March 26, 2024 Finals 2024: let the show begin! During the finals, hundreds of final-year students from our bachelor's and master's courses showcase their final projects to the general public. Next to theater and dance performances,...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M shows Puck Verras' graduation installation, in which they reflects on the hierarchical relationship between humans and non-humans When I meet them, Puck Verras (2001) invites me to sit down in an enormous flower, where we face each other on either side of the flower's bud, which consequently recalls a campfire or a glass orb. Verras’...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M shows Vera Wolsink's raw work showing growing up in fits and starts A resigned, somewhat older figure with closed eyes lifts up a howling dog. Its pointed snout eloquently expresses its sorrow. 'I am the dog that has been lifted up' is embroidered in clumsy lettering under...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M shows Max Werkman's brusque work, in which he aims to raise questions about ecology and human responsibility In the drizzle, a vacuum-packed birch tree, eight metres tall, sways surrounded by scaffolding. The leaves are still gasping for air, the last of their moisture choked by the plastic. It is an alienating...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis highlights the imaginative work of Sofiia Dubyna, in which friendship plays a central role At first glance, you might think that Sofiia Dubyna (born 2000) has used watercolour and charcoal for her paintings. But, she reveals, actually they are leftover bits of make-up she got from her friends,...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M shows the transformation of the traditional office environment into a playful and connected space, created by Graphic Design-alumna Tendai Dzimwasha A suited employee is sitting behind his desk when he gets a tap on the knee from a colleague who has just crawled out of the tunnel that ends by his legs. They wave to each other. For her graduation project...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M shows Irem Bitters' mission for inclusive interior design A vague household scene slowly moves across white model buildings. They are high up on stilts and are illuminated by overlapping images from small projectors, images that are at the same time strange and...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Metropolis M highlights BEAR Fine Art-alumna Mijke Abaum's ode to women's knowledge and protest On a big screen we see a seated Mijke Ambaum doing embroidery with her mother, sister, best friend, grandma and her grandma's best friend. "Do you sometimes sing?", someone asks her. "Not really", Ambaum...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: Product Design alumnus Juyoung Jung tells Metropolis M about her ceramic family of sculptures The ceramic family of sculptures that Juyoung Jung presents under the title 0D to 4D finds its origins in a very different medium: textile. In recent years, the artist has become fascinated by the way...
December 6, 2023 SPOTTED: BEAR Fine Art-alumni Lesse Melijn van der Veer tells Metropolis M about their research into the essence of the tongue Over the past year, Lesse Melijn van der Veer has been visiting people at home to catalogue their tongues for her graduation project The Tongue Truth. According to the artist, the tongue, which she calls...