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Introducing the new website for Sandberg InstituutSandberg

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Q&A with Phantom Scores, the new temporary MA(PS)

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Photos from Open Day 2026!Sandberg

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The image has a yellow background with maroon writing. It announces the 2026 graduation show and names the six exhibiting departments.

10–14 Jun

Sandberg Instituut Graduation 2026

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4 Jun

Lola Olufemi | Talk hosted by Monstrous Futurities

(MF)An abstractified image of a window seen from above and from an angle. An intensive use of colors above the photo makes it barely visible, shades of green, orange, red and yellow. Thin black illustrations of leaves and nuts are drawn above. Text is written in green, yellow, purple and white announcing the event, its venue, the participating artists, and the opening times.

10–14 Jun

What We Carry Forward

(FA)The images shows a drawing of a house made of words.

11–14 Jun

Building A House Without Bricks

(LP)Thee poster is baby blue with maroon squiggly writing mentioning the names of the graduating students.

11–12 Jun

Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another

(CS)The image is purple and neon yellow. It advertises the design department graduation exhibition

11–14 Jun

Best Day of My Life

(D)The poster illustrate the graduation exhibition of DAD. It's an illustration of a barbed-wire fence with arrows pointing through a gap in it.

12–14 Jun

The Only Way Out Is Through

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12–14 Jun

Light Line(s) for Oblique Angels

SandbergThe image is black, grey, white and include the exhibition title SOME THINGS SURE CAN SWEEP ME OFF MY FEET in capital letters.

12–14 Jun

Some Things Sure Can Sweep Me Off My Feet

(SIS)The image shows an advertisement for the Grad Show Afterparty at ISO. Orange brushstrokes over a blurred green and blue background.

13–14 Jun

Sandberg Instituut Graduation Show Afterparty

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Building a House without Bricks

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This project is a study of sound and its physical form. The shape of each object is the result of the quest to produce sound by working the wet clay.Woolen threads redraw and rediscover the shapes of musical instruments.This instantaneous intervention took place in the Belice Valley, Sicily, an area struck by an earthquake in 1968 that caused the destruction of several towns. In this area, I collected some sediments that had fallen from the hillside onto the road following heavy rainfall during my residency in Gibellina with artist Alessandra Spranzi, 2023. Layered history Is brought back to life Through active memory Embodied by the Herald: A fragile monument, Kept in balance thanks to The cooperation of multiple forces.The image is a high-resolution digital scan of the surface of a stone collected along the Dora River in Turin, Italy. Printed at a large scale, it amplifies the visual experience of the traces emerging from the rock. These figures are considered acheiropoietic images—forms not made by human hands. The research draws on the practice of reading stones as a form of divination. The images revealed on the rock’s surface guide the divinatory act, activating the imagination and perceptual sensitivity of the seer.This work represents an initial research approach to the relationship between body and sound. A droning sound is played at maximum power, generating strong physical vibrations in the speaker that set surrounding elements in motion, while not being perceived at its full sonic intensity. This condition creates a tension between the sound’s physical impact and its perceptual experience. Conceived as a persistent presence, the work explores how sound acts on the body through vibration as much as through audibility.First Encounter is situated within an ongoing research into the subconscious and the agency of objects. Drawing from Dora Kalff’s sandplay therapy, the work adopts the sandbox as a protected, symbolic space in which inner images can emerge without being forced into explanation. Meaning is not imposed but allowed to surface through relationships, distances, and tensions between elements. Like Kafka’s Odradek, they occupy an ambiguous position: familiar but unsettling, seemingly insignificant yet resistant to disappearance. They outlive us and our attempts to stabilize their meaning, acting upon the viewer rather than submitting to interpretation.Through a public invitation, I hosted individual sessions within an intimate setting, inviting participants to donate a small item to an evolving library of objects. Each encounter began with a conversation where participants shared the memories and personal stories tied to their donated item. Afterward, they were invited to create their own tactile composition—a personal landscape—using the gathered objects from the library, translating a dream they had experienced the night before into a visual form.

Lumbung Practice Harvest Festival

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a huge bird mansion in the middle of a green spaceVideo stillmagic symbols drawn on burlap using black silicone

Chasing Phantoms

Stan Wiersma

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