The Wim Crouwel Lecture is organized annually by the Wim Crouwel Institute at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. A knowledgeable and high-profile individual is invited to address a current theme in the field of design and offer new perspectives on and/or through graphic design. The Wim Crouwel Lecture is co-produced between the Wim Crouwel Instituut, Stedelijk Museum and Allard Pierson, and supported by Pictoright Fonds, Cultuurfonds and the Amsterdam University Fund.
SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2025
WIM CROUWEL LECTURE #10
TIME: 16:00 - 17:15 hrs
LOCATION: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
RSVP (free entrance) mail to: info@wimcrouwelinstituut.nl
Introducing speaker: Lilet Breddels, Director Archis Foundation
Speaker: Vasyl Cherepanyn, Head of the Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv
Organizer/Curator Kyiv Biennial
Staring into the Dark: Visual Culture in Times of War
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has put its people – and Europe as a whole – under direct existential threat. Vasyl Cherepanyn investigates how art, design and visual language are highly political forces of communication, propaganda, dissent, nuance and resistance.
PAST EVENTS 2014 - 2024
Wim Crouwel Lecture 9# | 2024 | Amal Alhaag | Lies Ros | The End of Design … as we know it ;)
Report Wim Crouwel Lecture #9 by Astrid Vorstermans
Wim Crouwel Lecture 8# | 2023 | Marian Duff | 'Figure it out!'
Report Wim Crouwel Lecture #8 by Astrid Vorstermans
Wim Crouwel Lezing #5 | 2018 | Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz | 'Constructing Ideas of Dutch Design'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #4 | 2017 | Alice Twemlow | 'Design Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #3 | 2016 | Huda AbiFares | ‘Multiscript Typography for a Global Citizenship’
Wim Crouwel Lezing #2 | 2015 | Gilian Schrofer
Wim Crouwel Lezing #1 | 2014 | Joost Elffers
Photo credit: Simon Pillaud