Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

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To programme

2019
THE ART OF CRITIQUE  —  Image Power

The artistic movement of Institutional Critique feels particularly urgent today, as we are witnessing an intense moment of “institutional critique” in society at large. Fueled by social media, the critique of institutions – think of phenomena like #MeToo, Brexit and the large scale climate protests – is practiced everywhere with an intensity and at a scale that seems unmatched.

At the same time, one can question whether it still makes sense to treat the art world as a separate institutional field now that art institutions align themselves more and more with profit-oriented thinking and impulses generated within the art field are quickly swallowed up by a larger creative industry.

Taking into account these developments, The Art of Critique asks what constitutes a practice of Institutional Critique today.

The Art of Critique is a collaboration with Frans Hals Museum annd curator Melanie Bühler.

Project website: https://theartofcritique.rietveldacademie.nl

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