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2022

3478 Gouda Maakt
Gouda 750 Jaar From 6 April to September 2022, the exhibition 'Expo Gouda Makes' offers an inspiring platform for stories, conversations and connections between young and more…
3499 WaterSchool Cabinet of Curiosities
Monday 14 November 2022 the KNAW and the Akademie van Kunsten i.c.w. Studio Makkink & Bey open an exhibition dedicated to water in all its more…
3487 WaterSchool Design Fest Gent
WaterSchool is part of Design Fest Ghent from 22nd of April untill 1st of May 2022, located in the Design Museum. Design Fest Gent is more…
3491 WaterSchool, Alcova Milan
WHAT DO WE NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH – TO START BEING HUMANE AGAIN? In WATERSCHOOL’s Garden of Delight, human presence is not immediately perceptible. It more…
3463 World Expo Dubai, WaterSchool
The Dutch Pavilion at the World Expo Dubai shows an installation of WaterSchool. The installation is the result of research by Studio Makkink & Bey more…

2020

8414 Aangespoeld (Stranded)
The Cheesemaker has been part of the exhibition 'Aangespoeld' (Stranded') in Het Kunstgemaal in Bronkhorst. Designer Marc de Groot curated a group exhibition, inspired on more…
3472 WaterSchool in Xiongan
Invited by Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR), Studio Makkink & Bey joined the renovation plan for one of neighbourhood centres in the new area more…

2019

3420 Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum Dordrecht
Studio Makkink & Bey designed the exhibition In perspective for the Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum (the national museum of education) in Dordrecht. The exhibition shows the most more…
WaterSchool at Atelier Luma in Arles, France
In May 2019, WaterSchool was presented at the “A School of Schools” exhibition at Atelier Luma. Atelier Luma is a think tank, a production workshop more…
WaterSchool in Milano
Studio Makkink & Bey presented the WaterSchool during the Fuorisalone Milan 2019 in fabulous Alcova, a former factory building. The ex-industrial space is partly taken more…
WaterSchool in Taipei Taiwan
From the 24th of April to the 5th of May 2019, the WaterSchool was part of the C-Lab (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab) project “School On more…

2018

3418 Land[E]scape exhibition in OCT Gallery in Shenzhen, China
The exhibition Land[E]scape in the renowned OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen, China takes place from 29th of September 2018 until 6th of more…
3425 Waterlab NAP
With the opening of the monument ‘Deltawerk //’, designed by RAAAF +Atelier de Lyon, it is celebrated that Waterloopbos is now a Rijksmonument. Natuurmonumenten organises a more…
3414 WaterSchool IABR Rotterdam
The WaterSchool is a working exhibition to develop a future school which will be opened in the heart of the M4H district in Rotterdam, in more…
3426 WaterSchool Istanbul
The WaterSchool, a self-initiated project of Studio Makkink & Bey, was invited to be present at the 4th Design Biennial in Istanbul. WaterSchool is more…

2017

3388 Food Revolution 5.0 MK&G Hamburg
The exhibition Food Revolution 5.0 sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: What will we eat in the more…
3399 Love is love JP Gaultier Montreal
Love Is Love features a spectacular audio-visual and musical design that celebrates Jean Paul Gaultier’s boundless imagination and twenty years of haute couture. The more…

2016

3365 JP Gaultier München
Installation made for : Jean Paul Gaultier From the sidewalk to the catwalk, Exposition Kunsthalle Munchen 18. September 2015 - 14. February 2016 more…
3364 Temporary Fashion Museum Collected By...
From 13 September 2015 until 8 May 2016, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL Exhibition design by Studio Makkink & Bey Graphic design by Sandra Kassenaar There can be more…
3355 Verrassende Vondsten #5 Dressed by Architects
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled Surprising Finds. more…

2015

3349 Jean Paul Gaultier Grand Palais Paris
Installation in the first Room for the exposition: "Jean Paul Gaultier - de la rue aux étoiles" at The Grand Palais de Paris. Wednesday April 1st more…
3355 Verrassende Vondsten #3 The Netherlands Builds in Bricks, #4 Monuments to Peace
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled Surprising Finds. more…

