Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

The Art of Critique: Three Afternoons of Artist Talks

In May 2022, the Frans Hals Museum and Studium Generale Rietveld Academie organize three artist talks at Rietveld’s Fedlev auditorium. These are part of their long-term collaboration The Art of Critique on the question as to what institutional critique means today. In these series of talks, moderated by Melanie Bühler, the artists D’Ette Nogle, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Ahmet Öğüt, Clémence Lollia Hilaire and Simnikiwe Buhlungu will talk about the works they made for the collection of the Frans Hals Museum as part of this project.

Programme at Fedlev Auditorium, 16:00-17:30

May 11, D’Ette Nogle, FKA: A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST

May 18, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju and Ahmet Öğüt, A Day in Ha(a)rlem

May 25, Clémence Lollia Hilaire on Average price of a free life in 1863 and Simnikiwe Buhlungu on flight (tswee). dance (tswee)

For more information on The Art of Critique project, please check the dedicated website The Art of Critique.