Invitation to the launch of Rietveld Review(ed) video portraits
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is proud to present nine new video portraits of selected 2025 graduation projects as part of Rietveld Review(ed). With these portraits, we highlight and celebrate remarkable art projects and theses by the next generation of artists and designers. Each video portrait was made in close collaboration with the artists to give insight into their way of thinking and working.
The video portraits show the work of:
Alle Valt, Đăng-Vũ Đặng, Jonghwan Jeong, Matthew Oxley, Nick Ouwehand, Sali Sylla, Tilde Møller, Tyra Plucer-Sarna and Welmoed Eggeraat
Please join us for the screening
Wednesday 21 January 2026, 17h
Galerie Fleur & Wouter
Van Ostadestraat 43B, Amsterdam
Q&A moderated by Luuk Heezen
RSVP for the evening here
Current trends and themes
Rietveld Review(ed) is part of the side programming of the Rietveld Academie’s Graduation Show. It is a tool for reflecting on the class of 2025, and consists of three parts: a reflection report, a public conversation about the report and a series of video portraits. The reflection report contains the findings of a committee of external art and design professionals. They were asked: what stands out in this year's graduation show and theses? Are there recurring motifs, materials or ways of exhibiting? And what do these trends tell us about this generation of graduates?
The report is available here (pdf).
The committee was also asked to select several projects that support their observations; these projects and their makers can now be seen in the video portraits made by Luuk Heezen and Rik Lauwen.
Committee members
This year’s art & design committee consisted of Alexis Blake, Koos Breen, Annie Goodner and Taylor LeMelle and the theses committee were Tirza Kater (Chair), Derica Shields and Harriet Foyster. You can read more about all committee members in the reflections report.
Video portrait series
The approximately three-minute videos make the artworks accessible to a wider audience; the projects outlive the week of the Graduation Show (July 2–6, 2025) and can also be seen internationally. The videos give you the chance to (re)experience the art projects, but above all to dive deeper into the work and hear more about the artists’ ideas and inspirations.
This is the sixth year in a row that the Rietveld Academie has produced these video portraits. Taken as a whole, each series provides insight into the recurring themes and techniques that the Rietveld Academie graduates were focusing on at that particular time. All previous editions can be found here.
We look forward to welcoming you to the launch of the 2025 edition on January 21, 2026 at Galerie Fleur & Wouter!