Project:

Exhibition Design

Location:

Ljubljana, Slovenija

Year:

2025

Client:

MAO, Ljubljana

Photography:

Jaka Babnik

Authors:

Matic Vrabič

Collaborator:

Bor Kračun Pižmoht

ENSMBLE – Gerrit Rietveld and MAO Collection is the first exhibition in Slovenia to feature original works by Rietveld. The objects on display are from a private collection of furniture and household objects, now on public display for the first time. This collection, built up over several decades from the 1990s onwards, includes many key works from Rietveld’s furniture workshop. Founded in 1917, this workshop became the hub of Rietveld’s creative collaboration with the furniture maker Gerard A. van de Groenekan, where they spent decades developing new designs and producing variations and iterations of his seminal pieces.

For the exhibition structure, minimally modified OSB boards from the museum’s storage were used, which will later serve as flooring during the renovation of the castle. Their temporary use for exhibition purposes has thus given them an additional, preliminary “life”, which we might understand as a kind of “pre-recycling” of the material.