LABINAC

LABINAC - a design collective made by artists. The artists Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham started in Berlin the design company LABINAC in 2018 together with Kai-Morten Vollmer. LABINAC follows the idea that Alves once expressed in the sentence: ‘The Earth is more than our daily schemes. The aesthetic life is a life worth living’. LABINAC thus designs elements that surround our living spaces and inspire discussion in our daily lives engaged with the world.

LABINAC is conceived as a design collective, and artists such as Elisa Strinna from Italy, Jone Kvie from Norway and Bev Koski from Thunder Bay, Canada, were the first artists invited to produce works. We make furniture, lights, vases among other designs.
LABINAC participated in the Milano Design Week - Fuorisalone 2019, at NOMAD VENICE in September 2019, Collectibe Brussels 2020 and the Venice Design Biennale 2021. During the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2021 LABINAC presented designs developed for the newly re-opened Giardini Reali di Venezia commissioned by the Venice Garden Foundation.
Alves and Durham have lived together in Mexico, New York, Marseille, Brussels, Rome, Naples and Berlin. They have made their own furniture and work areas in each place over a forty-year period.