Human | Nature

At Chamber Gallery Andrew Zuckerman, with established and emerging artists, architects and designers, explores how the natural world interacts with man’s living environment.

Curated by photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman, who has worked closely with Chamber Gallery’s founder, Juan Garcia Mosqueda, in shaping the year-long project, “Human | Nature” explores the theme of how the natural world interacts with man’s living environment as expressed through objects of design, art, and various types of ephemera.

Zuckerman’s collaboration with Chamber draws on a broad array of sources, including Japanese aesthetics, ethnographic art, and biomimetics, in the service of creating a collection of objects that reintroduce organic forms or concepts into designed spaces.

The new collection explores how nature interacts with the built environment and investigates how objects have a transformative effect on our lives. Consisting of customized contemporary design pieces, specially commissioned unique editions, and historic objects, the collection will evolve throughout the year as a living, ever-changing presentation of rare and unusual artifacts.

Chamber Collection #2 will be presented in three separate installments, called Chapters, in the fall, winter and spring. The first Chapter presents an array of contemporary designers and artists – from established figures such as botanic artist Azuma Makoto, architect Bjarke Ingels, artist Adam Fuss, designer Carl Auböck, landscape architect Marc Keane, and photographer Andrew Zuckerman himself, to emerging figures such as Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Fort Standard, Ika Künzel, Karl-Johan Hjerling, and Marlène Huissoud.

Zuckerman also expands Chamber’s concept of the contemporary Wunderkammer by presenting new designs for Austrian glassware company J. & L. Lobmeyr, as well as classics from German porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg and rare design objects like a vintage ant farm, NASA’s lunar rake, and the Japanese Motocompo miniature vehicle. Collection #2 also includes specially commissioned work by Studio Job, the curators of Chamber Collection #1.