Art Applied

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Art Applied
Inside Outside - Petra Blaisse

With her agency Inside Outside, founded in 1996, Petra Blaisse has worked in a multitude of creative fields, including textiles, landscape and exhibition design. At arc en rêve, the Dutch designer presents her new volume Art Applied, in conversation with architecture historian and curator Philip Ursprung. The book retrace 35 years of career and featuring emblematic projects from her agency such as the Maison in Bordeaux, the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan, the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan and the LocHal library in Tilburg.

This retrospective of his work presents a kaleidoscopic view of her work over more than three decades. Rather than working solely on buildings, Inside Outside designs environments on an extremely wide range of scales, from vast urban landscapes to intimate domestic spaces defined by flexible textile walls. The resulting spaces defy conventional classification. This comprehensive study also presents unrealized projects and explores the many collaborations the agency has forged over the years, notably with OMA since the late 1980s.

couverture du livre Art Applied, Inside Outside, Petra Blaisse, Mack Books, 2024

Maison à Bordeaux, 2011-2012 / © Frans Parthesius

Biblioteca degli Alberi, Milan, Italie, 2008-2018 / © Andrea Cherchi

Inside Outside Retrospective, MAXXI, Rome, Italie, 2019-2021 / © Gianluca di Loia

Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taïwan, 2009-2022

Art Applied, Inside Outside, Petra Blaisse
Mack Books, 2024
Edited and introduced by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
with newly commissioned texts by Penelope Curtis, Christophe Girot, Rem Koolhaas, Charlotte Matter, Fatma Al Sehlawi, Jack Self, Laurent Stalder, Helen Thomas, and Philip Ursprung
Designed by Teo Schifferli
80 €

free admission
subject to availability

Talk + book presentation
Thursday 30th January, 6:30pm
in the presence of
Petra Blaisse designer and
Philip Ursprung art and architecture historian
(in English, with simultaneous translation into French)

in partnership with
the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
in France

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