Open Process examined how cultural heritage and global histories continue to shape creative practice. Blokos 748’s sculptural pieces merged industrial and organic elements, balancing precision with spontaneity. Their work captured the show’s central idea: art as a living process shaped equally by material, context, and collaboration.
Morning Glory
Etage Gallery Copenhagen 2022
In Morning Glory, Victor Miklos Andersen reflects on the origins of his creative practice, revisiting the foundations of Danish design. He reinterprets classic industrial themes through a contemporary and expressive lens.
At the centre of the exhibition stands a bronze chair—a mythological reinterpretation of the Danish design icon—paired with an aluminium table and illuminated by the Rubber Cloud Chandelier, symbolizing transformation and renewal. Surrounding works, such as the Wallflower sconces from the Futura Danica series, combine amorphous aluminium shapes with bright lacquered finishes, exploring the relationship between nature and design.
Completing the installation, the Sea Wall Sofa, Tectonic Plate Table, and Urban Bodies vases extend the dialogue between organic forms and industrial materiality. Presented at Etage Projects in Copenhagen, Morning Glory celebrates warmth, vitality, and creative reinvention in a time of cultural and environmental turbulence.
City-Body-Flower
Unique Design SOLO BOOTH Paris 2022
Victor Miklos Andersen (b. 1992, Kalundborg) graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020. Actively questioning existing behavioral norms, his practice is rooted in an experimental and conceptual approach towards design. Informed by his passion for humanitarianism, Miklos Andersen thus introduces abstract elements into the language of design and constructs a contemporary aesthetic that is both materially and politically relevant to our time. Miklos Andersen currently lives and works in Jyderup, Denmark.
Something Smells Strange
Etage Projects Copenhagen 2022
The exhibition investigates the boundary between everyday function and abstraction, offering a range of “strange” designs: from egg lamps and oversized strollers with moving faces to bar stools morphing into distorted animal forms. Rather than providing answers, the works provoke questions – hybrid objects that blur the categories of human, animal, object, and machine.
In this context, Victor Miklos Andersen presents sculptural pieces that challenge familiar forms through speculative hybrid design, turning functional objects into uncanny, unclassifiable creatures. Meanwhile, Salomé Chatriot brings visionary installations infused with conceptual aesthetics and collaborative designs, merging her visual language with Andersen’s sensibilities. Together they co-create works such as These Places, the Coin-Operated Robot Gas Stations, a suspended, liquid individual combining their distinct styles into a unified, surreal form.
Curated by Sif Lindblad, the show situates itself within Etage Projects’ tradition of exploring unconventional design that is satirically critical rather than overtly practical.
The Endless Summer
Albertz Benda Los Angeles 2022
Highlighting new explorations from established and emerging voices at the forefront of their fields, The Endless Summer references the title of the seminal surf documentary from 1966 and channels similar themes of commitment to storytelling and dedication to one’s craft.
The Endless Summer marks the public debut of a monumental dining table set in brightly colored hues with exuberant curves by OrtaMiklos in celebration of the creative duo’s solo show on view in NY from February 24th to March 19th.
Relations
Friedman Benda Paris 2022
Friedman Benda is pleased to present Relations, an in-depth look into the creative duo OrtaMiklos and the designers Leo Orta and Victor Miklos Andersen. The exhibition offers insight into Orta and Miklos, who decided to separate this past year to develop their individual studio practices. Divided into three separate sections, works by OrtaMiklos alongside pieces from Orta and Miklos Andersen’s independent studios.
Relations captures this rare moment in the careers of these emerging designers by looking at how their approach to design has evolved while working as part of a collective and how that experience continues to shape their approach since leaving the partnership.
Hlèr
Etage Projects 2022
Hlèr is the personification of the sea in Nordic mythology. In the House of Hlèr, Aske Hvidtved and Victor Miklos have created an underwater mise-en-scène, where surplus rubber from the fashion industry has been turned into props, creating a stage for the absurd reality we inhabit as creators and consumers. The exhibition stages Hlèr as a fictive fashion sea survival brand for when the climate crisis will leave us with oceans that have overflown the planet. The brand reflects on the auto-exploiting nature of the system in place and how it collides with our wants and needs for change. In the grey area between the absurdity of fashion and the art world, House of Hlèr investigates the soft power that culture generates, often on behalf of economic interest.
