Basse Stittgen

The work of Basse Stittgen uniquely bridges material research, storytelling, and collective engagement. Basse is internationally recognized for transforming overlooked or discarded materials into objects that reveal powerful narratives about ecology, consumption, and social values. His work demonstrates how design can move beyond form to become a catalyst for dialogue and change.

 

Basse has developed projects that often operate at the intersection of science, craft, and community, turning waste streams into meaningful archives of shared human activity. Through these processes, Basse’s work looks for ways how objects can mediate contemporary complexities by way of making invisible processes tangible.

 

He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 and since then his work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle Basel and the 13th Shanghai Biennale of Architecture. It is part of the collections such as the MAK Vienna, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, the NGV Melbourne, and the Wellcome Collection.