Constellations of Return
Graduation Show Fine Arts 2025
Sandberg Instituut – Festival of Choices

What if remembering is not about accuracy, but about presence?
What if silence is not absence, but inheritance?
Here, memory is not linear, it circles, stains, lingers.
It moves like breath, it tastes like home.
It aches, and it insists.
It becomes an active, living practice, less about the past but about how we carry it forward.

The body is everywhere, in fragments, in memory, in performance and in rest. It is the site where history lands, where language is lost or learned, where education happens through touch, repetition, imagination.

Pedagogy is personal here, it is cultural, communal, intergenerational. There is a circular logic at play, one that resists binaries like before/after, self/other, true/false.
These stories are not singular, they are constellations: scattered but connected, living between fiction and fact, body and place, love and loss. Resisting tidy endings or heroic gestures. Instead, it embraces softness, disorientation, vulnerability, and transformation.

These artists lean into confusion, contradiction, softness, and speculation.
They create spaces where transformation is slow and layered; where art is not a product, but an ongoing act of return.
These artists create not to declare, but to invite.

This is a show where failing is embraced, it invites you to move with it, not through it.
To move slowly and to listen with your body.

To let the traces reach you.

– Judith Leysner
Course Director Fine Art department


Image provided by Fine Art Graduates

Artists:
Wael El Allouche* link
Carina Chagas Paoletti pdf
Marta Crespí Campomar pdf
Sultan Çoban link
Eiros, Clara & Saïdi Deltort pdf
Clara Ketter pdf
Ika Schwander pdf
Yan-Bing Wu pdf

Opening: Wed, 11 June, 19–22pm
Public Days: Thu–Sun, 12–15 June, 1–5pm
Address: Bradwolff Projects
Oetewalerstraat 73, 1093 MD Amsterdam
*Additional location for Wael El Allouche’s work:
Thu/Fri, 12/13 June, 9am–5pm
Dappermarkt, Dapperplein, 1093 GP Amsterdam

Sandberg Instituut
sandberg.nl/graduation2025

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