Noemi Niederhauser is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a ceramist, designer, mycologist, visual artist, curator, and the co-founder of the artist-run space A-DASH in Athens, GR. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London, UK (2014) and previously studied ceramic design at the Applied Art School of Vevey, CH (2010). She is currently a ceramic design teacher at CEPV, Vevey (CH).
Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums and institutions such as: ADI Design Museum, Milan (IT); Milan Design Week; Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL); Swiss Design Awards 2019, Basel (CH); Raw Material Company, Dakar (SN); Documenta 14, Athens (GR); The Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Arts Council (UK); the MUDAC, Lausanne (CH); the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK); the MCBA, Lausanne (CH). She is a 2016- 2017-2019 recipient of Pro Helvetia Research Grants and Awards.
Noemi Niederhauser is fascinated with materials and their endless processes of transformation. Dancing across the blurred boundaries between art, craft and design, the visual propositions she develops engage with the symbolic embedded into materials and artifacts in relation to time and history. Both in her artistic practice and in that of a curator, she develops proposals in collaborative forms and with an approach centered on experimental research towards materials. She is part of various collaborative project in Europe, Asia and Africa while carefully analyzing the social, economic and ecological impact that her approach generates over the long term.
Founder and director of Wastematter
Wastematter
https://www.instagram.com/waste_matter/
Founding member of A-DASH
A-DASH Project Space
https://www.facebook.com/adashspace/
https://www.instagram.com/a_dash_space/
Selected exhibitions
2024
Design Days, Lausanne
6-9 June 2024
La Rasude, Lausanne, CH
designdays.ch
2023
Design Days, Geneva
16 -25 November
Exhibition of Wastematter Project at
Tips
19 Grand-Rue
1204 Genève
designdays
Vienna Design Week
22 September – 1 October 2023
vienna design week
NOYYIG DËKK BI
research residency Dakar/ Senegal
in collaboration with
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg
July 2023
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg
ADI Design Museum
ADI Museum
2022
Melting Pot
Centre d’art contemporain
Yverdon-les-Bains
CACY
Reality check chapter ΙΙ: inner sanctum
Psychiatric Hospital of Attica,
Dafni, Athens, Greece
Dutch Design Week
Evoluon venue
Eindhoven (NL)
ddw
Milan Design Week
House of Switzerland
Milan, Italy
Milan Design Week
Eldorado
QUARTIER GENERAL
Centre d’art contemporain
Les anciens abattoirs | Rue du Commerce 122 |
CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds
QUARTIER GENERAL
Métamorphose de l’espace
HiFlow Work(place)
Geneva (CH)
HiFlow
Melting Pot
Centre d’art contemporain
Yverdon-les-Bains
CACY
2021
Design Days Geneva
Design without borders
Wastematter project
Kiscell Museum
1037 Budapest
Hungaria
Design without borders
Swiss Design Awards 2021
Messa Basel
https://swissdesignawardsblog.ch
Swiss Green Economy Symposium
Wastematter project
Winterthour
2020
Dutch Design Week Eindhoven
Virtual
DDW.NL
Time Takes Time
Volumes Zurich
Art Publishing Days
November 2020
Volumes Zurich
Open Monument Days
EKWC
Almystraat 10
5061 PA Oisterwijk
The Netherland
EKWC
On the Edge
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
korundi.fi
Back to Athens 7
Αιόλου 48 – 50
Athens
Greece
Back to Athens 7
2019
Much Rooom project at Pro Helvetia Open House:
Innovation durch neue nachhaltige Lösungen
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Hirschengraben 22
8024 Zurich
Sunday morning @ EKWC
Oisterwijk
The Netherlands
ekwc.nl
[un]known destinations chapter ΙΙΙ: reconnection
curator: Kostas Prapoglou
Zarifi residence
Eptanisou 9 and Androu
112 57, Kypseli, Athens, GR
