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Riet Wijnen is a Tutor at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, and also teaches in the Graphic Design and TXT department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice spans sculpture, photograms, text-based works, woodcuts, and experimental type design, focusing on re-examining incomplete histories of abstraction.
- Interests include interdisciplinary connections between art, science, philosophy, education, and activism
- Known for fictional dialogues and sculptures that engage with historical modernist figures
- Teaches within the Graphic Design department at both KABK and Rietveld Academie
Her research manifests through the long-term project Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction (2015-present) and publications that explore biographies of female modernists and language structures. She has held solo exhibitions at institutions like Kunstverein Milano and Lumen Travo Gallery, with group shows at prestigious venues including Index Stockholm and Casco Utrecht.
Wijnen has participated in residencies at EKWC (2020, 2023) and Rijksakademie (2017-18), and maintains affiliations with both KABK and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her work investigates knowledge containers like language and infographics while bridging historical and contemporary artistic practices.
