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Garden Days - Autumn Days

Join us on October 21st as we will harvest Topinambur, also known as Jerusalem artichoke or sunchoke/sunroot, check up on our fences and poles and welcome new and returning gardeners<3

November 11th, we will we weave with willow together with DesignLab1 & Cathelijne Montens!
Together we will maintain care for our willow dome as well as weaving in new fences.

Thank you again to Cathelijne who also will harvest the willow together with students on November 4th.

@designlab.rietveld
@porrelland
@rietveldacademie
@sandberginstituut

Hand in photo belongs to @masssamama <3

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Graduated @rietveldacademie @designlab.rietveld with Healing landscapes.

Healing landscapes is a series of sculptures conceived from a state of burnout recovery. In this recovery, I have been walking from beach to dunes, kept on walking and ended up in the clouds. Eventually, I sunk down into the sea. Dove into the deepsea then visited the icebergs. Along the way, elements of these landscapes mirror parts of my recovery. Writing these reflections down, gave me the hope. That by sharing these stories, people that are going through something similar could feel less alone.
These kinetic sculptures helped me go from stillness to movement. Navigating in a world where rushing sometimes gets stronger than a storm. These landscapes helped to slow down and find a healthier pace. My sculptures are an ode to the sea, the icebergs and the sky. Helping me to find the silver lining.

Materials :
textile, metal, concrete, resin print, plexiglass

1.📸: Simon Pillaud
7.📸: @maria.in.rotterdam

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Neon Threshold began with a question that has stayed with me for a long time: where is the line between adapting to the world around us and losing ourselves in the process?

Through glass, metal and light, I wanted to capture the tension between restraint and resistance. The warm light escaping from within creates an optical colour-spreading effect that became a symbol of hope for me a reminder that no matter how much pressure we experience, something within us continues to push outward, refusing to disappear.

This project marks the end of one chapter, but it feels much more like the beginning of another. I can’t wait to keep experimenting, keep questioning, and keep pushing both my materials and myself beyond the boundaries I know today.

This is only the beginning.

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Here you can see the final glass form being blown for my project, Neon Threshold.

The past six months have been an intense journey, full of highs and lows, countless experiments, unexpected discoveries, new connections, and inspiring collaborations. Every challenge shaped this project into what it has become.

I’m incredibly grateful for how Neon Threshold came together. While this chapter has come to an end, it feels much more like the beginning than the end.

I’m excited to see where this path leads next

Thank you to @rietveldacademie @rietveldacademie.glass

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GRADUATION SHOW RECAP 2/2

With graduation projects by:

Kateryna Lymar (@katerinalymar), Fine Arts
Charlotte Dijkgraaf (@charlottedijkgraaf), Fine Arts
Handa Youn, VAV - moving image
Elyse Null (@elyse__n), Photography
Mathilde Windal (@mathilde.wndl), TXT
Caroline Girardot-Bijnen (@carolinegirardotbijnen), DOGtime Expanded Painting
Linda Zimmermann (@linda__zoey), Ceramics
Estefanía Escalona Millano (@Nia.Millano), Fashion
Arina Kovalchuk (@pomiat), Graphic Design
Astrid Sanny Hemmingsen (@astrid.hemmingsen), The Large Glass
Lau Vander Mijnsbrugge (@lauskiiiiii), Fine Arts
Frederikke Sofie Falbe-Hansen (@frederikkesofie), Architectural Design
Niloofar Salehi (@Niloo_var), Jewellery - Linking Bodies
Hung-Fu Tsai (@ai.ti_17), Jewellery - Linking Bodies
Song (Yuzhi) Zheng, Image & Language
Cassiopée Charles-Messance, designLAB
Elise Béziaud, VAV - moving image
Amin Mohammadaliei, VAV - moving image

💿Music by graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti) and Thomas van der Putten (@thomasputten) aka @project_x_clubmusic

🎁Campaign by graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti), Julius Geyer (@juliusgeyer) and Ivy Karunadasa (@xivy._)

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GRADUATION SHOW RECAP 1/2

With graduation projects by:

Velko Kalchev (@velkokalchev), Graphic Design
Charlotte Dijkgraaf (@charlottedijkgraaf), Fine Arts
Maren Weertman (@keizerin.spuis), TXT
Matija Stojanovic (@matija.stoja), Graphic Design
Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@loc0.xti), Graphic Design
Thomas van der Putten (@thomasputten), Fine Arts
Greta Wegmann (@gretulinschiza), Architectural Design
Roya Hes (@royahes), VAV - moving image
Caroline Girardot-Bijnen (@carolinegirardotbijnen), DOGtime Expanded Painting
Roos Hijlarides (@rooshylarides), designLAB
Atn Ra Molly (@__________persona), DOGtime Expanded Painting
Ivy Karunadasa (@xivy._ ), Graphic Design
Florian Sigl, Architectural Design
Jay Jung, Photography
Joris Janssen (@jorisjanssen_), Fashion

💿Music by graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti) and Thomas van der Putten (@thomasputten) aka @project_x_clubmusic

🎁Campaign by graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti), Julius Geyer (@juliusgeyer) and Ivy Karunadasa (@xivy._)

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Rietveld Graduation Show 2026 — Report by Niek Schoenmakers

From Object to Environment – Sculpture, architecture, design, and installation flow seamlessly into one another, resulting in presentations that form an environment rather than a collection of separate works.

