Curriculum Vitae

Solo exhibitions
2020-2021 Slow Motion, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
2019 Slow Motion, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York
2018 Aldo Bakker, Atelier Courbet, New York
2018 Aldo Bakker Solo, Rob Malasch - WOW Serieuze Zaken Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Pause, mudac, Lausanne
2016 Pause, Centre d’Innovation et de Design (CID), Grand-Hornu
2015 Containing Content, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam
2015 Contemporary Art Vienna, Galerie MAM Mario Mauroner 
2014 Aldo Bakker, Gallery Vivid, Rotterdam
2014 Aldo Bakker, Atelier Courbet, New York, USA
2012 Sfera, Kyoto, Japan

 
Group exhibitions (2010 – now, selection) 
2021 Inside Le Purisme, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Milan
2021 Material Space, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Aspen
2021 Design Miami/ Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery (RingTable)
2021 Design and the Wondrous, Centre Pompidou, Shanghai, China (Urushi Tonus and Fat One)
2021 Artefact, Sevres Manufacture et Musée National (Chalice and AlinetoB)
2021 Salone di Mobile, Thomas Eyck t.e., Milan (Harvey Series & Nose)
2020 L’Object, L’Artiste et le Designer, Sèvres & Galerie Aveline, Paris
2019 Dark Fantasy, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Specific Objects – Geert Lap, Design Museum Den Bosch, exhibition design
2019 An Accelerated Culture,  Friedman Brenda, New York
2018 KunstRai, Rob Malasch - WOW Serieuze Zaken Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 A Wild Thing, Design Museum, Gent
2017 Silver design in Time, Silver Museum, Schoonhoven
2017 Window display, Hermès, Tokyo
2017 Small Wonders, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2017 Imprimer le Monde, Centre Pompidou
2016 Progress, Gallery Vivid, Rotterdam
2016 Sans Frontières, Tajan Artstudio, Paris
2015 Thing Nothing, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2014 Le Labo des Héritiers, Grand Hornu, Belgium
2014 PAD, Sèvres, Paris & London
2014 WOOD, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2013 Villa Noialles, Hyères, France, Sèvres
2013 The Walled Garden, BorzoGalley, Amsterdam
2013 Vom Stand der Dinge, Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus, Bremen, Germany
2012 A Space Oddity, Grand Hornu, Belgium
2012 Salon/Istanbul, Huis van Loon, Amstedam
2011 EverydayDutch, Selfridges, London
2011 Going Dutch, Flow Gallery, London
2010-2011 Small Scale Sculpture, Galeria Murska Sobota, Slovenia
2010 Emmy + Gijs + Aldo, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen

 
Awards and Nominations
2015 Collection for Georg Jensen nominated for Wallpaper* design Award
2014 Collection for Georg Jensen winner of Interior Innovation Award, Cologne
2014 Collection for Georg Jensen nominated for Danish Design Award
2013 Three pair nominated for Dutch Design Award
2012 Winner Z33 architecture competition (with Francesca Torzo, Piet Oudolf, Conzett Bronizini Gartmann, ABT Belgium)
2012 Nominated for Wallpaper* Designer of the Year Award
2011 Jug nominated for the Dutch Design Awards
2011 Selected for the Alessi/Domus, The Silver Spoon Design Competition
2011 Wallpaper* Design Award for Urushi Stool in the Category ‘Best Stool’
2011 Wallpaper* Design Award for the Copper Collection in the category ‘Best Use of Material’
2010 Copper Collection nominated for the Dutch Design Awards

 
Teaching / Lectures
2019 Knoll, Lecture of the Year (lecture)
2019 Sandberg Institute, department of Challenging Jewelry (lecture)
2018 Designer Talk, Swarovski 
2007-2016 Design Academy Eindhoven, dep. Social Design
2002-2013 Design Academy Eindhoven, dep. Well-Being
2011 Masterclass Well-Being, in collaboration with Lidewij Edelkoort

 
Publications (selection)
2019 The Domestic Plane. New Perspecyives on Tabletop Art Objects, Amy Smith-Stewart, a.o.
2018 Tongue, Chris Reinewald, Aldo Bakker Studio
2018 Cahier MVSC03, collection of lectures and masterclasses 
2016 Pause, NAI010, Rotterdam
2015 Containing Content, Looiersgracht 60
2015 Wallpaper*, cover
2014 The Crafts and the Makers, Gestalten, Germany
2014 Bakker, Scarpa, Van Severen, Vermeersch. Le Labo des Héritiers, Exhibition Catalogue.
2012 Hands On, Jeroen Junte
2011 Dutch Design Yearbook, cover
2011 Dutch Design, Jeroen Junte
2010 Emmy + Gijs + Aldo, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam
2010 Creatures. Studies for Existence, Villa Noailles/Archistorm
2010 Porzellanikon Catalogue

 
Printed press (selection)
2021 ELLE Decoration NL
2021 Tableau, Fine Arts Magazine
2021 Wohn! Design
2019 Wallpaper*
2019 Annabelle
2018 Het Parool 
2018 FD Persoonlijk
2017 ICON Design
2017 HEREN Magazine
2016 La Terre, Hermès
2016 IDEAT
2016 Design 360°
2016 LUXX by The Times
2016 The Telegraph
2015 Wallpaper*
2015 Modern Magazine
2014 Wallpaper*
2014 Financial Times
2013 Financial Times
2013 TL Magazine
2013 The Art Newspaper
2012 Dwell Magazine
2011 Keyed to Detail, Herald Tribune/NY times
2011 Der Standard
2011 Vogue Living Australia
2011 Le Monde
2010 Neue Züricher Zeitung 
2010 DAMn° magazine
2010 Inventario
2010 Financial Times 

 
Commissions
Lobmeyr, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, JHill, Swarovski, Karakter, t.e., Georg Jensen, Sèvres, Particles, Wallpaper*, Puiforcat, Perimeter, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Nodus, Rosendahl Design Group, Izé.

 
Collections
MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MAD (Paris), FRAC (Paris), Mudac (Lausanne), Vitra (Weil am Rhein), V&A (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Grand-Hornu / CID, Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Zuiderzee Museum (Enkhuizen), Die neue Sammlung (München), Museum de Lakenhal (Leiden), Cooper Hewitt (New York), SM’S (’s-Hertogenbosch), Silver Museum (Schoonhoven), private collections.