Super Group
Superhouse NY 2021
Super Group 2 at Superhouse Gallery, New York, brought together international designers to explore the maxim form follows function. Each work transformed practical forms into sculptural interpretations, blurring the line between design and art.
Victor Miklos Andersen participated with Snowberry, a piece reflecting his ongoing exploration of material behavior and organic geometry. Balancing utility with abstraction, the work embodies his interest in how natural forms can emerge from industrial processes.
As part of Superhouse’s annual series showcasing emerging and established voices in contemporary design, Super Group 2 presented small-scale objects that redefined everyday function through experimentation, play, and craftsmanship.
Memory Foam
Superhouse 2021 Online Exhibition
Memory Foam was a virtual exhibition by OrtaMiklos, the duo of Victor Miklos Andersen and Leo Orta, presented by Superhouse and Friedman Benda. Combining sculpture, animation, and video game design, the show offered an interactive digital experience.
Created while Andersen worked from his childhood home in Denmark, the series of fourteen sculptural chairs reflected his fascination with memory, identity, and form. Each chair, named after a person who influenced him, echoed the curves of Denmark’s landscape and the emotional ties of place.
Through a custom video game developed with collaborators Guillaume Roux, Antonio Davanzo, and Kristian Anoldi, Andersen expanded his practice into the digital realm, transforming his sculptural objects into interactive characters that redefined the relationship between design, narrative, and virtual experience.
Self Portrait
Venice Design Biennial 2021
For the third edition of the Venice Design Biennial, SPUMA hosted the second part of Design As Self-Portrait. The exhibition investigated the increasingly important role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity, in the permanent swing between use and representation, reality and virtuality.
6 acts of confinement
Friedman Benda NY USA 2020
Friedman Benda is pleased to present OrtaMiklos: 6 acts of confinement, the first US solo exhibition of the French and Danish creative duo. In 6 acts of confinement, OrtaMiklos debuts a new body of work divided into six discrete scenes with each act representing a different emotional response to this current moment in time.
“It’s during a moment of lockdown that the mind wants to escape. Perhaps it escapes into forms that appear to be unknown, the same as where we feel our future is going,” says OrtaMiklos.
Since many of OrtaMiklos’ ideas begin in guerrilla performances, the additional objects are conceived as props for an intuitive theater of making, utilizing ad hoc sculpting and coloring processes. Through explosively energetic and imaginative objects, OrtaMiklos draw from a wide variety of references, such as body movements and contortion, graffiti, and animation. As a digital extension of the exhibition, OrtaMiklos has collaborated with digital artist Janis Melderis, composer Amédée De Murcia, and writer Richard Johnston Jones to realize a virtual occupation of the Temple of Dendur, the ancient monument that now sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Taking this currently unvisitable site as a stage of imaginative operation, OrtaMiklos and their team have created an arresting video, combining animation and performance, which confronts the alienating experience of the current pandemic.
Please visit https://www.templeofconfinement.com/ to access Temple of Confinement.
Temple of confinement
Virtual Performance X Janis Melderis – Friedman Benda 2020
As a digital extension of their first US solo exhibition opening at Friedman Benda, OrtaMiklos collaborated with digital artist Janis Melderis, composer Amédée De Murcia, and writer Richard Johnston Jones to realize a virtual occupation of the Temple of Dendur, the ancient monument that now sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Taking this currently unvisitable site as a stage of imaginative operation, OrtaMiklos and their team have created an arresting video, combining animation and performance, which confronts the alienating experience of the current pandemic. Ricocheting through the disturbing psychological terrain of the present, they also riff on the past – Pop Art and radical design practice – while giving some indication of their own future travel.
The project is set (virtually) within the Temple of Dendur, the famous – and famously displaced – Egyptian holy site that anchors the ancient collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Created at the behest of the Roman Emperor Augustus and dedicated to the goddess Isis, the temple was the result of cross-cultural movement even from its beginning. Its removal to the USA in 1965 is a fascinating episode in geopolitical history. And today, it could be seen as an emblem of sequestered culture. Though it can be seen by the public through the glass exterior of the Met’s Sackler Wing, it cannot be visited due to the Covid-19 crisis. OrtaMiklos responds obliquely but powerfully to all of these layered chapters of the site’s history, viewing it as a quintessential example of contested and mediated space.
