DAMN°magazine

23/07/2024

⛱️ Sun, Sport & INTIMACY // Issue °88 in the 20th year of DAMN°. Get your copy now!
Our summer holiday issue - Sun, Sport & INTIMACY - is now available at your favourite quality magazine stand or online for purchase: www.damnmagazine.net

Featuring: Konstantin Grcic, Herzog & de Meuron, Lisa Jahovic, Charlie Engman, Andy Holden, Ebrahim Noroozi, Andrea Boyer, Edgar Calel, Shigeru Ban, Kenji Takeuchi, Elton John & David Furnish, Formafantasma, Maria Metsalu, Royal Smit & Zoon, UniFor + Molteni&C, USM, The Good Plastic Company, LASVIT, Minotti, BCXSY, Varv Varv, Hydro, EconitWood, & many more.

Cover image: Maria Metsalu shot by Alana Proosa

25/06/2024

highlight: at M Leuven now! https://www.mleuven.be/
https://damnmagazine.net/calendar

1. Sarah Smolders: A Space Begins, With Speaking at M Leuven .leuven / 15 March 2024 - 1 September 2024 / Leuven, BE

Sarah Smolders A Space Begins, With Speaking at M Leuven combines for the first time a new spatial intervention with residues from past site-specific exhibitions. Smolders uses those residues as her own spatial alphabet to read and scale M-spaces.

2. Alias at M Leuven .leuven / 15 March 2024 - 1 September 2024 / Leuven, BE

The group show Alias at M Leuven explores the theme of fictional artistry. The exhibition assembles some 80 works from national and international public and private collections to highlight this recent phenomenon in art history. Piece by piece, the works illustrate the strategies that contemporary artists use to merge fiction and reality.

Image credits:
Slide 1-2: Exhibition view of A Space Begins, With Speaking at M Leuven. Photo: © Useful Art Services
Slide 3-4: Exhibition view of Alias at M Leuven. Photo: © Useful Art Services

22/06/2024

THURSDAY 27/06 OPENING KASK GRADUATION 2024!!!!🥳
From 12:00 to 22:00 you can visit the Graduation Expo and from 20:00 we will stick a festive get-together to it. You can enjoy drinks and the garden bar with DJs on the terrace of KASKcafé until 03:00!
The expo runs until 30/06, fri/sat/sun from 12:00 to 20:00, don't miss it!

Spread across the Bijloke campus, you will discover the work of students in photography, graphic design, autonomous design, liberal arts, textile design, fashion, instrument making, interior design, landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, digital design and development, curatorial studies, the educational master's in audiovisual and visual arts and the educational master's in music and performing arts.

The final works from visual arts and design will be moulded into an exhibition by Simon Delobel, Siegrid Demyttenaere and Rémie Vanderhaegen.

Graduation 2024

30/04/2024

DAMN° spoke to Kaldewei, e15 and Stefan Diez about their new collaboration.
Read the interview! > https://www.damnmagazine.net/holistic-views-an-interview-with-kaldewei-e15-and-stefan-diez

18/04/2024

!!!!! OPENING !!!!!
zaterdag 20.04.2024
@ HET ARSENAAL
Brusselsesteenweg 602 - 9050 Gent

85.000 stenen maken uit afval van de Gentenaar? Hoe zot wijs is dat! Design Museum Gent doet the Right DING. DING, de nieuwe vleugel, wordt immers een toonbeeld van duurzaam bouwen.

Design Museum Gent nodigt je uit voor het Do the Right DING feestweekend op 20 en 21 april in Het Arsenaal, Gent.

Beleef design en duurzaamheid samen tijdens het event, dat volledig in het teken staat van de creatie van de 'Gent Waste Brick for DING'. We nodigen ontwerpers en kunstenaars uit om met hetzelfde afvalmateriaal als de steen te experimenteren.

Tijdens het feestweekend zijn er boeiende lezingen, levendige debatten en diverse evenementen. Bezoekers kunnen het maakproces van de steen ‘live’ beleven en de ontwerpers aan het werk zien tijdens hun experimenten met het materiaal.
De deelnemende ontwerpers & kunstenaars zijn aequo.design, Anne Ausloos & Jeroen van Westen, Aurélien Veyrat, Bram Vanderbeke, Conrad Willems, Elias Van Orshaegen, Hamza AbuAyyash, Hugo Peels, Joe Sterck, Liesbeth Henderickx, Lochness Gent, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Thomas Noceto & Cinzia romanin, Tom Schoonhoven en Yoel Pytowski.

