Moving making thinking Studio move,  Zaandam > Amsterdam.  

Rietveld Academie Studium Generale and Rietveld Uncut present: Oceanic Imaginaries How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the oceans? 23-26 March 2022 At Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam  Continue Reading…

Since 2019 I have been coordinating the Projectspaces within the buildings of the Rietveld Academie (Gerrit Rietveld Academe & Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.) Throughout the buildings of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut, several collectiveContinue Reading…

As Head of the Preparatory Course at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, I am superexcited to see 38 pre’s going to Basic Year, the first year of the Bachelor at the academy! New admission round for 2022-23Continue Reading…

Happy to be making exhibitions again that can be visited in real life. During lockdowns Plan B hosted several shows that were visible from outside 24/7, now we can have visitors in the space again.Continue Reading…

Between March 24-27 2021, Rietveld Uncut presents an exhibition with 26 projects by Rietveld students in an online environment specially created for the occasion. https://rietvelduncut.rietveldacademie.nl/  This year Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut are focussing onContinue Reading…

Birsong – Mainframe by Dan Walwin Amsterdam-based artist Dan Walwin presents a solo exhibition at Plan B of all new works, made especially for the setting. These works operate through different production methods, and onContinue Reading…

Unfortunately due to current COVID-19 measures, Rietveld Uncut that was supposed to take place in Stedelijk Museum has been revised. As the museum had to close its’ doors and the 28 projects that were developedContinue Reading…

Plan B is an independent artist run presentation initiative, we are very happy to still be able to  work independently and pretty experimental. After years of making shows from a more curatorial perspective we haveContinue Reading…

Together with writer Iskra Vuksic and graphic designer Camilla Kovecses I have been compiling the developments of Rietveld Uncut over the past 10 years from an art educational point of view. more soon!  

Some images from ten years Rietveld Uncut were presented in Eight Cubic Meters, an window gallery presenting works by Rietveld students, located in a bit of a hidden Amsterdam street. This image shows visitors watching the exhibition in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Karl Georg Staffan Björk- Gerbrand Burger-Malin Persson-Tarja Szaraniec-Monica Tormell

Opening May 3  17.00-21.00

4–26 May 2019, Saturday and Sunday’s 13:00—17:00

The third and final part of Karl Georg Staffan Björk’s triptych Shuffle-Shifting-Benedenland.
This exhibition is a collaboration between K–G–B and Nieuw Dakota.

Benedenland is supported by AFK

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Rietveld Uncut is an annual presentation by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, that I initiate and organize together with Tomas Adolfs since 2009.
Since 2013 we are collaborating with Studium Generale, bringing together the making and the thinking within the academy, leading up to a conference festival and exhibition programme consisting of works by students and departments. Last 27 -30 March 2019 the latest edition, Take A Walk on the Wild Side, Fabulating Alternative Imaginaries in Art & Life,  took place in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Last November the Gerrit Rietveld Academy celebrated its 50 years anniversary with a large exhibition in the new FedLev building. In the context of this Anniversary Show Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28, I organized aContinue Reading…

As Plan B we were asked to propose an artist for the MK Award. We nominated Saskia Janssen, our proposal being shortlisted for the award was followed by a presentation at TENT Rotterdam.

Exhibition, publication and a whole lot more in Butcher’s Tears Amsterdam. Bad Kitten-Bas Medik-Black Wednesdays-Bucket Boyz-Diana Ozon-End of the Road Cinema with Jeffrey Babcock-Eric Nordin-Ewan Cameron-Felicia von Zweigbergk-Freek Wambacq-Gerard Mostert-Gerbrand Burger-Hanna Gustavsson-Hilma af Klint-Hubert Bouwers-Kalle Runeson-Karl Georg Staffan Björk-Monica Tormell-Nathalie Snel-Nicole Martens-Noiserr-Parkeerplaats-Peggy Frank-Radna Rumping-Robin Watkins-Sander Janzweert-Scapeous-Shadows-Tarja Szaraniec

After two issues dealing with captions and reviews, Dark and Stormy is back once again with a fresh new issue on biographies. With the help of our guest editor Lieven Lahaye, the magazine has swollenContinue Reading…

Solo show at Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht 29/10 – 17/12/ 2016    

solo with Dapiran Art Project Space

February to March 2016, Science Park, Amsterdam

Artists, scientists and theorists experiment with a visual language that redefines the world through colors, patterns, and structures and a new visual logic.

For this exhibition I made new work inspired by geomorphologist Harry Seijmonsbergen’s research.

Gwenneth Boelens, GRAPPA UvA- Erik Verlinde
Lotte Geeven, API UvA & John van Boxel UvA
Doina Kraal, Nikhef/CERN- Marcel Merk& Niels Tuning
Daniela de Paulis, API UvA- Ralph Wijers & Rudy Wijnands
Tarja Szaraniec, ITFA-Jan de Boer& Harry Seijmonsbergen-UvA
Angelo Vermeulen & Joenoes Natar, WZI UvA- Peter Schall & API UvA & AMOLF , Wim Noorduin
Domnitch& Gelfand, GRAPPA UvA- Erik Verlinde& AMOLF Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Maura Biava, HIMS UvA – Joost Reek & Simon Mathew & Frans Reek
Eva Pel, Nikhef/AMS-IX

Francis Boeske Projects + Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam June 21- August 1, 2015

At Supermarket Art Fair 2015 Plan B showed work by Etta Säfve, Monica Tormell, Tarja Szaraniec and Jenny Nordberg.

For some years Plan B had been nomadic, after we left our place on the Herengracht in 2010 and before we started collaborating with Mertens Frames in 2016. <

Going through my archive I came across this photo by Regina Kelaita, of a girl looking into my work ‘I Know You Are There’ at The Last Session at de Brakke Grond in 2009. TheContinue Reading…