Tutors
Tutors
René Put & Brigitte Gootink (Studio PutGootink)
[putgootink.nl]
PutGootink is a graphic design studio founded and formed by René Put and Brigitte Gootink. Their work spans a wide variety of projects, including the design of books, catalogues, posters, stamps, identities, and exhibitions. Having a strong editorial approach, they are often involved with projects at an early stage, using their design process to reflect on the content and context of their subject matter. This visual research is essential to them for developing an outspoken design that is marked by distinct and inventive reproduction techniques. PutGootink has been commissioned by a range of non-profit organisations, cultural institutions, museums, and publishers, and has designed for a great number of photographers, artists, and architects.
Under the name of “Collect Editions”, René Put and Brigitte Gootink independently produce and publish exclusive artist editions. For every edition, an artist is invited to develop new work, considering the outcome in close collaboration with Put and Gootink. With mutual respect for each others motives and discipline, they reflect on concept, contents, research, material, shape, design, and production. Each time a unique appearence is created, distinct from the previous, allowing Collect Editions to investigate and redefine the medium of an artist edition, both in content and form. In due course the editions will comprise a collected body of work, proposing a triggering dialogue between subjects and form as a whole.
René Put teaches graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. His design practice is based on independent research, often dealing with the composed and reproduced image as a point of departure. In 2012 he and Rianne Petter presented their book “Poster 524, exploring the contemporary poster”, published by publisher Valiz. Poster No. 524 is a visual analysis of the medium of the poster, for which they collected 523 different posters hanging in the city of Amsterdam. They carefully studied these posters, deconstructing and reconstructing their elements and isolating certain details. Poster No. 524 reveals the mechanisms of creative research and sets out to shed light on the general significance of posters and visual culture. The research was part of the exhibition ‘How Posters Work’ at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York last year (May 2015-January 2016).
Saskia van Drimmelen & Margreet Sweerts
(Painted)
[paintedseries.com]
Painted is a hybrid fashion collective led by fashion designer Saskia van Drimmelen and theatre director Margreet Sweerts in a varying line-up with kindred spirits. Sharp contemporary couture in which handwork techniques find a place of honor is their signature.
Painted explores new ways to develop and distribute fashion and likes to blur the lines between fashion and performance, and expand the idea of what a garment can be.
Believing in the strength of collaboration, Painted develops garments in which handwritings of various makers are united, giving each piece its own character and value. This way of working originates from antique Bulgarian dress, where different generations added personal elements to a family piece; layered by time. In workshops they share techniques and new methods of playful collaboration. The results of this collaborations manifest in numerous presentations, projects and exhibitions. Among others, “Golden Joinery” was featured and presented at the Fashion Week Amsterdam 2016, participated at the exhibition part of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL) Vienna, their work was exhibited at the Exhibition LEV VEL at DogA, Oslo and pieces from “Painted Secret” was part of ‘The Future of Fashion is now” at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and many others participation in various events.
Vesselina Nikolaeva
[vesselinanikolaeva.com]
Vesselina Nikolaeva majors in Photography at the Art Academy of Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2001. In 2004 she receives The Award for Young Photographer (in the framework of ‘De Zilveren Camera 2004 the Netherlands) followed by the Grand Prix of the 4th International Festival of Photography 2005 in Poland and the ‘Descubrimientos’ at Photoespana 2005 in Spain.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Bulgaria and The Netherlands and has been a part of many international festivals in Germany, Spain, France, Australia and the USA.
Vesselina Nikolaeva has five individual book publications: “Baba” (2004), “Simply a Line” (2009), “I’m good I’m great I’m wonderful” (2013) and “Yesterday when I was little” (2014). In her work, she examines the socio-cultural relations in contemporary Europe in the context of a diverse and struggling for unification political and economic entity. Her projects represent the metamorphosis of a historically marginalized society into a main-stream European nation state partaking in the cultural transfer of globalization and modernization.
Uta Eisenreich
[hier-eisenreich.org]
Uta Eisenreich is an artist working with photography and performance. In the early 2000s Eisenreich explored the interface between photography and performing arts, collaborating with performance makers such as Eva Meyer-Keller (DE/SE) and Zhana Ivanova (BG/GB). She frequently incorporates performative strategies in her photographic practice; her camera is often used as a live tool for performances.
In another sense she treats a book as a time-based medium, as a portable theatre. Her acclaimed artist book ‘A NOT B’ (2010, Roma Publications) has received several prizes and is a collector’s item. Uta Eisenreich works and lives in Amsterdam, where she teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.
Currently she travels Europe with here conceptual object-performance “Things on a Table” in which, by means of objects, light and special effects, a level of photographic interpretation is obtained.
Special guest lecturers:
Linda Van Deursen
from the design studio Mevis & Van Deursen (NL)
Jurgen Bey
from the creative studio Makking & Bey (NL)
Clémentine Deliss
independent curator in contemporary art and anthropology, Curator of Dilijan Arts Observatory 2016, Armenia. (DE)