Studium Generale 2025-2026
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Gerrit Rietveld Academie present loVe making — love as a creative act and site of resistance, a multi-day event featuring lectures, presentations, screenings, and performances by international artists, theorists, and Rietveld students. loVe making explores love as a radical, political act: an embodied, collective force that redefines care, challenges power structures, and disrupts norms. Through performance, theory, and art, the conference examines how love shapes collaboration, repair, and resistance.
When: 18 March, 13.00 - 17.00 and 19 March, 11.00 - 17.00
Where: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
More info: love.rietveldacademie.nl
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The annual collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie consists of two parts: a conference (18 and 19 March) and an exhibition with performance programme (18 until 22 March).
Studium Generale is presenting a two-day conference at which two curators will each put together a programme offering diverse artistic perspectives on the theme loVe making — love as a creative act and site of resistance. Following this theme, students create new work for the exhibition Rietveld Uncut. On Friday 20 March, this exhibition will be activated with a special programme of performances and interventions.
loVe making — love as a creative act and site of resistance
loVe making explores love as a creative and political practice. Following bell hooks’ idea that 'love is an action, never simply a feeling', the conference and exhibition approach love not as a private emotion but as a collective force shaped by culture, technology, and social norms — and capable of disrupting them. Love is understood as something we do: embodied, relational, and world-forming. Tender and radical at once, loVe making invites us to imagine love as a way of caring together, repairing relations, and questioning existing structures of power.
Speakers and contributors conference:
Wednesday 18 March, 13.00 - 17.00: Notes on Spitting curated by If I Can't Dance
With contributions by Daniel Blanga-Gubbai, Anchan/Anna Daucikova, Christina Della Giustina, and others.
Thursday 19 March, 11:00 - 17:00: On Men, Love, and the Patriarchy curated by Melanie Bühler
With contributions by Reba Maybury, Asa Seresin and others.