Collection: Jerszy Seymour
Jerszy Seymour sees design as the creation of situations whose goal is the transformation of reality. His work is defined by the idea of the Non-Gesamt Gesamt Kunstwerk, the Every-topia, and a quixotic form of humour as an antidote to dogma. He positions his role as a designer as a research into contemporary utopian possibilities and alternative world building strategies through the creation of both practical and symbolic situations in order to formulate alternative systems and ways of being, and for them to act as living unauthorised models in a decentralised and autonomous reality in themselves.
His work has been presented in many museums and institutions and is held in many permanent collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MAK Vienna, Kunsthaus Glarus, the Vitra Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Neue Sammlung – Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Marta Herford, Mudam Luxembourg, Fondation Lafayette and the Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain France. In parallel he has taught and given lectures and workshops at many schools including the Royal College of Art, UdK , Domus Academy, La Sapienza, Eindhoven Academy, Berlin Program for Artists, Hfg Karlsruhe and Saarbrucken, Cranbrook Academy, Ecal Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva. Since 2011, he is co-founder and director of the Dirty Art Department, a radical masters program in art and design, at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
In 2021, he created the exhibition ‘Life on Planet Orsimanirana’ at the M&KG Hamburg, together with the Macao Collective in Milan, as a symbolic vision of a world we would want to live in.
