Louise Schouwenberg

Schouwenberg is head of the Masters programme Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (teacher since 2005, head since 2010), and mentor of the Masters programme Inside, Interior Architecture, of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Schouwenberg has curated exhibitions on the cutting edge of art and design and has worked as an adviser for many organisations. She regularly writes for international art and design magazines and has contributed to a range of books, some of the latest being the monograph: Hella Jongerius- Misfit, released by Phaidon Press in 2010, a monograph on artist Robert Zandvliet, published by Nai publishers in 2012, and Panorama - Konstantin Grcic, published by Vitra Design Museum in 2014. In 2013 she participated in the re-design of the Delegates’ Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters, as part of a Dutch team, which also consisted of Hella Jongerius, Rem Koolhaas, Irma Boom and Gabriel Lester. The team was commissioned by the Dutch government to create a vision on the re-design of this important space within the U.N. headquarters in New York. In 2015, Hella Jongerius and Schouwenberg wrote Beyond the New, a manifesto about the degradation of the design industry through the singular focus on profit margins, which launched at the 2015 Salone del Mobile in Milan. The manifesto derided contemporary design's obsession with the 'new' at the expense of creating true, cultural innovation. Subsequently, Jongerius and Schouwenberg were invited to create a site-specific installation on the same topic for Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum in Munich; the exhibition, also titled Beyond the New, opened in the museum's renowned Paternoster Hall in November 2017.

Louise Schouwenberg studied at Radboud University, University of Amsterdam and European Ceramics Work Center. The recorded working language is Dutch and English. The field of work recorded is design, art of sculpture and visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Employment is recorded with Design Academy Eindhoven and Challenging Jewellery. Work by Louise Schouwenberg is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago.

Louise Schouwenberg is recorded with the occupation exhibition curator. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as sculptor, writer, university teacher, art theorist and exhibition curator.