THE RIETVELD SOCIETY UPDATE MARCH 2020 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Alumni Now OLA LANKO / THE QUALITIES OF ROT Something changed for Ola Lanko when she opened her omakase restaurant, diptych, about a year ago. Soon after graduating from the Photography department in 2012, her work as a visual artist took flight, but she couldn’t help questioning the structures of the art world and her place in it. Read and listen here Alumni Now is a series of interviews with alumni by interviewer Celina C.F. Yavelow. RIETVELDTV THIRD NATURE By Konstantin Guz The episode was made with the excerpts from projects Wisdom in Silence, Fluidity and Untitled Experiment with No Image. The description and idea behind every project can be found on konstantinguz.com To watch 5 - 7 MARCH VAN EYCK OPEN STUDIOS 2020 With a.o. Elisa van Joolen and Lotte Reimann It is this time of the year again: the Jan van Eyck Academie invites you on a three days Open Studios tour. @Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht 5 - 7 MARCH AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK STUDIO EDITION 5 March  21:00 PERFORMANCE Elzinga by Lieselot Elzinga and Miro Hamalainen @Maloe Melo | Invite Only  6 March 16:00-18:00 EXPOSITION  Batavia Stad Fashion Outlet x Duran Lantink  Talent Programme 'Visions Of' @Het HEM | Open For Public 17:45 SHOW  Ninamounah @Het HEM | Invite Only  More info 5 - 7 March COME TOGETHER #5 With a.o. Antrianna Moutoula A three day performance gathering with artists from Amsterdam @Frascati cometogether.amsterdam 6 MARCH ROTHKO'S MOTORCYCLE BARN By Wouter Klein Velderman & Nina de Jong @Ndsm Treehouse Drum wizard Nina de Jong and PVC whisperer Wouter Klein Velderman will take you to another place and another time: Rothko’s Motorcycle Barn, a place where all colours have their own sound, rhythm and pace. Facebook   13 MAR - 25 APR NUDE - ARISING FROM THE GROUND Solo by Mariken Wessels @The Ravestijn Gallery Comprising of sculpture, photography and film, and inspired by a series of Eadweard Muybridge collotypes, Wessels’ most recent work explores the motion of obese bodies and the animalistic aspects of the human form. A new book entitled Miss Cox (Nude - Arising from the Ground) will be launched during the opening. More info 14 MAR - 11 APR ONGEMAKKELIJK / AWKWARD With Necim Abiadh, Aukje Dekker, Marc van Dijk, Marieke Gelissen, Claudia Mulder and Robbert Weide In a time when perfection is the norm and we are responsible for our own success, the issue of discomfort is more relevant than ever. While society often shuns discomfort, many artists embrace it: the moment between knowing and not knowing leaves room for being human. A project organized by alumni Claudia Mulder, Robbert Weide and Marieke Gelissen @Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam More info Until 22 March VOLKSKRANT VISUAL ARTS PRIZE With a.o. Isabelle Andriessen, Özgü Kar and Wouter Paijmans Five specialists from the Dutch art world have each nominated a nominee for the thirteenth edition of de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs. Announcement of the winner on 5 March at 21.00 by Barbara Visser. Facebook Wel of niet publiceren?* *Wat is het nut van een kunstenaarsboek? Friday 13 March More info (in Dutch)   @Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam until 22 MARCH VOLTA - OSCAR PETERS This video shows Oscar Peters and his current exhibition in which popular entertainment and macabre spectacles are celebrated. OPEN CALL Want to see your artwork on the 130 m long rollercoaster ‘The Savage’? More info @De Electriciteitsfabriek, Den Haag 25, 26, 27, 28 MARCH RELATING (TO) COLOUR Studium Generale Conference-festival & Rietveld Uncut @Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam On histories, politics, and perceptions of colour in the creation and understanding aesthetic forms, social structures, and embodied experiences.  Guest curators: Stefano Harney, Ola Hassanain & Casco Art Institute, Patricia Pisters, Taka Taka Friday Night Rietveld Uncut 27 March, 7 - 10PM relatingtocolour.rietveldacademie.nl   27 MARCH THE FOOL: the Original Form of Things Solo by Johanna Kotlaris The exhibition tries to make sense of the shape of oneself through channelling the tarot figure of the Fool and interweaving the supposedly logical with the boldly non-sensical.  @ZQM Petersburger Str. 73, Berlin More info Venice Biennale 2021 MELANIE BONAJO TO REPRESENT THE NETHERLANDS The artist selected to represent the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 2021 is Melanie Bonajo. A broad-based international jury selected Bonajo from a long list of artists and curators who had applied to take part in earlier versions of the biennale.  More info OPEN CALL macroTONE Steim Amsterdam invites sound artists to participate in macroTONE. For this call we’re collaborating with Marineterrein Amsterdam and aiming at the elongated architecture of the shooting range.  Deadline 6 March or 8 May More info OPEN CALL IDFA DocLab for Research & Development The R&D Program aims to discover and commission interactive and immersive non-fiction works that challenge traditional relations between art, audiences, and technology. Deadline 6 March More info OPEN CALL REFRESH AMSTERDAM: ‘SENSE OF PLACE’ The culture of a city like Amsterdam is never static: it is shaped by people with many different backgrounds, networks and traditions that are always in flux. People who are visibly and invisibly connected, who try to belong, and who must relate to one another. The Amsterdam Museum organizes Refresh Amsterdam in collaboration with De Appel, CBK Zuidoost, Compagnietheater, OSCAM, Rijksakademie, SEXYLAND and The Black Archives. Deadline 13 March More info GRANT ART PROJECTS IN ZUID A grant for temporary art projects that take place in the Amsterdam Zuid district. 2 Grant Tranches Deadline 31 March & 30 September More info (in Dutch) Application five years scholarship FONDAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE PER LA SCULTURA SCHOLARSHIP Every year from 2020, the Fondazione Internazionale per la Scultura will award scholarships to artists who are dedicated to three-dimensional work. Deadline 31 March More info PLEASE SHARE YOUR EVENTS WITH ALUMNI@RIETVELDACADEMIE.NL Facebook | Instagram | Send a friend ©2020 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Unsubscribe or update subscription