Art Cards inspired by Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson, c. 1805 – c. 1809 by Inbal Aderka c Rijksmuseum
The international competition for the 2017 Rijksstudio Award, celebrating free digital access to the Rijksmuseum’s extraordinary collection of over a quarter of a million works, is now open for entries on:
Rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio-award
The Rijksstudio Award invites the public to get inspired by works in the Rijksmuseum’s collection, downloading and using images of works or details of work in a creative way. Anyone can enter the competition and every interpretation is allowed – design, fine art, applied art, fashion, photography, and video. The closing date for entries is 15 January 2017. The top prize of €10,000 will be announced at the Rijksmuseum on 21 April 2017. Winners will have their work shown at the Rijksmuseum.
The Jury is chaired by Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum, and includes Irma Boom, Irma Boom Design; Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief, Wallpaper; Ingrid Chou, Associate Creative Director, MoMA, New York; Ute Thon, chief editor, ART- Das Kunstmagazin and Thomas Widdershoven, Creative Director, Design Academy, Eindhoven.
The Rijksstudio Award, launched in 2014, placing the Rijksmuseum firmly in a leading position in the world of digital image culture and open design, takes place bi-annually as of this year. Past winning projects have ranged widely, including an original make-up line inspired by the colour palettes in five women’s portraits from the Museum’s collection by Asnate Bockis and Rogier Arents, a wallpaper collection by Ottoline de Vries, a Delft blue hat by Josh Moll, the Rembrandt Book Bracelet by Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, and a set of specially created and labelled Rijksmuseum Preserves, designed by Alexandra Schijf and Birgitta van Langeveld.