Lezingen
16:00 BC architects
16:45 Liesbeth Henderickx
17:30 Aequo Design
18:15 Carmody Groarke & Atama

19:00
Verwelkoming & Toelichting
Katrien Laporte, directeur Design Museum Gent
Sami Souguir, voorzitter AGB Kunsten en Design
Mathias De Clercq, burgemeester Gent

19:30
Bezoek productie & atelier ontwerpers
Met toelichting door medeoprichter BC materials Ken De Cooman &
curator Siegrid Demyttenaere

Performance:
Conrad Willems

Randanimatie:
Cirq
Instituut voor Volkswarmte

08/04/2024

DAMN°87 🪧 ALL HAIL THE PROVOCATEURS
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DAMN° just turned TWENTY and in keeping with our support for daring creatives willing to destroy and rethink culture, we are proud to present the PROVOCATEUR issue. This anniversary issue weaves a thread through all cultural disciplines from design, architecture and art through to fashion, photography, graphics and performance.
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Get your copy/subscribe: https://www.damnmagazine.net/damn-87-all-hail-the-provocateurs
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·..for the latest insights into Stefan Sagmeister, Miranda July, Nick Cave, Dunne & Raby, Wim Wenders, Cedric Price, Werner Herzog, Jerszy Seymour, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, Gonzalez Haase AAS, Silvio Lorusso, Pavels Hedström, Dries Verhoeven, Lionel Jadot, Göksu Kunak, Theo De Meyer, John Bock, Flora Miranda and more.
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https://www.idecommedia.be/Abo_Pagina/Abonneer?Owner=DAMN&Brand=DAMN&ID=C7F239D5-E5EE-4567-8448-44B33B27A461

04/04/2024

DAMN Magazine invites you to the exhibition TOPSOIL STOOLS at Milan Design Week at 5VIE at Palazzo Litta, Milan, IT.

OPENING TIMES:
Tuesday 16th April - Sunday 21st April
Press preview Monday 15th April from 10am-5pm
🎈DAMN’s 20th birthday celebration drinks 17th April 6.30pm-10pm (Please RSVP: [email protected])

👉 TOPSOIL STOOLS explores what crafts are still alive and what natural resources are available in remote or forgotten regions. Mapping local makers and designers is an important part of this journey that ends with locally embedded objects rooted in their environment and connected to the soul of the creator and the land.

👉 For more information on the exhibition visit https://www.damnmagazine.net/damn-exhibition-topsoil-stools-at-milan-design-week

07/03/2024

Looking for a volunteer to host our DAMN° booth at Collectible this Saturday 09/04 from 12-7pm, kindly, the DAMN° team

07/03/2024

The 62nd edition of SalonedelMobile Milano is approaching! From 16th to 21st April join us at Rho Fiera Milano to see the latest news in the design industry.
Visit the link below and find out more:
https://www.salonemilano.it/en?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=damn&utm_medium=social

01/03/2024

DAMN Magazine invites you to the COLLECTIBLE - the international fair dedicated to 21st century collectible design. It will open for its 7th edition in the Vanderborght Building, Brussels from 7 to 10 March 2024.

👉 The exhibition, celebrating 20 Years of DAMN, "Les Tabourtes du Terroir" will be presented during the fair.

Collectible is one of the most important design platforms globally for both established and emerging galleries, and design studios. With a heavy emphasis on materiality as a language to express a vision, the work presented explores the link between conceptualization and realization, where ideas manifest into tangible forms.

👉 For more information on the programs and the tickets visit https://collectible.design/

21/02/2024

The 62nd edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano will be held from 16th to 21st April 2024 at Rho Fiera Milano. Visit the link for more information: https://www.salonemilano.it/en?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=damn&utm_medium=social

19/02/2024

🎈 THE ART OF DAN LAM: VIVIDLY CREEPY 🎈
DAMNº 86 🪩 REDEFINING POP CULTURE 🪩
LISTEN the article via the LINK below

Every issue we ask one of our writers to read us the article they wrote. You can find it on our DAMN°magazine Soundcloud. Listen to the FULL piece on Dam Lan by Iona Lowe

Welcome to the real-life technicolour universe of Dan Lam. Her painted polyurethane foam sculptures, many of them donning spikes, take the form of blobs that appear to drip and dribble and clump and coalesce, in a sort of melted-candy jamboree — their intensely cheery palette outrightly defying their peculiarity. Are you suitably perplexed?

Words: Iona Lowe
Works: Sopo Pomo
https://soundcloud.com/damn-magazine/damn86-the-art-of-dan-lam-vividly-creepy