Borges explores the relationship between space, order, and perception in her art, always seeking a balance between construction and intuition. Her focus is on the geometry of the spaces in between—the empty spaces that arise between things and in which spatial dynamics unfold.With a background in classical piano, Zoë is interested in interpreting existing scores and systems of language.
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With The Way of Water, Chinese artist Le Nghi Teng presents a photographic project that centers on stillness and inner orientation. The work constitutes a personal exploration of her cultural background, translating Taoist philosophy and classical Chinese visual principles into a contemporary, autobiographical visual language. The presentation is complemented by work by guest artist Kyra ten Brink, who also explores inner connection.
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Programme:
13:30 Film screenings: Elephant and the Room, In Exile
14:30 Performance by Randa Nassár
14:45 Lecture performance by Anas Qadamani
15:00 Drinks 17:00 Closing
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Roosje Klap will talk to Saskia van Stein, Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), about her work, career, motivations and cultural leadership. Roosje Klap is a cultural director, curator, writer, researcher, educator and public speaker with extensive experience in leading organisations at the intersection of art, technology, education and society. Roosje and Saskia’s friendship spans two decades and they have collaborated professionally on several occasions. Since May 2024, Klap has been General Director of Noorderlicht, the international platform for photography and lens-based media in Groningen.
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Lend Me Your Ears explores how memories and stories connect us across generations and through time. Six artists reflect on what we pass on, and what kind of continuity we want to be part of. From live storytelling and dance to film and ancestral symbols, the exhibition traces lines between past, present and future.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited. This week: Wissel 1274 Sabine Maertens presents Cedric Veldhuis.
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About A Woman is a research series in which female artists engage in dialogue about their position in the art world. In this surprising and multi-layered exhibition, image, word, voice, and sound intersect.
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Join us for an evening with readings and drinks! Celebrating six new pamphlets published by Short Pieces That Move!
SPTM! is a pedagogical and publishing practice co-founded by Kate Briggs, Annabelle Binnerts, Ash Kilmartin and Linus Bonduelle. Since 2023, they have published 25+ short pieces that move in pamphlet form, supporting new work by artists and writers based in Rotterdam and beyond. The design of all pamphlets is by Linus Bonduelle, cover drawings by Pau Ardid.
Location: Van Speykstraat 121
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Seven artists with studios at C3 Studios in Rotterdam Charlois—Christine Saalfeld, Koes Staassen, Ruud Goedhart, Lotus Rooijakkers, Ovidiu Spaniol, Iza van de Baar, and Anastasia Eggers—present work that focuses on direct experience. Their practices differ in medium and form, but share a clear position: art is not an illustration of an idea, but an encounter that takes place physically.
From Staassen's yearning collages to Goedhart's subtle shifts in the everyday, from Saalfeld's drawn urban movements to Eggers' sensory archive of the river—the exhibition slows down, sharpens, and puts the body back at the center. Lotus's work, Triple 20, revolves around bizarre aspects of darts, and Ovidiu's work is titled "As if gravity forgets its language."
City poet Benzokarim and junior city poet Oumaima will recite poems at the opening.
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Soft Transition presents work by Vivian Ammerlaan, Anne Kaere, Yolet Luijendijk, Marlike Marks, Twan Peeters, and Dineke Versluis. The exhibition brings together photographic works that share a restrained, attentive approach, in which quiet observation takes precedence over narrative or spectacle. The works move at a similar pace, allowing space for pauses, subtle shifts, and moments of stillness. Soft Transition functions as a gentle passage: a moment between, where nothing demands urgency and meaning emerges through attentive looking.
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The woodcuts that Axel van der Kraan produced in a steady stream from the early 1990s to the early 2000s constitute a distinct component of his oeuvre. With them, he broke away from the installations and sculptures with which the artist duo Axel and Helena van der Kraan gained fame after graduating from Ateliers '63 in 1970.
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VHF 81 is the radio frequency used for communication in the Maasbruggen sector. These maritime telephone conversations, typically hidden from the outside world, are combined in this work with radio signals from the ether. The functional communication between ships and traffic control is interwoven with cosmic noise, voices, tones, and rhythms. This creates a layered soundscape where the everyday and the universal come together. During the day, this soundscape can be heard continuously. In the evening, a visual element is added to make the frequencies visible.
