Website is under construction. In the meantime, feel free to contact me by sending an email to info@zsofiakollar.com or follow me on INSTAGRAM
About
Presenting materials in different and unexpected perspectives is an ongoing objective in the work of Amsterdam based designer, Zsofia Kollar. Zsofia’s idea of the design-discipline is not fixed but in flux. Her work intrigues, playing with the tension between art and design, showing a keen sense of humor while questioning the human mind. Her quest to understand the relationship between objects and their context blurs the line between fiction and the realm of our reality. There is an interesting and strange uncanniness in her work, which not only reveals the secrets of existing materials and objects but also investigates scenarios of future and fictional behaviors. Zsofia’s practice based on designing highly ambiguous objects that merge reality and imagination. The seemingly every day and inanimate turn into biomorphic objects, that questions the politics of human interaction and society at large. Triggered senses, surprise encounters and the belief that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction sums up her cross-disciplinary practice with its inherent poetics and subtleties of her work.
Studio Zsofia Kollar carries out both self-initiative and commissioned projects. The studio is interested in researching specific topics and based on its discovery presents ideas and concepts which later crafts into accessible projects for its clients. Recently the studio developed a project for the Dutch Military, previously it designed a prize for the LGBTQ community together with the Ministry of Education and Culture, it developed presentations for a non-profit trade association that is the global leader in advancing the drilling industry, IADC. The studio carried out production and conceptualization to site-specific projects at Mediamatic and at the Artis Royal Zoo of Amsterdam. Diversity and being able to comprehend any ideas from the conceptual phase to an accessible product or project are the driving forces of Studio Zsofia Kollar.
The studio is always open to discuss ideas and project proposals. Don't hesitate to get in touch.
Studio Address
Volkshotel - Broedplaats - Studio 1.56
Wibautstraat 150.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1091GR
Exhibitions and Lectures
Art Room Mina - The World Needs strong woman - Spatial Intervention, Amsterdam NL
OBJECT ROTTERDAM - Zsofia Kollar x Sidney Nislow exhibition, Rotterdam NL
DUS: De Kop #15 in Noord Public talk about human hair textile at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam NL
Generations 2020 x MOAM - Curated group exhibition at Capital C, Amsterdam NL
The Beauty Dinner: Neo Futurist Dinner - Beauty mirrors at Mediamatic, Amsterdam NL
DUS: De Kop - Public talk about human hair textiles at Doka, Amsterdam NL
Working Hard or Hardly Working - Group exhibition - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven NL
Under Construction - BNO YA! Group Exhibition - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven NL
A night at the Nightingale - Special Guest Artist - Neverneverland De Nachtegaal Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Not a single narrative - Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam NL
Familiar Faces Lecture Series - Create your own MacGuffin - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
Radical Cut-Up by Lodown Magazine Release - Stedelijk Museum, 2018, Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Melkweg Expo, 2018, Amsterdam NL
PRACTICE, MY POLITICS- Diversity - Salone del Mobile 2018, Milan IT
Art = Artis by Moam - Secrets of the Platan - Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam NL
Eye See You - Reflections on the gaze - Not in New York, Rotterdam, NL
Dutch Design Week 2017 - Disposition, Eindhoven NL
London Design Fair 2017 - Material Spaces: Ma-tt-er + SPACE10, London UK
ARTLAB Munich - GALERIE BENJAMIN ECK, Munich DE
Graduation Show 2017 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
Open Day 2017 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
RESET - Salone Internationale del Mobile 2016, Milan IT
Press
Winner design White Carnation Prize 2020 Zsofia Kollar
OBJECT Rotterdam: binnen no-time op de hoogte van het nieuwste designtalent
Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile MEOLAV
Sustainable Fashion: the Generation 2020 project of the MOAM foundation
Human hair design material - A/D/O November 13, 2019
Working Hard or Hardly Working during Dutch Design Week
Lodown Magazine x Radical Cut-up
Project Diversity - Femme Art Review
When can we start to objectify our hair? - Mediamatic
Textile is more - Human Hair transformation
Under the cover - Sindroms #2 – Yellow
Arts Thread - Milan 18: KABK, My practice, my politics
Talkies Lifestyle magazine - ARTIS AFTER CLOSING TIME
MOAM and ARTIS open art = ARTIS
Het Parool - Work of 18 young artists in Artis
Mister Motley - Graduation Special: Zsofia Kollar
Repulsive and confronting: Is human hair the new it-product?
news.com.au - Why do we find things made out of human hair so disgusting?
Art & Education - Successful RESET at the Salone del Mobile 2016
Dutch Design In Development - Hout? Eet Smakelijk!
