- Hella Jongerius -

Hella Jongerius

Netherlands — b. 1963

Available Works

Bead Bulb - Hella Jongerius - Table light - Galerie kreo

Hella Jongerius

Biography

Designer Hella Jongerius (1963) has become known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and the contemporary. After graduating from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 1993, she started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, through which she produces her own projects and projects for clients such as Maharam (New York), KLM (The Netherlands), Danskina (The Netherlands), Vitra (Basel) and Royal Tichelaar Makkum (The Netherlands). Hella Jongerius’s research on colours, materials, and textures is never complete. All her questions are open-ended, and all her answers provisional, taking the form of finished and semi-finished products...

Designer Hella Jongerius (1963) has become known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and the contemporary. After graduating from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 1993, she started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, through which she produces her own projects and projects for clients such as Maharam (New York), KLM (The Netherlands), Danskina (The Netherlands), Vitra (Basel) and Royal Tichelaar Makkum (The Netherlands). Hella Jongerius’s research on colours, materials, and textures is never complete. All her questions are open-ended, and all her answers provisional, taking the form of finished and semi-finished products. These are part of a never-ending process, and the same is essentially true of all Jongeriuslab designs: they possess the power of the final stage, while also communicating that they are part of something greater, with both a past and an uncertain future. The unfinished, the provisional, the possible – they reveal traces of the creation process, and the potential of materials and techniques within the attention for imperfections. Through this working method, Jongerius not only celebrates the value of the process, but also engages the viewer, the user, in her investigation.

Her work has been shown at museums and galleries such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York), MoMA (New York), the Design Museum and The Victoria & Albert Museum (London), also Moss Gallery (New York) and Galerie kreo (Paris) for who she designs several pieces such as the « Gemstone Tables » in 2013.

In 2017, Hella Jongerius received the Sikkens Prize.

Photo credits: © Markus Jans

Solo Shows

Hella Jongerius - Chromatic Sequences
Solo Show

20 July - 23 September, 2017

Hella Jongerius - 56 | natura design magistra
Solo Show

04 April - 30 May, 2009

Hella Jongerius - cupboards
Solo Show

10 September - 29 October, 2005

Group Shows

Hella Jongerius - PAD Paris 2025
Fair

02 April - 06 April, 2025

Hella Jongerius - PAD London 2024
Fair

08 October - 13 October, 2024

Hella Jongerius - Design Miami/ Basel 2024
Fair

10 June - 16 June, 2024

Hella Jongerius - TEFAF New York 2024
Fair

09 May - 14 May, 2024

Hella Jongerius - PAD London 2023
Fair

10 October - 15 October, 2023

Hella Jongerius - Design Miami/ Basel 2023
Fair

12 June - 18 June, 2023

Hella Jongerius - TEFAF New York 2023
Fair

11 May - 16 May, 2023

Hella Jongerius - PAD Paris 2023
Fair

29 March - 02 April, 2023

Hella Jongerius - New beginnings
Group Show

10 January - 04 March, 2023

Hella Jongerius - step by step
Group Show

16 September - 05 November, 2022

Hella Jongerius - chez soi
Group Show

07 April - 16 July, 2022

Hella Jongerius - PAD Paris 2022
Fair

06 April - 10 April, 2022

Hella Jongerius - fiac! 2021
Fair

20 October - 24 October, 2021

Hella Jongerius - Design Miami / Basel 2021
Fair

20 September - 26 September, 2021

Hella Jongerius - artmonte-carlo 2021
Fair

15 July - 17 July, 2021

Hella Jongerius - kamel mennour x Galerie kreo @in Provence
Off-site event

15 May - 01 September, 2021

Hella Jongerius - @home new chapter
Group Show

23 March - 08 May, 2021

Hella Jongerius - @home
Group Show

12 December, 2020 - 22 March, 2021

Hella Jongerius - Lucas Ratton x kamel mennour x Galerie kreo @Paris
Off-site event

11 December, 2020 - 01 April, 2021

Hella Jongerius - 20 years
Group Show

25 September - 24 December, 2019

Hella Jongerius - TEFAF Maastricht 2019
Fair

16 March - 24 March, 2019

Hella Jongerius - Design Miami / Basel 2018
Fair

12 June - 17 June, 2018

Hella Jongerius - TEFAF Maastricht 2018
Fair

08 March - 18 March, 2018

Hella Jongerius - THE SALON 2017
Group Show

09 November - 13 November, 2017

Hella Jongerius - Didier Lavier
Group Show

13 September - 04 November, 2017

Hella Jongerius - TEFAF Maastricht 2017
Fair

09 March - 19 March, 2017

Hella Jongerius - silvershadow
Group Show

01 February - 18 March, 2017

Hella Jongerius - PAD London 2016
Fair

04 October - 09 October, 2016

Hella Jongerius - One piece a day
Group Show

12 September - 22 October, 2016

Hella Jongerius - Design Miami / Basel 2016
Fair

13 June - 19 June, 2016

Hella Jongerius - summer solstice
Group Show

26 May - 05 August, 2016

Hella Jongerius - FOG Art+Design San Francisco
Fair

13 January - 17 January, 2016

Hella Jongerius - Réunions de familles
Group Show

20 November, 2015 - 30 January, 2016

Hella Jongerius - Eclectic matches
Group Show

06 November, 2015 - 23 January, 2016

Hella Jongerius - shades of variety
Group Show

25 March - 23 May, 2015

Hella Jongerius - Only wood
Group Show

05 November - 20 December, 2014

Hella Jongerius - To be continued
Group Show

30 October - 20 December, 2014

Hella Jongerius - des formes utiles
Group Show

17 September - 30 October, 2014

Hella Jongerius - contrast control
Group Show

06 September - 31 October, 2014

Hella Jongerius - convergences
Group Show

21 May - 26 July, 2014

Hella Jongerius - O.K.
Group Show

22 March - 01 June, 2013

Hella Jongerius - Autour du cou
Group Show

29 November, 2012 - 19 January, 2013

Hella Jongerius - Ensemble
Group Show

12 October - 24 November, 2012

Hella Jongerius - Techniques mixtes, dimensions variables
Group Show

23 May - 28 July, 2012

Hella Jongerius - Tandem
Group Show

12 January - 03 March, 2012

Hella Jongerius - matières à réflexion
Group Show

10 February - 15 May, 2011

Hella Jongerius - 10 printemps en automne
Group Show

12 September - 31 October, 2009

Hella Jongerius - combinaison
Group Show

13 June - 25 July, 2009

Hella Jongerius - transition
Group Show

29 November, 2008 - 24 January, 2009

Hella Jongerius - 16 new pieces
Group Show

13 September - 22 November, 2008

Hella Jongerius - Tabourets
Group Show

08 September - 13 October, 2007

Hella Jongerius - zero compromise
Group Show

21 April - 26 May, 2007

Hella Jongerius - Vases
Group Show

02 December, 2006 - 20 January, 2007

Hella Jongerius - Miroirs
Group Show

15 November - 20 December, 2003