Address: Brugwachtershuisje, Westzeedijk 375.
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Fear of Falling by Carlijn Kingma, 20:00–01:00
Last chance to experience Kingma’s monumental drawings dissecting the systems shaping our world.
WHAT BECOMES by QISSA, 20:00–01:00
Eight emerging makers explore migration, displacement and cultural fusion through large-scale installations, digital experiences, film and performance.
Disco Inferno by Atelier Van Lieshout, 20:00-01:00
Disco Inferno is an industrial monster of grinding, pulverizing, producing machines, linked together by a spaghetti of tubes, hoses, cables, tanks and pumps. It keeps itself in motion while questioning power, waste and our endless drive to consume.
Sanitas Futurum by Atelier Van Lieshout, 20:00-01:00
Sanitas Futurum is a parallel universe that rigorously examines the future of healthcare, merging art, science, and ethics into provocative scenarios that radically question power, autonomy, and survival.
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Join us for a special edition of Brandstof during Museumnacht 010, for a performative evening with artist Natalia Papaeva who explores the theme of environmental erosion through performance, listening and conversation. Moving between sound, gesture and collective attention, Trembling into the Unknown invites you to inhabit instability as a space of sensing, reflection and shared becoming.
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Be inspired during Museumnacht010 and discover dozens of cultural hotspots across Rotterdam with a single ticket! From 20.00 to 01.00 hrs, a buzzing, high-energy programme awaits you, packed with exhibitions, performances, and more. Step into the absurdist universe of David Shrigley or explore the layered paintings by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. And of course, soak up that unmistakable Museumnacht vibe throughout the night.
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Join us at Kunstinstituut Melly for Museumnacht010, an evening of play, music, and exhibitions that bring the entire building to life. In collaboration with House of Knowledge, SPARK, and Radio Tornado, we present a participatory program where live improvisations interact with Melly’s current exhibitions.
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Museum Night is transformed into a true mycelium night at the Nieuwe Instituut, inspired by the FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition. Be inspired, get involved and make your mark during A Fungi Night Out!
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The current exhibition 'Shadow Circuits' focuses on so-called "shadow geologies": the often invisible processes of resource extraction, transport, processing, and consumption. The exhibition demonstrates that these processes are not neutral. They are historically linked to colonial power structures and often still place labour and environmental risks on indigenous communities and former colonies.
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During Museum Night 2026 on 7 March, the new exhibition by James Aldridge opens at Christian Ouwens Gallery on Eendrachtsweg 20 at 8:00 PM. The artist will be present and will be happy to sign your (free) poster.
In his paintings, Aldridge depicts the intertwined relationship between humans, animals, and nature. He draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, from historical field guides to heavy metal album covers, and then brings them together on his canvases. In doing so, Aldridge creates a complex yet symbiotic visual language in which, even after hours of looking, you can still discover new details.
By choosing not only naturalistic representations but also symbols and abstract forms, the artist shows how humans must always negotiate their relationship with nature.
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During Museumnacht010, you can see a great duo exhibition at Contempo, featuring intimate interiors by the well-known painter Robert Vorstman and restrained everyday cityscapes by rising talent Bo Emmens. With an apparently loose hand, both artists capture the ordinariness of their surroundings. Robert Vorstman does so in his studio with oil paint on canvas, and Bo Emmens takes oil pastel and pencil into the city.
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Come to Studio Seine during Museumnacht010 for Lise Lou Sore’s solo exhibition Echo of Home. In Echo of Home, Lise Lou Sore explores how displacement, vulnerability, and inner experience all influence one another. Landscape elements enter into a dialogue with self-portraits on transparent cotton. A monumental panorama—ten meters wide—presents places where Sore feels at home, combined with memories of the landscape in which Sore grew up.
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During Museumnacht010, Frank Taal Galerie presents a dual solo exhibition by Isabelle Borges (Brazil, 1966, lives and works in Berlin) and Zoë d’Hont (NL, 1990, lives and works in Rotterdam). Despite their different media, the two separate presentations share a common focus on architecture, nature, and the experience of space and place.