2014

3308 Conceptroom
TextielMuseum Tilburg commissioned Studio Makkink & Bey to develop a vision of the interior of the future. In conceptroom Huisraad, Studio Makkink & Bey depict a more…
Jurgen Bey's pick at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Designer Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery featuring classic and contemporary shelving systems that display objects chosen by friends and more…
3309 Living Spaces
Living Spaces, an exhibition tracing a hundred years of textiles in Dutch interiors, opens in the TextielMuseum on 8 February 2014. A series of conceptual more…
3298 The Seven Sins
In the exhibition The Seven Sins, Studio Makkink & Bey takes the famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch, bearing the same name, as a starting point more…
3355 Verassende Vondsten #1 Summer Dreams, #2 Nightbirds
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled ‘Surprising Finds’. more…

2013

8480 Tokyo Fantasy Room For Working
On show in the Creative Lounge in Tokyo Japan: Earchairs, Worksofa's, one SideSeat, one KadE Chair and a Vacuum Cleaner Chair, stools and aprons - more…

2012

3284 Project Room Lost In Translation
The exhibition design 'Lost In Translation' shows industrial materials that become the frame of a house, and self-build becomes the norm. Domesticity is detached from more…
3285 WerkStadt Vienna in Engaging the City
Commissioned by Vienna Design Week in cooperation with the MAK, from 6th September to 16th September. The traveling exhibition relocates to the MAK Exhibition Hall more…

2011

3235 INDUSTRIOUS|artefacts, the evolution of crafts
Guest curators Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey address the evolution of production processes and small industries through the work of Dutch and international designers. Industrial developments more…
8458 OVERLAP - an exhibition about art and design
What happens when the functional design object meets art? Two of Studio Makkink & Bey's designs were shown at the OVERLAP exhibition:The knitted chair, made more…
8459 Poetry Happens
Instalation of WashHouse at Poetry Happens in Milan more…
3253 WashHouse Art Object Rotterdam
Installation of the Wash House project at Art Object Rotterdam 2011 more…

2010

3204 Cityscapes
Three scenarios present connections between general culture and car culture. The imprints of mobility on the landscape have been substantial since the arrival of the more…
3210 Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
The Internet has undoubtedly transformed the world we live in; its unprecedented access to and layering of information lead to greater interaction and engagement, and more…
3214 Polderscape Glasshouse for Sotheby's NY
This drawing of a Polderscape shows a typical Dutch polder: a gridded topography that closely resembles its real-life rendition. Our studio's projects, products, small pavilions, more…

2009

3175 DMY Berlin
In several crate cabinet designs by Studio Makkink & Bey, a shipping crate is transformed into a cabinet; a by-product transformed into a finished piece more…
3193 Happy Families
The Happy Families exhibition shows the entire story of Studio Makkink & Bey and our design philosophy, which is largely based on personal relationships, connections more…

2008

3137 Living with Things
In the Arched Gallery the studio presents a selection of its oeuvre. This selection, or 'Household' is a result of the subject of the exhibition more…

2007

3100 Designing Critical Design
Z33s' 'Designing Critical Design' brings together three designers who have all established an international reputation as a critical designer. Jurgen Bey (Nl), Anthony Dunne and more…
3105 Stockholm Liljevalch
The exhibition: The Hands On Movement – crafted form in dialogue aims, with a sense both of generosity and delight, to present a new way more…
3111 Tangible Traces Sao Paulo
The traveling exhibition Tangible Traces – Dutch Architecture and Design in the making, was designed by Studio Makkink & Bey and premiered at the 7th more…

2006

4040 Disorder Sent to Heaven
The origin of paper cuts has a close relation with the ancient Chinese believes and customs surrounding afterlife. In the Hereafter material belongings are as more…

2005

4042 Clutter Method
You are now in the work space of Jurgen Bey that has temporarily been relocated to the ABC institute for Architecture. There is no cabinet more…

3193 Happy Families, 2009

: Stijn Brakkee

KadE Amersfoort

The Happy Families exhibition shows the entire story of Studio Makkink & Bey and our design philosophy, which is largely based on personal relationships, connections with like-minded people and collaborative arrangements. It is more than simply a display of finished work, but shows how the Studio’s design practice has developed over time.

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