At the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut, the Rietveld Pavilion is run by students: an autonomous, extracurricular project space alongside the regular art education programme. The Pavilion offers students from both the Bachelor and Master an opportunity to freely experiment, organise, learn and exchange ideas outside their curriculum.
It is a place that offers space for curiosity, experimentation and collectivity — activated by both Rietveld and Sandberg students, with support from Public & Projects. In recent weeks, two student projects have made this visible:
Fill their Jar (after our wait for Kimchi, Kimchi lasts to await the people) - organised by Rietveld student Chaelim Kwon
This project focused on the traditional process of making kimchi - a practice that revolves around collaborative work and shared knowledge, both physical and spiritual. Harvesting, washing, cutting, filling, folding, storing and waiting: each step requires attention and collaboration. After making the kimchi together, the participants shared the dish with the Rietveld and Sandberg community. The result was not only the kimchi itself, but above all the shared time, stories and memories that remain, even when the dish is finished.
Read more about the project here
The Algorithmic Altar - organised by Sandberg students Tinne Kerres and Adele Stroh
For this project, students and visitors got together around an ‘algorithmic altar’ to take a shared step into a technomystical world.Through interactive lectures, participatory workshops, and sound rituals, a space was opened where code becomes ceremony and technology becomes a conduit for our oldest magic: the alchemy that turns desire into form and imagination into world. A project in which not only ideas, but also energy and presence were collectively formed.
Photos by Rietveld Photography student Matija Stojanovic