SHAHAR LIVNE
CONCEPTUAL MATERIAL DESIGNER
Select Awards:
Phaidon 100 best product designers in the world 2024
Dezeen Awards: emerging design studio of the year 2020
Icon Magazine 100 most influential creatives 2019, 2020
Beazley Design of the Year Award finalist 2018
Acquisitions:
MAXXI Museum – Rome, Italy
Next Nature Museum – Eindhoven, Netherlands
Schoenenkwartier (Shoe Museum) – Waalwijk, Netherlands
Museum of Architecture and Design – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Naturalis Biodiversity Museum – Leiden, Netherlands
Studio address:
Spoor K Fuutlaan 14 K, Eindhoven, 5613 AB The Netherlands
Shahar Livne's practice is rooted in a lifelong inquiry into nature,
biology, and the philosophy of matter. Trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven,
she developed a rigorous approach to material research and experimentation –
one that moves between the intuitive and the conceptual, treating materials not solely as a medium but as carriers of meaning.
Through objects and installations, her work draws on layered research methodologies to surface stories embedded in the physical world.
Many of Livne's projects engage with materials at the edge of cultural imagination – blood, man-made fossils, crystallizations approaching them as archives of time, place, and our evolving relationship with natural resources.
Livne works internationally as an independent designer, curator, and educator.
Collaborations with Balenciaga and nat-2 have brought her research-led material philosophy into dialogue with the luxury sphere, where conceptual design and craftsmanship converge.
She is available for select commissions and collaborations with maisons and
cultural institutions, and accepts invitations for exhibitions, lectures, and academic workshops