ABOUT

After graduating in Architecture from the University of Belgrade, Dejana Kabiljo took her Master Degree in design from the Domus Academy in Milan. Her first product designs LIMON, table and LIM, chair for STEEL, divisione della Molteni & Molteni, Italy, were chosen for the interior design of the Groninger Design Museum, Netherlands. In 1992 she moved to Vienna where she held the position of art director of the Vienna Museum of Technology from 95 to 97. Then Kabiljo was lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 97 to 99. She has given guest lectures and workshops at the Konsfack, Stockholm, MAK, Vienna, Belgrade Design Week and New Rules and New Responses, Design Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2001 Dejana Kabiljo founds her own production label, Kabiljo Inc. Her work appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, La Republica, Elle Decor, Blueprint, DAMn, in several books, among others, Eat Me, victionary, Hong Kong, Delicate, Gestalten, Berlin, Dish, Princeton Architectural Press, Modern Furniture, H. F. Ullman Edition, Germany. Born in Split, Croatia, lives in Vienna, Austria.

THE AU and FE armchairs collection

MATERIAL: iron springs of mattresses.
’FE’ model in pure iron / ‘AU’ model is gold plated
SIZE: L 150 x W 80 x H 76, sitting height 46 cm // L 59 x W 31.49 x H 29.92, sitting height 18.11 in

BIO

Highlights:

SCRIBOman, paper table, is included in the permanent collection of the MAK, Vienna, the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade and in the collection of the Wien Museum, Vienna.
PRETTYPRETTY, barstool is chosen by Phillipp Starck for the interior design of the SLS hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in 2008.
PRETTYzerlina went to directress of Christie’s, Italy, at an auction held by Christie’s at My Own Gallery, Milan in 2010. The revenue was donated to the La Forza dell Sorriso Foundation,
supporting women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Since January 2011 LetThemSitCake! is a part of the collection of the Wien Museum, Austria.
Dejana Kabiljo received the Japan Foundation Fellowship for artists in 1998.
Her architecture project Home, Sweet – family housing complex in Belgrade, won second prize at the limited architectural competition by PORR, Austria in 2006.
She won departure, City of Vienna funding for creative industries, for her brand Kabiljo Inc. in 2006,
She was nominated for the most influential person in design by Myself magazine, Conde Nast, Germany and for the Future Prize of the City of Vienna in 2010.
Recipient of the m.i.a. award for art and culture, Austria in 2011.
Dejana Kabiljo has served on numerous judging and advisory panels.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2018
For the Aliens, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia

2014
FENCES, Kabiljo Inc., Vienna Art Week, Vienna, Austria
FENCES, Temporary Museum for New Design, SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ, Design Week, Milan

2013
Presence / Absence, DOROTHEUM, Design Week Milan
Fe / Au, Temporary Museum for New Design, SUPERSTUDIO PIÚ, Design Week, Milan

2012
OCCUPY!theSUPERSTUDIO
Temporary Museum for New Design, SUPERSTUDIO PIÚ, Design Week, Milan
2011
LetThemSitCake!, Installation, 751, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China
2011
SANDS, Temporary Museum for New Design, SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ,
Design Week, Milan, Italy
2010
FAT, Temporary Museum for New Design, SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ,
Zona Tortona, Milan Design Week, Italy
2009
theUnread, Kabiljo Inc., Vienna Design Week, Austria
Dejana Kabiljo 09, Zona Tortona, Milan Design Week, Italy
2008
PRETTYPRETTY, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade Design Week,
Serbia
Dejana Kabiljo 08, Zona Tortona, Fuorisalone 08, Milan, Italy
2006
PRETTYPRETTY, Passionswege, XAL Space, Vienna, Austria
2003
SCRIBOmania, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
2002
Procrastination, Paul Smith Collection, Tokyo, Japan
SCRIBOman, Selfridges Window, Oxford Street, London, UK
Dejana Kabiljo at dovetusai, Furniture Fair Spin-off Exhibition,
Milan, Italy.
2001
STOP!worrying, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art,
Sitting Devices, MAK NITE, MAK, Vienna, Austria.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2012
Recollections, with Marion Friedmann Gallery, at Designjunction, London
Food Culture, The Netherlands Institute for Fashion and Design, Designhuis, Eindhoven
Austrian Design, Raw And Delicate, La Pelota, Milan Design Week, Italy
Death Can Dance, Townhouse, Zürich, Switzerland
2011
The (secret) Return of Noever, ACE Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Reflecting Reality, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Art Week, Austria
LetThemSitCake!, installation, Global Social Business Summit, Vienna, Austria
Expo, Month of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Opening Exhibition, Belgrade Design Week, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
PARKfair presents Entartainer, Vienna, Austria
Surprising Ingenuity, Austrian Design Visions, FAD, Barcelona, Spain
2010
2000 – 2010 Design in Vienna, Wien Museum, Austria,
LetThemSitCake! art installation for Surprising Ingenuity, Austrian
Design in Milan, Fabbrica Bugatti, Zona Tortona, Milan, Italy,
rrrRagazze!, My Own Gallery, Milan, Italy.
PRETTYzerlina went to directress of Christie’s Italy at the auction held
by Christie’s.
2009
L’objet du design, Cité du Design, St.Etienne, France,
The Box, Pavillon Cambon, Pret a Porter, Paris, France,
Body House, Salon Maison et Objet, Paris, France,
Cute Puppies, MAK, Vienna, Austria,
Swedish Dreams, Galleri Vals, Haverud, Sweden,
Prophets and Penitens, DAMn magazine choice, Milan Design Week,
Italy,
Real World Laboratory, Design from East Europe:
Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria,
Europe XXL, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium,
Europe XXL, Tourcoing, France.
2008
Rinnascimento Virtuale, Museum of Natural History, Florence, Italy
Real World Laboratory International Design Biennial, St.Etienne, France
100% Pure Love, nHow, Milan, Italy
2007
Pure Austrian Design, ICFF, New York,
PRETTYPRETTY, Designersblock, Spazio Romeo Gigli, Milano, Iltaly
BODYLANGUAGE, Design Brussels, Belgium.
2006
Dejana Kabiljo 06, Designersblock, Nichols and Clarke Buildings, London
Design Festival, UK
2005
BONNIECLYDE, Designersblock, Nichols and Clarke Buildings, London
Design Festival, UK
Design Auction, Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria
BONNIECLYDE, Designersblock, Studio Zeta, Designweek, Milan Italy
2004
Procrastination, Designersblock, Studio Zeta, Design Week, Milan, Italy
2003
Procrastination, Tea Building, Designersblock, London, UK
Transformation, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York
and Iowa State University Gallery, USA
Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s, London, UK
2002
Dejana Kabiljo 02, The Bargehouse, London Designersblock, UK
S.O.S., MAK, Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
2001
SCRIBOman, IDÉE, Tokyo, Japan.