Gerrit Rietveld Academie Jewellery-Linking Bodies

VU Medical Centre, June 2025

The Opening of the patient rooms with the artworks of Felicia Carlsson Shipo, John Cook, Hannah Falcone, Dana Haire, Isabel Heatley , Anne-Sophie de Lange, Max van Meeuwen, Lola Orihuela, Emma Panzou-Lespinasse-Ide-Lafargue, June Querido, Niloofar Salehi, Hung Fu Tsai, Daria Zvarykina and a performance by Shipo Chou will be on June 6, 2025 at the hospital VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam. 

Last month also brought a new publication: Testing the Waters, The value of artistic practices for societal challenges by the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation where our collaboration project Biome Nest got selected as a case study. 

Over a period of four months in 2024, we, the Jewellery-Linking Bodies Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, worked together with Amsterdam UMC and the VU Medical Centre on a collaborative project called Biome Nest. Coming from different disciplines – art and healthcare – we wanted to rethink what bodies are and how care is understood within our society. The Jewellery-Linking Bodies department was invited to respond specifically to the built environment of four new patient rooms at the VU Medical Centre’s division of Gynecological Oncology. 
 

2025

Photo Amy Sou Wu, photo credit: Roel van Tour @roel_van_tour

As we approach the close of the 2024/25 academic year, we are pleased to invite you to the final edition of our In Dialogue -Tuesday Afternoon Talks with our guests Amy Suo Wu and Sebastiaan Kramer.

Amy Suo Wu is an artist, designer, and educator based in Rotterdam. Born in Shantou 汕头 and raised in Western Sydney, her current work explores mending as both metaphor and method, the intersection of text and textile, and publishing as an embodied practice. She collaborates with her mother, Maria Ling Qing Huang, in the research project Serenity Department, focused on intergenerational mending. Her previous body of work on steganographic practices as acts of protection, survival, and resistance in the face of oppression and violence is now published under the title A Cookbook of Invisible Writing (Onomatopee). Amy has been involved in community initiatives such as Zine Camp (2014-2019) and has taught at the Piet Zwart Institute, Sandberg Institute, and currently at Willem de Kooning Academy.

Sebastiaan Kramer is a fashion entrepreneur and curator. A graduate of ArtEZ (2005), he co-founded the circular fashion label Hul le Kes, where he remains general director. He now also serves as Curator of Body-Related Design at Museum Arnhem, responsible for its fashion and jewelry collection and related programming. Deeply invested in Arnhemกฏs creative scene, he has launched numerous initiatives including Stock Days Arnhem, Sustainable Fashion 025, and the Rhine District, and was creative director of the Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem until 2024.

We look forward to welcoming you and our guests for yet another thoughtful exchange about Jewellery and beyond.

Join us on
Tuesday 13th of May, 16:00-18:00
At the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department
1st floor Rietveld Building (room 007)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie 
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

EXHIBITION Opening: Friday, May 9, 17:00 – 21:00

We’re sinking deeper into our pillows, gliding through imagined scapes. As flesh fades, bones are given words. They use them to gossip about skin’s softness and reminisce on bearing weight. Within dreams, bodies morph with certainty. Our legs evaporate into clouds, our fingers run through screensaver fields, our hearts beat at the rhythm of an eight a.m. alarm.

The Jewellery – Linking Bodies Department wonders what dreams our bones dream. In this exhibition we explore the permanence of imagination. Join us as we wander.

Will you wonder too? 


Opening May 9, 17:00 – 21:00
Exhibition Duration:
May 9, 17:00 – 21:00
May 10, 12:00 – 18:00

Hannah Falcone
Melwin Funk
Dana Haire
Isabel Heatley
Anne-Sophie de Lange
June Querido
Niloofar Salehi
Hung-Fu Tsai

Location:
4bid gallery at OT301
Overtoom 301, 1054 JL Amsterdam
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