Due to the current measures regarding Covid-19, we unfortunately have to postpone our exhibition 'Live from the Rijksakademie, a Cabinet of Curiosities' and the presentation of our Artist Edition.

Rijksakademie alumnus Kévin Bray was asked by designer Roosje Klap to create a visual impression of 150 years of Rijksakademie, commissioned by OCW (The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science).

In honour of what would have been Constant Nieuwenhuys' centenary, we share two of his early works from our collection.

Today we publish 'Rijksakademie on the map, 150 years of works in Amsterdam', a city map of Amsterdam with 441 works of art in public space by artists who have been affiliated with the Rijksakademie for the past 150 years.

A selection of works that can be found on 'Rijksakademie on the map'.

Rijksakademie alumnus Arvo Leo (RA 17/18) will start his artist residency in ‘de Salmhuisjes’ in ARTIS in September.

In the context of our 150 anniversary we’ve been looking at the imprint that the Rijksakademie has had on the city of Amsterdam.

It's our birthday! The 26th of May, exactly 150 years ago, the Rijksakademie was established by law by King Willem III. We will celebrate this until May 2021 with the anniversary programme 'Activating Pasts, Practising Futures. But we also made a wish list, for when you want to give a present.

On May 26th 1870 the Rijksakademie was established by law by King Willem III.

Last February, together with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, we organised the lecture ‘Notes on Ososma: imagining spaces’ by artist and researcher Charl Landvreugd, in which he shared his artistic practice, his research and thoughts about future language. You can watch the lecture in full here.

Rijksakademie alumni John Rädecker’s and Paul Grégoire's contributions to the National Monument on Dam Square, with an important role for artist model Truus Trompert

Last March artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz gave an artist talk about their recent presentation at the Venice Biennale, 'Moving Backwards'. You can watch the talk in full here.

1986: the start of our video art collection

In the mid-eighties the first video works are added to the Rijksakademie collection.

Hollandse Meesters in de 21e eeuw

Artists Femmy Otten and Mounira Al Solh are the subject of two new portraits in the series ‘Hollandse Meesters in de 21e eeuw’

Agnieszka Polska: Love Bite

The Frye Art Museum invites you to view selected video works from the solo show 'Love Bite' by Rijksakademie alumna Agnieszka Polska.

Micro Art Online #1

Rijksakademie resident Lotte van Geijn investigates contemporary art in a quarantined world.

Together with artist Frederique Pisuisse, Rijksakademie resident Saemundur Thor Helgason runs an online exhibition space called Cosmos Carl – Platform Parasite, an online platform that hosts nothing but links provided by the artist.

These days art institutions are finding new ways to make their projects, exhibitions and collections accessible at home. Rijksakademie resident Silke Schönfeld's show 'invented traditions / imagined communities' at Gemeinde Köln has been made available for online viewing.

Like so many others operating in the cultural field, recent developments around the Covid-19 virus have led us to review the activities the Rijksakademie had planned.

Posters, announcements of performances, organised in 1980 by the Studium Generale; the theory department of the Rijksakademie.

Our 150th anniversary programme ‘Activating Pasts, Practising Futures’, asked for a new graphic identity to visualise our need for looking at the future of the Rijksakademie.

This picture, probably taken by painter H.M. Krabbé, depicts Jan Bronner (professor of sculpture), Helena C. Bastert (student 1911–1916?) and Jaap Kaas (student 1914–1920).