2001 – present

• 2024, Z Popiołów (From the Ashes), Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 

• 2024, This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea

 

• 2023-2024, Bending the Curve – Knowing, Acting, Caring for Biodiversity, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany 

• 2023, Department of Seaweed, Sea Art Festival, Busan, South Korea 

• 2023, Corpus Maris II, Chappe Art House, La Chapelle Art Foundation, Tammisaari, Finland

 

• 2022, Hidaka Ohmu, Symbiotic Pathways, Hanaholmen, Espoo, Finland 

• 2022, Corpus Maris I, Beneath the Surface, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Battery Point, Australia 

• 2022, Mitomnia, video commission for Gene Cultures, MIT Museum, USA 

• 2022, Landscapes of Design: Women at the Heart of Domaine de Boisbuchet, France 

• 2022, Kombu Nudibranch, Tideline, Messums Wiltshire, UK 

• 2022, Corpus Maris I, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australia 

• 2022, Hidaka Ohmu, seaweed pavilion, Criss-Crossing Ecologies, Seinäjoki, Finland 

• 2022, Kombu Ahtola, NEOM, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

• 2022, Kombu Ahtola, The World As We Don’t Know It, Droog, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• 2022, Hidaka Ohmu, seaweed pavilion, Glasshouse Helsinki, Finland

 

• 2021, Tinted Tangle, Biocolour – Exploring sustainable colour, Arktikum Rovaniemi, Finland 

• 2021, Julia Lohmann – Kombu Ahtola, Boutwell Schabrowsky, Munich, Germany 

• 2021, Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 

• 2021, Department of Seaweed, Museum of Vibrant Matter, Porto Design Biennale, Portugal 

• 2021, Baltic Sea Day, performance, Hanaholmen Foundation, Helsinki, Finland

 

• 2020-2021, Materia Gris, CentroCentro Madrid, Spain 

• 2020-2021, Baltic Sea Lab, Aalto University, A BLOC, Espoo, Finland 

• 2020, Oki Naganode, Broken Nature, MoMA, New York, USA

• 2020, Criss-crossing Ecologies, BioArt Society, Annantalo, Helsinki, Finland 

• 2020, Partnering with Nature, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, World Economic Forum 50th Annual Meeting, Davos, CH

 

• 2019-2023, Design Labor Vienna, MAK, Austria 

• 2019, Énergie animale, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH 

• 2019, DoS Living Archive, State of Extremes, Design Museum Holon, Israel 

• 2019, Sea Ceremony, performance, Lofoten International Art Festival: High Tides and Kelp Congress, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, NNKS, Svolvær, Norway 

• 2019, Design Triennial: Nature / Salvage, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, US, and Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade, NL 

• 2019, Oki Naganode, Milan Triennale: Broken Nature, Milan, Italy 

• 2019, La Fabrique du Vivant [Designing the Living]: Mutations/Créations, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 

• 2019, Department of Seaweed, MAK Design Lab, Vienna, Austria 

• 2019, Kombukamui seaweed dress, Designs for Different Futures, Philadelphia, USA 

• 2019, Cowbench Sigga, part of An Accelerated Culture, Friedmann Benda, New York, USA 

• 2019, Department of Seaweed, Critical Tide – Critical Design and the Ocean, Design Museum Helsinki and European Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Belgium

 

• 2018-2019, Food Revolution 5.0, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, CH 

• 2018, Permanent collection, MAK, Vienna, Austria 

• 2018, Cow bench Janne purchased for the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA 

• 2018, Food Revolution 5.0: Gestaltung für die Gesellschaft von Morgen, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Germany and Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, CH 

• 2018, Raw Design: Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, USA 

• 2018, Fashion, Innovation and Nature, objects & video, Faena Festival, Miami, FL, USA

 

• 2017, Dissident Gardens: Biotopia, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands 

• 2017, Department of Seaweed / Design on Display, Konzernforum, Autostadt Wolfsburg

 

• 2016, Earth Matters, Tilburg Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands 

• 2016, Vienna Design Week, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA

 

• 2015, Future Archaïque, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland 

• 2015, Earth Matters, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden 

• 2015, Future Archaïque, Le Grand Hornu, Belgium 

• 2015, Open Ended, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

• 2014, D-Espazio, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain

 

• 2013, Hit the Future – Design Beyond Borders, Munich, Germany 

• 2013, Isn’t it Romantic? – Contemporary Design Between Poetry and Provocation, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Germany 

• 2013, Cut/Paste/Grow – Science at Play: Bioart in Brooklyn, The Observatory, Brooklyn, New York, USA 

• 2012, Everything Forever Now, British Council, Bangkok, Thailand 

• 2011, Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel 

• 2011, Böse Dinge – Positionen des (Un)geschmacks, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, CH 

• 2010, Tidal Ossuary, Gallery Libby Sellers, London, UK 

• 2010, Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan 

• 2010, Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA 

• 2010, Laminarium, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK 

• 2010, Collacqueration, Japanese Embassy, London, UK 

• 2009, Co-Existence, Wellcome Trust, London, UK 

• 2009, Contemporary Makers, Jerwood Space, London, UK 

• 2009, Design Miami, Miami, USA 

• 2008, Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge, MoMA, New York, USA 

• 2008, Design in the State of Nature, Design Miami, Miami, USA 

• 2008, The Conformitory, Somerset House, London, UK

• 2008, Origin, Crafts Council, Somerset House, London, UK 

• 2008, Designer of the Future, Design Miami Basel, Switzerland 

• 2008, Translating Tradition, Lungomare Gallery, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 

• 2008, Panta rei, Galleria Nilufar, Milan, Italy 

• 2007, The Catch, S-AIR/ICC, Sapporo, Japan 

• 2007, Grandmateria, Libby Sellers Gallery, Design/Miami, USA 

• 2007, Everything Material Something Immaterial, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, CH 

• 2007, Grandmateria, Libby Sellers Gallery, London, UK 

• 2007, Get it Louder, Shanghai, Guang-Zhou, Beijing, China 

• 2007, Great Brits, Concert Hall, Athens, Greece 

• 2007, Tabourets, Galerie Kreo, Paris, France 

• 2007, Design Contre Design, Grand Palais, Paris, France 

• 2006, Design Miami/Basel, (with Galerie Kreo), Miami, USA 

• 2006, Betes du Style, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland 

• 2006, Eden ADN, St.Etienne, France 

• 2006, Travelling Apothecary, British Library Piazza, London, UK 

• 2006, Alien Archaeology, V&A Village Fete, London, UK 

• 2006, New British Designers, 2006, Droog Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• 2006, Great Brits – The New Alchemists, ICA Singapore, Singapore 

• 2006, Football Fever, Design Museum, London, UK 

• 2006, Exhibition One, Designer’s Agency, Köln, Germany 

• 2005, Great Brits – The New Alchemists, escorter AOYAMA, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 

• 2005, Shed, part of News from Nowhere: Visions of Utopia, London, UK 

• 2005, Ron Arad Presents, Ausstellungshalle für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany 

• 2005, European Design Show, Design Museum, London, UK 

• 2005, Great Brits – The New Alchemists, Paul Smith HQ, Milan, Italy 

• 2005, Twinkle Twinkle, 100% Design Moscow, Russia 

• 2004, Design Mart, Design Museum, London, UK 

• 2004, Biennale Internationale Design, St.Etienne, France 

• 2004, Tools Galerie, Paris, France 

• 2004, The Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK 

• 2001, IF Design Awards, Hanover, Germany 

• 2001, D&AD New Blood, British Design & Art Direction, London, UK