Tuesday lecture series – Alumni Franca Ullrich In dialogue with Elena Khurtova

Tuesday October 8th 2024

We are excited to invite you for the continuation of our lecture series – In Dialogue. From time to time on a Tuesday afternoon we invite an artist and an alumnus, to present their work in relation to each others practices and engage in conversation with our students and external guests.

Displace, 2020, Elena Khurtova
3bisf Art Centre, Aix-en-Provence, France

For the first lecture of this academic year, we are excited to welcome our alumni Franca Ullrich in dialogue with Elena Khurtova on Tuesday, October 8th at 15:30.

Elena Khurtova will introduce her artistic practice and perspective on the subject of body & soil. Departing from her research on human-soil relations and soil as a physical archive, her presentation will focus on the projects Displace / Soil Works, When rocks weather and Residue.

With site-specific approach, for example exploring grondbanken and polluted terrains such as former munitions factory Hembrug, she connects artistic research with embodied methodologies. Combining field-research, archival exploration, material experimentation and performative activations, her interdisciplinary process aims to reveal the interdependencies of materiality, geopolitics and ecology.

Counterposing the prevalent vanishing of an intimate perception of soil, she explores connection to this primaeval material by taking her own body and performativity as a starting point in her process. By practising intimate gestures of bodily interaction with matter, she enters into a dialogue with soil and looks for possibilities to let soil tell its own story.

Franca Ullrich will be joined by soft companions, figures central to her practice since her graduation. She will speak about her project 233kinds, featuring small sculptures and molds of stuffed animals in mobile incubators, and reflect on her journey as a maker, social artist, cleaner, and business owner, exploring how these roles interconnect.

Research  Atacama Desert, Chile 2022 in collaboration with Desierto Vestido Tarapaca 
Image by the artist Franca Ullrich

BIO Franca Ullrich (1991, Heidelberg) is a multidisciplinary artist, goldsmith, and founder of Frank Jewels, based in Leipzig, Germany. Her journey started with a passion for tools and craftsmanship during her goldsmith training, where she developed her narrative in jewelry making. After earning her BA in Art and Design at the Rietveld Academy, she established her brand in Leipzig to explore the intersection of diverse disciplines and practices in a playful yet critical way. Departing from traditional goldsmithing, she works with landfills, local junkyards, jewelry donations, and discarded objects, crafting new stories through destruction, transformation, care, and collaboration. She aims to connect different bodies of knowledge and disciplines through the lens of jewelry making.

BIO Elena Khurtova (1982, Samara) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Reflecting on the interplay of fragility and resilience of human and environmental conditions, her work explores the overlapping notions of care and control. She works across performative and sculptural installations, drawings and artist books, building poetic relationships with concrete and fluid materials and mapping the transience between human and nonhuman agencies. In her recent projects, she focuses on collaborating with soils. Khurtova studied at the University of Architecture of Samara, Russia and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She was artist in residence at Atelier Holsboer, Paris/ 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence/ EKWC – European Ceramic Workcentre, Den Bosch. Khurtova’s work has been presented internationally at institutions like Manifesta biennial #13, Contemporary Art Centre 3bisF,FR / Kunsthalle Lottozero, IT / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Museum, Zone2Source, Looiersgracht 60, Arti & Amicitiae, Sonic Acts Biennial, NL. She was awarded the artistic research fellowship and currently teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. See more: www.elenakhurtova.com

We hope to see you, this time in our department.


Tuesday 8th of October
15:30-17:30
At the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department
1st floor Rietveld Building (room 007)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie 
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

Introduction Week / Test Zone @Almere StrandLab

JEWELLERY – LINKING BODIES & STRANDLAB FIELD ACADEMY

Introduction Week, Sept 3-5, 2024

For three days in September the Jewellery-Linking Bodies Department started the year in residence at StrandLAB’s field academy. The students used the beach of Almere as a location for research and exploration.

On Sunday, September 22 the students will return to Almere’s beach to share gifts created from the testings and findings of their field academy residency at TESTZONE, a stage for makers and visitors to experiment with land and art.

Test Zone, Sept 22, 2024

At 16:15 Emma Hoette (curator StrandLAB’s field academy) invites for a walk & talk, in which we will explore together our role in the natural ecosystem around us. More information about the whole program (12:00 – 18:00) you find here >

TESTZONE
JEWELLERY – LINKING BODIES & STRANDLAB FIELD ACADEMY
Sunday, September 22
14:00 – 15:00 (14:00 meeting point StrandLAB)
StrandLAB
IJmeerdijk 1-B
1309 BA Almere

Test Zone, Sept 22, 2024
Test Zone, Sept 22, 2024
Test Zone, Sept 22, 2024
Introduction Week, Sept 3-5, 2024

GRADUATION SHOW 2024

SAVE THE DATE

Dear Friends of the Jewellery- Linking Bodies department, 

It is this time of the year again!  

We are happy and proud to present our graduating student of 2024: 

Martina Bucci  

This year’s graduation is extraordinary with Martina presenting her work and representing the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department at the Rietveld Pavilion. 

Martina investigates in detail what puts us into relation. Her collective jewellery pieces can be considered intimate and fragile objects related to the body, offering explorations and encouraging social interactions. 

We look forward to welcoming you at the pavilion, amongst an exciting show presenting the graduates of 2024 

Save the date  
GRADUATION SHOW 2024 
3 – 7 July 
 
Opening 
Wednesday 3 July, 17:00 hrs 
 
Open 
Wednesday 3 July, 10:00 – 21:00 hrs 
Thursday 4 July, 10:00 – 21:00 hrs 
Friday 5 July, 10:00 – 21:00 hrs 
Saturday 6 July, 10:00 – 21:00 hrs 
Sunday 7 July, 10:00 – 16:00 hrs 
 
Gerrit Rietveld Academie 
Fred. Roeskestraat 96  
1076 ED Amsterdam 
https://rietveldacademie.nl/ 

We look forward to welcoming you at the academy for the last and celebratory event of this academic year! In the meantime, please take a look at all the projects, lectures, research and exciting events we held throughout the year and our archive dating all the way back to 1968 on this website.

Warmest regards, Jewellery- Linking Bodies Department 

Campaign by Graphic Design graduates Haoran Zhi and Anna Reymond