Graduation Show 2025 – Academy Minerva
Graduation Show 2025 – Academy Minerva
(english see below)
Van 14 t/m 19 juni staat de binnenstad van Groningen weer in het teken van de Graduation Show. Maar liefst 160 afgestudeerde kunstenaars, vormgevers, artiesten en kunstvakdocenten tonen hun werk aan het publiek. Ook de masters van het Frank Mohr Institute tonen de resultaten van hun tweejarig artistiek onderzoek. Je bent van harte welkom!
Samenwerking culturele organisaties
De tentoonstelling vindt opnieuw plaats in verschillende locaties in de binnenstad van Groningen. Met de opvallende toevoeging van voormalig tabaksfabriek Niemeyer aan de Paterswoldseweg als nieuwe locatie.
De basis bestaat weer uit de gebouwen van de Academie aan het Zuiderdiep en de Praediniussingel en externe locaties bij Kunstpunt Groningen, Noorderlicht, Niemeyer, NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery, SIGN en Pictura. Zo vormt de show een ontmoetingsplek voor de kunst- en cultuursector en zetten we gezamenlijk met de instellingen opkomend talent in de schijnwerpers.
Afstuderende kunstenaars bij SIGN: Povilas Būda, Marta Calero Segura, Goro Modic, Anaida Melivia Vassiliadou
in Sign 14 juni 16.00 uur.: special Opening with prosecco & strawberries and Lazy cake of Povilas !!
Openingstijden en andere informatie
Op zaterdag 14 juni om 12.00 uur openen alle locaties hun deuren.
De locaties zijn geopend van:
Zaterdag 14 en zondag 15 juni: 12.00 – 20.00 uur
Maandag 16 t/m donderdag 19 juni: 14.00 – 20.00 uur*
*Noorderlicht sluit op donderdag 19 juni om 18.00 uur
De tentoonstelling is zoals altijd gratis te bezoeken. We raden aan om met het openbaar vervoer of met de fiets naar de locaties te reizen. Meer praktische informatie is te vinden via academieminerva.nl/graduationshow
(english)
Performances timeschedule “ Dream Big” by Anaida Melivia: Dont miss it!
Sat. 14 June & Wed. 18 June
14th of June / Saturday
3:00-3:15 pm
3:45-4:00 pm
5:00-5:15 pm
5:45-6:00 pm
18th of June Wednesday
3:00-3:15 pm
3:45-4:00 pm
1 hour break
5:00-5:15 pm
5:45-6:00 pm
Graduation Show 2025
From 14 to 19 June, Groningen’s city centre will once again be dominated by the Graduation Show. No fewer than 160 graduated artists, designers, performers and art teachers will show their work to the public. The masters of the Frank Mohr Institute will also show the results of their two-year artistic research. You are most welcome!
Collaboration with cultural organisations
The exhibition will once again take place in various locations in Groningen city centre. With the striking addition of former tobacco factory Niemeyer on Paterswoldseweg as the new venue.
The base again consists of the Academy’s buildings at Gedempte Zuiderdiep and Praediniussingel and external locations at Kunstpunt Groningen, Noorderlicht, Niemeyer, NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery, SIGN and Pictura. In this way, the show is a meeting place for the arts and culture sector and, together with the institutions, we put emerging talent in the spotlight.
Opening hours and other information
On Saturday 14 June at noon, all venues will open their doors.
Locations will be open from:
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June: 12.00 – 20.00 hours
Monday 16 to Thursday 19 June: 2pm – 8pm*
*Northern Lights closes at 18.00 on Thursday 19 June
As always, the exhibition is free to visit. We recommend travelling to the venues by public transport or bicycle. More practical information can be found at academieminerva.nl/graduationshow
Samenwerkende organisaties
Kunstpunt Groningen, Niemeyer, Noorderlicht, NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery, en Kunstlievend Genootschap Pictura, SIGN
About the artists
Goro Modic: ‘Off Limits’
“Clipping your nails above the toilet after your nail clipper fell into the toilet and you had to pick it up with your unclipped hand and then proceed to clip your nails with the toilet water on your hand because it is all the same if I wash my hands before I clipped them or after in fact it is even better because if it fell again I would have to reach for it again anyways.
I’m not disgusting, you are not efficient!
A toy store built on trust. We don’t tell kids how to play-we offer toys that break the boundaries of play. Freedom begins with curiosity.”
The installation transforms the SIGN into a hyperreal toy store—bright, structured, and meticulously branded. Shelves are stocked with musical instruments modelled after prohibited adult objects: toy guns reimagined as flutes, harmonicas embedded in gag balls, melodicas built into BDSM gas masks, and whistles disguised as cigarettes and butt plugs. Packaging and signage mirror commercial toy aesthetics, creating an uncanny sense of legitimacy. The space plays with contrasts between innocence and taboo, sincerity and satire. It invites visitors into a consumer fantasy where children’s desires are taken at face value, reframing marketing as both a mirror and ampli er of cultural morality.
Povilas Būda:
‘Lightheartedness is heavier than you think’
‘I have no plan for how I want to present my works. I prefer to improvise my display as having fresh ideas is more fun than letting them ferment. If free jazz could curate, it would do it like me. But if you need an abstract of my presentation, see The Black Page by Frank Zappa. The composition will most likely resemble a busy music sheet if you could imagine the artworks as notes. While I don’t want an exact space, I know that I don’t want a completely flat wall. Some zig-zagging would be nice to make it less flat. The size of the space should be at least medium (whatever medium means in a white cube). If you dare assign me a big space, I’ll use up as much of it as I could.’
Anaida Melvia: ‘Dream Big’
Anaida Melvia (Cyprus 2003) works with forms that feel familiair but not quite perceivable. She’s interested in what is been suppressed- things we don’t say, emotions that surface in dreams, moments that blur the line between morality and immorality.
Her practice often involves intuitively handcrafting creatures that suggest something human , yet resist being fully understood.
These beings, along with theatrical elements , musical ceramics, and narrative, are presented together through performance, to express intrusiveness. She looks for ways to accept what is silenced through guilt, by giving to it presence and letting it independentity exsist. Her aim is to create a space where others can stay and connect with their shame -with what is unresolved.
‘My final work will be a performance exploring how a dreamer experiences immorality and guilt. It will depict their journey towards accepting shame gradually making the intrusive unethical scenarios disappear.’
Marta Calero Segura: ‘Santa Agata’
Parting from a feminist perspective Marta Calero Segura’s work focusses on the meanings, symbiose and signs ascribed to female bodies and how they actively work against women’s attemps to represent themselves. She reclaims her body as a site of creation and is developping her own visual vocabulary that concretely represents what it meansto live in a gendered body.
Through multi media practice she aims to distangle the connotations her gender carries and the historical contradiction between artist and art developed by traditional iconography producing meaning of her own against a language that affirms male dominance an power and reproduces their supremacy.
A gash, a tear, a wound, an opening. The image of woman have become objects of sight and constant surveyors of themselves. How can female artists reclaim erotica as a means of self-expression?