Read article at dutchdesigndaily.com
Link in bio @ddd_daily

@rietveldacademie / @designlab.rietveld / @architecture.rietveld / @rietveldacademie.ceramics / @rietveldacademie.glass / photos by @niek_schoenmakers of @themillenhouse

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Neon Threshold

Where is the line between adaptation and the loss of self?

Molten glass is blown into and through cut metal frameworks, cages and cracks that fight to contain it. The metal grips, the glass pushes back. In some areas, the glass has been forced into the geometry of the frame, its shape a direct imprint of the pressure applied to it. In others, it has burst through a gap and expanded outward, raw and irregular. The sculptures are a record of that struggle, caught in the moment in which neither side has surrendered.

At the core of each form sits a warm light source that bleeds out through the escaping glass into the surrounding air. The amber glow perceived by the eye in physically empty spaces is called the Neon Colour Spreading Effect. The brain, unable to tolerate an unresolved border, generates a colour where none exists, like hope.

Adaptation is a negotiation under pressure. The self does not dissolve quietly into the mould. It finds the crack, and it leaks through.

glass, metal, light

Thank you to Marie De Bruyn, Ufuk Akbey, Mio Fujimakci, Marija Koshenkova

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GRADUATION SHOW

The Graduation Show 2026 opens this Wednesday!

During the opening ceremony on 1 July at 17.00, there will be speeches by BA Director Miriam Bestebreurtje and Rieke Vos (@riekevos), Curator of Contemporary Art at Teylers Museum and previously at Het HEM. Rieke is also the curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.

The evening will be ushered in with a festive music performance by multidisciplinary artist Meis Vranken (@macymeissie), performing as FLAT NEWS, marking the beginning of the Graduation Show 2026.

We warmly welcome you to our campus – entry is free!

Opening ceremony
Wednesday 1 July, 17.00 hrs
With Rieke Vos, Miriam Bestebreurtje, and FLAT NEWS

Open
Wednesday 1 July, 10.00 - 21.00 hrs
Thursday 2 July, 10.00 - 21.00 hrs
Friday 3 July, 10.00 - 21.00 hrs
Saturday 4 July, 10.00 - 21.00 hrs
Sunday 5 July, 10.00 - 16.00 hrs

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🎁Campaign by Graphic Design graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti), Julius Geyer (@juliusgeyer) and Ivy Karunadasa (@xivy._)

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MEET THE GRADUATES

The Rietveld Academie Graduation Show 2026 (1-5 July) is approaching! We would like to introduce you to some of the graduates.

Minky Kim - @minkikikiminky - designLAB

𝟭. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻?
I am making a time-based installation in which a tapestry is gradually unravelled by a spool. The structure of the reel references Korean folk object 𝘌𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦 (얼레), used for kite flying. Through this project, I ultimately question about how we perceive time, labour, productivity, and unproductivity. Crochet is often framed as a mundane and repetitive craft, but I see beauty in the slowness of this labour intensive process. So I decided to take it as a core element to elaborate its time consuming aspect and then convert it into something visible.

𝟮. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽(𝘀) 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁?
Michel & Kees from wood workshop taught me many knowledges and techniques that the structure required. Bart from metal workshop gave me a valuable guidance on physics and mechanics that are a crucial part of the work.

𝟯. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?
People are invited to experience their own feelings while observing the slow process of unraveling. It could be anything such as vanity, nothingness, persistence, frustration(?), or the cycle of life etc.

𝟰. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄?
You can find me and my work on the 6th floor of the BC building, alongside the works of my classmates ^-^

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GRADUATION SHOW

The Rietveld Academie is proud to present the Graduation Show 2026, showcasing the work of this year’s graduates. The exhibition will be open to the public from 1 to 5 July.

Each year, the three buildings of the academy are transformed into 5,800 square metres of exhibition space. Through their graduation projects, the graduates present their work, establish their position within their respective disciplines and reflect on their relationship with the world around them.

We warmly welcome you to our campus – entry is free!

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🎁Campaign by Graphic Design graduates Jorge Herrero Alberquilla (@Loc0.xti), Julius Geyer (@juliusgeyer) and Ivy Karunadasa (@xivy._)

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Zaterdag 23 mei '26 - Wat een heerlijke, absurdistische chaos gister op de Y-helling bij NDSM! 🦖 De studenten van het Rietveld Design Lab trokken alles uit de kast voor de 'Big City Giant Monster Attack'. Creatieve kunstwerken op wielen, bizarre performances en pure grootstedelijke chaos🤪

Welk rijdend monster was jouw favoriet? Laat het weten in de comments! 👇

#ndsm #rietveldacademie #soapbox #race #art

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