From 27 October until 3 November, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie presented SELECTED: a special exhibition and Afternoon Sessions in collaboration with Rietveld graduates of 2019 at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam
SELECTED offered the artists an opportunity to present and share their graduation works with a wider audience. Additionally, by inviting members of the jury, various artists, lecturers, teachers and audiences to join them in the exhibition space, the artists developed a range of open Afternoon Sessions to share and expand their individual, and sometimes collaborative artistic practices and research interests. The programme was open to everyone.
In 2019, the external jury members of Autonomous Arts were Heske ten Cate (artistic director at Nest) and Martijn Hendriks (visual artist). The jury members of Applied Arts were Simone Trum of Team Thursday (graphic design studio) and Willem Velthoven (founding director of Stichting Mediamatic). The jury members of Thesis were Basje Boer (writer and filmjournalist) and Dominic van den Boogerd (art critic, art historian and former director of De Ateliers).
Autonomous Arts
Jelle van Houten | Fine Arts
Maria Nolla Mateos | Fine Arts
Qianfu Ye | VAV — moving image
Applied Arts
Necim Abiadh | Architectural Design
Stepan Lipatov | Graphic Design
Yunting Zhang | Jewellery — linking bodies
Thesis
Levi de Kleer | VAV — moving image
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska | Graphic Design
Cleo Tsw | Graphic Design
Afternoon Sessions
An important addition to the 2019 edition were the daily Afternoon Sessions. These consisted of low key events with special guests that were hosted by the artists themselves, to delve deeper into their individual practices and research interests.
Wednesday 30 October 2019;
María Nolla Mateos with Julia Steenhuisen (curator)
The (disruptive) agency of the dirty art object
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Yunting Zhang with Willem Velthoven (founder & director Mediamatic)
Different notions of materiality in contemporary jewellery
Thursday 31 October 2019;
Qianfu Ye with Aneta Lesnikovska (artist & filmmaker) and Christopher Tym (artist & filmmaker)
How to develop a video installation into a documentary or a film?
Friday 1 November 2019;
Jelle van Houten with Edward Clydesdale Thomson (artist)
The relationship between humans, nature and art within an urban context