Please visit https://www.templeofconfinement.com/ to access Temple of Confinement.
Kleureyck
Group show, Design Museum Gent, Gent, BE
Victor Miklos Andersen participated in Kleureyck: Van Eyck’s Colours in Design at the Design Museum Gent, part of the Van Eyck Year in Ghent. The exhibition examined the legacy of Jan van Eyck’s color innovations and their influence on contemporary design.
Following a “pigment trail” through Van Eyck’s eight color groups, visitors encountered around 100 works exploring how light, material, and pattern affect perception. Andersen’s contribution reflected his interest in the physicality of color and its dialogue with form and texture.
In the immersive “experience rooms,” eleven designers – including Andersen – translated color into multisensory experiences, demonstrating its power to engage sight, sound, and emotion in new and unexpected ways.
From Dusk to Dawn
Morph Groupshow, K11 Art Foundation, Guangzhou 2019
Decadence
Functional Art Gallery X Design Miami Basel, CH 2019
On the occasion of Design Miami/Basel, Functional Art Gallery is proud to present OrtaMiklos’ Decadence, a flamboyant series of mutant furniture-objects inspired by the painting “The Romans in their Decadence” by Thomas Couture.
In this exciting composition, ten objects form a Tablinum, in which four are paired to create a duality based on their forms, along with unusual colours and coatings that express the exuberant creativity of the two designers. For the occasion, OrtaMiklos’ post-modernist aesthetic has been twisted into wardrobes, armchairs, lamp-chairs and floor lamps that confront surrealism and baroque simultaneously. Finally, two objects form the centerpiece, where the artists propose a surrealist meeting around a daybed and coffee table, which could be a scene taken from a Lewis Carroll novel. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1MWhEnQmPw
Work Out Loud
In collaboration with Martine Rose and Hans Ulrich Obrist at Reference Berlin 2019
24-hour fashion and creativity festival Reference Berlin recently launched its first ever event, showcasing installations from labels including 032c, 1017 ALYX 9SM and Martine Rose, amongst others.
Elsewhere, Hans Ulrich Obrist presented an installation from Functional Art Gallery’s OrtaMiklos. This installation saw a cage of electrical chords with performers and musicians wearing pieces designed Martine Rose.
Bagnols Garden
Functional Art Gallery, Berlin 2019
Bagnols Garden explores a fictive setting drawing on the effects of the illegal sand mining crisis that is destroying natural habitats and ecosystems. OrtaMiklos envisioned an imaginary speculation depicting a series of furniture pieces that encapsulate the victims of this destruction.
Set in a surreal cityscape, the furniture pieces were paired with a performance that depicted the human relationship with the care of species past, as the phantasmic Adam and Eve tended to the fossils of the ecosystems that they had destroyed.
Each furniture piece in the show was informed by a species of plant or animal that is on the brink of extinction. Drawing on the natural beauty and mourning the loss of diversity, OrtaMiklos layers the symbolism of the Garden of Eden as a reminiscent origin of life as well as a stage for reflection on our current relationship with the Earth.
Dissolving Views
Morph group show, Salone Del Mobile, Milan 2019
The Study Room
OrtaMiklos Solo project – Collectible Fair, Brussels 2019
Victor Miklos Andersen, as part of the duo OrtaMiklos, presented new works from their Iceberg series in The Study Room at the Collectible Design Fair in Brussels. Organized by Functional Art Gallery for its debut at the fair, the exhibition brought together design and fine art in a space conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total artwork uniting multiple disciplines.
Andersen’s sculptural furniture pieces, including a desk, bench, bookcase, and chair, extended his exploration of form, function, and material transformation. Emerging from the Iceberg in Progress project first shown at Museo Marino Marini in Florence, these works balanced the organic and the structural, blurring boundaries between art and design.
Presented alongside pieces by Andy Warhol, Alex Israel, Donna Huanca, David Ostrowski, and a Dogon crocodile mask, Andersen’s contribution anchored the installation conceptually and materially. Through OrtaMiklos, he reaffirmed his commitment to creating hybrid environments where physical space, artistic dialogue, and imagination converge.
