Nynke Koster

Nynke Koster’s work balances on the border between design and autonomous work, raising the question, when does the object become furniture, and when can furniture be seen as a work of art?

Koster creates synthetic casts of architectural fragments, spaces and bodies. This allows her to re-appropriate the history of architecture, and to reconfigure the ornament to a physical, tangible presence in space. Her ambition is to use this technique to rediscover architectural history worldwide.

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Elements of time

Nynke Koster is a graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague. She studied interior architecture, which encouraged her to peruse her passion for furniture design and visual arts. This combination formed the basis for her collection ‘Elements of Time’.

Elements of Time focuses on architectural fragments of time, examining the ornamentation in architecture through the ages. Koster considers it space, time and place transformed into soft elements. For the first time one can sit on a Baroque ceiling or touch a casette from the Neoclassicism.

The casts are all based on Dutch architecture. There are four different architectural styles translated into objects; Baroque, Am1800, Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism.

Panels of Paradise

Panels of Paradise are a collection of casts from a copy owned by the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, bought in 1921 by the former head- of the the doors ‘Porta del Paradiso’(1425) by

Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455). The doors tell the story of the old testament of the bible, fragmented in ten panels. Koster’s collection opens up a new perspective of the stories on these panels, almost 600 years later.