Marlou Rutten is an artist and designer based in Amsterdam. She developed her interests during the bachelor's degree in Product Design at ArtEZ in Arnhem, where she graduated in 2017. Since then she has developed a coherent body of work characterized by autonomous products and objects.

Marlou explores the tactile value of the invisible that goes unnoticed by our senses. By creating objects that translate and register natural phenomena in unconventional ways, she tries to broaden the experience of our sensory perception. There is an inseparable relation between her work and the context in which it is experienced. Marlou's work exists, creates, and becomes redefined by its actual surrounding. Characteristic of her work is the refined aesthetics, the poetic value and the same rigorous attention to shape, material and color.

As a designer she is interested in the dialog between craft, industry, object and user. She further developed her position as a designer during her work experiences at Studio Formafantasma and Aldo Bakker. She has gained knowledge of both industrial and craft processes and acquired an interdisciplinary work approach.

News

17-22 April 2018

Mutant Matter, Dutch Invertuals, Milan, IT
Exhibiting Tangible Matter

Humans play with nature’s materials – now nature is playing with human material, as we enter the Anthropocene era, a new geological age. Mutant Matter, the 18th exhibition presented by Dutch Invertuals at Milan Design Week, this year co-curated with FranklinTill, explores our current and future relationship with materials and making.

7-13 March 2018

TALENTE 2018
Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, DE 
Exhibiting Limits of a Known Territory


21-29 October 2017

Smurfit Kappa Design Challenge, Klokgebouw 
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
Exhibiting Lichtspoor and
Time Only Exists So Not Everything Happens At Once


21-29 October 2017

See YA DUDE, Student Hotel
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
Exhibiting Limits of A Known Territory


30 September - 22 October 2017

Kunstverein Projektraum bahnhof25, Kleve, DE
Exhibiting Limits of A Known Territory, The Weather Archive and 
Time Only Exists So Not Everything Happens At Once


28 June - 2 July 2017

ArtEZ Finals, Arnhem, NL
Exhibiting Limits of A Known Territory, The Weahter Archive and
Time Only Exists So Not Everything Happens At Once


22-23 January 2016

Showroom Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
Minor program Transition
Exhibiting Nothing Sense


4 January 2016

Showroom Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
Hybrids, Manufacture of Desire
Exhibiting My Favourite Waste of Time


1-5 July 2015

Coming Soon, Arnhem, NL
Please Obese
Exhibiting Search for Saturation



Talks


22 October 2017

Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
The Student Hotel, SeeYa DUDE
Workshop Beyond Photography
Together with Michelle van Ool