Beauty & Books - Haagse studente Zsofia Kollár wint landelijke FSC Design Award 2016
Den Haag FM- Haagse Haagse studente wint landelijke Design Award met gerookt
Verkeersbureaus.info - Haagse studente Zsofia Kollár wint landelijke FSC Design Award 2016
The Face - HUMAN HAIR TURNED INTO SCENTED CLOTH BY ZSOFIA KOLLAR
Dezeen - Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile
Education
Sandberg Instituut (MA), Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Interdisciplinary Master Program
Graduated 2019
Royal Academy of Art (BA), The Hague NL
Furniture Design and Interior Architecture
Graduated Cum Laude 2017
Budai Rajziskola, Budapest HUN
Jewelry Design and Goldsmith
Graduated 2012
Website is under construction. In the meantime, feel free to contact me by sending an email to info@zsofiakollar.com or follow me on INSTAGRAM
About
Presenting materials in different and unexpected perspectives is an ongoing objective in the work of Amsterdam based designer, Zsofia Kollar. Zsofia’s idea of the design-discipline is not fixed but in flux. Her work intrigues, playing with the tension between art and design, showing a keen sense of humor while questioning the human mind. Her quest to understand the relationship between objects and their context blurs the line between fiction and the realm of our reality. There is an interesting and strange uncanniness in her work, which not only reveals the secrets of existing materials and objects but also investigates scenarios of future and fictional behaviors. Zsofia’s practice based on designing highly ambiguous objects that merge reality and imagination. The seemingly every day and inanimate turn into biomorphic objects, that questions the politics of human interaction and society at large. Triggered senses, surprise encounters and the belief that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction sums up her cross-disciplinary practice with its inherent poetics and subtleties of her work.
Studio Zsofia Kollar carries out both self-initiative and commissioned projects. The studio is interested in researching specific topics and based on its discovery presents ideas and concepts which later crafts into accessible projects for its clients. Recently the studio developed a project for the Dutch Military, previously it designed a prize for the LGBTQ community together with the Ministry of Education and Culture, it developed presentations for a non-profit trade association that is the global leader in advancing the drilling industry, IADC. The studio carried out production and conceptualization to site-specific projects at Mediamatic and at the Artis Royal Zoo of Amsterdam. Diversity and being able to comprehend any ideas from the conceptual phase to an accessible product or project are the driving forces of Studio Zsofia Kollar.
The studio is always open to discuss ideas and project proposals. Don't hesitate to get in touch.
Studio Address
Volkshotel - Broedplaats - Studio 1.56
Wibautstraat 150.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1091GR
Exhibitions and Lectures
Art Room Mina - The World Needs strong woman - Spatial Intervention, Amsterdam NL
OBJECT ROTTERDAM - Zsofia Kollar x Sidney Nislow exhibition, Rotterdam NL
DUS: De Kop #15 in Noord Public talk about human hair textile at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam NL
Generations 2020 x MOAM - Curated group exhibition at Capital C, Amsterdam NL
The Beauty Dinner: Neo Futurist Dinner - Beauty mirrors at Mediamatic, Amsterdam NL
DUS: De Kop - Public talk about human hair textiles at Doka, Amsterdam NL
Working Hard or Hardly Working - Group exhibition - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven NL
Under Construction - BNO YA! Group Exhibition - Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven NL
A night at the Nightingale - Special Guest Artist - Neverneverland De Nachtegaal Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Not a single narrative - Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam NL
Familiar Faces Lecture Series - Create your own MacGuffin - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
Radical Cut-Up by Lodown Magazine Release - Stedelijk Museum, 2018, Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Melkweg Expo, 2018, Amsterdam NL
PRACTICE, MY POLITICS- Diversity - Salone del Mobile 2018, Milan IT
Art = Artis by Moam - Secrets of the Platan - Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam NL
Eye See You - Reflections on the gaze - Not in New York, Rotterdam, NL
Dutch Design Week 2017 - Disposition, Eindhoven NL
London Design Fair 2017 - Material Spaces: Ma-tt-er + SPACE10, London UK
ARTLAB Munich - GALERIE BENJAMIN ECK, Munich DE
Graduation Show 2017 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
Open Day 2017 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL
RESET - Salone Internationale del Mobile 2016, Milan IT
Press
Winner design White Carnation Prize 2020 Zsofia Kollar
OBJECT Rotterdam: binnen no-time op de hoogte van het nieuwste designtalent
Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile MEOLAV
Sustainable Fashion: the Generation 2020 project of the MOAM foundation
Human hair design material - A/D/O November 13, 2019
Working Hard or Hardly Working during Dutch Design Week
Lodown Magazine x Radical Cut-up
Project Diversity - Femme Art Review
When can we start to objectify our hair? - Mediamatic
Textile is more - Human Hair transformation
Under the cover - Sindroms #2 – Yellow
Arts Thread - Milan 18: KABK, My practice, my politics
Talkies Lifestyle magazine - ARTIS AFTER CLOSING TIME
MOAM and ARTIS open art = ARTIS
Het Parool - Work of 18 young artists in Artis
Mister Motley - Graduation Special: Zsofia Kollar
Repulsive and confronting: Is human hair the new it-product?
news.com.au - Why do we find things made out of human hair so disgusting?
Art & Education - Successful RESET at the Salone del Mobile 2016
Dutch Design In Development - Hout? Eet Smakelijk!
Beauty & Books - Haagse studente Zsofia Kollár wint landelijke FSC Design Award 2016
Den Haag FM- Haagse Haagse studente wint landelijke Design Award met gerookt
Verkeersbureaus.info - Haagse studente Zsofia Kollár wint landelijke FSC Design Award 2016
The Face - HUMAN HAIR TURNED INTO SCENTED CLOTH BY ZSOFIA KOLLAR
Dezeen - Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile
Education
Sandberg Instituut (MA), Amsterdam NL
Radical Cut-Up - Interdisciplinary Master Program
Graduated 2019
Royal Academy of Art (BA), The Hague NL
Furniture Design and Interior Architecture
Graduated Cum Laude 2017
Budai Rajziskola, Budapest HUN
Jewelry Design and Goldsmith
Graduated 2012