Wieki Somers was born in 1976 in Sprang-Capelle, the Netherlands. She established Studio Wieki Somers after her graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000, in which she collaborates with Dylan van den Berg (b.1971, Eindhoven), also a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven. Both live and work in Rotterdam/Schiedam, collaborating with international companies, from craft workplaces to industry, galleries and museums, including MoMA (New York), Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and galerie Kreo (Paris). Alongside the studio's activities, Wieki Somers regularly teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven and contributes to several juries and seminars. Her work can be describerd as a subtle interplay of plain function, imaginative content and a sophisticated use of materials – she turns daily objects into an aesthetic (sometimes emotional) experience. The balance between reason and intuition lends her work a poetic resonance, while also leaving room for future users to exercise their own imagination. Her products that have garnered considerable attention include 'Bathboat', 'High Tea Pot' and 'Bellflower'.

Projects (selection)
Festoon lantern, Installation for new building Textile museum Tilburg, Cloakroom, Interior design museum Boijmans van Beuningen icw Haunting dogs, Chinese stools for Enthety Identity, Beijing China, Departed Glory, museum for contemporary art The Hague, Phantom Domestic France, Bellflower for Dry Tech 3 icw technical university department aerospace and Droog Design, Sketch proposals for marking the fire line in Rotterdam – monument, Blossoms for Cor Unum Contemporary ceramics s’ Hertogenbosch, Trophees for Droog Design for Culture Capital Lille 2004 - Arque, Tablecloth for Textile museum Tilburg, (EU) gifts for Dutch ministry, Deliciously Decadent! National Ceramic Museum Princessehof, etc.

Exhibitions (selection)
'Thinking hands, speaking things' Museum for modern arts s’Hertogenbosch (solo), several shows galerie Kreo Paris (group), 'Surrounded by objects' Design Miami/, Miami, 'Nature design' museum gestaltung Zurich, 'Design against design' Grand Palais Paris, 'Wieki Somers s'Winters' solo galerie Vivid Rotterdam, 'Vases with sprouts' museum for contemporary art The Hague several exhibitions Droog Design, 'NLA' Acme gallery Los Angeles, etc.

Museum collections (selection)
SMCS Amsterdam, museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Museum for modern arts s’Hertogenbosch, National Ceramic museum Het Princessehof Leeuwarden, Textile museum Tilburg, FNAC (French foundation for contemporary art), Droog Design, Musée Royal of Mariemont Morlanwelz Belgium, MoMA New York, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Musée de la chasse Paris, Victoria and Albert Museum London.

Education (selection)
The Design Academy Eindhoven department Man & Living, workshop IM Masters, Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg France, Summerschool university Samara Russia.

Collection: CHP32, Sense of Wonder - Secret Place