Het Parool Interview

Together with Rietveld alumni Danielle Alhassid, Nadja Schlenker, and Irene Ha, Mayıs Rukel took part in monthly conversations with Edo Dijksterhuis over the course of six months following their graduation in August 2020. The result is an article in Het Parool, offering insight into how four newly graduated artists -each with distinct practices-navigated the specific conditions of the pandemic. The piece is accompanied by webcam portraits by Jitske Schols.

You can read the interview here.

"Where are those stars to shoot for?"

New conversation with Nele Brökelmann for Metropolis M as part of the Diaspora Dialogen issue is now online.

"In the current issue of Metropolis M (Diaspora dialogen) Mayis Rukel is presenting an artist contibution, wrapping up the strange but intense last twelve months showing tables with Tarot cards, inspiring books, personal notes and a funding application form. Nele Brökelmann talks to the 2020 recipient of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award for Autonomous Art about his widely praised graduation work The Pendant and his plans for the future."

You can read the full interview here.

In Pursuit of a Sense of Belonging

A conversation with Narges Mohammadi for (A)WAKE, exploring representation in the Netherlands and Türkiye, and the potential of digital culture as a tool for deepening cultural understanding.

“Colonial Europe never imagined us as people with agency and power, and the current extension of that history is still perplexed about what to make of us. I’m attracted to the idea of making use of that confusion and utilizing it for our self-definition of what it means to be from the WANA diaspora.”

Read the full interview at a-wake.world