Gerrit Rietveld Academie Jewellery-Linking Bodies

Dear friends and colleagues of the 
Jewellery – Linking Bodies department,

We are heading towards the end of our academic year!

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is proud to present the work of this year’s graduating artists and designers. Across its three buildings, the Graduation Show 2025 offers a broad constellation of practices and voices, with works spanning performance, installation, jewellery, text, textiles, sound, film, design, and more.

You can find more information on the Gerrit Rietveld Academie website: https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/32308/rietveld-academie-graduation-show-2025 

You are welcome to the 2025 Jewellery–Linking Bodies Graduation Show (in the Fedlev building, room 101 and outside locations of the Gerrit Rietveld building), which presents the works of Lujza Kramárová, Max van Meeuwen and Emma Panzou–Lespinasse-Ide-Lafargue. Across jewellery, print and installation, the works find common ground in their engagement with the body.

We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the graduates and their work and invite you for drinks at the exhibition space of the Jewellery-Linking Bodies Department on Wednesday, June 2 (Opening) at 18:00 in the Fedlev building room 101.

Opening Ceremony:
Wednesday 2 July, 17:00 hrs (Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
Wednesday 2 July, 18:00 hrs (Jewellery-Linking Bodies, Fedlev room 101)

Opening Hours:
Wednesday 2 July: 10:00–21:00
Thursday 3 July: 10:00–21:00
Friday 4 July: 10:00–21:00
Saturday 5 July: 10:00–21:00
Sunday 6 July: 10:00–16:00

Location:
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam

Graphic Design by Manu Linder and Velko Kalchev.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Warm regards,
Jewellery – Linking Bodies department

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