You are cordially invited to virtually explore the Gerrit Rietveld Academy during our online Open Day 2022 on 28 January from 11:00- 18:00. Learn about our programs and facilities, get advice about the application process and speak to students and teachers.
Without leaving home, you can get to know the Rietveld Academy’s full-time and part-time bachelor’s program, as well as the preparatory trajectories, extracurricular activities and the facilities. For example, you can chat with our students and teachers online about the various study programs and student life, or ask your questions during the live Q&A’s. Join the live reporters for a virtual tour around the academy’s premises.
Dear Friends of the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department, we would like to wish you a healthy, warm and safe holidays. Before embarking on our winter vacation we would love to inform you of our two pending events in January: Monday evening lecture by Scarlett Hooft Graafland, and the annual Rietveld online Open Day.
On the 24th of January we are excited to welcome Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973). Her work has been described as using landscape as a stage for a performance or installation. Her carefully choreographed, site-specific sculptural interventions and performances take place in some of the most remote corners of the earth and are made in collaboration with isolated communities in those regions.
Monday 24th of January, 17:00Auditorium – Fed Lev Building Gerrit Rietveld AcademieFred. Roeskestraat 961076 ED Amsterdam
On the 28th of January we will be hosting together with our current students, the annual open day. We will do our best to represent the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department and would love to see you there- digitally or in person! Please see –> here: for more information about the 2022 online Open Day!
We hope that by then the restrictions will be lifted, and in any case we will keep you updated about any changes or regulations!
Students of the Jewellery- Linking Bodies Department performing during ALL THAT’S SOLID A LIE! Photography by Konstantin Guz
On the occasion of OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival, students of the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie open up a dialogical space in which Jewellery is seen as an attitude as much as a discipline. ‘Jewellery attitude’ extends on the role of Jewellery as the fundamental link that places bodies in relation to one another.
Starting from the Jewellery department’s ‘Linking- Bodies’ extension,
the students investigate: how to think about – Linking Bodies?
The students will explore a varied field of questions, all stem from
the wish to expand and abstract jewellery techniques and methods towards
bodies, objects and non-objects in space.
The questions that will lead this exploration will wonder of the possibilities open up by Jewellery as a form of collectivity.
How can individual bodies engage and unify towards the creation of a
collective jewellery piece? What does the act of linking bodies
represent? Where does the necessity of linking and re-linking our bodies
emerge? How could our bodies re-link? How could such collective
jewellery practice open up the experience of the deep connection that
links us to each other at all times? Does the practice of Linking Bodies
is necessarily an act of exclusion of other-than-human bodies?
Could human and non-human bodies be linked, and how could such
entanglement take place? Could objects become enabling connectors and
foster relations among different bodies? Could ‘non-objects’, such as
speech and sound function as connectors? And how would such a connection
function? Could objects and non- object be linked to each other, and if
yes, how?
‘ALL THAT’S SOLID, A LIE!’, seeks such questions over the course of two days in the 4bid Gallery in Amsterdam.
Participating students Yawen Fu Robin Isenmann Ada Jochimsen Myrthe Kamoen Ayano Koda Max van Meeuwen Karla Nilzén Lente Oosterhuis Dariusz Wojdyga
