THE RIETVELD SOCIETY UPDATE JULY & AUG 2025 Gerrit Rietveld Academie 11 JULY – 30 NOV REFRESH AMSTERDAM #3 Group exhibition with a.o Frank Ammerlaan, Patricia Werneck Ribas, Maurits de Bruijn @ Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam What does the future look like? And who actually decides that? For the third edition of the biennial art event Refresh Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Museum invites artists and the public to dream, think and create. In the exhibition they take you into their wishes, expectations and fantasies for the future. More Info 18 JULY – 22 AUG THANK YOU FOR CALLING Screening by Vera Lelie @ Mediamatic, Amsterdam Premiere 18 JULY starting from 19:30 'Met Wie Spreek Ik' is a short, magical-realistic film about Rens (37), a director of a music venue who is on the brink of a burn-out. After an emotional breakdown, he is unexpectedly called by Herman (65), an unknown man on a houseboat. What starts as an uncomfortable phone call, ends in an absurd, musical journey towards connection and self-insight. RSVP 20 JULY PRIDE FLAG AND BANNER MAKING Workshop by Gersande Schellinx, Dasha Leo @ No Other Option, Amsterdam From 13:00 till 16:00 Join them on Sunday 20th of July to make your pride known! Together you will make old textile, t-shirts, kitchen towels, cardboard boxes and so on into flags for pride! Come cut, stitch, glue, paint and show the world your pride! At the end of this workshop there will be a display that will be on view in the window. Check their agenda for more workshops. More Info – 27 JULY CLOSER Exhibition by Marieke Zwart @ Gallery m.simons, Amsterdam Marieke is a visual artist working with drawings on paper and video. Her practice explores contemporary social themes such as reproduction, care, and community. More Info 9 AUG TINY TOWN #1 Performance guided by Janneke van der Putten @ C3 Studios, Rotterdam From 20:00 till 22:00 The event starts with a participatory listening walk guided by Janneke van der Putten. To kick of the evening, audience members are invited to join a collective sound walk exploring listening and our senses, becoming more aware of our own body, movements and sounds. It is followed by a performance from musician and recording artist Xenia Gott. To conclude Janneke van der Putten and Jacco Weener present 'The Hamer Dance', the preview of their new performance project.   More Info   – 26 OCT BLUE ZONE Group exhibition with a.o. Thom van Rijckevorsel, Rineke Dijkstra, Constant Dullaart, Rob Scholte, Hellen van Meene @ Kunsthal, Rotterdam The Kunsthal is presenting over 70 artworks in which the colour blue plays a central role. In the exhibition, paintings, sculptures, light artworks, photography, and video artworks from corporate collections will enter into unexpected dialogues with each other. More Info WATCH LIFE AFTER RIETVELD AND SANDBERG RECORDINGS The recordings of all Life After Rietveld and Sandberg sessions are now online on the website. Except voor the session Legal Life (Visas After Graduation). Please send an email to public@rietveldacademie.nl to receive the recording of this session. Watch LISTEN ARTIST START In this episode of the De Mondriaan Fonds podcast, they visit various professionals in the art field again. Discussing a few important first steps in the career of a beginning artist. For example, we ask curator Johan Gustavsson and gallery owner Wouter van Herwaarden for tips. As a starting artist, how do you get into the sights of a curator? And how do you find a gallery that suits you? Artists Lou-Lou van Staaveren and Sam Salehi Samiee look back on their own start and share their experiences with applying for grants. And grant employee Joyce of the Mondriaan Fund tells more about the possibilities within the fund. Listen LISTEN VOOR DE SPRONG Podcast with a.o. Katya Marchenko After art school, you are at the bottom of the ladder as an artist. How do you find your way in the art world if you don't know the way? Where are the opportunities that you can't see? In this episode, 14 artists share their thoughts about their own position as graduates and tell how they view the art world. How do they see the future? Why does that involve so much competition? Couldn't the art world also be a garden with room for everyone?  Listen LISTEN KUNST IS LANG Podcast with Katja Mater Katja Mater's work is about time. About how it is constructed, what different forms it takes and how we experience time. Sometimes Katja refers to it literally, as in the series Time is an Arrow, Error. They are painted and signed photo prints of fragmented, clock-like figures, which have been taken out of their normal context. Listen READ GEEL Book by Basje Boer A new book coming out at the end of this month. 'Geel' will be published, the novella Basje wrote at the request of Uitgeverij Oevers, as part of their colour series. 'Geel' is about an Amsterdam writer in Maastricht, about being alone and being together, fictional and real cities; about Maastricht, Amsterdam and the New York we only know from films. Buy   RECAP GRADUATION SHOW 2025 The Graduation Show has come to an end! Thank you so much to everyone who came and celebrated this milestone with our graduates. This year’s show featured the work of over 150 graduating students from across our departments and we’re extremely proud of them. Congratulations to the Class of 2025 - we can’t wait to see where you go from here. If you still want to buy a thesis from a graduate, you can contact them directly.  More Info READ HET PAROOL: FOUR GRADUATES HIGHLIGHTED Rietveld graduates Anthea Dardier, Eva Mels, Gijs van Herwaarden, Finn Overdevest Art critic Kees Keijer visited the Graduation Show and interviewed four graduates for Het Parool. Read More READ MISTER MOTLEY: DEAR CLASS OF 2025 Last Wednesday, Maurits de Bruijn gave the opening speech of the Graduation Show. Mister Motley published his words on their website. Read OPEN CALL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE The Rijksmuseum is organizing the annual Artist in Residence programme again in 2026, in which one artist is invited. This programme includes a grant and a budget for the production of one or more works of art. There is room for artistic research, experiments and the creation of new work. Deadline 24 AUG More Info OPEN CALL TECH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2026 The Tech Fellowship Programme at the Rijksakademie brings together art and technical expertise. Developed by the Rijksakademie in 2022, it offers artists and designers the chance to work as technical specialists with the aim of preserving traditional craft knowledge and exploring new technologies in the workshops. In this way, they can continue to innovate and respond to contemporary challenges, such as environmental transition and digitalisation. Deadline 5 SEP Sign Up READ HET GORE LEF Book by Sarah Arnolds In the stories in 'Het gore lef' there is plenty of lies. Because a lie is a great way to escape the truth – which is often too painful, or too boring. And it's so easy. Anyone can do it. You lie to your friends, your masseur, your parents, your children, your partner or yourself. It is more difficult to stop. Buy PLEASE SHARE YOUR PROJECTS WITH ALUMNI@RIETVELDACADEMIE.NL Instagram | Send a friend ©2025 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Unsubscribe or update subscription