Please note! For summer week courses, registrations close at 12:00 on the Monday before the start of the course (one week before the start). It is then decided whether the course has enough participants to go ahead. So, make sure to register on time!
What happens when you don’t throw away the bottle you wanted to throw away? When that old T-shirt, that broken-off branch or crumpled packaging suddenly becomes material – not residual waste, but starting point.
In this course, you get to work with what you find. Along the pavement, in your home, on the street, in nature. You work with textiles, metal, paper, wood and foam. Sometimes you add something. Sometimes you break something off. Each form is temporary, until it changes again.
Under the guidance of artists Lieve and Marie de Vreede, you build sculptures that are not neat, but real. You explore volume, structure and meaning. You reflect, experiment, draw, look, remake. The outcome doesn’t have to be beautiful. It does have to be yours.
Lieve de Vreede is a visual artist and philosopher whose work explores the boundaries between beauty and disgust. By transforming materials often considered repulsive, such as sheep dung or rubbish, into something unexpectedly beautiful, she challenges us to look differently at the things we often avoid. Her work is about processing shame, fear and discomfort through the creation of sculptures that redefine our perception of what ‘waste’ is.
Marie de Vreede, Rietveld Academy alumni, explores the relationship between people and objects in public space in her work. She is fascinated by rejected or lost objects and people who fall outside the norm. This theme of rejection and contrasts between beauty and disgust is reflected in her photography and sculptures. Marie captures the tensions between social structures, the value we assign to things, and the power of repetition and repetition in her work.
Together, Lieve and Marie bring a unique combination of philosophical depth and visual power to this workshop, where they not only help you make something, but also show you how to look, observe and reflect. Poetry emerges in which the abject is promoted to art. ‘Waste’ is elevated to poetry through seeing and recording.
Input level
Everyone is welcome!
