Credits

The BTS#01 production team:

  • Concept: Diana Krabbendam
  • Exhibition curator and producer: Diana Krabbendam / School
  • Exhibition design: Gilian Schrofer / Concern
  • Realisation of exhibition: Team–Concern
  • Graphic design (exhibition and printed materials): Robin Uleman
  • Interviews: Daniëlle Arets / CapaDA
  • Translation: Laura Martz
  • Realisation: Royal Ahrend
  • Pre-press: Mediatraffic Press
  • Printing: Lecturis
  • Web design: Mediamatic
  • Web editor: Laura Martz
  • Clothing: orson+bodil / Wolf (Francisco van Benthem) / ...and beyond
  • Photography, Ahrend Collection: Yves Paternoster

Copyright Royal Ahrend 2006

about us: Behind the Scene #01
This website was launched in conjunction with the exhibition Behind the Scene #01, held 5-10 April 2006, during the 2006 Salone Internazionale ...
About Behind the Scene
Ahrend's search for essence.
Interview: Looking on the Dark Side
Brigitte Hendrix (...and beyond), ‘Something Here Feels Horribly Wrong’

The colourful streets of Amsterdam are a laboratory for fashion designer Brigitte Hendrix, 27. Her collection ominously entitled ‘Something ...
Project: Milk Project, Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture
When artist Esther Polak and researcher Ieva Auzina discovered that much Latvian milk is transported to the Netherlands, they decided to follow ...
Interview: The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk

For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ...
Interview: Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood

Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ...
“I designed a scarf with mobile phones, skyscrapers and airplanes, the three ingredients of 9/11. I like to see how far I can go."
Brigitte Hendrix
“I was very affected by the Dutch still lifes of the Golden Age. Lovely bouquets go hand in hand with dark references to death."
Brigitte Hendrix
"We have to see to it that machines start working for us again, instead of allowing ourselves to be led by them."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
"We want to aesthetically educate the average person. That’s why we’re looking at producing in India."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
"Really, everyone needs their own map. Everyone has their own spatial pattern, their own view of reality."
Esther Polak
“I wondered how to represent our economic relationship with the landscape, and realised I could use new technology."
Esther Polak
Project: Coat of Arms, Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak (Unruly)
Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak of Unruly helped four underprivileged teenagers to design a coat of arms for Amsterdam’s multicultural ...
Project: Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ...
Interview: Fast Forward
Ivan Kasner, Petrifying

Starting off your design career with objects that can last tens of thousands of years: that was Ivan Kasner's daring choice for his graduation ...