Season XXXV- Spazio Nobile Gallery & Studiolo
Kiki & Joost, Duo Show
A Complementary Grammar of Creation
Guest Curator: Maria Cristina Didero
Vernissage on Thursday 4 September 2025, 18:00–21:00
Rue Franz Merjay 142 & 169, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
in the presence of the Artists & the Curator, part of 
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All photos by Studio Mass, Courtesy of the Artists & Spazio Nobile
Meet the Curator with Kiki & Joost
Maria Cristina Didero, photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani
Maria Cristina Didero is an independent design curator and author who is based in Milan and works internationally. She has collaborated with various magazines, including Domus, Vogue Italia and Icon Design, and currently serves as Milan Editor for Wallpaper*. She has presented exhibitions at a number of international institutions and worked at the Vitra Design Museum for 14 years. Her most recent projects include “The System of Objects” at the Deste Foundation in Athens, “Nendo: The Space in Between” at the Holon Design Museum in Tel Aviv; “FUN HOUSE by Snarkitecture” at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; and “Vegan Design – or the Art of Reduction” by Erez Nevi Pana. In 2021, she was part of the Supersalone curatorial team. In 2022, she was appointed Curatorial Director of the Design Miami fair and presented “Ask Me if I Believe in the Future” at the MK&G in Hamburg. In 2023, she co-curated “Droog30” with Richard Hutten at the Triennale Milano and the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. In 2024, she curated “A Future for the Past” at the Benaki Museum in Athens, as well as “Craft x Tech” at the Kudan House in Tokyo and the V&A in London. She is frequently invited to participate in panels and talks and has served on juries for Frame, Design Anthology, Dezeen, and the Compasso d’Oro Award in celebration of its 70th anniversary in 2024.
The exhibition is open from 4 until 7 September, 11-18.00 and by appointment
On Sunday 7 September, click on this link to ArtRSVP
Guided Tours with Kiki van Eijk & Joost van Bleiswijk at 1pm & 3pm
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Study Model of A Conversation Piece by Kiki & Joost, June 2025. Courtesy of the Artists & Spazio Nobile
For this exhibition, Kiki and Joost have worked together for the first time to create a cohesive piece: a four-panel room divider composed of hammered copper, cotton lace, vertical cotton roping, and a mirrored surface. This is an object that, while traditionally associated with separation, here becomes a marker of shared authorship and spatial intimacy. There’s a subtle irony in the choice: perhaps only two designers so precisely in tune could choose to materialise their dialogue through an object meant to divide. Yet rather than creating distance, the piece proposes a threshold – inviting reflection, not only in the literal sense of the mirror, but in the way it embodies a synthesis of form languages, techniques, and material affinities. In this single gesture, the structural and the poetic, the precise and the intuitive, merge _ Maria Cristina Didero, Independent Design Curator and Author
