June 28–29, 2014
Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
Masters of Rietveld Academie
Fred. Roeskestraat 98
NL – 1076 ED Amsterdam
T + 31 20 588 2400
The Sandberg Instituut is proud to present its 2014 graduates to the public on Saturday, 28 June and Sunday, 29 June. This year, over 30 students will use their energy and inventiveness to inhabit (and even squat) a variety of locations in Amsterdam.
The Fine Arts department has launched the third edition of its in situ Festival of Choices. For this festival, an array of established and new galleries has been paired with graduates on the basis of a corresponding vision; the graduates thus not only produce work but also realize a professional exhibition in close dialogue with their host. By communicating through the galleries’ specific channels, each year the Festival of Choices spreads like a virus with a life of its own, with experimental performances scheduled every night.
In recent months, graduates of the Interior Architecture department ‘Studio for Immediate Spaces’ have been exploring material gestures and the waythey shape how we inhabit spaces, under the guidance of architect and course director Anne Holtrop. Curated by Hanne Hagenaars, the exhibition bears the provoking titleIt’s Only an Hour’s Drive Away / If Your Car Could Go Straight Upwards and promises to be a fluid, intimate experience. The show is being held in Momart, the base for independent artists in the city centre.
“From the moment you cross the threshold, the trip through the spaces does not follow any straight line; you will get sucked into muddy and bright visions and pulled loose again by the spacy results.”
– Hagenaars
The Applied Art department ‘Dirty Art’ sees itself as “a rocket ship blasting through the galaxies”—an ambition they not only voice but also dare to put into practice. Students from Dirty Art have recently moved into a hangar in the north of Amsterdam, where they study the transformation of reality by making work, but also by organizing concerts for locals. According to tutor and design critic Catherine Geel, “the other side” is a real topic among this year’s graduates. Searching for mental influences, letting things take control of you, finding interstices and ways to make things happen: students are supposed to bring their own singularity to a context without being medium-specific—exactly what they’re doing in the squat.1
At the Design department ‘Think Tank for Visual Strategies,’ graphic researcher, cultural designer and course director Annelys de Vet detects a growing interest in video and in storytelling as a visual tool to narrate and address contemporary topics. This is well illustrated by the wide range of issues being researched this year: the immateriality of one pixel versus the physicality of a data server, the character of oil, the actuality of feminism, the decadence of gifts, and apathy as a survival technique, to name but a few.
“How do you sense a space when you are in an unusual situation? But you create this situation, it is not a given one.”
–Ruyta Sakaki, SIS graduate
“I am happy to have the support of the European pavilion.”
–Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir, Fine Arts graduate
1. “Squat a rocket ship” by Veerle Devos, DAMn°44 magazine, www.damnmagazine.net.
Graduates 2014:
Fine Arts
Adam Ulbert, Alex Bailey, Alissa Šnaider, Hrafnhildur Helgadottir, Joyce Vlaming, Matthew Shannon, Melanie Ebenhoch, Nina Frankova, Pedro de Moraes, Perrine Bailleux, Richard John Jones, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, Tamara Kuselman, Veniamin Kazachenko
Studio For Immediate Spaces
Alonso Vásquez, Annee G Vinken, Elejan van der Velde, Esther Bentvelsen, Ewelina Marta Niedziella, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Roeland Otten, Ryuta Sakaki
Dirty Art
Dagmar Atládottir, Leila Arenou, Josefin Arnell, Virginie Dubois, Brendan Heshka, Nina Janssen, Oona Linke
Design
Tessel Bruhl, Giada Florindi, Lenka Hamosova, Anja Kaiser, Polina Medvedeva, Mark Jan van Tellingen, Jaroslav Toussaint, Rasmus Svensson, Tommi Vasko
Venue information
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June
Press tour date and time to be confirmed
Venues:
Galerie Juliette Jongma, Kunstverein, Rongwrong, Tegenboschvanvreden, Galerie Fons Welters, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Jeanine Hofland, Huize Frankendael, Lost & Found, Felix & Foam, SMBA (Fine Arts), Momart (Studio for Immediate Spaces), a squat (Dirty Art), Tolhuistuin (Design).
Check the latest venue information, opening times, and the daily programme of exhibitions, performances and events on our website.
Press inquiries
Sophie Krier, Editor One: [email protected]
