Sandberg Institute
academy in Amsterdam
The Sandberg Institute (Dutch: Sandberg Instituut) is a postgraduate institution in Amsterdam that offers the master's programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. It is named after Willem Sandberg. Since 1995, the Sandberg Institute has been offering a number of master's programmes in art and design. The director of the Sandberg Institute since 2023 is Ruby Hoette.
History
The Sandberg Institute was first founded in 1990 by Simon den Hartog, a former director of Gerrit Rietveld Academy, originally to organise post-academic activities that included seminars and exhibitions. It is named after Willem Sandberg, the former director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, designer and advocate of the new and others in art. In 1995, it developed into the postgraduate department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Under its director Jos Houweling, it offered four MA programmes in art and design: Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Design, and Interior Architecture.
Jos Houweling retired in 2010, and he was succeeded by Jurgen Bey. Bey introduced a series of two-year Temporary Programmes starting in 2011, such as Vacant NL, School of Missing Studies, Material Utopias, Materialism in Art, Master of Voice, and others.
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