Bas van Beek (Nijmegen, 1974) was trained at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. His work provides a criticism of market mechanisms, branding, poor conceptualism and uncritical designer cults. He studies archive material, restores, adjusts and digitizes designs that are often either not produced or published. He was the head of the designLAB department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2009-2013) and currently teaches at the Masters Industrial Design Department of the the Royal Academy in The Hague. Early 2019 he was awarded the Stokroos Stipend for Ceramics.
He has served on numerous juries and committees, including the jury for the Cor Unum Ceramics design competition, the Municipal Art Acquisitions Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and as committee member for the Creative Industries Fund. His work is in the collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Zeeuws Museum Middelburg, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven and Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.








Oog in Oog met Klimt
As the third presentation in the Eye in Eye series, visitors are now confronted, after the old masters Rembrandt and Hals, with works by the more modern master Gustav Klimt (1862-1918, Vienna). Contemporary artist/designer Bas van Beek (1974, Nijmegen) transforms the project room of the Van Abbemuseum into a total experience in which he combines Klimt's work with furniture and giant tiles of his hand.