THE RIETVELD SOCIETY UPDATE NOV & DEC 2024 Gerrit Rietveld Academie 14 NOV AROMATHÈQUE! MAYO MAYO MAYO Talk @ Mediamatic Amsterdam 19:30 Aromathèque is here to tickle your senses and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. With a.o. Frank Bloem More Info & Tickets 15 – 17 NOV NOORD EXPO Expo @ Skatepark NOORD, Amsterdam Witness the beautiful chaos of art colliding with concrete at the opening event 15 November at 19:00. There will be a skate contest fueled by live punk bands and an exhibition by Max Onink and Elle van Baaren. More Info 15 - 22 NOV KUMBATIA Expo by Anne Barlinckhoff @ kizikula on Unguja (Zanzibar) A heartfelt ode to nature that celebrates the nurturing, life-giving essence of water and our deep connection to the world around us. Opening 15 NOV More Info 15+16 NOV 29+30 NOV 13+14 DEC 11TRAM Expo @11tram (tram house next to Surinameplein 122), Amsterdam At the beginning of summer, 11tram asked twelve 2024 Rietveld Graduates to use the Tramhouse to make and show old and/or new works. 15 + 16 NOV  Ivalu Karlsen, Vera Luciano, Timo van Sark, Abel Aben 29 + 30 NOV Mayya Kuznetsova, Jesse Andriesse, Njaaj Mame Saliou Assile, Clara Fiegl 13 + 14 DEC Ornella Assie, Nanna Egelund, Rodrigo Munnecom, Catherine Hu More Info 15 NOV – 21 DEC EL FUTURO SIEMPRE SERÁ BRILLANTE Solo by Azul Ehrenberg @ Gallery Van Fanny Freytag, Amsterdam Opening 15 NOV at 17:00 In the exhibition multidisciplinary artist Azul Ehrenberg uses the lottery ticket as a symbol of hope and illusion. She explores the ambiguity of the lottery, representing both financial inequality and the attempt to escape it. More Info 15 NOV NEW GENERATIONS - GET GOING international directions, now and after graduating @ HKU (Oudenoord 700, Utrecht) 9:30 – 17:00 Looking to kickstart your international career? On Friday 15 November, DutchCulture and HKU are hosting a full-day programme to help you take your first steps abroad. Connect with alumni, makers, and cultural institutions, and gain practical insights into finding opportunities, funding, and key players in your field. Expand your creative practice and explore new networks! More Info & Sign up   21 NOV LIFE AFTER RIETVELD AND SANDBERG Starting Now! 17:15 @ Stairs FedLev building, Gerrit Rietveld Academie This session will be hosted by Jens Pfeifer (Head of the Large Glass dept., Rietveld Academie). He will be joined by Jeanne Vrastor and Miquel Hervás Gómez, both alums from Rietveld/Sandberg. They will share their personal experiences about life after the academy. It will be a session about self-employment, discussing topics like commercial work, galleries, assignments, side jobs and taxes. In particular, they will focus on the planning of a future professional life while still being a student. The programme is open to Rietveld and Sandberg students as well as alums who have recently (less than 5 years ago) graduated. More Info & RSVP – 23 NOV THE TERRIBLE KNITTERS Exhibition by Lejla Verheus and Mika Perlmutter @ Plan B, Amsterdam Friday & Saturday, 14:00 – 17:00 The Terrible Knitters, a time-traveling, genre-bending, and vaguely disinterested thread band of four—Lady Chatelaine, the Bi-Stitchual Cowboy, Arachne, and Plotting Pixie. The band, perpetually “working on an album,” practices in their rehearsal space at Plan B, where the walls are plastered with posters of their musical idols, fashion icons, and wildly ambitious mood boards. Knitting needles double as drumsticks, sewing machines lay down the bass line, and looms add a haunting, analog reverb. More Info 29 NOV WHERE ARE WE NOW @ De Veemvloer, Werkgebouw Het Veem, Amsterdam 18:00 – 21:00 An evening with two films and live readings, exploring the state of affairs of our world. With Nature & Ideal by Herman Verhagen. Herman graduated in 2003 as an audiovisual artist. He became a potter and is currently studying at the Schrijversvakschool. 