unknown destinations
Athens Art Book Fair
Stoa Kairi, Monastiraki
Athens, GR
Athens Art Book Fair
Time Takes Time
A-DASH off-site events
Mediated by:
Eva Isleifs, Noemi Niederhauser, Andreas Brunner
Athens, GR
Time Takes Time
A-DASH
Swiss Design Awards 2019
Messe, Basel, CH
swissdesignawards
Fantasy Island
Kunst(zeug)haus
Rapperswil-Jona
Kunstzeughaus
Workspace at CERCCO
HEAD_Geneva School of Art and Design HEAD
CERCCO_HEAD_Geneva
The Collection as an Automaton
Curated by Elpida Karaba
participation as A-DASH collective
ACG Art Gallery
Deree- The American College of Greece
6 Gravias Street, 153 42 Aghia Paraskevi
Athens, Greece
On the Practice of Tuning-in:
Rhythm Explorations in Amsterdam Zuidoost
Symposium organized by:
Open Set Foundation,
the University of Amsterdam
(AISSR: Designing Urban Experience)
and the City of Amsterdam
(CSO, Stadsdeel Zuidoost)
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179,
1019 HC Amsterdam
Open Set: Practicing Rhythm LAB
Amsterdam Zuidoost
The Netherlands
openset.nl
2018
Partcours Dakar, 7e édition
23 espaces / 13 jours
d’événements artistiques
partcours Dakar
RAW Academy
Session 5: Germination
RAW Material Company
center for art, knowledge and society
Dakar, Senegal
raw material company
Still Green Lemon Screen
Noemi Niederhauser & Jennifer Niederhauser-Schlup
20 years of Bruckner Foundation
at Musée Ariana
Swiss Ceramic & Glass Museum
10 avenue de la Paix
CH – 1202 Genève
Ariana Ceramic & Glass Museum
Art for the Environment
Curation: Camilla Palestra
Nunnery Gallery
183 Bow Road
London E3 2SJ
Carte Blanche:
Noemi Niederhauser & Nicolas Delaroche
Mobilab Gallery
Rue du Simplon 35
CH-1006 Lausanne
Mobilab
2017
We think is Squares / We love in Triangles
with the support of Pro Helvetia (CH)
A-DASH project space / Asklipiou 74
11471 Athens / Greece
A-DASH
Distinguished Diva
Launch of an online community platform
in collaboration with Adeola Naomi Aderemi
A-DASH project space / Asklipiou 74
11471 Athens / Greece
A-DASH
I Hope My Legs Don’t Break
Short Film Screening
A-DASH project space off-site event
Curation: Benjamin Cohen & Noemi Niederhauser
Kypseli / Keramikos (Athens)
and as part of A-LETHIA project
by Anton Kats for Documenta 14
I remember not remembering it very well
A-DASH project space
Athens / Greece
A collaboration: Eva Isleifsdottir & Noemi Niederhauser
A-DASH project space / Asklipiou 74
11471 Athens / Greece
2016
Artists’ Cards
Elika Gallery
Athens / Greece
Elika Gallery
On est jamais vaincu
lorsqu’on est immortel
A project by:
Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup
& Noemi Niederhauser
Les Brenets / Jura
The wandering parade
Akureyri Art Museum / Iceland
No heroes around the corner
The Parfitt Gallery
Croydon College of Art
London / UK
Skammdegi Art Festival
Olafsfjordur / Iceland
Opening night/ part.II
Chabah Yelmani Gallery/ Brussels
293 Chaussée de Boondael/ Boondaalsesteenweg
1050 Brussels/ Belgium
2015
Navigation & trajectory
ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Center
Aomori/Japan
acac-aomori
My brother is a green parrot
in collaboration with: Hélène Combal-Weiss
Chabah Yelmani Gallery
293 Chaussée de Boondael/Boondaalsesteenweg
1050 Brussels/Belgium
Curious artefact
Curated by Becky Campbell
The Art wall
Athens / Greece
Setting
Curated by Becky Campbell
Snehta/ Aghias Zonis 1
Kypseli / Athens
Hurts so good
Eva Isleifsdottir & Noemi Niederhauser
SNETHA / Aghias Zonis 1/ Kypseli / Athens
as part of: SNEHTA Residency
Opening
Chabah Yelmani Gallery
293 Chaussée de Boondael/ Boodaalsesteenweg
1050 Brussels/ Belgium
V&A graduates residency exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum /London/
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL / UK
Presentation of the project: My brother is a green parrot
A chapter of: Amnesia decides
By: Noemi Niederhauser & Hélène Combal-Weiss
2014
Priprema! Pozor! Pad!
