From this year on we are happy to have RietveldTV back on SALTO1. Every sunday evening you’ll be expecting your weekly dose at 10:00 PM. Every last sunday of the month there’ll be a new premiere.
RietveldTV
RietveldTV is Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s monthly TV show. It is broadcast every last Sunday at 10pm by SALTO1 and afterwards forever online. Every month an alum is invited to use the set frame of a 12-minute episode for the development of a new moving image work.
Since 2023, every academic year a curatorial team consisting of four students from different departments and academic years is found through an Open Call. The team is guided in their collective process by Public & Projects and a RietveldTV coordinator.
The 2025/2026 season | A D A T E W I T H T H E F U T U R E
A wide-eyed sense of promise, almost embarrassed by its own sincerity, becomes our starting point. What if we turned optimism into a marathon? What if we transformed this naïve hope into a force of radicality and bluntness? What if an absurd world fraying at its edges requires an absurd quest towards fun in the sun?
This idea of optimism is not to be treated gently, it is urgent! It is a collective protest, it is a fight, it is imperative for our survival, no matter how strange, far-fetched or extraterrestrial the journey is.
The theme of this year’s RietveldTV introduces ideas that feel just a little bit alien, newly arrived, or only half-translated into our world. Strangeness is a companion, and we have never moved through this planet alone.
Let’s project utopias. Let’s have a date with the future, seduce it and make it ours.
The curatorial team this season are Luca Deutinger (DOGtime Expanded Painting), Taša Grujić (VAV), Herkules Jansson (VAV), Netta Simola (VAV).
The current RietveldTV coordinator is Rabea Ridlhammer. Project lead is Vere van Hal from Public & Projects.