29 NOV – 5 JAN FROM BURNING RICE FIELDS TO URBAN GROWTH Expo @ De Vishal, Haarlem @ Triënnale, Kathmandu (FEB 2026) With a.o. Erna Anema, Liesbet Bussche, Maartje Smits Artists from the Netherlands and Nepal highlight both the beauty and problematic aspects of a rapid urbanization process, such as that of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. An exhibition about the cross-pollination of culture, knowledge and craftsmanship. More Info 30 NOV + 1 DEC OPEN ATELIER Margreet Kramer @ Sint Jansstraat 55 hs, Amsterdam 14:00 – 18:00 2 – 9 DEC FORMED BY THE GAZE, TWISTED BY THE BEAST Eye's Artist in Residence 2024 Ginta Tinte Vasermane @ Eye's Foyer, Amsterdam Ginta will present her new video work that studies human behaviour, societal standards and role play. During her residency she worked with Eye’s collection of silent slapstick films and Vaudeville. More Info   - DEC 5 PICKLED PICKLED Eight Cubic Meters by Nara Kim Yang Nara Kim works from memories rooted in an unstable sense of place, blending them with imaginaries generated through attempts to bring these recollections into the material world. Nara Kim is a second year student from the Fine Arts department, and was selected through the call for applications for Eight Cubic Meters earlier this year. More Info STUDENTS WORK SENSORY CAFÉ @ Beautiful Distress, located in NDSM Students from the 2nd year of architectural design have been working with tutor Saja Amro to realize a new cafe/hangout space at the arts institution. With Frederikke Falbe-Hansen, Anka Loladze, and Florian Sigl, with Saja Amro. Visuals by Enno Pötschke. In a time of constant uncertainty, elements of relief and flexibility have been added to a formerly uninviting space underneath the stairs on the ground floor of Beautiful Distress. Now, people here are invited to the present moment by resting, playing, and becoming physical with weight, heat, and light, comforting the body and mind. Bringing urgency to mental health crises might allow us to reflect on other current crises, and question whether they’re more connected than we might think. PODCAST KEEP AN EYE YOUNG TALENT PODCAST With Alyson Sillon The concept of the podcast is that a young creative talent, in this case Alyson, asks a question to an established talent, in this case creative director of design studio Dumbar Liza Enebeis. They create visual identities for North Sea Jazz, PostNL, Instagram, but also the Dutch government, Adidas, NS, etc. Alyson's question is about how to deal with friction in the design process: friction when you can't figure it out yourself, or friction when you and your client can't agree. She also mentions her graduation work, which she has been building on since graduating. Listen PUBLICATION DANCING CLAY On Kinaesthetic Experience and Tactile Materialization Paper by Yolanda van Ede Part of the volume “Dance, Performance, and Visual Art: Intersections with Material Culture”, edited by Linda Dankworth, Henia Rottenberg, and Deborah Williams, published by Springer Nature/Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford. More Info OPEN CALL NOORDERLICHT BIËNNALE Noorderlicht invites image-makers, photographers, and artists working with lens-based media to participate in the Noorderlicht Biennale 2025: Machine Entanglements. Deadline before DEC 1 More Info OPEN CALL LE FESTIVAL D’HYÈRES International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories - Hyères 2025 The Festival d'Hyères promotes young creation in the fields of fashion since 1986, photography since 1997 and since 2017, the Festival dedicates a competition and a prize to fashion accessories. Every year, as part of the villa Noailles, the Festival is organized around three competitions, exhibitions and round tables. Deadline 6 DEC More Info VACANCIES GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE Teacher VAV-moving image 5 hours per week (M/F/X) Deadline 15 NOV Lid Raad van Toezicht (in Dutch) (op voordracht van Medezeggenschapsraad) (M/V/X) Deadline 1 DEC Managementassistent (in Dutch) 32 hours per week (M/V/X) Deadline 24 NOV PLEASE SHARE YOUR PROJECTS WITH ALUMNI@RIETVELDACADEMIE.NL Instagram | Send a friend ©2024 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Unsubscribe or update subscription