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Bring books to life at PrintRoom! Immerse yourself in a playful, interactive experience where you re-examine, redesign, and transform your old underwear. Bring your own pre-loved panties, or use donated pairs and give them a creative twist at our DIY station.
Throughout the night, spontaneous happenings will take place, revealing the hidden stories, memories, and secrets tucked away in these intimate garments.
Reading My Panties is a publishing project by Lu Lin. She explores how clothing—especially underwear—connects us to our bodies and identities. The project sparks conversations about femininity, everyday life, and the taboos surrounding intimate garments, and playfully experiments with storytelling through the most ordinary item: underwear. In many Asian cultures, talking about or showing underwear is seen as taboo, immodest, and rebellious.
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In this special encounter between the artists of Atelier Herenplaats and their peers, collaboration, similarities, and surprising contrasts take center stage. The participating artists drew inspiration from the works of Atelier Herenplaats and respond with their own visual language and interpretations. The result is a dynamic whole that invites reflection and conversation about the place and significance of outsider art within contemporary art.
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Come and get comfortable at Phoebus during Museumnacht010 on Regula Maria Müller’s felt lounge cushions. In a fairytale-like atmosphere, listen to the gentle songs of singer Sofie Ijzerman. Chef Floris Ebinger will prepare healthy, delicious amuse-bouches: “Rond de Erwt” (“Around the Pea”).
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The artist's work is inextricably intertwined between fantasy and reality. The paintings and works on paper reveal the power of women when they depict something—sometimes bordering on the dark—about power, rituals, and our relationship to others.
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This Week: Wissel 1275
Tiiu Meiner presents, in the series The Protectors
Eady van Acker.
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With The Way of Water, Chinese artist Le Nghi Teng presents a photographic project that centers on stillness and inner orientation. The work constitutes a personal exploration of her cultural background, translating Taoist philosophy and classical Chinese visual principles into a contemporary, autobiographical visual language. Presentation by Eva Verwijs at 19.30.
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Discover the work of the nominees for the NN Art Award 2026 at the Kunsthal. The exhibition introduces the audience to works by Tina Farifteh (Gallery Vriend van Bavink), Mandy Franca (Night Café Gallery), Fiona Lutjenhuis (Galerie Fleur & Wouter) and Kyra Nijskens (Prospects Mondriaan Fonds). The prestigious award is presented annually to a talented artist who was trained in the Netherlands and presents their work at the art fair Art Rotterdam. Authenticity and innovation are key criteria for this annual incentive award.
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Rick van Strien’s work approaches the self not as an origin but as a construct that appears natural only while its mechanisms remain unseen. The structures that bind body and mind, perception and feeling, observer and observed, operate silently until interruption reveals their architecture. Across the series, self-perception and self-preservation coincide: information arrives, yet access fails. Materials that harden and seal embody the thesis, fixation encloses experience, leaving inhabitation structurally elsewhere.
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On Tuesday 17 March, Kunsthal Rotterdam hosts KunstKoppels. During KunstKoppels, you meet someone at the Kunsthal who is completely new to you. Someone from a different generation, background, or way of life. Together, you will visit the exhibition David Shrigley. What the Hell Was I Thinking?
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Ballon Rouge presents I Know This Much Is True, a solo exhibition by photographer and storyteller Jet Siemons. The exhibition brings together work from her ongoing project Het Witte Wieven Archief (The Wise Women Archive), approached from a more personal perspective in which landscape, folklore, and memory intertwine.
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I Breathe, You Breathe Inspired by donna Kukama’s exhibition I Breathe, You Breath in Melly we’re going to place the focus on the theme of “Breathe”. In this exhibition donna brings together sound, videos, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and performance documentation in which she approaches history as a living and breathing body. The new edition of A Mic of One’s Own, is a series of collaborations between Kunstinstituut Melly and The Writer’s Guide (to the Galaxy).
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JumpstArt Foundation presents five artists connected to the platform: Frida Berntsen, Kasper Boelens, Wille-Meike Brand, Kasper van Moll and Joost Vermeer.
