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Jewellery- Linking Bodies 2025 Graduation Show

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

Opening of the patient rooms

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. 
 

Eight Cubic Meters by Max van Meeuwen: Other Moons

20 March – 24 April 2025

When: 20 March – 24 April

Opening: Thursday 20 March,  17:00h

Where: Eight Cubic Meters, Sint Nicolaasstraat, Amsterdam

Her laughter fizzes in thousands of bubbles against my skin, promising me a darkness that could hold the moon.

The lower I sink, the more her laughter eddies and swirls, nestling between the slowing beats of my chest. She catches my breath between her lips. Kisses me. Her laughter becoming mine. 

Other Moons opens the sixteen windows of Sint Nicolaasstraat as portals into other worlds. Using monotype printing techniques on cotton paper, I create figures that emerge and float across the windows. Each print captures a different moment in time, a different piece of the story exploring desire, monstrosity and long lost myths.

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Max van Meeuwen is in her final year of the Jewellery – Linking Bodies department, and was selected through the call for applications this academic ye