Magacin u Kraljevica Marka 8/ Belgrade/ Serbia
ECC2014 New Talent
Bornholm/ Danemark
Between the act symposium
Swedenborg Hall/ London / UK
Stop it! Degree Show
Lethaby Gallery/ Central Saint Martins College
of Art and Design/ London / UK
2013
A poem without a tongue
a project by Random Order Collective
Noise and Whispers Exhibition/ GV Art Gallery
49 Chiltern St
Marylebone/ London W1U 6LY
The art Lacuna prize
Residency & Solo show
48 Falcon Road, London SW11 2LR
Art Lacuna
Tomorrow I’ll be Elsewhere II
as a part of Royal Academy’s Friday Late/
Found at the RA event
Royal Academy, 6 Burlington Gardens, London
Tomorrow I’ll be Elsewhere I
Curated by Sonja Vrkatic & Noemi Niederhauser
A-Side B-Side Gallery/ 5-9 Amhurst Terrace
London E8 2BT
An audio portrait of a place
Mapping the space between A and B
Southbank
A project by Random Order Collective
broadcast & Live web stream radio event
Echoes Mapping/ Lisbon
Broadcast by http://stress.fm
Be Open, Sound Portal/ Nomad lab
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College, London
Sounding space symposium
Chelsea College of Art and Design
theatre and Parade Ground/ London
Forma
21, rue de Genève CH-1003 Lausanne
Forma
Ceramica Contemporanea swizzera
Museo d’Arte Mendrisio
Museo Arte Mendrisio
In transit
V22/ Bermondsey/ London
V22
Puls gallery
19 rue du Page/ Brussels / Belgium
Puls Gallery
2012
Carbone
Boris Dennler/David Curchod/
Thierry Kupferschmid/ Noemi Niederhauser
ESF art+ design/ Lausanne/ Switzerland
esf
Show your colors
Espace Arlaud/ Lausanne/ Switzerland
Error design contest
Kornschütte/ Lucerne/ Switzerland
Ceramic event IV
Ô Gallery/ Forest/ Brussels / Belgium
Talente 2012
Munich/ Germany
Cast in form/slip casting
Handwerk Gallery/ Munich/ Germany
2011
Renée Duc Gallery
Carouge/ Geneva/ Switzerland
Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition
MUDAC: Museum of Contemporary Art/ Lausanne/ Switzerland
Young European Ceramics
St-Quentin/ France
Accrochage vaud 2011
MCBA: Fine Arts Museum/ Lausanne/ Switzerland
Award
Grant for Project Pro Helvetia Johannesburg 2023
Nominated Swiss Design Awards 2021
Pro Helvetias Shanghai 2021
Pro Helvetia Design Promotion 2019
Nominated Swiss Design Awards 2019
Pro Helvetia Grant For Research 2018-2019
Fondation Pierre et Nouky Bataillard Grant 2018-2019
Pro Helvetia Grant For Research 2016
Nominated for the NOVA Award 2014 /
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design/ London
Swiss Ceramic Association ( ACS) Prize for the diploma work 2010
Prize for the diploma work 2010
Applied Art school of Vevey/ Switzerland
Residency
Pro Helvetia Shanghai Residency
residency at A4 Museum, Chengdu
Summer 2024 (upcoming)
Pro helvetia Shanghai
NOYYIG DËKK BI
research residency Dakar/ Senegal
in collaboration with
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg
July 2023
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg
Sunday morning @ EKWC
Oisterwijk
The Netherlands
Oct-Dec 2019
ekwc.nl
Workspace at CERCCO
HEAD_Geneva School of Art and Design HEAD
CERCCO_HEAD_Geneva
February-May 2019
RAW Material Company