JumpstArt is a dynamic non-profit platform that supports visual artists in building an independent and enduring professional practice, especially in the early stages of their careers. We work in a hybrid way and are flexible in location: our exhibitions, events and artist talks take place in inspiring places.
The exhibition, ECHO HOLD, explores how traces of memory and lived experience can be transformed into material. Objects, textiles, names and fragments from the past are reimagined. What persists becomes the starting point for new forms, uncovering history, inheritance and memory.
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The Way We Live Together Now returns at JOEY RAMONE, moving from its original "Limassol apartment" at Limassol Art Walks to a gallery space. The exhibition translates the intimacy of its first edition into a new context, where domestic gestures, everyday objects, and the poetics of life meet public reflection and dialogue. While the gallery differs architecturally from the apartment, the works continue to explore hospitality, coexistence, and the ways we share space and attention.
The exhibition brings together artists whose practices investigate memory, ritual, social connection, and the intersection of the personal with the collective.
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NL=US Art on Mauritsweg in Rotterdam presents the exhibition “Either Way” by Martijn Schuppers and Jan Maarten Voskuil from 21 March to 26 April. The exhibition is based on the realization that Schuppers and Voskuil, starting from the same artistic inquiry, ultimately took opposite directions. For both artists this inquiry began in the late 1980s with naturalistic painting and the question of how, as an artist, one could still give meaning to that medium. The depiction of reality was the first thing both artists quickly abandoned. What remained was the painting itself, consisting of the stretcher frame with canvas on the one hand and the paint on the other.
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Nieuwe Instituut and NAi Booksellers are organising a new edition of the Graphic Design Fair, with the theme of Rooting Networks. By celebrating the connections that can help graphic design flourish, the fair creates a space where paths cross, ideas branch out and collaborations take root.
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From March 25 to March 29, 2026, Rotterdam will immerse itself in art. Over 60 locations throughout the city will showcase fairs, exhibitions, open studios, tours, artist talks, and more. From high-profile openings to unexpected pop-up shows, art will be available to see, experience, and enjoy for five full days.
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In a world driven by capitalist efficiency, algorithms, data and AI are deployed to reduce human thought to an optimally performing resource. The productive are exploited; those who do not generate value are marginalized. In the relentless pursuit of profit, neurodiversity is therefore quickly framed as a defect. Our upcoming exhibition AUTONOMOUS shifts this perspective.
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Inspired by our recently closed exhibition The Clock Wife—which centred the work of four artist estates and the legacies now in their care—this new series of events is an attempt to think about the life of an exhibition beyond the duration of its presentation. This first workshop will focus on archiving itself, bringing together different experiences of the artist archive, from its beginnings as an artist’s project to its future as a record informing research and innovation.
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This Week: Wissel 1276
Tiiu Meiner presents Twan Lugten.
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Nieuwe Instituut and TEC ART Festival invite you to the opening event of TEC ART 2026, featuring the Dutch premiere of Afterlives (2025) by filmmaker and media artist Kevin B. Lee. A welcome by Sanneke Huisman and Guido Bertling is followed by the screening of Lee’s latest feature-length desktop documentary exploring how images of extremist propaganda circulate, transform, and persist across history and digital media.
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A special evening with music and art, celebrating the exhibition At the End(s) of the World: The Ground Is Shifting by curator Yannik Guldner. Free entry!
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This coming spring, Kunsthal Rotterdam will be presenting Flowers Forever. For the first time in the Netherlands, this exhibition offers a comprehensive cultural-historical overview of the flower, with over two hundred objects from the fields of art, design, fashion, and science. Flowers Forever shows how flowers evolved from mythical and religious icons into status symbols, commodities, and vital links in our global ecosystem. The exhibition zooms in on various aspects of how flowers became embedded in our culture as vehicles for rituals, emotions, and ideas, and offers you surprising insights into the role of flowers in our society.
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During Rotterdam Art Week, we celebrate the first edition of Kunstavond XL since its relaunch. Kunstinstituut Melly, V2, WORM, and MaMA open their doors for an evening full of contemporary art, experimentation, and encounters.
The Witte de Withstraat becomes the heart of art in the city, featuring installations, performances, music, and more.
