Alumni

Introduction + Individual Portfolio Viewing by DutchCulture | TransArtists
You are cordially invited to join the introduction on the artists-in-residence opportunities and portfolio talks for students and alumni organized by DutchCulture | TransArtists, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut on.

COST: FREE

[ Please let us know if you want to attend the portfolio talks before the 11th of May, with a preference for a date and time ]

11th of May 10:00 - 12:00 Introduction
The host: Judith Leysner
Location: at the Rietveld Academie

11th of May 13:00 - 16:30 Individual Portfolio Viewing (Only 6 places available) The host: Bojana Panevska
Location: at the Rietveld Academie

SUBSCRIBE: judith@sandberg.nl

12th of May 11:00 - 17:00 Individual Portfolio Viewing The host: Judith Leysner Location: at DutchCulture | TransArtists, Herengracht 474 Duration per appointment: 45min per person (please be on time)

SUBSCRIBE: B.Panevska@dutchculture.nl

During the portfolio talks on the 12th of May you have the opportunity to talk to the following curators, artists or artists-in-residence-experts:

Luuk Nouwen, FLACC – artistic director of FLACC, workplace for visual artists in Genk (BE). FLACC favours projects that focus on the specific geographical, cultural, social or historical situation of Genk/Belgium/the Euregio, as well as on projects which specifically require the use of FLACC’s facilities and which make a clear contribution to the national or international arts scene. flacc.info

Florian Weigl, V2_ – Curator talent develpment V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). In V2_'s view, art and design play an essential role in the social embedding of technological developments. v2.nl

Anja Masling, NEVERNEVERLAND – co-director of NEVERNEVERLAND Amsterdam (NL) NEVERNEVERLAND is a new initiative for the arts. In a drastically changing artistic landscape, NEVERNEVERLAND feels the urge to facilitate a broad range of artistic practices by upcoming artists . NEVERNEVERLAND organizes exhibitions, artist residencies, events, lectures and screenings throughout the city of Amsterdam, Europe and abroad. NEVERNEVERLAND is founded by Judith Leysner, Anja Masling and Hélène Webers. Our headquarter is located, Frans de Wollantstraat 70 Amsterdam (de Punt) neverneverland.com

Floris Kruidenberg, 1646 – co-organizes 1646, an artists’ initiative/project-space in the centre of The Hague, which promotes the exchange between local, national and international artists and art spaces. 1646’s Residency offers artists & curators the possibility to stay and work/research at 1646 for a period of up to two months. The residency proceeds parallel to the development of other projects and because it is not only addressed at artists as such, it is not strictly intended to the realization of a show The Hague (NL) 1646.nl

DutchCulture | TransArtists is a platform for stimulating and strengthening artists' mobility in the Netherlands and internationally. They combine and share expertise, and offer tools and services on artist-in-residence programs and related issues. The online platform transartists.org offers more than 1500 residencies in its database. The field of artist-in-residence (AiR) places from around the world is in state of constant flux, therefore the focus of the workshop will be on recognizing and articulating these latest trends.

In 2015, the Stedelijk bought a work of Saskia Noor van Imhoff: (1982) spatial work # +14.11. For the first presentation of this work at the Stedelijk, the artist creates an installation that focuses on the museum and on the architecture of the rooms. In her work, Van Imhoff combines works from the deposit, replicas and everyday objects. It places without any hierarchy together. In addition, it allows the methods of preservation, study and classification part of her installation.

From February 6, a solo exhibition of Saskia Noor van Imhoff is also on show in De Appel art center .

The fourth edition of the exhibition Prospects & Concepts opens today at Art Rotterdam. This exhibition, where the Mondriaan Fund presents young talent, can be visited from 11 to February 14 in the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam. The exhibition features work by 54 artists who in 2014 received a Work Contribution Young Talent of the Mondriaan Fund to make a start with their careers. Prospects & Concepts is curated by Noor Mertens, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art & Stadscollectie at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Participating alumni include Sohrab Bayat, Michael Hilbrink Anne Huijnen, Susan Cage, Maurice Koster, Ola Lanko Jonas Lund, Silvia Martes, Kaweh Modiri, Malou van der Molen, Nicoline Timmer, Ran Zhang.

The film 'Bodkin Ras' by Rietveld alumnus Kaweh Modiri won the International Film Festival Rotterdam FIPRESCI award at IFFR on Friday. The award is for the judges’ favourite film in the Bright Futures strand. The FIPRESCI Award is given to the filmmaker of the best film in Bright Future by the jury of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI). The FIPRESCI jury exists of international film journalists, who grant this award during IFFR to a film in the section Bright Future. Only first feature films that have their world premiere during IFFR and are not included in a competition qualify for this award, and the jury were selecting from a total of eleven films.

The FIPRESCI jury consisted of Joost Broeren, Taylor Hess, Dragan Jurak, Toni Junyent, Martin Kudlac, Kevin B. Lee, Archana Nathan and Yael Shuv. They described the film as a “fascinating hybrid of documentary and fiction, filled with unforgettable characters, a strong sense of place and an urgency that turns the experiment into a thrilling and humanistic film”.

People from countries in surrounding continents wrecked by war and terror are traveling to the EU to find a save haven. Europe is divided on how to deal with refugees and economic immigrants. The public debate is dominated by incident driven media and populism and leaves little space for reflection and thorough argumentation. On Febr 16, Europe by People invites professor of Migration Law Thomas Spijkerboer, professor of Sociology Godfried Engbersen and visual artist and Rietveld alumna Olfa Ben Ali to talk about the threats and solutions, seen from their own field of expertise and research.

For more information go to the website of Pakhuis de Zwijger