Iceberg in Progress
Museo Marino Marini FlorencexCarhartt WIP – Kaleidoscope magazineXPitti Uomo 95
Victor Miklos Andersen, as part of the duo OrtaMiklos, presented Iceberg in Progress at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence for Pitti Uomo 95, celebrating Slam Jam’s 30th anniversary. Curated by Kaleidoscope magazine in collaboration with Carhartt WIP, the installation transformed the museum into a live, performative environment.
The project consisted of six active “stations” – cutting, shaping, sketching, coating, weaving, and assembling – each animated by performers throughout the opening night. Within this setting, Andersen explored the physical process of making as a form of performance, merging industrial aesthetics with the improvisational energy of collective creation.
By situating the installation among Marino Marini’s sculptures, Iceberg in Progress created a dialogue between past and present, craft and performance. Supported by Functional Art Gallery, the project embodied Andersen’s interest in material experimentation and collaborative production as a living, evolving artwork.
La Totale
group show at Studio Orta – Les Moulins Paris 2018
Victor Miklos Andersen participated in La Totale, a large-scale collaborative project at Studio Orta – Les Moulins in France. Organized in two stages – a summer residency followed by an exhibition during FIAC 2018 in Paris – the project gathered forty international and multidisciplinary artists to explore the idea of the total artwork.
Hosted in the post-industrial setting of Les Moulins, founded by Lucy and Jorge Orta, the residency encouraged collective creation and experimentation across sculpture, design, performance, and digital media. Working alongside artists such as Salomé Chatriot, I. Perrault, and Stéphane Abitbol, Andersen produced new site-specific works that reflected his ongoing interest in material transformation and spatial interaction.
La Totale emphasized collaboration over commerce, offering an open platform for exchange and creative freedom. Its goal was to merge life and art through shared process, bridging generations, disciplines, and cultures in pursuit of a renewed sense of artistic unity.
Functional Art
Functional Art Gallery, Berlin, DE 2018
Victor Miklos Andersen, as part of the duo OrtaMiklos, took part in Functional Art, the first exhibition at Functional Art Gallery in Berlin. The show introduced the gallery’s focus on experimental design that challenges the line between art and function, featuring works by Théophile Blandet, Greem Jeong, Finn Meier, Dearthomas Barger, and BNAG.
OrtaMiklos presented pieces from their Iceberg series, including the Iceberg Armchair, which combines organic shapes with industrial materials. The work captured the spirit of the exhibition – design as an expressive, conceptual practice rather than a purely utilitarian one.
Material Migration
Performance at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017
Victor Miklos Andersen, as part of the duo OrtaMiklos, presented Material Migration during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The ongoing project investigates the relationship between humans and objects, exploring how the concept of migration can describe the movement of materials, cultures, and identities.
Described as a “library of moving textiles,” the performance used the human body as a platform to merge diverse cultural fabrics, colors, and patterns into a single mobile artwork. By turning clothing and motion into a living, collective installation, Material Migration examined how design can embody connection and transformation.
The performance unfolded across Eindhoven and within the Design Academy, engaging the public in a dialogue between material culture, movement, and belonging – an approach central to Andersen’s practice and his exploration of performative, cross-cultural design.
Uniform
Performance at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017
https://youtube.com/shorts/IKB9YRkaymc?si=2i3MUXCzS34dcWHP
Uniform
Performance at TV Clerici for the Salon Del Mobile, Milan, Italy, 2017
Victor Miklos Andersen, together with Leo Orta as OrtaMiklos, presented the performance Uniform at Palazzo Clerici during Salone del Mobile 2017 in Milan. Curated by Jan Boelen and organized by the Design Academy Eindhoven, the project was part of the symposium Curating Beyond the Collection, which explored new forms of exhibiting and mediating design.
In Uniform, Andersen used clothing and gesture as tools to question conformity, identity, and the codes embedded in design culture. The performance unfolded as a live dialogue between body and material, reflecting on how designers inhabit and challenge institutional frameworks.
The event featured discussions with figures such as Paola Antonelli, Aric Chen, Matylda Krzykowski, Justin McGuirk, and Alice Twemlow, situating Andersen’s work within a broader conversation about curating, performance, and the evolving role of the design museum. Photographs by Angeline Swinkels documented the performance.
https://youtu.be/Pxko9R1JMM4?si=Axcg0Sp3EC9amJq_