Siren Elise Wilhelmsen / Born 1982 in Bergen, Norway / Graduated from the University of Arts Berlin and founded Siren Elise Wilhelmsen Design Studio in 2010/ Lives and works in Bergen and Berlin.

 

Siren Elise Wilhelmsen is creating concepts and designs for products, furniture and installations – both for the professional and the private market. Her aim is to make functional and sustainable design with personality and humour; products that challenge the meeting between man and his surroundings and that offer a new kind of interaction with them.

2013

O’Clock - time design, design time, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

German Design Award, Ambiente, Frankfurt

State of Things, Stockholm Furniture Fair/ Greenhouse, Stockholm

 

2012

Tingenes Tilstand, Galleri TM51, Oslo

The list of the Thief, The Thief Hotel - Skur 13, Oslo

Salone Satellite, Salone Internationale del Mobile, Milan

Vitra stand, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm

 

2011
First Beijing International Design Triennal, National Museum of China, Beijing
O´Clock, Triennale di Milano – design museum, Milan
Vienna Design week, Uhrenmuseum (Clock museum), Vienna
Technoport Design Award 2011, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim
Salone Satellite, Salone Internationale del Mobile, Milan
Norway Now, Design Week, Stockholm
100% Norway, DogA, Oslo

2010
Time to Design, Norman Copenhagen Flagship store, Copenhagen
100% Norway, 100% Design, London
Erbgut (UdK+Kahla), Tendence, Frankfurt
DMY International Design Festival, Berlin

2009
DMY International Design Festival, Berlin
Merket for god Design & Unge Talenter, DogA, Oslo
Detour -a Moleskine project, Santralistanbul, Istanbul

 

2008
Detour -a Moleskine project, Museum der Dinge, Berlin
DMY International Design Festival Berlin

2013

German Design Award - Newcomer Gold 2013, Germany

 

2012

Norsk Form´s Prize for the Young Designer of the Year 2012, Norway

Nominee: Nova 2012 - Nordic Designer of the Year 2012, Sweden

Government art grants /Statens Kunstnerstipend 2012, Norway

 

2011
Nominated for Technoport Design Award 2011, Norway
Special Mention, Design Report Award, Germany

 

2010
Winner of Time to Design – Talent Award, Denmark
10 Best Students of 2010, Frame Magazine, Netherlands
Benjamin Johannessens familielegat, Norway
Lise og Arnfinn Hejes fond, Norway

 

2009
Johan Helmich og Maria Jansons Legat, Norway

 

2006
3.prize, Packaging for iPod headphones. Procarton, Germany
2.prize, Packaging for iPod headphones, Gullblyantspisseren, Norway

2010 - present
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen Design Studio

 

2010
Statens Værksteder for Kunst, 3 months residency, Copenhagen
Studio Hausen, project assistant, Campers stand for BBB fashion week, Berlin
Diploma in Industrial Design, Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin)

 

2008
UdK Berlin (Prof. Kufus), student assistant, Bionik & Design (semester project), Berlin

 

2007
UdK Berlin (Prof. K. Schmidt-Ruhland), student assistant, Von Kopf bis Fuß (Exhibition and Competition), Berlin
Frost Produkt, trainee, Oslo

 

2004
Architecture theory and –history, TU-Berlin

 

2002
Art history, University of Bergen