Guido van der Werve (RA 06/07), architectural design office Shift A+U (consisting of Hans Timmermans and Oana Rades & Thijs van Bijsterveldt (PdR 2010) and Daan Roosegaarde are the winners of the Charlotte Köhler Prize 2012.

The Charlotte Köhler prize is an incentive from the Dutch cultural foundation Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds. The prizes are awarded every year to Dutch visual artists, architects and theatre designers under 35.

The award ceremony will be held in the DeLaMar Theatre in Amsterdam on Juli 5.

Every year in May the Dutch magazine Elsevier presents the 'top 100 of Dutch visual artists'. This years rankings includes 25 former residents, 12 Prix de Rome winners and 2 Rijksakademie advisors.

These are the 39 Rijksakademie artists in the top-100:
(including current. and (last years) postition)

FORMER RESIDENTS
4. (20) Yael Bartana (RA 00/01)
11. (-) Pablo Pijnappel (RA 06/07)
14 (5) Guido van der Werve (RA 06/07)
16 (12) Manon de Boer (RA 90/92)
19 (28) Folkert de Jong (RA 98/99)
21 (4) Fiona Tan (RA 97/98)
22 (11) Willem de Rooij (RA 97/98)
31 (72) Charlotte Dumas (RA 01/02)
38 (-) Praneet Soi (RA 02/03)
39 (37) Germaine Kruip (RA 00/01)
42 (42) Marijke van Warmerdam (RA 87/90)
46 (-) Hanna van Bart (RA 88/90)
57 (14) Michael Raedecker (RA 93/94)
59 (-) Alon Levin (RA 05/06)
61 (55) Carla Klein (RA 94/95)
63 (-) Ellen Kooi (RA 93/94)
66 (43) Berend Strik (RA 85/88)
72 (32) Jan van der Ploeg (RA 83/88)
78 (17) Meschac Gaba (RA 96/97)
79 (-) Marijn van Kreij (RA 05/06)
85 (58) Armen Eloyan (RA 04/05)
87 (71) Gabriel Lester (RA 99/00)
89 (68) Pauien Oltheten (RA 05/06)
96 (49) Jacco Olivier (RA 97/98)
97 (-) Wouter van Riessen (RA 91/92)

PRIX DE ROME WINNERS
5. (3) Atelier van Lieshout (Prix de Rome 1992)
8. (16) Mark Manders (Prix de Rome 1992)
20 (6) Erik van Lieshout (Prix de Rome 1999)
24 (48) Desiree Dolron (Prix de Rome 1996)
27 (51) Viviane Sassen (Prix de Rome 2007)
34 (25) Marc Mulders (Prix de Rome 1985)
36 (-) Willem Oorebeek (Prix de Rome 1988)
40 (-) Marc Nagtzaam (Prix de Rome 1998)
41 (-) Vincent Vulsma (Prix de Rome 2011)
54 (100) Saskia Olde Wolbers (Prix de Rome 2002)
67 (39) Robert Zandvliet (Prix de Rome 1994)
83 (-) Suchan Kinoshita (Prix de Rome 1992)

ADVISORS
10 (65) Arnout Mik
51 (-) Sigirdur Gudmundsson

For the complete list click here:

In collaboration with Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, the Rijksakademie is developing a two weeks collaborative program/ residency in Townhouse gallery. The initial of the workshop is ‘Visiting’, involving 6 artists from the Rijksakademie, and 6 artists from Cairo.

Starting point is the open sharing of knowledge and practice through the idea of visiting and hosting. In the two weeks of the residency artists from Cairo selected for the program are acting as hosts for the artists from the Rijksakademie. Through the examination of these relationships artists begin to address a range of questions that can serve as catalysts for possible collaboration and also provide an entry point of engagement with the city of Cairo and the visual arts here. Through investigating these issues, focus is shifted from a place or location as subject, to the relationships inherent in the artist residency, with all of the specificities of this time and place, the shifting political and social environment of Cairo.

De residency takes place May 14-28 in Cairo.

