The designer who starts with the question.

Innovation and new technology have been recurring themes throughout his career. From early experiments with integrated LED technology to advanced manufacturing and 3D printing, Lervik has repeatedly explored technologies before they became established tools within mainstream design. His MYBrain lamp — created from a scan of his own brain — became one of his most recognised works and has been described by Bukowskis as the first Scandinavian signature object produced using 3D-printing technology.

Light occupies a particularly important place in Lervik’s work. Growing up and working in Scandinavia, where darkness defines much of the year, has made light both a functional material and an emotional one. His projects frequently investigate how light can transform an object, a space or an experience — often appearing where it is least expected.

This interest culminated in the exhibition Where the Light Leads (Dit ljuset leder), created together with acclaimed Swedish artist and musician Eva Dahlgren. Presented during Stockholm Design Week in 2017, the project brought together hand-crafted glass, light, spatial design and music composed specifically by Dahlgren. Rather than treating the disciplines separately, the exhibition was conceived as a complete sensory experience in which sound, material and illumination responded to one another.

Collaboration across creative disciplines has continued to be an important part of Lervik’s practice. He has worked with artists, photographers, musicians, craftsmen and designers, seeing these encounters as a way of challenging established methods and opening up unexpected directions.

Lervik has presented numerous solo exhibitions, including at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg and Sven-Harrys Art Museum. In 2018, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm presented the major retrospective In the Mind of Alexander Lervik, bringing together more than 200 objects from two decades of work.

His designs are represented in permanent museum collections including Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg and the Museum of Furniture Studies / Möbeldesignmuseum in Älmhult.

His work has received extensive international recognition. In 2023 alone, Lervik received 10 international design awards, adding to a career spanning distinctions across furniture, lighting and product design.

Today his practice continues to move between industry and the gallery. Alongside collaborations with established design manufacturers, Lervik is increasingly developing collectible works in which material, craftsmanship, technology and conceptual storytelling can be explored without the constraints of mass production.

At the centre of it all is the same ambition that has driven his work since the beginning: to create objects that do more than fulfil a function — objects that introduce an idea, provoke curiosity and give the observer an experience they did not expect.