The Rietveld Academie was be part of Dutch Design Week again!
From 18 till 26 October, the academy presented work by alums who graduated from the bachelor in 2025. The exhibition reflected many of the academy’s various specialisations: Architectural Design, Ceramics, designLAB, Jewellery - Linking Bodies, Fine Arts, The Large Glass, Photography, Fashion and Graphic Design.
Every project in the exhibition was in some form related to the concept of TIME. It can appear as a direct invitation to the audience, a memory of the past, or something suspended and still. Time here is elastic, it is stretched, expanded, and suspended. It is intimate and familiar, yet brutal and unsettling. Time asks for patience, memory, or speculation. It unfolds with us and through us, keeping us in motion: looking backward, anticipating what comes next, or remaining in the present. It grounds us, revealing what we have forgotten, exposing what we resist, and confronting us with what we cannot escape. This year’s selection of Rietveld alumni connected to TIME in their own way, offering layered, fractured, and reimagined perspectives on its many meanings.
Participants:
- Eva Mels
Curated by Anna Aagaard Jensen (Head of designLAB) and Jeroen Kramer (Head of Basicyear)
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Photos by Photography alum Sophia Jiaqi Xu
