THE RIETVELD SOCIETY UPDATE OCT & NOV 2025 Gerrit Rietveld Academie 16 OCT LIFE AFTER RIETVELD AND SANDBERG Session hosted by Jens Pfeifer together with Benedetta Pompili and SI alum Katharina Nejdl @ Theory Stairs, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Starts at 17.15 Just like last year, Rietveld and Sandberg, together with the departments, are hosting a series of monthly sessions designed to help students and recent graduates prepare for professional life after their studies. The programme is open to Rietveld and Sandberg students as well as alums who have recently (< 5 years) graduated. Our first session will be dedicated to preparing a portfolio. In the following sessions, we'll cover essential topics like funding, money management, positioning yourself in the industry, and more. The programme and recordings from last year can be found here. More Info 18 OCT DOUBLE DATE Book launch by Max Onink, Elle van Baaren, Bernice Nauta, David Kloosterboer @ STUDIO MAX & ELLE, Amsterdam 17.00 – 21.30 or plan a private visit DOUBLE DATE is an estafette-style exhibition initiated by autonomous artists Max Onink and Elle van Baaren. Every month, two artists join their project space to add an object, gesture, sound, or challenge. Each contribution remains, building an environment that grows continuously. For their second edition they introduce Bernice Nauta & David Kloosterboer. More Info 18 – 26 OCT DUTCH DESIGN WEEK X RIETVELD ALUMNI Exhibition with a.o. Eva Mels, Hanna Orion, Jade-Elina Vuorinen, Max van Meeuwen, Miguel Domingues, Rocco Enzo ter Haar, Sali Sylla, The Agency Services, Thom Mac Gillavry and Tyra Plucer-Sarna @ Sectie-C, Daalakkersweg 2, Eindhoven From 18 till 26 October, the academy will present work by alums who graduated from the bachelor in 2025. Every project in the exhibition is in some form related to the concept of TIME. It can appear as a direct invitation to the audience, a memory of the past, or something suspended and still. More Info 18 & 19 OCT BROKEN CHANNELS Research programme by Fanfare runned by Agustina Woodgate, Andrea González Garrán, César Rogers, Freja Kir and Miquel Hervás Gómez @ Fanfare, Amsterdam Fanfare is pleased to introduce the third edition of Broken Channels. This annual two-day research programme creates space for us to collectively question our dependence on efficient transmissions, learn and relearn old and new forms of navigation and communication. RSVP – 19 OCT HOLY PLACES Exhibition by Tom Alon @ Snackbar Twins, Tweede Tuindwarsstraat 9, Amsterdam 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚖, 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠. 𝚒 𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚝 ＇ＨＯＬＹ ＰＬＡＣＥＳ＇, 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 (𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚒'𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚑𝚒𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 '𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜' #𝟷, #𝟸, #𝟹...) 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚋𝚊𝚛, 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚡𝚡 𝚃𝚘𝚖 More Info 19 OCT SURREALISM & COLLAGE Workshop by Elvira Duives @ Museum Arnhem Create your own surreal work of art in this workshop under the guidance of artist Elvira Duives. The surrealists, as discovered in the exhibition The Fantastic Landscape, use all kinds of different techniques, which aim to circumvent conscious thinking and gain access to the subconscious. One of these techniques is collage. More Info   20, 27 OCT RIETVELD FILMCLUB Screenings curated by Rietveld students @ Theory Stairs, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Held weekly at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, RVFC is a student-run film screening initiative interested in inviting and supporting the programming of curated film nights by any and all. More Info 26 OCT TEXTILE INITIATIVE: COUCH TALK _ SLOW WRITE – Transdisciplinary workshop with Antonella Fittipaldi and Lili Huston-Herterich By Dasha Golova and Bronwen Jones @ Dijktheater, Da Costakade 160, Amsterdam From 11.00 – 17.00 (Snacks, drinks and lunch will be provided) A day-long transdisciplinary workshop to explore the movement between disassembling and reassembling a couch, as a metaphor for collectively engaging with de-composing and re-assembling knowledge. More Info & RSVP  26 OCT ALPHABETICA: ENTERING OTHERWORLDS Symposium with a.o. Hansje van Halem @ West Den Haag Language is more than communication, it is a vessel for worlds. The symposium Alphabetica: Entering Otherworlds explores how writing systems, symbols, and forms of design embody imagination, spirituality, and identity beyond the limits of logic or reason. From dream-inspired scripts to visionary alphabets and typographic rituals, this one-day gathering invites visitors to cross thresholds between the seen and the