Our Alumna Katarina Zdjelar will show her film ‘Rise Again‘ at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

‘Rise Again’ focuses on a number of men, asylum seekers from Afghanistan. Discovering and inhabiting the wood proximate to the asylum center in which they live, they step outside of their prescribed roles as refugees and engage in voluntary (social) activities within this oasis, surrounded by highways at the edge of town. By combining allegorical imagery with martial arts elements, played and documentary scenes, the video develops a narrative structure in which these men appear in enfolding transformation. Moving between these registers, they resonate different roles and meanings, connect and articulate different historical and geographical scenarios, rather than embodying any in particular. Swinging between familiar media and cinematic imagery, bringing to mind soldiers, refugees, victims or adventurers on a group expedition the process of de/familiarization takes place. Except perhaps for ‘Bruce Lee’, being one of the Afghan refugees himself, whose likeness with the Hollywood hero is embraced (rather than staged) thus leaving the viewer wonder whether he is acting a role or pursuing his daily training routine. ‘Rise Again’ was commissioned by Frieze Foundation for Frieze Film 2011.

Other participating artists are: Yael Bartana, Eléonore de Montesquiou, and Jonas Staal.

The screenings will take place on:

• Saturday January 28, 2015 hrs at LantarenVenster, Rotterdam
• Sunday January 29, 12:30 hrs at LantarenVenster, Rotterdam

We are pleased to announce that Sobota, the film project of our alumna Anna Okrasko will be shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

The film Sobota (Saturday) is a non-existent portable public monument, dedicated to the migrant workers in the Netherlands. The film is made up of a collection of contemporary black-and-white shots of Rotterdam, combined with a Polish documentary soundtrack from the 1950s.

The screening will take place on:

• Thursday February 02, 22:30 hrs at Cinerama 5
• Saturday February 04, 17:15 hrs at Lantaren Venster 3

Anna Okrasko (1981, Poland) graduated with a major in painting from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. She continued her studies at the multimedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and at the Piet Zwart Institute.
She was recently awarded a scholarship by the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation and Stichting Promotieprijs in Rotterdam.

In this section you will find information about past public lecture series, exhibitions, workshops and events from 2004 – today.

Wednesday January 18 2012, 19:00 hrs

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam

‘Cause I Only Have Eyes For You

A solo show by Kirsty Buchanan, curated by Deniz Unal

Seeing and drawing and touching and feeling. Seeing and feeling and touching and drawing. Feeling and touching and drawing and seeing over and over again.

Kirsty Buchanan’s first solo show comprises of an installation of drawings made whilst blindfolded; she choses to close her vision to allow the imagined out more forcefully. Through this action every drawing is a surprise, a moment of discovery yet each drawing has its own repetitive language encoded within it. As if the walls of her imagination want her to know the same thing over and over again. Here desire, fantasy, imagination ask no questions-they want just to see the depictions of abstract, naughty, awkward pleasures and the hands mercifully deliver.

Click to view the ‘Cause I only Have Eyes For You Playlist

Wednesday January 18 2012, 20.00 hrs

Location: Salon Populaire
Address: Bülowstrasse, 90 / 10783 Berlin

Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow

A Living Room Suite Presentation

with the Master of Fine Arts graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, 2011, and Bernd Krauß

Please join us for a variety of table top presentations with the Piet Zwart graduates, spread through the etablissement of Salon Populaire – the place where they went through the intense conception of our collaborative book project Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow.

Guided through the evening by the terrific Timmy van Zoelen and Lee Welch in snakeskin-leather jackets, the audience will experience a headphone performance, a script of an imaginary film, tin foil faces occupied chairs, fortune telling at the bar, one Non-native German, and DJ Uncle Very Thin.

With: Giles Bailey, Martijn in’t Veld, Rachel Koolen, Serena Lee, Arvo Leo, Anna Okrasko, Susana Pedrosa, Linda Quinlan, Lee Welch, Camilla Wills, Timmy van Zoelen.

NOW AVAILABLE:

Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow
Authors: Master of Fine Art graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, 2011, Ellen Blumenstein
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig and Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Design: jung+wenig
Language: English
Pages: 177
ISBN: 978-3-940064-32-5

Our publications can be ordered via the Piet Zwart Institute.

For more information about our publications, please contact us via email or phone: +31 (0)10 794 7405.

During this time staff members and students of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present. Visitors have the chance to see our workshops, facilities, talk to our students, and ask the staff members questions about the master courses we offer.

While this is a smaller Open Day, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its larger annual Open House on March 24 2012. Please keep an eye on our website for more information.

Open Day Willem de Kooning Academy
Date: Saturday January 21 2011
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs
Location: Blaak 10 / Wijnhaven 61 Rotterdam
Classroom number: W.1.145

For more information, please contact coordinator Vanessa Tuitel at pzwart-info@hr.nl

Authors: Master of Fine Art graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willemde Kooning Academy, 2011, Ellen Blumenstein
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig and Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Design: jung+wenig
Language: English
Pages: 177
ISBN: 978-3-940064-32-5

Thursday December 15 2011, 19:30 hrs

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam

The Academy and The Corporate Public

A public lecture by Stephan Dillemuth

Stephan Dillemuth examines the possibilities of artistic research in regard to the current shift in the concept of the public. He believes that this shift – particularly due to the impact of a totalitarian global economy – brings with it a different function of art, a different role of the artist and, something very important, a different quality of education and research. What role do artists, students, teachers, and researchers play in these developments? Is contemporary art production passively at the mercy of the present changes or does it instead grasp itself as a kind of epistemological tool?

Keywords: academy and the corporate public, research, problem, bologna, bertelsmann, creditpoints, ects, hochschulrat, unirat, studiengebühren, student fees, tuition, akademie, universität, university, history, institutional research, pubescent research, bohemian research, sponsorship, branding, corporate social responsibility (csr), LLL, life long learning,WTO, GATT, GATS, privatisation, knowledge, knowledge society, knowledge capitalism, public access, copyleft, communisation, fight.

Saturday  December 10, 19:30 – 21:30 hrs

Location: Beukelsdijk 44A (Top Button) Rotterdam

Edmund’s Bedroom
A project initiated and organised by Master of Fine Art students Edmund Cook, Edward Clive, Jane Fawcett, Anouchka Oler and Kirsty Roberts.

Please join us this Saturday evening in Edmunds bedroom for a one night exhibition of things by Edmund Cook, Edward Clive, maybe Olivia Dunbar, Jane Fawcett, Anouchka Oler and Kirsty Roberts.

Edmund’s bed is slightly too large for the mattress, but you can just about fit a small person underneath it.
Someone said a flood lit house plant was the most comforting thing in the world, but we weren’t sure about that.
There’s quite a lot of dark, glossy, hardwood surfaces. Something with the lights. Snacks in ceramics.
Think teenage boy meets interior magazine stylist.

With the support of the Master of Fine Art programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University.