Welcome to Rietveld Mulch, a pilot program of The Rietveld Society that focuses on life after graduation. We aim to communally explore and share tools of support for developing artistic practices for and with alums. Within this program, alums Nina van Hartskamp, Suzanne Bernhardt and Roman Tkachenko are working on a podcast, a series of workshops and an online platform. We touch upon topics like monetary funding, community support and aim to give insight into possible routes within cultural fields.
In our program we ask artists, curators and other creatives to share their Mulch. In a garden, mulch is used as a layer of material to cover, protect and feed the soil. For us Mulch stands for the many interconnected layers that support the development of an art and design practice. While each Mulch is unique, we aim to collectively explore and uncover these foundations to inspire and support new graduates on this journey.
Campaign by Goy Tung
You are invited to Arty Party on 7 September 2023! During this multidisciplinary festival, the entire Melkweg will be dedicated to art in all its forms. All rooms, corridors, and corners of the building will be utilized to fully immerse you in the future of the Dutch art scene.
We invite you to the launch of The Rietveld Mulch Online Platform! We introduce the platform that gathers practical and encouraging information that can help graduates build a healthy art practice. The chosen topic for the platform is Funding as Foundations. In different layers of Mulch you can find answers to common questions, tips for fund and cv writing, repository of funds, archive of publications, texts, lectures and workshops of the subject and many more.
On 8, 9 & 10 March we host a baking and writing workshop. Following the rhythms of baking bread, we playfully explore fund writing, cv compiling and biography building taking place between daily routines.
In Rietveld Mulch the Podcast we focus on life after graduation and ask artists, curators, collectives and others in the cultural field to share their Mulch with us.
2023
On 8, 9 & 10 March we host a baking and writing workshop. Following the rhythms of baking bread, we playfully explore fund writing, cv compiling and biography building taking place between daily routines.
Part 1: Talks
For each session we invite a guest to share their funding routines for artistic practices. We dive into different aspects of writing to situate our practice within the cultural field and embody alternative perspectives to guide our goals.
8 March, 16:00 - 17:00 hrs @ Room 101 Fedlev building
Submerging artist Philipp Shueller
9 March, 16:00 - 17:00 hrs @ Room 101 Fedlev building
Artist and researcher Urok Shiran
10 March, 16:00 - 17:00 hrs @ Room101 Fedlev building
Writer and post-conceptual artist Alina Lupu
Part 2: Folding rhythms, funding routines
Following the pace of bread, we are led through a series of exercises that explore structure within bread and text. Baking bread is a slow process of folding, resting and stretching. The moments in touch with the dough are short, just enough to guide the bread to a different stage of fermentation. In between folding, we have time to explore the structure of a text, building up toward a piece that holds itself and rises! At the end of each session we have a start of a structure in text and bread, feeding our minds and our bodies. Also each participant takes home a sourdough starter culture, to guide future folding rhythms and funding routines.
8, 9, 10 March, 17:30 - 19:00 hrs @ Sandberg Kitchen, 3rd floor Benthem Crouwel building
Sign up for the baking and writing workshop and let us know what day you like to join
(max 15 participants per day).
Everyone is welcome to attend the workshops, but artists and designers who graduated last summer (class of '22) will be given priority.