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On Friday 27 March we celebrate a decade of TALKER, the interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey, with the launch of TALKER No. 16 and live performances by Giles Bailey and Martín La Roche.
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From minute grains to massive buildings – in the exhibition Landscape Crafting, you follow the journey of sand. Every day in the Netherlands, vast quantities of natural raw materials are moved. Sand is the most commonly extracted material, ultimately used as the construction basis for our streets, squares and buildings. Through sand, the story of the ongoing transformation of the Dutch landscape is depicted.
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In a chaotic world, humanity strives for control and understanding, yet time and again finds itself mistaken. The exhibition Turning Towards reveals this fundamental human paradox: control feels reassuring, until it lacks the generative force of chaos.
Turning Towards embraces the paradox that control is not redemptive; in fact, uncertainty itself can be a creative force. As a visitor, you move through works that examine the tension between control and uncertainty.
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Art Week Specials: Gestures as Portals - durational dance performance by Amparo González Sola.
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Art Week Specials: As part of the current exhibition 'Lend Me Your Ears',lLive storytelling at the installation 'Lend Me Your
Ears' by David Maroto.
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As part of the current exhibition, MARIE LOUISE ELSHOUT & CHRISTINA DE VOS will be present. Guest speaker: Diederik van Dommelen.
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It is time! Roodkapje will open its new location with a gigantic 12h housewarming party.
with concerts/performances by Min Taka, Camy Huot, Library Card, Loveth Besamoh, DJ Shahmaran, Guenter Råler, The Sweet Release of Death, M.U.G., Lui Surreal, Triangulation, sp3llxlocket, soма (TREVOGA), Hamburger Community, Riso Wizards and more..
with works by Philippa Driest, Sandim Mendes, Rizqita Naherta, NÉNÉ, Ratri Notosudirdjo and Maoyi Qiu.
On Saturday, March 28th, Roodkapje will inaugurate its new home with a wild and varied program spread throughout the building from 18:00 till 06:00.
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On Saturday, March 28, Rotterdam Art Week moves into the night. Brutus and Operator Radio are back to bring you our signature RAW Afterparty, this time also celebrating the official opening of our new neighbor Roodkapje, known by many as Rotterdam’s multidisciplinary laboratory for art, music, food and everything in between.
From 21:00 till late, live performances and electronic sets unfold across multiple rooms and floors. Expect sounds that push, spaces that surprise and moments that blur the lines between underground art and nightlife.
One combi ticket lets you explore both Brutus and Roodkapje all night long.
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JumpstArt organises panel talks, in collaboration with our European partners Club 707 (Paris) and Backhaus Projects (Berlin).
Panels explore creative independence, peer-to-peer community building and access to cultural rights, featuring artists, curators and cultural professionals from across Europe.
Moderator: Sophie Mak Schram
Speakers: La Buse collective (FR) – Jacquill G. Basdew (NL) – Edward Clydesdale Thomson (NL) – Nanda Janssen (NL) – Joep van Lieshout (NL) – Het Wilde Weten / Esther Kokmeijer (NL) – Katarzyna Nowak (DE) – Isabelle Wachsmuth (CH) – TransArtists (NL)
This program is part of Permission to Try (PTT), funded by Erasmus+ Programme initiative enhancing professional opportunities for independent artists.
Free event – book your free ticket to reserve your place here.
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The M-Collection is a large-scale group exhibition held in the presentation space of Murals Inc., a podium for contemporary murals. It features studio works by over 85 muralists from the Netherlands and beyond, all part of the Murals Inc. roster, showcasing a wide range of styles, backgrounds, and approaches to mural painting.
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The manuscript 'de Grens, die Grenze, la Frontière' serves as a poignant reflection on the early years of the author's life, during which borders became a significant part of their everyday experience. This period was marked by frequent crossings between the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as between the Netherlands and Germany, and along the border with France. A common thread among the border officials from these various nations was their zealous enforcement of anti-contraband laws, coupled with an insatiable enthusiasm for stamping passports. This often resulted in new stamps being applied over existing ones, even on pages that were already filled. The accompanying illustrations include maps of the landscapes surrounding these border towns. In contrast, the opposite pages showcase a collection of stamps, each representing the number of times the border in question was crossed. The manuscript not only captures the essence of these formative experiences but also invites viewers to explore the complex interplay of geography, bureaucracy, and memory.
