Greetings from …

Gerrit Rietveld Academie edition, in collaboration with Photographer Nikki Mulder

Available for purchase, €2 for one card or all six cards for €10

Greetings from… is a project about Postcards, launched at Gel exhibition space at Rietveld. This edition features Gerrit Rietveld Academie as its subject. It consist of 6 different cards featuring Rietveld spaces and objects.

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When I was younger I made a rule to always buy a postcard whenever I went to a museum or exhibition, didn’t matter if that was from the current exhibition or a work I saw or just a beautiful card. This resulted in a huge collection of cards. I saw them as small art works, a little copy of the original. When in Copenhagen at Kunsthal Charlottenburg I found a card that said Greetings from Antartica, which made me laugh.

At the same time I was given a big part of my grandfathers postcard collection. In his younger years he was a big collector of them even dealing in rare cards worth surprisingly a lot. Some of these cards also features greetings of some sorts.

Together this resulted in the idea of Greetings from…, a platform in which greetings can be given from many different places through the format of postcards.

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The launch at Gel exhibition space, featuring an enlarged postcard