THE LAND WITHIN
DESIGN / DELIGHT | SHANGHAI | NOV 10-15, 2026 | West Bund Art Center | Booth AM01
The Land Within is a collective installation of Ukrainian collectible design exploring landscape, memory, and the connection between people and place. Curated by Anna and Sergii Baierzdorf, the project brings together Furn Object, ZEMNA, Yelyzaveta Rudenok / Doinshapes, Natalie Dubrovska, and TEMPPROJECT.
Each participant approaches the theme through their own experience and material language: geological layers, fragile plants, natural forms, and memory. Together, the works form a multifaceted portrait of Ukraine.
The space, designed by Baierzdorf Studio, draws from the southern steppes of Ukraine and the Kinburn Spit. Open horizons, light, and reflections bring the different stories together.
“We all have places that we carry within us. They remain with us through sensations, memories, and what we create. Through these portals, we invite viewers to briefly visit the places that are dear to us and see Ukraine through our eyes.”
Anna and Sergii Baierzdorf, curators and co-founders of Furn Object
ZEMNA
ZEMNA is a Ukrainian studio of functional art founded in 2021 by Tetiana Krasutska and Andrew Dobryansky. Its sculptural objects explore primal strength and sensuality through form. The studio describes ZEMNA as "earthly": connected to the ground, the body and the body's memory.
Works in the exhibition: TUMAN (Fog) lounge chair and NICH (Night) candlestick, both 2026.
NICH is a metal candleholder exploring the persistence of life beyond rupture. It translates the theme of naivety and purity combined with mysticism and mystery. NICH symbolizes a mystical flower that opens its petals only under the cover of night.
TUMAN is a soft sculptural couch whose name means "fog" in Ukrainian. The idea of this design is about walking through the fog, losing control, and learning to trust instinct. It provides a comforting, protective space where you can sit or lie down and feel completely sheltered. The organic couch is shaped like a branch, creating a serene and fluid form. Ultimately, this piece serves as a reminder that tenderness and wildness can beautifully coexist within the same design.
Natalie Dubrovska
Natalie Dubrovska is a Ukrainian designer and artist based in Barcelona and founder of Dubrovska Studio. Trained in interior architecture and holding an MA from the Royal College of Art, she works across interiors, objects and installations, primarily with glass and found materials. Her practice connects function, ornament, ritual, material experiment and collective memory. She creates spaces and objects in which familiar forms are often distorted or pushed slightly out of balance.
Work in the exhibition: EPHEME, 2026.
In EPHEME, Dubrovska translates the ephemeral spring flora of Kinburn into glass, drawing on the plants’ ability to survive beneath the earth during adverse conditions.
EPHEME is a glass sculpture inspired by a perennial plant adapted to strongly seasonal environments, emerging above ground for a brief favourable period and remaining dormant underground for most of the year. Its disappearance from the surface is a strategy of preservation - life remains latent until conditions allow it to emerge again. In EPHEME, this botanical mechanism becomes a metaphor for Ukraine: a state of withdrawal, persistence and eventual re-emergence.
Yelyzaveta Rudenok / Doinshapes
Yelyzaveta Rudenok is a Ukrainian artist and sculptor based in Vienna. She constructs objects from land-sourced and recycled materials through hands-on analogue processes, drawing on personal and shared visual archives. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Work in the exhibition: Rootless Side Table, 2025.
Rootless Side Table is an exploration of displacement, shifting identity and the human connection to place and origin. It merges ephemeral, anthropomorphic forms that evoke a semi-living presence suspended between growth and stillness. The work reflects the experience of displacement, where grounding is perpetually deferred and identity remains in flux, yet it retains an inherent connection to one’s roots.
TEMPPROJECT
TEMPPROJECT is a Kyiv-based studio founded in 2022 by Anastasiia Tempynska. It creates architectural concepts at the intersection of design and fine art, with Ukrainian roots and a global outlook. Its portfolio includes spaces for Ukrainian brands Gunia Project, Rikky Hype and Cher'17, and its work has appeared on Dezeen Awards longlists.
Work in the exhibition: KRYV STRATA, 2026. Art direction: Anastasiia Tempynska. Design and development: Alex Haro.
TEMPPROJECT presents KRYV STRATA, a work inspired by the geological strata of Kryvbas, one of Ukraine’s major mining regions. Its layered materiality evokes the geological memory of the landscape and the histories held within it.
KRYV STRATA is a conceptual furniture set consisting of a chair and a table. The objects' palette draws directly from the industrial landscape of Kryvbas. Deep copper, terracotta, ochre, and graphite shades are born due to the high iron content in the rock, which has interacted with air, water, and sun for centuries. This is not merely a decorative color choice, but a tangible memory of the landscape and a trace of time left on the stone.
The architecture of the objects replicates the logic of an actual open-pit mine. Their massive supports resemble vertical cliff faces, soft transitions mimic surfaces shaped by erosion, and broken planes recreate the geometry of open ledges. The collection tells the story of the Ukrainian land by capturing its character, power, weight, and plasticity, serving as an attempt to freeze a monumental geological scale in a tangible object that a person can touch.
FURN OBJECT
Furn Object explores the space between function and imagination, creating sculptural objects that challenge familiar perceptions of the everyday.
Works in the exhibition: The Gate Mirror, The Island Table and The Glimpse Floor Lamp, 2026.
Furn Object contributes three works from its Portals Collection, exploring the idea of portals as thresholds between the tangible world and imagined spaces that can no longer be physically reached. Within The Land Within, these objects become part of an imagined landscape, connecting the exhibition's themes of memory, belonging, and the relationship between physical and emotional spaces.
The Island Table evokes a point of origin — a place where matter begins to take shape and the surrounding world unfolds.
The Gate Mirror challenges familiar perceptions of space. Its massive, slightly concave stainless steel frame draws the viewer inward, suggesting a passage beyond the visible.
The Glimpse Floor Lamp, with its irregular, asymmetrical silhouette, appears as a fragment of a form only beginning to emerge into the physical world.