The work of Basse Stittgen uniquely bridges material research, storytelling, and collective engagement. Basse is internationally recognized for transforming overlooked or discarded materials into objects that reveal powerful narratives about ecology, consumption, and social values. His work demonstrates how design can move beyond form to become a catalyst for dialogue and change.

Basse has developed projects that often operate at the intersection of science, craft, and community, turning waste streams into meaningful archives of shared human activity. Through these processes, Basse’s work looks for ways how objects can mediate contemporary complexities by way of making invisible processes tangible.

He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 and since then his work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle Basel and the 13th Shanghai Biennale of Architecture. It is part of the collections such as the MAK Vienna, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, the NGV Melbourne, and the Wellcome Collection.


Solo exhibitions:
    Tree-ism, Collectible, 2024
    Blood Related, Verbeke Foundation, 2023
    Never fully seen, ISO Amsterdam, 2021

Selected group exhibìtions:
    Batir Vivant Biennale, Paris, 2026
    Natural Spirit, Tempo Gallery, Paris, 2025
    Enhance, Basic Village, Milan, 2025
    Micropia Design Award, Artis, Amsterdam, 2024
    Breekbar, CODA, Apeldoorn, 2024
    Design Sediments, Huidenclub, Rotterdam, 2024
    Schmutzige Ecke, Ornamenta, Pforzheim, 2023
    NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2023
    Terra Libera, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2023
    It‘s our f*cking backyard, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2022
    Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale, 2021, together with P. Staff
    All Good(s) at Gropius Bau, 2021
    Design by Nature, Fundatie Museum Zwolle, 2021
    Materia Gris at CentroCentro, 2020
    Being Human at the Wellcome Collection, 2019
    Food at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2019
    Animals made to Measure at the Design Museum Ghent, 2019
    De Laatste Aai at Museum Tot Zover, 2019
    Waste at the Palais d‘Hollande, Istanbul during the Istanbul Design Biennale, 2018
    Design Lab at the MAK Vienna for the Vienna Biennale, 2018
    Blood - Science Gallery Melbourne in Australia, 2017
    Activating the City at the MMCA in Seoul, Korea, 2017

Teaching and Mentoring:
    Social Design Master, Design Academy Eindhoven, 2022 - ongoing
    Do-Make, Design Academy Eindhoven, 2024 - ongoing
    DesignLab, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, 2023 - ongoing