Master’s programmes 2025–27

Last chance to apply for Master’s programmes starting in September 2025 at Sandberg Instituut! The Sandberg Instituut is open for applications to the five Main Departments and one new Temporary Programme, Monstrous Futurities. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2025. For more information and to apply, visit here. 

New temporary programme open for applications (2025–27): Monstrous Futurities
Directors: Grace Turtle and Romany Dear / Tutors: Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla, Laura Forlano, Ana Maria Guiterruez, Ashanti Harris, Adriana Knouf, Luïza Luz, Lola Olufemi, Joy Mariama Smith, Natalia (Nika) Sorzano

Monstrous Futurities: Practices in (Un)learning, (Un)making, and (Un)worlding is the new two-year Temporary Program starting in September 2025 at Sandberg Instituut. It seeks to engage with monstrous imaginaries, their subversive potentialities and material and relational affects in the world through transdisciplinary practices. 

Monstrous Futurities asks: What monstrous im/possibilities may emerge through practices of (un)learning dominant ideologies? How might these practices support justice-centred trans/formations in times of crisis, where the monstrous becomes a way of imagining and doing otherwise? What monsters and whose futurities? How might artistic strategies and expanded transdisciplinary practices engage in acts of (un)learning, (un)making, and (re)worlding? How can we collectively create radical, loving, and vulnerable responses against oppressive struggles and structures? How can we transition, transmute, and transform ourselves? What can we achieve together that we cannot alone? 
 
MF speaks to the imaginaries and the possibilities of dreaming, thinking, feeling and creating from beyond what we think, feel and believe to know. It is our hope that, as a Temporary Program, Monstrous Futurities emerge with radical tenderness, like wildflowers that appear within the cracks—resilient, vulnerable, unstoppable and deviant. Where “monstrosity can serve as a cultural means to examine ourselves. To meet ourselves as if for the first time.” – Bayo Akomolafe. Read more.

Main departments open for application
Critical Studies 
Director: Tom Vandeputte / Coordinator: Erica Moukarzel / Team: Marija Cetinić, Flavia Dzodan, Quinsy Gario, Femke Herregraven, Çağlar Köseoğlu, Gavin Mueller, belit sağ, Linda Stupart, Tom Vandeputte, Mia You, Annette-Carina van der Zaag, Simone Zeefuik.

Design 
Director: Anja Groten / Coordinator: Agata Bar / Team: Ali T. As’ad, Clara Balaguer, Tina Bastajian, Salim Bayri, Flavia Dzodan, Nirit Peled, Agustina Woodgate.

Dirty Art Department 
Directors: Jerszy Seymour & Florence Parot / Coordinator: Henrica van den Berg / Team: Saâdane Afif, Kirtis Clarke, Daniel Dewar, Anna Reutinger, Catherine Somzé.

Fine Arts 
Director: Judith Leysner / Coordinator: Yaima Carrazana / Team: Maria Barnas, Elio J Carranza, Gintaras Didziapetris, Angie Keefer, Yazan Khalili, Mason Leaver-Yap, Lucy Skaer, Mark Turner.

Studio for Immediate Spaces 
Directors: Ludwig Engel & Julian Schubert / Coordinator: Arie de Fijter / Team: Ana María Gómez López, María Mazzanti, Katía Truijen.

About Sandberg Instituut 
As the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Sandberg Instituut offers master's degrees in Fine Arts & Design and Interior Architecture through the main (permanent) departments of Critical Studies, Design, Dirty Art Department, Fine Arts, and Studio for Immediate Spaces. In addition, each year a new Temporary Programme is launched reflecting on a specific urgency or theme in society and the arts. 
 
Through all its departments, Sandberg Instituut aims to expand and deepen the practices of artists and designers while also welcoming students with backgrounds in other fields and disciplines. It offers a uniquely small-scale, open and interdisciplinary environment which nurtures critical inquiry and reflection intertwined with diverse and experimental approaches to practice.