Elena Khurtova
Elena Khurtova (Samara, RU) is an interdisciplinary artist based Amsterdam, NL. Reflecting on the interplay of fragility and resilience of human and environmental conditions, her work explores the overlapping notions of care and control. She works across performative and sculptural installations, drawings and artist books, building poetic relationships with concrete and fluid materials and mapping the transience between human and nonhuman agencies. In her recent projects she focuses on collaborating with soils.
Atelier Holsboer in Paris, 3bisF in Aix-en-Provence, France and EKWC - European Ceramic Workcentre in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. She was awarded the Established Talent Grant from the Mondriaan Funds and the artistic research fellowship of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Khurtova’s work has been exhibited internationally with institutions such as 3bisF Contemporary Art Centre, France with Manifesta biennial #13, Amsterdam Museum, Zone2Source, Arti & Amicitiae, the Netherlands, Korean Ceramic Biennale and Kunsthalle Lottozero, Italy.
On the 13th of October 2023, the participating researchers of the research group Third cycle in Artistic Research at the Rietveld (TARR) hosted a public presentation and an exhibition at the Rietveld Gym. The presentation and exhibition was a communal moment for the group of researchers who worked together in the space for three days and experienced and learned more about each other’s work. The talks with the invited respondents, Alice Twemlow and Astrid Korporaal, were very productive and the contact with the public very stimulating.
TARR – The research group Third cycle in Artistic Research at the Rietveld (TARR) hosts participants both internal and external to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) and the Sandberg Instituut (SI), under the coordination of Senior Researcher Paula Albuquerque. It focuses on methodical discussions about artistic research and learning skills for Third cycle candidates and other advanced researchers who are preparing a PhD, a PD or a CrD. The participating researchers will discuss their process and share materials by way of a public presentation and by exhibiting in the space to exchange knowledge and experiences.
Fellows Exhibit is a Rietveld/Sandberg initiative to showcase the research results of the 16 research fellows that did a fellowships trajectory during in 20/21. With the aim to facilitate and support short term artistic research projects by alumni, tutors and guests, each fellowship project is undertaken in close collaboration with one of the departments of Sandberg Instituut and Rietveld Academie as a second aim of the project is to foster relationships between the educational programmes, research activities, and more precise societal issues.
The Research Fellowship Project is a yearly scheme launched cooperatively by both the Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut with the aim to support individual research projects and make topics more visible. The plan is to better connect students, heads, and tutors to research and to build a solid and specific research culture that can slowly be incorporated into the school curriculum at both a bachelor and a master level.