Kanae Hasegawa with Piet Paris, artistic director of the Arnhem Fashion Biennale.
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Japanese journalist and curator Kanae Hasegawa visited the Netherlands from Saturday 6 June to Friday 12 June. Hasegawa writes for publications including Amsterdam-based
Frame
. During her stay she immersed herself in Dutch design in preparation for the autumn trade fair 100% Design Tokyo, which will play host to a number of exhibitors from the Netherlands.
Hasegawa attended the
Arnhem Fashion Biennale and met its artistic director, the fashion illustrator Piet Paris, and designers Spijkers en Spijkers and …And Beyond. She then headed north to Enkhuizen’s
Zuiderzee Museum for
Gone with the Wind
, an exhibition on Dutch fashion curated by designers Alexander van Slobbe and Francisco van Benthum. Hasegawa also visited the famous ceramics company
Royal Tichelaar Makkum.
During a day in Eindhoven, she took in the
Designhuis. She also met a number of designers there as well as in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
Premsela and the
Mondriaan Foundation co-hosted Hagesawa's visit.
A guide showed Hasegawa around the Arnhem Fashion Biennale's main exhibition, Shape.
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Our previous international visitors were two Polish journalists, who came to the Netherlands to learn about Dutch graphic design in April, during
Golden Age
's run in Warsaw. Grzegorz Sowula of the newspaper
Rzeczpospolita
and Jacek Mrowczyk of the design quarterly
2+3D
met Dutch designers including Wim Crouwel and Irma Boom. This summer,
2+3D
will publish a special Dutch design issue.
Sowula and Mrowczyk were preceded by Ramon Prat, head of Barcelona's new design museum
Disseny Hub Barcelona, who visited the Netherlands from 30 April to 1 May. He went to institutions such as the Graphic Design Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and the Textiellab in Tilburg to do research on possible future collaborations with Dutch designers and architects.
Each year, Premsela invites around ten foreign guests to the Netherlands to learn about Dutch design. During an intensively scheduled few days, they visit museums, galleries and design firms. Past guests have hailed from countries ranging from Brazil to China and including old and new EU member states.
The Visitors' Programme strengthens the international design network. Visits also give rise to exhibitions, lectures and publicity. Check this site regularly for news of our latest guests. We welcome suggestions of people to invite; email
munoz@premsela.org .