Selected resident artists Rijksakademie:
Elin Austbo, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Shiu Jin, Pawel Kruk, Marc Oosting, Muzi Quawson

Selected Egyptian artists:
Taha Belal, Ahmed Nagy, Ahmed El Shaer, Ahmed El Sayed (Roby), Ahmed Kamel , Mai Hamdy

In association with:

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
 
Royal Norwegian Embassy, Cairo

British Institute, Cairo

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Cairo

Institut Français, Cairo

TRACK can be visited until September 16.

For more info visit the website.

Please find the video of the public event Stedelijk@Rijksakademie Conversations: John C. Welchman and Andy Hope 1930 here.

John C. Welchman, professor of Art History at the University of California, and Rijksakademie advisor, lectured on the aspect of 'language' in the oeuvre of Andy Hope 1930. The artist spoke about his work and exhibitions, including his current show at Hauser & Wirth, entitled Medley Tour London by Andy Hope 1930. The conversation was also open to questions from the audience.

The ’Conversations’ series is part of Stedelijk@, the Public Program of the Temporary Stedelijk 3, and will be a recurring series of dialogues between noted artists, scholars, and curators.

Artist and former resident Nathaniel Mellors (RA 07/08) is a new Rijksakademie advisor. Mellors is an successful artists with projects like Giant bum and Ourhouse and his work has been exhibited in —a.o.- De Hallen in Haarlem, Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennial. Mellors investigates the complex relation between language and power in his absurd scripts, theatre performances, films, videos and sculptures. In 2011 Mellors received the Cobra Art Prize.

Article Frieze online on his work
Biography Nathaniel Mellors

Former resident Katrin Korfmann (RA 00/01) wins the RADO STAR PRIZE SWITZERLAND 2012. The prize is intended to create a cultural exchange between Asia and Europe, and offers a working stay and an exhibition in China at the end of 2012.

More information:

Katrin Korfmann
Radio Star Prize

May 8, 2012, 8:00 – 9:30 pm

The event will be available online on this page soon.

The Stedelijk Museum and the Rijksakademie proudly present the first installment of the ’Conversations’ series, with artist Andy Hope 1930 and art historian John C.  Welchman. The ’Conversations’ series is part of Stedelijk @, the Public Program of the Temporary Stedelijk 3, and will be a recurring series of dialogues between noted artists, scholars, and curators.

John Welchman, professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego,and advisor at the Rijksakademie, will engage with Andy Hope 1930 about his recent work and exhibitions, including his current show at Hauser & Wirth, entitled Medley Tour London by Andy Hope 1930. Several aspects of Andy Hope 1930’s long and diverse oeuvre will be highlighted in the conversation, which will also be open to questions from the audience.

For RijksakademieFANs, we will reserve 10 front row seats. Interested? Please send an e-mail with your request for 1 or 2 seats to fan@rijksakademie.nl. Want to become RijksakademieFAN? Visit our website. 

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Narcisse Tordoir invited 5 (former) residents for the exhibition Closed because of the goings-on:

Olga Balema
Michiel Ceulers
Jean-Charles de Quillacq
Rubén Grilo
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud

The exhibition is to be opened on Saturday May 12th at 6pm, at gallery Dukan Hourdequin in Paris. The artists will be present. We hope to see you there for a toast.

Dukan Hourdequin
24 Rue Pastourelle, 75003, Paris
Opening: May 12, 6-9 pm
Exhibition till June 16

The last couple of weeks the lower floor of the Rijksakademie library, the former artist's documentation, has been transformed into a Reading Room. Part of the physical artist's documentation has been transferred to the RKD. All the new documentation is preserved digitally.

Occasionally, the Reading Room is used for small lectures. Yesterday advisor Hermann Pitz gave a lecture for residents. Today former resident Marco Paulo Rolla gave a talk about his artists' network CEIA.

The library contains books, periodicals and audiovisual material on such subjects as art history, art criticism, art theory, artists’ writings, painting and sculpture, graphic art, performance, photography, video art and architecture.

The library and Reading Room are open to the public. Visitors are welcome to view the books and periodicals and members can borrow books.

For our online catalogue click here
here

Former resident Tala Madani (RA 07/08) is awarded De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2012 (Volkskrant Art Award).

