The graduations 2012
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
July 4-8 2012
Opening by photo detective Hans Aarsman
Design and audio: Laura Pappa and Karlis Krecers from the Graphic Department
On Wednesday July 4th at 4pm photodetective Hans Aarsman openend the Graduation Show 2012 of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Rietveld’s Graduation Show is the moment in the year when the youngest generation artists and designers presents itself to the public. Almost 200 students from Architectural Design, Fine Arts, Audiovisual, Fashion, TxT(Textile), Ceramics, Glass, designLAB, Image&Language, Jewelry, Dogtime, Graphic Design and Photography exhibit their works.
The online catalogue can be found here:
Photography: Leonie Linotte, Dagmar van Wersch, Abel Minnee en Taro Leenaerts
GRA Awards
On Saturday July 7th the GRA AWARDS were presented in the categories ‘Fine Arts’, ‘ Design’ and ‘ Best Thesis’.
With this award the academy wants to financially support upcoming artists and designers to start their own practice. The winners also can make use of the workspace at Tweede Nassaustraat (GRA Awards Residency) for a period of time.
Each year an exhibition will be organised for winners and nominees. This year the exhibition was called [S]elected and could be visited at Castrum Peregrini.
Jurymembers of this years GRA Awards:
Hansje van Halem, graphic designer Xander Karskens, curator De Hallen Ronald Rietveld, landscape architect Barbara Visser, artist
The price for best Thesis is coordinated by the Lectoraat Art & Public Space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
The jurymembers:
Sven Lütticken, teacher modern Art, Vrije Universiteit Saskia van der Kroef, managing editor Metropolis M Jeroen Boomgaard, Lector Art and Public Space
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catalogus Selected
Winners GRA Awards 2012 are:
In the category of Fine Arts:
Jacob Gallant Raeder, Ceramics
In the category of Design:
Anna Navndrup, Architectural Design
In the Category Best Thesis:
Laura Pappa, Graphic Design
Nominees of the GRA Awards 2012:
In the category of Fine Arts:
Sara Glahn, Photography
Lukas Hoffmann, VAV
In the category of Design
Elisabeth Leerssen, TXT(Textile)
Leanie van der Vyver, designLAB
In the category Thesis
Marieke Berghuis, Image&Language
Christopher Holloran
Elisabeth Leerssen, TXT(Textile)
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- Parool, PS kunst
- Parool, Schuim
- Parool, Kunst & Media
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Winners and nominees of the GRA Awards 2012.
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Niki Milioni, second year fashion
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Rietveld building
3 November 2012 Finissage [S]ELECTED Museum night
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Finissage [S]ELECTED
Kunst in de Onderduik, Kunst in crisistijd
Part of [S]ELECTED, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards at Intellectual Playground Castrum Peregrini.
Free entrance,
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards 2012
at the Intellectual Playground Castrum Peregrini
20 September - 3 November 2012
Castrum Peregrini, Herengracht 401, Amsterdam, entrance Beulingstraat.
Opening hours: Thurs-Sat 14:00 – 18:00
[S]ELECTED Salons: conditional, Thursday 4 and 25 October 20:00
Closing event Saturday 3 November during N8 (Museum Night Amsterdam) 19:00 – 02:00 ‘Art in the Safe House, Art in Times of Crisis’
“Graduates do not try to look like someone else, there are no pretentions.” (from jury report)
In [S]ELECTED all the nominees for the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards 2012 are being shown to the public. During the Rietveld Graduation Exhibition last July, a professional external jury made a selection from the latest crop of artists and designers graduating from the academy in Amsterdam. [S]ELECTED displays contemporary and multidisciplinary work. For example, experimental meta-cinema goes hand in hand with a clothing design that uses bluff as handicraft, and an object comparable to Lady Gaga’s footwear, in which aesthetics, ergonomics and prosthesis merge in a bizarre choreography.
This year's jury members were graphic designer Hansje van Halem, curator Xander Karskens, architect Ronald Rietveld and artist Barbara Visser. In addition to the nominations for visual works, the nominated theses can also be viewed. The jury members for these were Jeroen Boomgaard, lector in Art and Public Space, Sven Lütticken, lecturer in Contemporary Art at the VU University and Saskia van der Kroef, editor-in-chief of Metropolis M.
The historical context in which [S]ELECTED takes place is unique; in WWII Castrum Peregrini was a hiding place where, in secrecy, young people maintained their intellectual freedom and developed their personal talents through art. The secret artistic breeding ground of the past becomes the context for the young talent of today and produces interesting dialogues.
The participating artists are:
Marieke Berghuis, Image and Language
Sara Glahn, Photography
Lukas Hoffmann, VAV
Christopher Holloran, VAV
Elisabeth Leerssen, TXT (Textile)
Anna Navndrup, Architectural Design (prize winner)
Laura Pappa, Graphic Design (prize winner)
Jacob Gallant Raeder, Ceramics (prize winner)
Leanie van der Vyver, designLAB
Three of the nominated students won a prize, which includes a sum of money and a four-month residency in an Amsterdam studio. Through the prizes, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie wants to support its alumni at the start of their career.
Read more: Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards 2012
Pictures from the Opening [S]elected
Pictures from the first Salon
- Have a look at the catalogue: [S]elected
Dutch news program visits the Rietveld Academie
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but you can watch the video: Nieuwsuur