7x11
Type: Art Gallery Location: The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag / 7X11 Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Shaya Fallahi Collaborator / associate: Mieke Gresnigt, Freedom of Creation, Catalogtree and Milou van Ham Floor area / size: 120 sqm Cost: Euro 70.000,00 Completion: March 2004
7X11 is an art centre in the The Hague Ypenburg VINEX project that is in use as residential, work and exhibition space for artists. The starting point for the interior design is flexibility. The space has to accommodate many different types of uses: exhibitions and manifestations as well as studio space or space to host artists in residence. We chose to connect both the light and the decoration elements to a rail system. The decoration elements consist of perforated steel panels that may be used as both space dividers and exhibition panels. A kitchen-bench is part of the interior: to cook on and to sit on.
Several of the components were created in collaboration with visual artists. The front panels were developed on the basis of photographs by Mieke Gresnigt in collaboration with Freedom of Creation, and a sunblind pattern was designed in collaboration with Catalog Tree designers. Milou van Ham developed a worded wallpaper for 7X11 that entices the audience to associate freely.
