Studio Drift

[3] They first collaborated on Gordijn's graduation project, Fragile Future, a number of ball-shaped LED lamps with real dandelion seeds glued onto them, giving the bulbs a flowerlike appearance.

[17][15] In 2010, the duo was invited to New York to make Fragile Future installation for the Dead or Alive exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.

[18][19][20] The computer-controlled installation, that draws inspiration from the flock of birds, is composed of as many as 180 hand-blown glass tubes suspended from cables and outfitted with halogen lamps.

[24] In late October 2014, when Philips Wing of Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened after the 11-year renovation it featured studio's Shylight chandeliers.

DRIFT artist Lonneke Gordijn - together with director Monique Wagemakers and Choreographer Nanine Linning - deconstructs the traditional codes of opera through the creation of Ego.

In 2023, Drift Studio announced opening a museum in Amsterdam in 2025, in the Van Gendt Hallen, a project that reflects "the outcome of everything we have been working towards for the past 17 years" according to its founders.

Fragile Future, by Studio Drift. 31st São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2014
Flylight, by Studio Drift. Glasstress 2015 Gotika, Venice Biennale Photo: by Juuke Schoorl
Shylight, by Studio Drift at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) 2014 Photo: by Hesmerg