Duty Free Zone Exhibition   

Concept & curation for Dutch Design Week 2024

In collaboration with Clara Sika Helbo, Fedora Boonaert, Nils Axen 

“Duty Free Zone” is an exhibit that parodies the airport experience, addressing issues of borders, climate, tourism, consumerism and non-places. It challenged the notion of duty-free, and asks “when living in a duty-free world, what are our duties?”

Situated within the former NS offices of Eindhoven Centraal, The Duty Free Zone exhibits work from 15 artists based in the Netherlands. Visitors are invited above the main station hall into an interstitial world overlooking the railroad tracks.

The duty-free zone is a strange yet familiar place of commercial meandering, one that you can’t point to on a map, a clock or your bank account statement. However, in the Duty Free Zone exhibit, kitsch souvenirs are replaced with thought provoking works that speak to the complex interconnectness of the world outside the airport.

Participating Artists

Fabien Neisus

Fedora Boonaert

Femke Hoppenbrouwer

Hsiang-Lin Kuo

Ignacy Radtke

Karla Zlimen

Miguel De Garch

Nils Axen

Philip Atanasov

Shai Datauker

Thijmen Peters

Uri Meir

Yamuna Forzani