Art in Context - Integrated art & theory program is an extra curricular program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The program offers to students a chance to place their work within particular social contexts and to generate knowledge and experience in addressing specific social issues. This enables students to prepare for their post-academy practice - they are invited to use their work as a means for questioning and re-imagining the state of social and political affairs. Every edition of the program is concluded with an exhibition and a publication in the end of May. The program runs from the beginning of October to the end of May and it’s open to the first year students from all departments.
Art in Context works on a particular topic throughout the years:
2012 (pilot): Stock Market
2012-13: Charity
2013-14: Public Relations
2014-15: Laughter
2015-16: Education
Opening of the Art in Context exhibition 'Education' and launch of the publication. The exhibiton runs from 8 to 13 June at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art in Amstelveen, Sandbergplein 1.
Thirteen international art students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie immersed themselves during eight months in the subject of 'Laughter'. What is the role that humor plays today in art, in publicity, in society at large? They explored a wide range of 'the comical', from vulgar entertainment to unsettling irony, from laughing therapy to political satire. They present in Frascati the results of their inquiries, in an evening filled with performance, installations, video projection and other artworks informed by laughter.
with live performances and launch of the Art in Context publication ‘Public Relations'
Opening: 15th May at 18:00 GYM Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 15-17 May 2013
Rietveld Academie
Saša Karalić
Jouke Kleerebezem
AiC offers students in the first specialisation year the opportunity to learn to develop and consider their work in relation to selected social contexts.
Extracurriculair program with exhibition & publication
varies
Students in first specialisation / department year
2012-2016 (ended)
Context, Society, Stock Market, Charity, Public Relations, Laughter, Education, art economies, commons, politics
with live performances and launch of the Art in Context publication ‘Public Relations'
21.30 – 01.00 party at the Cobra Museum with DJ Lonely
RIETVELD ACADEMY’S ART IN CONTEXT AND COBRA MUSEUM’S OPEN COLLECTION PROGRAMME RESULT IN THE EXHIBITION ‘PUBLIC RELATIONS’
This year the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art collaborated for the second time in the so-called Cobra Open Collection Programme, in which students have access to the collection and archives of the museum for a longer period of time.
The participating students are part of the Art in Context programme at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, in which they are challenged to develop work in relation to the larger societal context. Each year Art in Context selects a specific theme connecting art and society, and this year’s theme was Public Relations. Public relations are all about telling convincing stories and engaging the public and has become an indispensable survival strategy in a society focused on performance and consumerism. As is the case with ‘Cobra’ the students have responded to the theme in surprising and varying ways. For one student a painting made by Karel Appel especially for a film built a starting point, another one creates a work dealing with the war in Syria and another filtered a list of instructions on how to life happily in the art world from an interview with Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum.
Art in Context students 2013-2014
Suzanne Bernhardt (NL)
Loidys Carnero (Cuba)
Ivana Filip (Croatia)
Cleo Florine (Germany)
Jorik Galama (NL)
Rikke Goldbech (Denmark)
Thom de Jager (NL)
Cécile Plouhinec (France)
Ken Rooney (Ireland)
Marie Vedel (Denmark)
Roosje Verschoor (NL)
Art in Context tutors:
Saša Karalić
Jouke Kleerebezem
Cobra Museum curators:
Hilde de Bruijn
Els Drummen
