GUMMIBAR
About BRUT
Concept / Art / Design Services
Studio 166 Brut, is a creative design practice based in Rotterdam. Combining fine arts and design, the studio takes an interdisciplinary approach, working within a collaborative network. Rooted in archival and cultural research, we create socially engaged projects—from object design to spatial installations—that explore and respond to cultural, historical, and social themes.
Previous and ongoing collaborations:
Anna Manka, Eva Garibaldi, Gavin Oliver O'Leary, Mila Sekulic, Rebecca Schedler, Studio Berkveldt
Previously supported by: BlueCity, Centrum voor Architectuur, FlevoLAB, FRONT® (formerly StoneCycling), Stimulering Fonds.
Member of:
Architectural Humanities Research Association
Professional Association of Dutch Interior Architects (BNI)
Professional Organization of Dutch Designers (BNO)
2019-2021 Masters of Arts in Interior Architecture; Research and Design; Piet Zwart Institute; Rotterdam NL
2012-2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Studies;University of Calgary; Calgary AB
EXHIBITIONS
2024-2025 Peeping Spaces: the History of the Red Light District; Arcam; Amsterdam NL
2023 Cultuurmakersdag FlevoLAB, Dronten, NL
2023 StrandLAB, Land Art Weekend, Almere, NL
2022 De Hillevliet, Rotterdam Art Weekend, Rotterdam, NL
2021 Manifestations, Dutch Design week, group exhibition, Eindhoven, NL
2021 The In-between: Graduation Exhibition, Hofbogen, Rotterdam, NL
2021 Social Bodies, Group Exhibition, Hofbogen, Rotterdam, NL
2020 Domestic Territories, Online Exhibition, Rotterdam, NL
2019 Borderland, Group Exhibition, Wijkcoop010, Rotterdam, NL
WORK
2020 - Present 166 Brut Studio - Designer and researcher, Rotterdam NL
2024 Freelance designer, Studio Berkveldt, Rotterdam, NL
2023-2024 Spatial Designer and Researcher, Northern Light, Amsterdam, NL.
2023 Communication Design, Studio Berkvelt, Rotterdam, NL.
2022 Ceramic Design and Production, Jasmin Djerzic, Breda, NL.
2021 Teacher Assistant for Spatial Design; Willem De Kooning Academie; Rotterdam NL.
2021 3D Designer, Alex Augusto Suarez, Amsterdam, NL.
2020 Communication Designer, De Player Space, Rotterdam, NL.
2020 Textile Designer, Max & Morris, Sacramento, CA
2018 Graphic Design, Vullee. West New York, NJ
WORKSHOPS/TALKS
2025 Visiting Lecture for Care Studio, ETHZ Architecture, Zurich, CH
2025 GummiBar, Amsterdam Porn Film festival, Amsterdam NL
2024 Open Monumentendag, ARCAM, Amsterdam NL
2024 Exhibition Presentation, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL
2024 Panel Moderator at Barcam, Arcam, Amsterdam, NL.
2022 Panel Moderator, BioArt Gallery, Eindhoven, NL.
AWARDS /GRANTS
2024 FlevoLAB, Spin-off Traject
2023 S+T+ARTS, Pre-selected for Hungry Ecocities
2022 Stimulerings Fonds, Research Starting Grant
2021 MIARD Alumni Research Award
2021 Bekker La Bastide Fonds Recipient
2021 Van Beek-Donner Women’s Fund Award Recipient
2019 Alexander Rutherford Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2024 FlevoLAB Residency, Artistic Research: Phase 2, Almere NL
2023 FlevoLAB Residency, Artistic Research, Phase 1, Almere NL
SELECTED PRESS /PUBLICATIONS
2024 ‘Expositie: historie van sekswerk en queer plekken in Amsterdam’, Mol, Maarten, Het Parool.
2024 ‘Queer histories of De Wallen’, Refael, Rachel, O’Leary, Gavin O., Ons Amsterdam.
2024 Contributor to ‘What is an Institute for Night Culture’, (Editors)David Mulder van der Vegt & Stephan Petermann, ARCHIS
2023 Contributor to ‘HistoricALL! A collective rewriting of design history’, Cecilia Casabona (Editor), Maxime Benvenuto (Author), ONOMATOPEE
2022, ‘Heterotopias of Modern Prostitution’ Refael, Rachel. Piet Zwart Institute, The Piet, no. 2