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OPEN DAY

February 7 2013 from 14.00 – 20.00 hrs.

Application is open from January 1 - closing April 1 2013

Main Programmes

Fine Arts (MFA);

Course director: Krist Gruijthuijsen - tutors: Nicoline van Harskamp, Raimundas Malašauskas, Jason Dodge – The programme retains its focus on the notions of autonomy and creation, while addressing the social and economical roles and implications of these traditional parameters of art production. The programme is structured around modules exploring the realms of language, image, object, performance and representation.

Design / Think Tank for visual strategies (MDes);

Course director: Annelys de Vet - tutors: Nina Folkersma, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Dimitri NIeuwenhuizen, Rob Schröder, Daniel van der Velden - The department functions as a cultural think tank for visual strategies. Students commit themselves to various cultural, social and political research based visual projects, putting together their own programme with an open curriculum and creating hybrid forms of communication that draw on their skills as writers, editors, visualizers, programmers, conceptualizers and designers.

Applied Arts / Dirty Art Department (MDes);

Course directors: Jerszy Seymour and Catherine Geel - tutors: Clemence Seilles, Stephane Barbier Bouvet - This programme provides an open space for all possible thought, creation and action. Acting as a designer is seen as a dynamic paradox, flowing between the pure and applied, the existential and deterministic, and the holy and profane. It explores the relationship between the built and natural world, between the collective and the individual. The programme is open to designers, artists, bankers, sceptics, optimists, philosophers, thinkers, farmers, anarchists…anyone with an inquiring mind.

Interior Architecture / Studio for Immediate Spaces (MIA);

Course director: Anne Holtrop - tutors: Bas Princen, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck, Jo Taillieu, John Lonsdale, Sophie Krier, Lucy Cotter, Tom Vandeputte - This programme welcomes all those who are eager to experiment and explore the spaces around us, to examine how these are made up, what they consist of and how people use and relate to them. The course is open to students with a Bachelor’s degree in Design, Interior Design / Spatial Design or Architecture or in related fields, as is anyone that can show comparable work experience.
Two new temporary Master programmes will focus on urgent questions in art, design and society… please check our website for the latest information. We anticipate to open the programmes for application mid-January 2013!

Material Utopias (MFA);

Course director: Louise Schouwenberg - tutors: Folkert de Jong, Jens Pfeifer, Bastienne Kramer - The programme aims to exploit the making process to the fullest. Experimentation with both traditional and new materials, and reflection on their characteristics and inherent meanings, will play a major role. The student is expected to possess highly developed craft skills in working with a specific material, and the openness to expand and push its borders, as well as develop expertise with new materials and media.

Art and Learning / School of Missing Studies (MFA);

course directors: Bik van der Pol - “While public space is being transformed beyond recognition, art education has never been so close to, yet so far away from cultural production. Education has fallen behind, as political and economical forces have come to shape the perception of culture. Education and learning need to reclaim space, as they are means to participate in politics, creating forms of political socialization”.

Vacant.nl (MIA);

Our first temporary programme on vacancy in buildings and public space will end in the summer of 2013. Course directors Eric and Ronald Rietveld will then present the results in a publication.

Sandberg Instituut - Master programmes of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Fred. Roeskestraat 98, 1076 ED, Amsterdam (+)31 20 5882410 contact@sandberg.nl

To obtain further info and online application, check the latest updates on programmes:

www.sandberg.nl

The Sandberg Institute, Masters of the the Gerrit Rietveld Academy offers master programmes in Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Design, Interior Architecture and Vacant NL

Open Day, February 16 2012

more information: www.sandberg.nl

The Kunstvlaai is multidisciplinairy art festival initiated by the Sandberg Insitute. Find out more www.kunstvlaai.nl

The Last Pictures ( i.c.w. Creative Time)

TREVOR PAGLEN

22 October 2012, 19.30

Trevor Paglen (born in 1974), US) is an American artist and geographer.

He is the author of three books including Torture Taxi (co-authored with investigative journalist A.C. Thompson), which was the first book to comprehensively describe the CIA extraordinary rendition program and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me, which takes a look at the world of black projects through unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs. In late 2012, Creative Time is launching a golden disc of images created by the artist into outer space attached to communications satellite EchoStar XVI. Audiences on Earth can experience the project, entitled The Last Pictures, through a book co-published by Creative Time Books and University of California Press, as well as through public programs and events exploring this innovative public artwork.

Paglen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School for the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.

Location: Goethe-Institut, Herengracht 470, Amsterdam    

Entrance: 5 euro or 3 Euro (concession)    

Please contact info@amsterdam.goethe.org or call +31 20 5312900 for reservations.
For more information: www.sandberg.nl

‘The Sandberg series’ is an ongoing lecture series initiated by the new Master of Fine Arts program of the Sandberg Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam.  The series directly correspond with the new structure of the program, which explores the idea of  ‘autonomy’ and ‘making’ while simultaneously addressing the social and economical roles and implications of these traditional parameters of art production. The program is structured around custom modules that investigate the realms of language, image, object and performance production and representation.     

The third in the lecture series includes presentations by Trevor Paglen, Tim Etchells, Joachim Koester and Sissel Toolas.

11 July till 15 July 2012

From Wednesday 11 July till Sunday 15 July 2012 graduating students from the Sandberg Institute present their works.
The Sandberg Institute provides the Masters of the Rietveld Academie.
Presentations will be held in the old Filmmuseum (Vondelpark), Galery Fons Welters, Apple Arts Centre, ARCAM and VU Hortus.
Find out more www.sandberg.nl

Closing date July 4th
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12 juni 2012 Press announcement

Sandberg Instituut is the winner of the 'BE OPEN Inside the Academy' price 2012

at Design Miami / Basel Switzerland

An international jury of design experts evaluated the projects of following selected institutes: Le Cambre, Belgium; Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland; Hochschule Basel, Switzerland; Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden; Glasgow Fine Art School, Glasgow, England and Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Netherlands. These institutions were asked to present three projects which in particular implements its approach towards design and their educational mission.

The jury chose the Sandberg Instituut as winner of the BE OPEN Inside the Academy price. The award is an appreciation of Design courses that use 'design thinking' as an effect on the future. The Sandberg Instituut has its own approach to 'design thinking' and has an interesting strategy to prepare the next generation of designers to succeed in this ever changing global environment.

With the prize the winning institution can invite prominent guest lecturers with which it aims to promote the development of the educational programs.

Jurors 2012

Gilda Bojardi, Design journalist, Chief editor of INTERNI    
Ron Arad, Designer and architect    
Daniel Charny, Curator and educator    
Felix Burrichter, Writer and creative director Pin-Up Magazine    
Johanna Agerman Ross, Editor-in-Chief of the design magazine Disegno    

exhibition:

Date: 12 -17 June, 2012

Place: At Design Miami/ Basel

Websites:

beopenfuture.com/exhibitions/basel
www.sandberg.nl