The work of the five nominated artists, among them three former residents is on view till June 17 in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. The other nominated artists are: Charlotte Dumas (RA 01), Sarah van Sonsbeeck (RA 08/09), David Jablonowski and Rory Pilgrim.

More information:

Tala Madani
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs (in Dutch)
Exhibition

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (resident in 2009/2010) is awarded the Italian Contemporary Prize in Rome on March 30th. It’s the second time that the prize for contemporary art in Italy is awarded. It’s connected to the MAXXI Arte museum in Rome. The previous winner was Rossella Biscotti, also a former resident (2010/2011).

The Italian Contemporary Prizewas created to support and promote the most recent developments on the contemporary art scene and the latest generation of Italian artists within the local and international contexts.
The four nominees -  next to Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Patrizio di Massimo, Adrian Paci and Luca Trevisani – made a work especially for the MAXXI Arte. Andreotta Calò transformed a museum space into a camera obscura. The outside is reflected – via a hole in the wall and a flooded floor-  in the inside of the museum.

The jury was chaired by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi director MACRO museum in Rome. The other jury members: Elena Filipovic, curator WIELS Contemporary Art Center (Brussels); Udo Kittelmann, director Staatliche Museen (Berlin); Anna Mattirolo, director MAXXI Arte; Jessica Morgan, Daskalopoulos Curator Tate Modern (London) and Luigi Ontani, visual artist.

The exihibition with the work of the four finalists will be on show till May 20th, 2012 in MAXXI Arte. 

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Visual artist and Rijksakademie advisor Aernout Mik, together with Christoph Girardet, especially designed an installation for the inaugural exhibition of the new EYE Film Institute called 'Found Footage: Cinema Exposed' (April 5- June 3).

The exhibition, based on EYE’s collection, reveals the fascination of artists and experimental filmmakers for working with found films and film fragments, to which they give a new, original twist.

'Found Footage: Cinema Exposed' forms the kick-off of the coming series of exhibitions that will be held in EYE’s new building on the banks of the River IJ.

More information about the exhibition can be found here

Rijksakademie resident Edward Clydesdale Thomson shows his work in group exhibition ‘Secret Gardens’ at TENT Rotterdam, April 5- June 10.

His work is on display among the work of fourteen other artists, and focusses on the theme: ‘nature as a symbol of the desire for beauty, mystery and aesthetics’.

More information can be found here

Rijksakademie former resident Yael Bartana’s solo exhibition ‘… and Europe will be stunned’ will be opening at Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven coming Saturday .

Bartana’s video installation work has been called: "one of the most sensational exhibitions" at the Venice Biennial last year.
 
The exhibition will be on display March 24 till August 26.

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The exhibition flowerCASTLE is now open at kasteel Keukenhof in Lisse and can be visited untill May 20.

Rijksakademie residents Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Roderick Hietbrink and Pawel Kruk are showing their work, as well as former resident Elspeth Diederix.

More information about flowerCASTLE can be found here.

Dutch telecommunications provider KPN supports Rijksakademie's cause to 'develop talent at the highest level' by rewarding talented Dutch Rijksakademie residents with a fellowship.

This year KPN chose Roderick Hietbrink, who made a strong impression with his video work The Living Room.

Besides the fellowship, which is awarded on a yearly basis, KPN and Rijksakademie organise the KPN Kunstprix. Every odd year the Kunstprix is awarded to one of the longlist-applicants/candidates for the Prix de Rome.

Former resident Meschac Gaba (Benin, Rijksakademie resident 1995-1996) develops the international art project 'MAVA': Musee de l'Art de la Vie Active (Museum of the art of the active). MAVA consists of a residency, art library and projects in collaboration with local and international artists.

The Rijksakademie gives advise and supports on the development of plans, organisation and network and will collaborate actively the coming years. The trip of Hermann Pitz (Rijksakademie advisor) to Gaba and potential partners contributes to further development and execution of the initative.

MAVA is a new partner in the Rijksakademie / RAIN Artists' Initiatives Network.

Within the scope of the  visit of Hermann Pitz and Meschac Gaba, the Dutch ambassy in Benin organised an ‘intercultural’ meeting on February 17th.