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about magda malina

magda malina was born in poland in 1983. in 1989 she moved to germany.

after finishing school in 2002 she went to the netherlands in 2003, to study at the product design departmet at the artez hogeschool voor de kunsten in arnhem.

in 2006 she had her first group exhibition of bags in the galerie emmy miltenburg in schiedam. in that year she also had several collaborations with barry rengelink with who she designed interior objects for fort asperen and nederlandse muziek dagen in utrecht. she took milliner courses at irene vugt and finally had 5 month of internship at stefan diez industrial design and saskia diez jewellery in munich.

coming back to the netherlands she decided to finally specialize in accessories and started to develop her graduation collection papercuts//how to love the moment. in the summer of 2007 she graduated with that collection of hats, capes and collars. pieces of her work were used for an art performance by voin de voin at the arnhem mode biennale.

in august she went to reykjavík for a collaboration with hiroaki kanai and nozomi kume, for a dance performance by good company, which was shown at the reykjavík dance festival.

in september she was invited to give a reading at zefir7, class of 2007 in the hague.

for the dutch design week 2007 she exhibited at lift-off living, together with barry rengelink.

from january 13th 2008 her work was seen at the kunstpaviljoen, nieuw roden.

publications

zefir7.nl / trèspluscool / milkshakechocolate / thecoveted

blend nl_april 2008

about papercuts//how to love the moment

the collection is made out of paper. it's about cutting, lasers and folding. it's about patience and over and over. it's about staple guns. it's about chaos and structure. about irrationality and dreams. about illusions. about the fastness and changeability of all things.about loosing everything at the same time.it's about virtual personalities. it's about the power of appearience. about lightness and protection. it's about the worth of simplicity. about the richness of minimalism. it's about the endless beauty one moment can include.

about short cuts // fst frwrd

short cuts are try-outs which are developed in quick work situations. they are meant as a base for further creations, as inspiration, illustration and material experiments. they are meant to become mor and more. a documentation of everyday progress.

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