Sylvia Libedinsky

A graduate of the Faculdad de Arquitectura Y Urbanismo at the University of Buenos Aires, Sylvia Libedinsky moved to London 1968.   She has worked as an architect for the Greater London Council’s Schools Division, and was co-founder  (along with Ana M. Urquijo) ofMarshmallow, a design company that created soft toys for advertising and other applications. All her original pieces were selected for the Design Centre, London.

She has designed furniture, three-dimensional work for visual merchandising (commissioned by Fitch and Co), and — since the mid-’90s, in recurring partnership with Nick Wadley – an extensive series of cartoons, book illustrations (for Methuen, Faber, Editorial Biblos and Editorial Teseo) and posters (for the Royal Court Theatre, Centro Borges, and Cinecontact).

Her work has been exhibited in The Chelsea School of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Directions Gallery, Mario Flecha Gallery,  Bookartbookshop, Stanford Street, British Cartoon Trust, Cinecontact, Victoria & Albert Museum, Jaggedart, European Commission 12 Star Gallery (London),  Chapter Gallery (Wales), Graphics (Mantua), Shed (Milan), British Council (Bologna), Skanno (Helsinki), Galerie de Genieloods (Amsterdam), La Sala Vinçon (Barcelona) Jim Haynes Gallery (Paris), Centro Cultural Borges (Argentina), La Ventana Cemicual (Santiago de Chile), and Artium (Fukuoka, Japan).

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Madelon Vriesendorp

MADELON VRIESENDORP was born in 1945 in Holland. In 1964 she studied in Amsterdam at the Rietveld Academy and later worked on the restoration of old frescoes and as a designer of stage costumes, books and jewellery. Five years later she enrolled at Central St. Martins School of Art in London. She exhibited her work at the Workshop and the Serpentine Gallery, among others.

In 1972 she moved to Ithaca and then New York with her husband, Rem Koolhaas. While in New York, Vriesendorp cofounded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Paintings she produced at the time were used for book and magazine covers, notably on the cover of Delirious New York in 1978 by Rem Koolhaas. They were exhibited at the New York Guggenheim and Max Protetch galleries, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Berlin`s Aedes Gallery and Gallery Ma in Tokyo among others.

In 1976, Vriesendorp returned to London to work on numerous OMA competitions and together with Teri Wehn-Damisch, she made an animated film for French Television. From the mid 1980s she taught art and design at a number of schools, including the Architectural Association and the Edinburgh School of Art. Over the last ten years she has worked with in collaboration with Charles Jencks, producing drawings and models to accompany many of his publications, and with her daughter, Charlie on several books and art projects.

More recently, Vriesendorp has produced illustrations for Built, Domus and Abitare, while working on costumes, built objects, paintings and short stories. She had her first solo show in January 2008 at the Architectural Association, which went on to Aedes, Berlin in March and the Venice Architectural Biennale in September that year and in 2009 she showed in Basel at the Swiss Architectural Museum and at the Venice Art Biennale.

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