Last call for applications

Last call for applications to study at Sandberg Instituut starting in September 2026! Applications are being accepted to the five Main Departments and one new Temporary Programme, Phantom Scores. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, April 1, 2026. For more information and to apply, visit here. 

New temporary programme open for applications (2026–28)
Phantom Scores 
Director: Eva Posas / Team: If I Can't Dance (Anik Fournier, Sara Giannini), Lynnée Denise, Yin Yin Wong, Noor Abed, Venuri Perera, Amy Suo Wu.

Phantom Scores is the new two-year temporary Master's programme held by Sandberg Instituut in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and led by curator and researcher Eva Posas. The programme intersects and builds on Eva's research on Phantom Languages within the context of Nations Without State, and the work done by If I Can’t Dance over the past 20 years in the field of performance and performativity.

The programme aims to explore the rich and interdisciplinary field of performance as a research methodology through the phantoms that live in and outside us. These phantoms bring forth experiences of repression, either on an individual or collective level, at moments of feeling caught in a world that rejects their forms of knowing and expression. Between the visible and the invisible, scores register, carry and instigate manifestations. Phantom Scores addresses the impalpable and yet present set of suggestions, actions and knowledge inscribed within bodies, their genealogies, behaviours and relations.

Main departments open for application (2026–28)
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 / Tutors: Ali T. As’ad, Tina Bastajian, Salim Bayri, Flavia Dzodan, Nirit Peled, Agustina Woodgate.

Dirty Art Department 
Directors: Jerszy Seymour & Florence Parot / Coordinator: Henrica van den Berg / Tutors: Kirtis Clarke, Anna Reutinger.

Fine Arts 
Director: Judith Leysner / Coordinator: Yaima Carrazana / Tutors: Maria Barnas, Ana Bravo Pérez, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Elio J Carranza, Lynnée Denise,  Gintaras Didziapetris, Yazan Khalili, Mason Leaver-Yap, Lucy Skaer, Mark Turner.

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

For more information and to apply to the Sandberg Instituut, visit here.

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.