Selected Press:
Financial Times
Glamcult Magazine
Damn Magazine
Interni Magazine
Selected Exhibitions:
2023
Ukurant
3 Days of Design - DK
Genius Freaks
Paris Fashion Week - FR
2022
Alcova
Milan Design Week - IT
Cobalt Showroom
Paris Fashion Week - FR
2021
Att föreställa sig framtider
Malmö Konstmuseum - SE
Salon de Mobile
Milan Design Week - IT
Non-Depleted
gr-und - DE
2020
Impromptu
Kazerne - NL
Graduation Show GS20
Dutch Design Week - NL
Making Kin
Volvo Showroom - SE
Greenhouse
Stockholm Furniture Fair - SE
About:
Mathias Brask-Nilsen Malm is a Norwegian-born designer whose work combines his interests in technology, biology and craft. It explores an imposing and expressionistic approach to modern design and art, often using algorithmic technology and modern production methods seamlessly blended with his crafting expertise. His aesthetic pays homage to the mathematical representation nature has had in art and ornamentation throughout history, in which the growth principles he uses are based on the same as in the natural world. With its unpredictable forms and asymmetry his sculptural work wants to reflect on the unpleasant sides nature often represents to many as both strange and threatening. While growing up close to the mountains and fjords of Norway, Malm always felt connected to the outdoors as an escape from the concrete foundations of city life, where the topology of nature faces an issue to the modern man, even though we like to pretend otherwise. Instead of the prospect of cooperation, we aim for subjugation. With this in mind he wants his work to reflect exactly this; how much does human exceptionalism matter in a world that's gradually being exhausted by our present?