unseen. More Info – 31 OCT FONTEIN Exhibition by Esther Kempf @ Langstrasse 30, Zürich The former urinal on Helvetiaplatz becomes a video display: based on online sign language dictionaries, the artist explores gestural translations of water. How many signs are there for the term and how do they differ depending on the language? What form does water take in the signs and how does it transform itself – from the source to the ocean? More Info 21–22 OCT, 4–5,18–19 NOV TRANSATLANTIC VOICE: ON FEMINIST LATIN AMERICAN POETRY Workshop by Jimena Casas @ OUTLINE, Amsterdam Transatlantic Voice: On Feminist Latin American Poetry entails five-session poetry reading and a writing workshop held every other Tuesday and Wednesday evening till mid November. It's is hosted at OUTLINE, and culminates in a communal presentation of participants’ work at Perdu later in November. More Info – 5 NOV THE SHADOW ARCHIVE Exhibition with a.o. Barbara Skovmand @ The Round Tower, Copenhagen In the exhibition, the Round Tower’s Library Hall is staged as nine individual narratives, inviting visitors to create their own stories about the forgotten, the unforeseen, and the shadowless. With political, astrophysical and universal issues as an artistic starting point, the exhibition seeks to shed light on what is yet to be told—and thus, yet to be archived. More Info   7 – 9 NOV LOOK TWICE Exhibition with a.o. Antoine Adamowicz @ WGkunst, Amsterdam Opening 7 NOV 17.00 In the second weekend of November, a duo exhibition can be seen in WG Kunst: after more than twenty years, Antoine Adamowicz and Jochem op ten Noort are once again exhibiting together in an exhibition. What once began as a friendship and shared love for painting has developed into a fascinating artistic conversation over time. Where their work still varied greatly at the time, a striking rapprochement has emerged over the years. Now their paintings seem to meet at the intersection of contrast and harmony. More Info – 8 NOV KISSAMBUSHED Exhibition with a.o. Meis Vranken, Mariken Wessels, Jan Hoek and Carmen Schabracq @ Gallery van Fanny Freytag, Amsterdam The exhibition takes its inspiration from Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: the fearless performance artist, poet, and muse to the avant-garde, who only now begins to receive recognition for her groundbreaking work. The gallery proudly carries her name, and with this show they channel her radical spirit into the present. KISSAMBUSHED explores the body, gender, and playfulness in art, echoing Elsa’s dadaist defiance while reflecting on today’s social and cultural tensions. More Info 8 – 15 NOV EARTH KEEPERS By a.o. Machteld Aardse @ GLOW Eindhoven A community art project by Machteld Aardse and Femke Kempkes with analogue large scale light projections (using 10 large scale slide projectors), performing the urban memory. Sunday 9 NOV 18.30 – 19.00 Performance ‘Earth Keepers Parade’ More Info – 30 NOV ELSEWHERE With a.o. Thom van Rijckevorsel @ Haus im Park, Kunstverein Emmerich, Emmerich am Rhein In this tandem exhibition, the works of Thom van Rijckevorsel (a sculptural installation, drawings and a video) and Jonny Isaak (paintings) enter into a dense dialogue about the emergence, recognition, and alienation of images. More Info – 15 DEC A VOICE CAN CALM A RESTLESS HEART Exhibition with Izzy Lee, Léa Giordano, Karolina Hyun Wilting, Yael Schuster, Miray van der Bend, Esther Rzewnicki, Vasilisa Ikryannikova, Gabriël van de Sluis, Fatima Agoula and Chloé Moretti @ BIMHUIS, Amsterdam Ten alums from the VAV - moving image department proudly engage in dialogue in this group exhibition. Together they give shape to the themes of identity, togetherness, and connectedness, but also loneliness and sadness. They address these themes through drawings, paintings, film images, videos, sculptures, and other visual media. The exhibition serves as a reminder that your voice has the power to impact others, in a time that calls for comfort as well as outspokenness and action. ‘’The works voice what we express in our practice and in our personal lives, and how we do so with gentleness, urgency, or resistance’’.   More Info READ WOW ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Laura Eager @ wow-amsterdam Interview with Laura Eager, a Visual artist, originally from England and currently based in Amsterdam. Laura’s artistic practice uses performative scenarios, films and audio works, to research the relationship between the spectator, director and performer at the intersection between real life and ‘stage’, fusing public spaces with white cubes, or black boxes. Read OPEN CALL MAPPING FESTIVAL Call for projects to the Mapping Festival in Geneva, taking place from 7 to 17 May. Deadline 2 NOV More Info PLEASE SHARE YOUR PROJECTS WITH ALUMNI@RIETVELDACADEMIE.NL Instagram ©2025 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Unsubscribe or update subscription