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About A Woman is a research series in which female artists engage in dialogue about their position in the art world. In this surprising and multi-layered exhibition, image, word, voice, and sound intersect.
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Wissel 1278
Lisa Blauwbroek presents
Elja Maria
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What does it mean to live in a place that has been conceived in detail beforehand? Vinex neighbourhoods feel like film sets: everything is ready. Houses in rows, front gardens like empty spaces, streets waiting for movement. An environment that is varied and uniform, private and collective, spacious and efficient.
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Join us for the artist talk with Le Nghi Teng and Kyra ten Brink where they share their journey and explore the deeper layers of their work at Contour Gallery.
Moderated by loana Cobzaru, visual artist, independent curator.
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Curator Van Welzenis brought together various artists for this project, taking into account the history of Museum iCOON and its minimalist approach to abstraction. This exhibition presents modern abstract art with a wide variety of forms and expressions. It includes works by historical pioneers such as Jan van Munster and Ad Dekkers, as well as works by contemporary artists such as Kirstin Arndt, Fergus Martin, and Gerold Miller, among others.
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A new spatial work, designed by Arianna van der Gaag specifically for the bridge keeper's house at Galerie Lecq. Arianne van der Gaag creates objects that embody organic forms, emerging through a process that works from the inside out and from detail to whole.
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In this exhibition, three Rotterdam-based artists explore themes of individuality and connection through various media. Ruth Horstmanshoff's sculptures and installations examine the interplay of rhythm and repetition, revealing the tension between personal identity and collective experience. Marije Rat offers introspective reflections on her experiences as a vegan woman, using her art to challenge societal norms. Vera Harmsen's assemblages blend playfulness with deep emotional resonance, while her murals invite community participation, encouraging viewers to engage with their surroundings in vibrant, innovative ways. Together, these artists create a dialogue about belonging, identity, and the transformative power of art.
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Following on from her research A System of Radical Dependency—for which she considers the art institution as a space where dependent personal and professional relationships happen—Lili Huston-Herterich proposed to end her artist residency at A Tale of A Tub with a series of therapy sessions. Huston-Herterich and Sully will be joined by their psychologist Rebeka Pázmányová for a public moment to close out their time together, share some insights from the sessions and rethink the residency program more broadly speaking.
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This Week: Wissel 1279 Lisa Blauwbroek presents Paul de Jong.
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One of the highlights of our spring program is a Ghost Walk through Rotterdam-Noord, led by Jet Siemons. Together with a small group of participants and local residents, she explores the hidden stories that linger in the neighbourhood: local spirits, historical figures, and mysterious presences just beyond our sight.
The walk passes places connected to local legends and forgotten histories, from buildings near Noord Station to stories about Hillegonda of Hillegersberg. Along the way we gather anecdotes, memories, and fragments of folklore that are often passed on informally and risk being lost over time.
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Barbara Helmer's abstract paintings explore the intricate skin of materials and the dynamic interplay of light upon them. Her work captures the subtle reflections and shimmering quality of metal, while also showcasing the unique luminosity that light imparts to various surfaces.
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The work of Esmee Seebregts ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1991) is an ode to colour. Her work focuses entirely on the power, meaning and experience it creates. Conducting artistic research into the cultural meaning of Colour is a quest to answer her questions. She tries to penetrate the essence of Colour and understand its sensory, cultural and transcendental effects.
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Specifically for ROOF-A, Minchin is creating a new, site-specific installation for the entire ground floor of the gallery, titled REBURN. In this new series of works, Juliette Minchin explores the traces of combustion and transformation. Her oeuvre manifests as a visual meditation in which matter and memory become intertwined. The works unfold an aesthetic that is simultaneously fragile and unforgiving.
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You are warmly invited to celebrate the closing of Duo Solo, a two-voice exhibition bringing together the distinct yet resonant worlds of Isabelle Borges and Zoë d'Hont. Join us for one last evening in the company of their work — a moment to linger, reflect, and say a slow goodbye to a show that has moved us deeply. We hope to see you there.
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