center for art, knowledge and society
Dakar/ Senegal
rawmaterialcompany
October-December 2018
Bruckner Foundation
Geneva/ Switzerland
ceramique-bruckner
June-September 2016
Litshus residency
Olafsfjordur/ Iceland
January-February 2016
Art for the environment 2016 residency
A partnership in between Berengo Glass Studio
Murano (Venice) and University of the Arts (UAL) / London
January 2016
Aomori Contemporary Art Center residency (ACAC)
Aomori/ Japan/ September-December 2015
www.acac-aomori.jp
Artist in residence / Croydon School of Art
London / March-June 2015
Snehta residency
Athens / January-February 2015
http://www.snehtaresidency.org/
Graduates residency 2014 / Victoria & Albert Museum
London/ October-December 2014
http://www.vam.ac.uk
National School of Art / limoges
Limoges / France 2012
Bungoro gama studio and gallery
Shigaraki/ Japan/ September-November 2009
Press & Publications
2023: Die Presse. Vienna, Austria. September 2023
2023: Raum und Wohnen. April – May 2023
2023: Frame Magazine. Issue 149. Nov 2022-Jan 2023
2022: Espaces Contemporains Magazine. September – October 2022
2022: « 10 vor 10 » Sendung. SRF-Themenschwerpunkt: «Wie wir wohnen»
2022: swissinfo. Les jeunes designers suisses à Milan pendant une semaine
2020: Usure Press. Interview for Unperfect radio
2020: Mold_Magazine. ZYMURGY_XXX Ceramic crocks brings ecological thinking into the kitchen. MOLD_Magazine
2018: Art for the environment. Editor: Palestra Camille, in collaboration with: The Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Arts Council England. London: UAL Press
2017: Noemi Niederhauser: Une culture du renouveau à Athènes. In: Le Temps newspaper (CH), 9 March 2017, 22
2017: A-DASH Presentation. In: To Vima newspaper, Athens, (GR), 19 December 2017, 33
2017: A-DASH Project Space. K Magazine, I Kathimerini newspaper, Athens, (GR), 10 December 2017, 41
2016: Navigation & Trajectory. Editor: Yuki Kondo. ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Center publication (JP), 10-15
2015: Athinorama Magazine, Athens (GR), no.8, 23
2014: STOP IT! Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Publication. London (UK), 36-7
2013: A JOUR. Swiss ceramic association magazine (CH), no.7, 8-9
Other
Studio Director at ALICE laboratory
EPFL / Lausanne / Switzerland
ALICE laboratory
Ceramic design teacher
SFGB-B / Bern / Switzerland
sfgb-b
Co-founder of the A-DASH project space, Athens, Greece together with:
Eva Isleifsdottir, Zoe Hatzyiannaki, Catriona Gallagher
A-DASH Project Space
Co-founder / designer of: BOLOGNESE
http://bolognese.li
https://www.instagram.com/bologneseeeeeee/
https://www.facebook.com/Bologneseeeeee/
Media and social communication manager
Bex & Arts 2017/ Bex/ Switzerland
Bex Arts 2017
Assistant Antony Gormley studio / London / 2014-2015
Antony Gormley studio
Creation of limited edition of objects for the MUDAC
Museum of Contemporary Art/ Lausanne/ Switzerland / 2012
mudac
Education
2012-2014
MA Fine Art (with distinction)
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
London, UK
2006-2010
Applied Art School of Vevey, Ceramic Section
Switzerland