Jeroen Boomgaard (1953) was Professor of Art and Public Space for 19 years (2003-2022) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and has established a strong foundation for artistic research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. He studied Art History at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD in Art History from that same university.
From 2017 to 2021 he was Program manager of the Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS) a platform for research collaboration supported by University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
From 2018 to 2021 Boomgaard was leading an Erasmus+ grant collaboration on the doctorate in the arts. See: CreatorDoctus.eu
Between 2019 and 2022 Boomgaard received an NOW Smart Cultures Grant for the project Contemporary Commoning, a collaboration between Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Institute, University of Amsterdam, Waag FutureLab, Casco: Working for the Commons and Studio René Boer, financially supported by BPD/Bouwfonds Gebiedsontwikkeling. See: contemporarycommoning.rietveldacademie.nl
"The City as Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space" presents the work of Mariken Overdijk, artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with an introduction in collaboration with Jeroen Boomgaard, former lector of LAPS (Lectorate of Art & Public Space) at Rietveld Sandberg Research. The book was launched on 13th of January 2024 at Zone2Source, Amstelpark and on 27th of January at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam during the Boekie Woekie & Friends event.
The research fellowships are a Sandberg/Rietveld initiative to pursue different knowledge practices involving topics such as Artificial Intelligence, The City and New Materials. From both Rietveld and Sandberg a few candidates are selected to research one of the topics and share their project with the students and the community. This fellowship symposium is an ONLINE EVENT open to all Rietveld and Sandberg students: live.sandberg.nl.
Creator Doctus (CrD) – On the 28th of September 2020 Yael Davids has publicly defended her research concluding the first Creator Doctus (CrD) trajectory.
Creator Doctus (CrD) – In this booklet we introduce the Creator Doctus (CrD) as a model for the third cycle/doctoral trajectory in art education in the Netherlands. A few years ago, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut took the initiative of arriving at a trajectory that focused on the art – the work of the artist or designer. The inspiration for this was the model of the meesterstuk, referring to works of art that have played an important role in art history and which were based on extensive periods of research.