Written by Julia Kantelberg Six years ago, I stepped into the building of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I started out by doing my bachelor in Media, Art, Design, and Architecture, which was a brand new bachelors program at the time. I got interested in sustainable design and wrote my bachelor’s thesis on Victor Papanek’s… Read More Students’ Stories: Julia Kantelberg
Written by Laura Köpping, student MKDA This past summer I had the pleasure of doing an internship in the department of Academic Heritage of the VU library. Under the guidance of Liselotte Neervoort I collaborated with other students, artists and curators on making the exhibition Cabinet of Wonder. The aim of the exhibition is to… Read More Students’ Stories: Laura Köpping on the exhibition Cabinet of Wonder
Hey! Let me introduce myself; I’m Lisa, a student in the master Kunst, Markt en Connaisseurschap (Art, Market and Connoisseurship). I was asked to tell something about my experiences in and around the university. We all have different stories and hereby I’m going to tell you mine! It was the second year of my bachelor… Read More Students’ Stories: Lisa Kloosterman on being an intern
Festive Opening of the exhibition RE-SOURCE during the Dutch Design Week (19-27 October 2019) in Eindhoven, written by prof. dr. Ginette Verstraete During Dutch Design Week RE-source, the winner of the Dutch Design Award 2019, will show an interactive installation on urban waste streams. RE-source is a NWO-SIA collaboration between Design Academy Eindhoven / Lectoraat… Read More RE-source Collective shows ‘design research’
Written by dr. Jos ten Berge Last week, some 400 people were present at the opening of the biggest exhibition of work van Willem van Genk ever. Hardly recognised during his life, Van Genk now counts among the best of the best within the ranks of the so-called “outsider artists”, that is, people who are… Read More Willem van Genk in the Outsider Art Museum in the Hermitage in the Newspaper
Written by Liza Kerlen Hi everyone! You might remember me from last year when I was student assistant at the arts & culture department. Since then I’ve moved on to a new job that’s a great fit next to my MA ‘art, the market and connoisseurship’. I’m now working as sales assistant at online gallery… Read More Students’ Stories: Liza Kerlen at Patty Morgan
Written by Noor Kikkert On Thursday 30 April 2019 Martijn Winkler gave the first-year BA students MKDA a lecture on his latest short film series #tagged. The series confronts its viewers with the impact social media have in our daily lives. “The moment you grab your phone, you get sucked in the digital world and… Read More “SHUTTING OFF WHILE TURNING ON’’
Written by prof. dr. Hans Fidom Next August (Mondag 3th – Friday 16th), VU University (Chair Organ Studies) and the Orgelpark present a new branch to the impressive program of the VU SummerSchool: a two-week course on making music and thinking about it – both in new ways. No less than ten internationally acclaimed teachers,… Read More Minding Music :||: Making Sound: a brand-new VU SummerSchool Course
Written by Fleur den Uijl and Janneke Luns For the Master specialization Art, Market and Connoisseurship and Contemporary Art History one of the required subjects was a study trip to London. Here we had to engage in depth with exemplary works of western art history from early modern times to today, in original and in… Read More Our week in London
Written by Ginette Verstraete On Tuesday 11 March 2019 our 2nd speaker in the MA Lecture Series on Environmental Humanities presented her work to us: Simone Post, who is a textile and product designer. She graduated with honours from the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) in 2015 and since then her work has received numerous accolades… Read More Lecture on Environmental Humanities by Simone Post
