Best of Graduates 2025 is the annual summer exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos, highlighting some of the most promising young artists from Dutch art academies. The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, 25 July, from 17:00 to 20:00. At 18:00, Barbara Bos, Head of Exhibitions at Museum Voorlinden, will announce the winner of the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award 2025.

Running from 25 July to 7 September, this year’s edition brings together a diverse group of emerging talents, whose work offers a compelling view of the future of contemporary art.

Below is the list of participating artists and their academies:

Academie Minerva, Groningen

Phillip Ekwaro-Osire⁠

AKI Academy of Art and Design, Enschede

Katerina Varella⁠

ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem

Dieuwke Oosterbosch⁠

Mees de Rozario⁠

Thies Mensink⁠

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Anastasios Vlachos⁠

Bo Zhang⁠

Dang-Vu Dang⁠

Frederikke Josefine Munk Eefsen⁠

Jack van Leeuwen⁠

Rover Indigo Bertels-Andréa⁠

HKU, Utrecht

Anthony Chiou⁠

Dieuwke Jollema Gorter⁠

Julia van Dijck⁠

Merlijn Toby⁠

Olivier Versteeg⁠

KABK, The Hague

Jade van Doesburg⁠

Jip Schalkx⁠

Lukas Vonk⁠

Matei Dragomir⁠

Mats Mingus⁠

Taiyo Shimizu Larenas⁠

Pip Greenaway⁠

Paulo Chicareli⁠

Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam

Kieke Kurstjens⁠

Kyra ten Brink

We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the next generation of artists.