RietveldTV is Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s monthly TV show. This season of RietveldTV airs the last Sunday of the month from January until June, 10pm on SALTO1. Afterwards, forever on Vimeo. Each year, the curatorial team chooses six alums who are invited to respond to the theme and use the set frame of a 12-minute episode for the development of a new moving image work or an adaptation of an existing work. RietveldTV provides a platform for alums to highlight their views on art, culture and the world. The broadcasts are facilitated by the academy, and created in complete artistic freedom.
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Contact: Vere van Hal, projects[at]rietveldacademie.nl
Season 2025/2026
The season of RietveldTV of the academic year 25/26 is curated by the curatorial team: Taša Grujić (VAV), Netta Simola (VAV), Luca Deutinger (DOGtime Expanded Painting) and Herkules Jansson (VAV).
Meet the new season of RietveldTV: ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ
A wide-eyed sense of promise, almost embarrassed by its own sincerity, becomes our starting point. What if we turned optimism into a marathon? What if we transformed this naïve hope into a force of radicality and bluntness? What if an absurd world fraying at its edges requires an absurd quest towards fun in the sun? This idea of optimism is not to be treated gently, it is urgent! It is a collective protest, it is a fight, it is imperative for our survival, no matter how strange, far-fetched or extraterrestrial the journey is.
The theme of this year’s RietveldTV introduces ideas that feel just a little bit alien, newly arrived, or only half-translated into our world. Strangeness is a companion, and we have never moved through this planet alone.
Let’s project utopias. Let’s have a date with the future, seduce it and make it ours.
Introducing this years’ curatorial team:
Taša Grujić – This year’s VAV graduate hopes that an alien will fall in love with her. Loves duality, good stories (and jokes) and magical realism.
Netta Simola – I love life so much. It’s SO EASY. HAHAHAHAHA Hope you feel the same.
Luca Deutinger – Doing DOGtime, while trying to find my way on planet earth. Fond of transportation, telepathy and transmission.
Herkules Jansson – Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Coordinated by Rabea Ridlhammer + Vere van Hal.
RietveldTV Logo by Orhan Can Evyapan.
Tune in on SALTO1 at 10pm for the broadcast and be swept off your feet on:
Sunday 25 January: Izzy Lee
Sunday 22 February: Bea Lamadrid Bayón
Sunday 29 March: Mio Hanaoka
Sunday 26 April: Meis Vrancken
Sunday 28 June: Patricia Werneck Ribas with the curatorial team
Approximately 10 seasons of RietveldTV
RietveldTV started as a project by Gijs Muller as part of the Library, to turn the library into a multimediaLAB. He invited Kuno Terwindt as RietveldTV’s first editor in chief. Kuno discovered hidden gems in the archive that was mainly built up by the VAV - moving image department. He turned these gems into a TV show for the world to see.
In 2011 Rogier Roeters became editor in chief. He changed the concept of RietveldTV and made portraits of students and alums, to show the diversity of what happens during and after a studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Since September 2014 Marieke Coppens is RietveldTV’s creative director. Within her concept, showing the diversity of what could happen after the Gerrit Rietveld Academie is still an important selection motive. She now invites an alum to use the audiovisual 12 minutes as a framework for the development of a new work, by being RietveldTV’s editor in chief for once in a lifetime.
Starting from season 2023/2024, we have a curatorial team of four students, coordinated by an alum, who invite alums to work with a theme.
