Nuuk. Photo: Aviaaja Ezekiassen
ABOUT
The Greenlandic / Danish architect Aviaaja Ezekiassen works in the field of architecture, exhibition-, interior- & product design. Her work is informed by her background with a Bachelor degree in architecture, Master degree in design and from her time at Oslo Fotokunstskole where she studied art photography. Her references is among others Birger 1962, Moesgaard Museum and Louis Vuitton, and she has been working in Greenland, Norway and Denmark.
Aviaaja combines her bachelor degree in architecture and her master degree in design using skills and methods she has acquired while working with both scales and is passionate about creating an overall connection between the scales. She's driven by incorporating the storytelling in her work. Stories that are told in a subtle and unobtrusive way with focus on aesthetics, materials, colors and tactile surfaces.
In 2016, Aviaaja worked as an exhibition architect at Moesgaard Museum and was head designer of the permanent Stone Age exhibition that opened in October 2016. She's now based in Copenhagen and working as a designer at BIRGER 1962 that will launch a range of interior and design products in January 2018 in Paris.
In February Aviaaja will be at Statens Værksteder for Kunst with a project about greenlandic design. She's passionate about studying what it takes to perceive a design as being greenlandic or a danish design. The project will work with (re)defining what greenlandic design is in a contemporary perspective. As Aviaaja also has a Danish background she wants to try to merge danish design traditions with greenlandic design traditions to see what happens in this meeting.
EDUCATION
2015
Architect / Designer
Cand. Aarch. MAA
Studio Design and Social Innovation,
Aarhus School of Architecture
2013
Art Photography
Oslo Fotokunstskole /
Art Photography School, Oslo
2012
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
BA, Aarhus School of Architecture
2008
High School Graduation
Qeqqani Ilinniarnertunngorniarfik,
Nuuk Greenland
REFERENCE
2017-
Birger 1962
Design and Product Coordinator
2017-
Studio Aviaaja Ezekiassen
Freelance Architect/Designer
2017 - 2016
Kaja Skytte Studio
Architect/Designer Intern
2016
Moesgaard Museum
Head designer / Exhibition Architect
2014
Louis Vuitton / Objets Nomades
in order to put the A ROUND chair into production
2013
Photographer Morten Bendiksen, Oslo
Photoassistant, Oslo
2013
Fantastic Norway Architects, Oslo
Architect BA
2012 - 2013
Tegnestuen Nuuk, Nuuk
Architect BA
2012
Freelance Interior designer
at Peqqissaanermik Ilinniarfik, Nuuk
2010
Tegnestuen Nuuk, Nuuk
Student Assistant
CLIENTS
2017
Tine Mouritsen
Interior decoration and design
2017
Anne Nivika
Plan sketches of her Cooking School
2017
Anna Reventlow Ejendomsformidling
E - magazines, copywriter, graphic design,
setup on website
2017
Upon Aps
Assembly manual of balcony furniture
SERVICE
INTERIOR & RETAIL
DESIGN
DRAWING
VISUAL IDENTITY
ARTWORKCOLLABS
SOFTWARE
Adobe Package CC & CS6,
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
AutoCad
Rhino
Sketch-Up
Keyshot
V-Ray
Office package
EXHIBITIONS
2015
North Modern, Copenhagen
of the home accessory Pock'it
2014
FSC Design Award, Copenhagen
of the home accessory Pock'it
2014
TENT London Design Week
of the A ROUND chair
2014
Salone Del Mobile / Ventura Lambrate
of the A ROUND chair
RESIDENSIES
2018
DANISH ART WORKSHOP
Project: " In search of the essence of Greenlandic design."
PRESS
2015 Polarfronten
Master Thesis: Potential in a depopulated settlement in Greenland.
2015 Politken
Design Pock'it
2015 AG/Sermitsiaq
Design A ROUND
2015 MISS DESIGN SAYS
Design Pock'it
EMPLOYER
"She has a strong eye and sense for details, good quality and is pro-active on issue. She solves the daily problems, and makes things not possible, possible. She is team player and a strong young woman born in Greenland and has a very special mind and soul. She has patience!
I believe that her strength built on her upbringing. Her sense “cutting into the bone” is something I have valued. She is a modern woman, with many possibilities ahead." Malene Birger, BIRGER1962
”Hun har løst opgaver hvor der er mange hensyn at tage, både til den praktiske brug, den tekniske udførelse, og de formmæssige designvalg. Aviaaja har været den daglige ansvarlige for udstillingens design.”
Ole Birch Nielsen, Moesgaard Museum
“Aviaaja er en riktig dyktig designer, som samtidig forstår det krav til presisjon som designprosess, tegningsproduksjon og byggesøknader krever.” Lisbet Harboe, Fantastic Norway
”Arbejdet er udført med engagement, koncentration og ansvarsbevidsthed.” Peter Barfoed, Tegnestuen Nuuk