Rietveld Uncut 2026
loVe making, ᥫ᭡ love as a creative act and site of resistance
18 – 22 March 2025
Rietveld Uncut is an annual exhibition and performance programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Its collaboration with Studium Generale Rietveld Academie and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam culminates in a simultaneous conference festival and exhibition where ‘the making and the thinking’ come together. In response to Studium Generale’s theme, loVe making - love as a creative act and site of resistance, Rietveld students from all departments have developed new work for Rietveld Uncut from various personal and collective perspectives.
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks
What if love is the wild glitch in the system — a creative act of care, queer becoming, and embodied refusal? Love is in the air, in the making, in the kernel of being alive — yet it leaks through every attempt to contain it.
The way we live shapes how we think about love. It’s not just a feeling — it’s something culture teaches us, something shaped by apps and social rules, something that keeps our economic system running. But at the same time, love can break those patterns. It can be a force for care, for connection, for pushing back against what controls us. The theme speculates on love as unruly practice: tender and fierce, collective and embodied — an invitation to love against power, to make and remake worlds otherwise.
How can we love-make-mobilise-repair-disrupt together?
On Friday 20 March 2026 from 18:30 to 21:30, Rietveld Uncut will be activated with a programme of performances and interventions.
Participating students
Claire Vissac & evin, Disa Sunnerstam, Elektra Tatalia-Aloupi, Estefanía Escalona, Eva Wentzel, Flore Hoeneveld & Chaya Adelaars, Freja Ostergaard & Josefine Saietz, Heidi Wong with Abdulrahman Sufyan Taweel, Ivo Blackwood, Julia Sigmann Engh, Karl Emil Birkeland, Luca Berger & Marley Graamans, Maren Weertman & Anja Aurand, Marieke Verhulst, Matija Stojanovic, Rita Batievsky Sanchez-Cuenca & Ahmet Dündar, Shipo Chou, Taša Grujić and Toyo Lee.
Collaborative presentations
May we have this dance?
VAV performance project with Mariken Overdijk, Michelangelo Arena, Rosa Aboim Inglez Horta Pereira, Ida Maria Jungemann, Netta Simola, Luna Zanolla, Hans Christensen, Herkules Jansson, Tristan Spellman Molphy (FA) and Anna Nagayama (FA).
A bed, a dream, a brick
Presentation of workshop by Staci Bu Shea & Mira Thompson with Eelco van Hulsen, Giulia Sachs, Jessica Kuhn, Luzie Deter, Maryam Ghafouri, Matteo Rattini, Pieter Bas Bouwman, Sara Lipužič, Shauna Jin, Sophie Virta, Teodóra Róka, Toni Kritzer and Weixin Zha.
Before/After
A multi-sensory immersive performance by Alyson Sillon
Team
Rietveld Uncut: Tarja Szaraniec, Anouk van Amsterdam and Tomas Adolfs
Studium Generale: Jorinde Seijdel and Jort van der Laan
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Anouk van Amsterdam, Melanie Bühler and Meike Timmerman
Graphic design: Leonie Rolser, Nim Smit and Oliver Matzner
Special thanks to Eline van Workum, Jip van Steenis, all workshop specialists at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and all (guest) tutors involved
PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
Friday NIght March 20
Entrance area
18:45 Opening speech
ABN Amrozaal
ongoing
Mediocre Nobody Shipo Chou
Paulus Potter entrance (stairs)
19.00 Wailing Choir - Julia Sigmann Engh
Studio Object
19.15 These words are to be read aloud
Maren Weertman & Anja Aurand
Teijin Auditorium
19.45 -21.30 BEFORE/AFTER Alyson Sillon
Paulus Potter entrance
20.00 FLAGEOLET - Taša Grujić
ABN Amrozaal
20.45 A dream a brick a bed
TBC Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson with Eelco van Hulsen, Giulia Sachs, Jessica Kuhn, Luzie Deter, Maryam Ghafouri, Matteo Rattini, Pieter Bouwman, Sara Lipužič, Shauna Jin, Sophie Virta, Teodóra Róka, Toni Kritzer and Weixin Zha
Various locations
Ongoing
May We Have This Dance
VAV- moving image
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