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Mona Mercier wins Overduinprijs 2020

Mona Mercier has won the Overduinprijs 2020 (Overduin Prize 2020) with her graduation work Geomax. This prize from the Henk en Ria Overduinfonds Foundation has been awarded annually since 1992 to a promising young artist. This is the fourth year in a row that the prize goes to a graduate from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Mona Mercier developed a typeface (Geomax) and then explored new…

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Signing agreement for inclusive and diverse education

On 21 September 2020, the Executive Board of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and five Amsterdam based higher educational institutions signed an agreement in favour of diverse, inclusive and societally engaged higher education. The institutions are collectively committing to ensure an inclusive and just society, in which there is no room for racism or discrimination.  With the ‘Amsterdam Agreement…

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Rineke Dijkstra wins Johannes Vermeer Award 2020

Photographer Rineke Dijkstra wins Johannes Vermeer Award 2020   The Johannes Vermeer Award 2020, the Dutch state prize for the arts, is awarded to Rineke Dijkstra by Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The jury, chaired by Andrée van Es, unanimously nominated her for the award. Rineke Dijkstra receives the award because of her iconic contribution to photography.

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Gerrit Rietveld Academie neemt deel aan Open Monumentendag 2020

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Auction Results of The Show Must Go On

During the Graduation Show 2020, Dead Darlings in collaboration with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie's Student Support Group, organised an online art auction. Graduating students and teachers alike had placed their artworks up for auction in the service of their community. It was a fundraiser: profits go to Berlagefonds (Berlage Fund) to help students in financial need.  Participants were all listed

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Shreya de Souza named new Photographer in Residence

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Nominees GRA Awards 2020 revealed

Each year the Gerrit Rietveld Academie invites external professionals to be part of our GRA Awards jury. The juries are asked to nominate remarkable and topical projects by graduating students in the categories of Thesis, Autonomous Arts and Applied Arts. A full jury report with their findings and winners can be found here. We are proud to announce that…  ..the jury members for the Thesis Award…

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Auction: The Show Must Go On

Dear guests of the Rietveld Graduation Show 2020 , Dead Darlings collectors, and all you soon-to-be-collectors,      We have exciting news!    This year during the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show 2020 you have a chance to bid for graduates’ artworks online!     Dead Darlings in collaboration with the Student Support Group and the Academy, has invited all graduating students and teaching…

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Open Call to participate in auction from Student Support Group and Dead Darlings

Dear Graduating students of 2020 and all Rietveld Academie teachers, It is our pleasure to announce the open call that the Student Support Group has organised for an auction event involving graduating students and teaching staff of 2020. This event is intended to contribute to a lasting support structure through the Berlage Fund for students in financial need within the Rietveld Academie, in…

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Gerrit Rietveld Academie Receives Prestigious Getty Foundation Grant

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Creator Doctus (CrD) by Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut

Creator Doctus (CrD) by Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut - First Creator Doctus promotion: Yael Davids; - Start second Creator Doctus trajectory: Femke Herregraven Creator Doctus (CrD) is a project developed at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that seeks to realise a new European third cycle award for higher arts education. The new award runs parallel to the existing Doctor of Philosophy…

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Students can apply for compensation because of Covid-19-related loss of income

Students that (used to) have a part-time job on a payroll basis, now can get compensation from the government if they experienced loss of income because of covid-19: €550 per month for the months of March, April and May. There are some terms and conditions that you can find in Dutch on this website : (such as; has received at least €400 gross salary in February 2020; whose salary in April 2020…

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Two online exhibitions from the Architectural Design department

Two online exhibitions from the Architectural Design department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie    staging-architecture.xyz  political-bodies.xyz    The Architectural Design department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie is proud to present two online exhibitions of student works.    

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unsettling Matters - A Response to the Resistance

Rietveld Academie stands in solidarity against racism. This week we posted a black square on Instagram to show our support with the protest all around the world. We are aware that we, as an art school, also need to improve in representing all students and making the context of the academy more inclusive to other voices, minds and bodies.  We ask you to read the unsettling Matters - A Response to…

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Corona Fund Gerrit Rietveld Academie

New: the Corona Fund Gerrit Rietveld Academie Students who have financial problems and can no longer provide for themselves due to loss of income because of the current Corona crisis, can appeal to the Corona Fund Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Students can apply to the Rietveld Academie for financial support to compensate for the loss of income due to the Corona crisis which cannot be recouped with…

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Mealdeal; go get it!

Mealdeal; go get it! In order to accommodate students and staff in this strange period, Gerrit Rietveld Academie offered a weekly meal service Mealdeal for students and staff. The Mealdeal consisted of 5 meals per week for an amount of € 15,-. 

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New on social media: Rietveld at Home

Classes are cancelled, and workshops are closed. All teaching activities on the location of the academy are cancelled as a precaution measure to limit the spread of the new Coronavirus. With most of us working from home these days, we’re looking for new ways to translate our analog Rietveld community into a digital one. That’s why we’re asking members of the Rietveld community (staff, students

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Cancelled at Stedelijk: Rietveld Uncut and Studium Generale Conference

Programme at Stedelijk Museum is CANCELLED: In line with national policy relating to the coronavirus, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will be temporarily closed for visitors until April 6, 2020. This means unfortunately that the Rietveld Uncut exhibition and the Studium Generale conference at the Stedelijk Museum are cancelled. We are considering alternative solutions.

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Özgür Kar wins Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2020

Özgür Kar is the winner of de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2020. Jury chairman Barbara Visser presented him with the award during a festive gathering at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, which was partly broadcast live on Opium NPO Radio 4. Kar wins € 20,000. Half of this is intended for a publication. Kar's work can be seen in the museum until 22 March 2020, together with that of the four other…

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Melanie Bonajo to represent The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale 2021

From the Mondriaan Fund's press release: "A broad-based international jury selected Bonajo from a long list of artists and curators who had applied to take part in earlier versions of the biennale. Those selected were invited to submit an overall plan within a short space of time. A month later, these plans were presented to the jury, which was unanimous in determining that Melanie Bonajo would…

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