Profile:
Jerszy Seymour (CA & UK, born
1968) is a designer, artist and director
and cofounder of the Dirty Art Depart-
ment. He sees design as the general
relationship we have with the built world,
the natural world, other people and our-
selves, and as much about the inhab-
itation of the planet as the inhabitation
of the mind. Spanning from industrially
and post-industrially produced objects,
actions, interventions and installations,
he defines his work as the creation of
situations that seek to expand utopi-
an possibilities defined by the idea of
the Every-topia and the Non-Gesamt
Gesamt Kunstwerk (the non-total total
artwork).
His work has been presented in many
museums and institutions and is held in
many permanent collections including
the Centre Georges Pompidou, MAK, Vi-
enna, Kunsthaus Glarus, the Vitra Design
Museum, the Museum of Modern Art,
Marta Herford, Mudam Luxembourg,
Fondation Lafayette and the ‘Fonds
National d’ Art Contemporain’ France. In
parallel he has created objects for design
companies such as Magis, Vitra and
Kreo and has taught and given lectures
and workshops at many schools includ-
ing the Royal College of Art, UdK, Do-
mus Academy, La Sapienza, Eindhoven
Academy, Berlin Program for Artists, Hfg
Karlsruhe and Saarbrucken, Cranbrook
Academy, Ecal Lausanne and the HEAD
in Geneva. In 2011, together with Cath-
erine Geel, Stephane Barbier Bouvet,
and Clemence Seilles, he cofounded the
Dirty Art Department, a radical masters
program in art and design at the Sand-
berg Institute in Amsterdam.
In 2021, he created the exhibition
‘Life on Planet Orsimanirana’ at the
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Ham-
burg, together with the Macao Collective
in Milan, as an active process of world
building and a symbolic vision of a world
we would want to live in.
Jerszy
Seymour
