Christien Meindertsma and Dzek are to be included in MoMA’s upcoming exhibition "Pirouette: Experiments and Turning Points in Design”, on view from January 26th to October 18th, 2025. Its focus is on design as an agent for change, and the role designers play as catalysts for challenging behaviours, habits and circumstances most in need of addressing at a societal level. Curation is by Paola Antonelli, with assistance from Maya Ellerkmann.

Christien was selected to provide one of the case studies in the installation, showcasing the rigour and depth typical of her documentary research approach to materials, their supply chains and production methods, and the novel ways of thinking about the waste resulting from these. Her long standing Flax Project (2008 to date) features explorations ranging from traditional yarn spinning and rope construction to high-tech textile composites so robust they were used to make an entire chair. The resulting object, titled Flax Chair (2015), is to go on display alongside Flaxwood, the natural architectural tile debuted with Dzek at Milan Design Week in 2024, and derived from linseed oil – it too a flax-based ingredient.

A captivating film created by Christien in collaboration with Dutch filmmaker Roel van Tour – depicting the 2012 flax harvest of Gert-Jan van Dongen and the conversion of part of that crop into linseed oil, also previously part of our Milan presentation – will be shown alongside the two works.

Works in the MoMA collection, which embody both seismic changes to the way we live and notions that never found wider recognition yet made their mark on other designers’ thinking, will form the remainder of the exhibition. These include, among many others, the Apple Macintosh 128K (1983), Sabine Marcelis’s Candy Cube (2014) and climatologist Ed Hawkins’s Warming Stripes 1850-2023 (2018 - to date).