After the previous successful editions, we present once more the cream of the crop of the 2012 Dutch Academy graduates. This eclectic exhibition will take place from Saturday the 11th August until Saturday the 1st of September at Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam.
Saturday the 18th of August from 5 to 7 pm, will see the festive opening of this show.
Guest curator Radek Vana and the Galerie Ron Mandos team selected the following artists for the exhibition:
From the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam: Christopher Holloron, Jan Hoek, Ola Lanko & Lorenzo Quintanilla. From the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht: Robin Meyer, Bas de Ruiter, Rudie van den Berg & Sofia Montenegro. From the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague: Wendy Oakes, Philip Schuette, Juliaan Andeweg, Bob Eikelboom & Teun Vonk. From Academie St. Joost, Breda/ Den Bosch: Richa Dorrestijn, Brenda Tempelaar & Eva de Jong. From Academie Minerva, Groningen: Martin Brandsma. From ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem/ Enschede: Rudolf Romero, Niels van Bunningen & Alvaro Valls. From Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht: Ramon Schoonbrood. From Willem de Kooning Academie: Joe Verberkt.
Next to this, on the 1st of September at 4 pm, Tijmen van Grootheest, Director of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, will award the Young Blood Award and the Public’s Prize. The former is there as an encouragement to a talented young artist and consists of a cash prize as well as an exhibition in the gallery or at an art fair in 2013.
