Rietveld Uncut 2025
Rietveld Uncut is an annual exhibition and performance programme from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Its collaboration with Studium Generale Rietveld Academie culminates in a simultaneous conference week and exhibition in which ‘the making and the thinking’ come together.
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In relation to the Studium Generale theme Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice, students from all departments have been developing projects from different perspectives in recent months. From sculptures, video works, installations and more, students are finding ways to give form to their ideas. From haptic storytelling and projects on invisible or mental health conditions - diagnosed or fuelled by the housing crisis - to rehabilitation after absorption into everyday society and the environment, in which the body tries to find a way.
Alongside these projects, Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson gave an Access Test Kitchen Workshop, the outcome of which will be on display within the exhibition. All new works, from individual student works to collective projects, will be presented as a group exhibition at the museum.
Rietveld Uncut will be on show from 19 to 23 March, and on Friday 21 March 2025 from 18:30 to 21:30, the exhibition will be activated with a special programme of performances and interventions, including Queer Sports by Gabriel Fontana.
Participating students
Agathe Plouzennec, Anahit Yakubovich & Lau Vander Mijnsbrugge, Carla Chibude Seidemann, Chichy Freja Udsen Obi, Clément Lobjoy, Yunkyung Kwon, Greta Wegmann & Domitille Marchiol, Gabrielle Bouriat—Hardouin, Handa Youn, Kadri-Ann Kivisild, Katinka K. Olrik, Lujza Kramárová, Maïder Hastoy, Mia Kokine Joensen, Minky Kim, Niloofar Salehi, nisan gunalcin, Pauline Oosterhoff & Annemarie Vogel, Simone Winder & Isabel Heatley, Siri Tvorup, Sohju Kim, Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song.
Collaborative presentations
Also on show are two group projects; by Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson with students Eden Carli, Elinos Tenaille Destais, Kelvin Dijk, Kalli Ioumpa, Shauna Jin, KIEM, Jessica Kuhn, Mirjam Meroth, Teodóra Róka, Anna Theunissen; and by Mariken Overdijk (VAV – moving image) with students Anna Fastnacht, Jihwan Kim, Maria Goncalves Geraldes Pinto, Philippe Luptak, Rubin Verhoog, Ryu Koivukoski and Zina Tzioufa.
Performance programme - Friday Night 21 March
Museumplein Entree
18:45 – 19:00: Opening speech
19.00 – 19.15: Constricted Spaces (hemicranial press moulting) – Mia Kokine Joensen
20:00 – 20:30: Crosswalk Talk – Sohju Kim
ABN AMRO zaal
20:45 – 21:30: Unto This Last – Handa Youn
Studio object
19:30 – 20:00: Unrecognisable Syllables – Katinka K. Olrik
Auditorium
19:30 – 21:30: Queer Sports – Gabriel Fontana
Studio canvas
19:00 – 19:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:00 – 20:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:45 – 21:30: A Room to Escape (Is there a Backdoor?) – students of VAV - moving image guided by Mariken Overdijk
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During the week and Friday Night Rietveld students and employees have free access with the Rietveld card. On Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March the regular Museum ticketing applies.
Visitors outside the Rietveld community can buy tickets for the Friday Night on stedelijk.nl
Team
Rietveld Uncut: Tarja Szaraniec and Tomas Adolfs
Studium Generale: Jorinde Seijdel and Jort van der Laan
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Anouk van Amsterdam, Claire van Els, Fenna van Halsema
Graphic design: Idun Wahlgren and Sasha Anguelovskaia
Special thanks to Iskra Vukšič, all workshop specialists at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and all (guest) tutors involved
