About — OODD Studios

OODD Studios is an interdisciplinary design cooperative founded in Leipzig in 2021 that explores the potential of contemporary craft in relation to the advancing digitalisation of society through different concept-based projects. The fields of work of the two founders, Magdalena Sophie Orland and Susanne Ostwald, range from textiles and graphics to photography and fashion to interior and installation design.

©Anne Hutschenreuter

SUSANNE OSTWALD is a graduate fashion designer with an international career, primarily as the creative mind behind the London-based brand Ostwald Helgason and as a freelance design director for various fashion houses. Since 2017, she has additionally been active in the field of design education.
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MAGDALENA SOPHIE ORLAND is a textile designer with a multiple award-winning M.A. degree from Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (2019).

„We are united by our shared enthusiasm for the unique impact of the interplay of colour, texture and visual haptics. With a gentle, yet powerful optimism, we dedicate ourselves to the value and depth of what is created by hand and experience. The fact that our work is created through very time-consuming processes and fundamental engagement with the materials used is as important to us as the relevance of the preceding artistic concept and the resulting aesthetic outcome.“

©Anne Hutschenreuter

How do you develop a tridimensional shape when the source material is groundbreakingly new and conventional joining techniques will not work? What is the position of a designer in today's world?

What are our responsibilities? What are the issues we want to address in our work? These questions define the design position of OODD Studios, which is further influenced by the contrasting characters of the two founders. For the constant exploration of design values results from the interplay between Magdalena's dreamy feminine approach to design and Susanne's clean architectural orientation. This dualism is reflected in the style of OODD Studios: timeless and modern, fragile and expressive, reduced to the essentials and utterly distinctive.

Awards + Scholarships

11/2023
Saxon State Prize for Design

03/2023
3. BKV-Prize for Young Applied Arts

10/2022
Preis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler Stiftung,
Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig

08/2020-03/2021
Work scholarship from the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, Project ORLANDO

Exhibitions

17/01 - 22/02 2025
Solo Exhibition UPDATE
BKV Gallery Munich

26/04 - 08/06 2024
Galerie Handwerk, Munich

06+07/02 2024
Surface Design Show London (GB)
//Colour Hive

01-04/11 2023
Tanween23
King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture
Saudi Arabia (KSA) / Isola Design

26/05 - 05/11 2023
Rendezvous Textil
Eschemuseum Limbach-Oberfrohna

21/04 - 20/05 2023
Galerie Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe Verein
BKV Prize for Young Applied Arts

04/2023
Milan Design week with Isola Design District (IT)

30/03 - 29/05/2023
Werkschau at Industriemuseum Chemnitz

03/ 2023
International Craft Fair Munich

01/2023 - 02/2023
Solo Exhibition, Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt

10/2022 - 11/2022
Nur Festsache at Schau Fenster Berlin

10/2022
AD Interior - New Perspectives with Studio Oink
Kronprinzenpalais Berlin

10/2022
Exhibition at Grassi Messe Leipzig, purchase of 5 Objects made of contemporary lace

07/2022
Textile Vases LANDMARK at
CLUSTER CRAFTS 2022,
London (GB)

05/2022
In Between in Cooperation with MeierUnger Architects at Collectible Fair, F / A GALLERY Brussels (BEL)

05/2021 - 11/2021
Nouveautés x Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts
Manufacture and purchase of a wedding dress
made of contemporary lace

Publications

09/2024
Article, Monopol Magazine

03/2024
ELLE Decoration (NL)
Trends

08/2023
New Milano Insights Bonus
Eclectic Trends (ES)

07/2023
Article, Textilkunst International

06/2023
Feeling Wonen (BE)

01/2023
Article, Süddeutsche Zeitung

01/2023
Article Monopol

11/2022
Portrait annabelle sagt

10/2022
Article, Süddeutsche Zeitung

09/2022
Editorial Pure Magazine

12/2021
Portrait, FREITAGABEINS Magazine

Awards + Scholarships

Exhibitions

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