Wille-Meike Brand is a visual artist based in Rotterdam. In her work she explores the boundaries of common materials, by reinventing the ways they can be used. These reinventions create new methods to repurpose waste materials. In recent years she has been focussing on the abundance of textile waste, which has been the main subject of her practice. In her experiment-based research she explores new ways to transform a copy into an original, waste into value and bringing new meaning to the under-appreciated.

info@willemeikebrand.com
@willemeikebrand

Exhibitions

2022
De Aanschouw – De Schouw, Rotterdam

Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend
Zoutziedersstraat, Rotterdam

This Art Fair, Amsterdam

2021
Roadside Picknick – PADA Studios, Lisbon

This Art Fair, Amsterdam

FASHIONCLASH festival – Maastricht

2020
FASHIONCLASH festival – Maastricht

Stay at Home - Curated by Kaspar Dejong

2019
24h Amsterdam Oost - CBK, Amsterdam

"COOL" – CBK, Amsterdam

Jubileumexpositie '10'
Museum de Kantfabriek, Horst

Let's talk about water
Hall Library TU Delft, Delft

Object – HAKA, Rotterdam

CBKamer II – CBK, Amsterdam

2018
Design Perron
Dutch Design Week

New Order of Fashion
Dutch Design Week

2017
Reinventing Textiles
Textiel Museum, Tilburg

See Ya Dude / BNO
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

2016
Craft & Radiation
Slash Gallery, Rotterdam

2015
Paint the wind, using the wind
V2, Rotterdam


Residencies
PADA Studios
Barreiro, Portugal


Talks & Workshops
Fonds Kwadraat & Art Office CBK
Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

Workshop Contemporary Textile Studio
401 Richmond Building, Toronto

Talk Materialisation
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam


Prizes
Reinventing Textiles 2017 
Textiel Museum, Tilburg