Rietveld Uncut
Exhibition: 19 – 23 March, 10.00 – 18.00
Friday Night: 21 March, 18.30 – 21.30 – Opening speech at 18.45
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, presents the programme Radical Accessibility – Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice. This multi-day event consists of conferences, an exhibition by Rietveld students and a festive Friday Night. There will be lectures, presentations and performances by international artists, theorists and Rietveld students.
Studium Generale
Conference: 19, 20 and 21 March, 13.00 – 17.00 – Opening speech 19 March at 13.00
Rietveld Uncut
Exhibition: 19 – 23 March, 10.00 – 18.00
Friday Night: 21 March, 18.30 – 21.30 – Opening speech at 18.45
Note: On weekdays and on the Friday Night, Rietveld students and staff have free admission with their Rietveld pass. On Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March regular museum ticket sales apply.
Endlessly Rerouted -a collaboration between Isabel Heatley from the Jewellery-linking bodies department and Simone Winder from the Fashion department
Imagine walking down a street. Signs appear, urging you to take another path. But no matter how diligently you follow the detours, you always end up back where you started or even further from your destination.Endlessly rerouted, the body becomes lost in the noise of others’ assumptions and judgments.
This is how prejudices operate when confronted with hidden disabilities, clouding the connection to one’s quiet knowing.
These signs, placed on the body like a second skin, are meant to guide but instead distract and disturb. They sink into the skin, becoming a map of misdirection.
Surplus bodies a work by Luijza Kramárová
Cultural ideals of containment and control demand bodies that do not leak, do not deviate, do not decay. Yet bodies age, sweat, absorb, and gradually change in response to time and environment.
Surplus bodies is a copper cast of Fomes fomentarius, a parasitic fungus that feeds on living trees while nurturing the decay of the dead, anchors itself to a transparent acrylic structure. The structure appears to sweat, droplets condensing and dispersing as the copper darkens over time. This transformation embodies the duality of the fungus—its role as both a parasite and nurturer, demonstrating cycles of decay, growth, and renewal. The work enacts a system of interdependence, where growth and breakdown are entangled. In an era of optimized productivity, where efficiency dictates worth, it proposes a counter-image: a body that transforms, discloses its vulnerabilities, and refuses to be sealed off.
A project by Niloofar Salehi
The Weight Between Us
Textile wearable sculpture
activate by performance
The feeling nobody can see, hidden under your skin, is one you can’t explain. It’s the moment you feel like an outsider, burdened by the heaviness of others’ gazes.
As a non-EU student living in the Netherlands, I often carry the weight of my emotions, constantly facing one obstacle after another.
Pressure, difficulties, loneliness, sadness, homesickness — all are stored in the body; the struggle to earn a living, survive in another country and build a community and more. The work highlights how systems and structures can either lighten or intensify these burdens, especially for those who must navigate multiple obstacles just to belong, survive, and thrive.
