Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel 1300
Har Hensgens presents Vince Blok.
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A growing number of creative collectives are working together to share resources, provide mutual support, showcase their work internationally and promote social activism. But how can we sustain collective efforts in a system that lacks structural support? This International Clinic, led by Yin Aiwen, addresses this critical question and offers practical guidelines on how to overcome this challenge.
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Kunstavond, free entry, various programs at Kunstinstituut Melly, WORM, MaMA and V2_.
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The Salon of Queer Indoctrinations is returning to WORM for its sixth iteration! We are trying to shake things up this time and work with artists who wish to experiment with performance in ways that push their practice into new directions. More than ever before, we wish to maintain the Salon as a space where artists can try new things out, be silly, take risks, and, in the true spirit of queer culture, FAIL spectacularly.
For this reason, we’ve teamed up with three punk queers (or queer punkers?) from within WORM’s wider ecology to curate an evening of questioning, experimenting, and collective play. Together, we will explore the long-standing connection and intersection of queer and punk culture.
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The starting point of the exhibition is the word ‘text’, derived from the Latin texere, meaning ‘to weave’, and which shares its origin with the word ‘textile’. This exhibition explores the tension between two seemingly opposing forms of knowledge: the ‘formal’ – written, systematized, patentable, and mediated by technology – and the ‘informal’ – ephemeral, embodied, alive, and unarchived.
Texting questions this contradiction and the underlying systems of meaning-making on which we rely, without acknowledging that these systems are constructed.
Through the work of the participating artists, Texting investigates who constructs text, what is archived, and whose labor and language disappear in that process.
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Wilfried de Jong has likely taken thousands with his old, analog camera. Now, after four years of looking and shooting, Wilfried de Jong has created a truly magnificent selection of his photos for the special exhibition *Polaroidman* in Weisbard. With extreme precision, Wilfried displays his personal view of the world, showing how light falls on everyday objects, condensed into a small, square box: the polaroid.
For the podcast ‘Experience for Beginners’, Theo Maassen speaks with Wilfried. Exhibition is open from the 4th Friday 12.30.
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'Morphogenesis' brings together Ria Wank and Wolfgang Ganter, whose practices explore growth, transformation and self-organisation. Wank combines experimental camera-less photography with living root systems, using organic growth itself to create form. Ganter works with bacteria and chemical reactions, allowing images and compositions to develop through biological processes. Rather than fully determining the outcome, both artists create conditions in which materials can evolve. Through controlled experimentation and chance, unexpected forms emerge, transforming natural processes into an integral part of artistic creation.
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BAR OMI: Participative workshop with Tomi Hilsee & Floor van Leeuwen. Participative workshop with community architect Tomi Hilsee and choreographer Floor van Leeuwen. What happens when choreography and architecture crossover? This playful workshop brings performance art and spatial practice together to explore how methodologies from each field can be adapted, tested and crossed-over. You’re invited to join us in acting out social encounter scores – moving between diagrams, action, reflection, and dialogue. Workshop followed by drinks and conversation at the OMI bar.
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Tom Gallant is bringing his research into Basque funerary rites and objects alongside his analogue and digital methodology to explore co-creation and collaboration with artists and designers. Artists in collaboration with Tom Gallant – Summer Guest Nieuw Charlois 2026: Teresa Hunyadi, Iza van den Baar, Maja Pop Trajkova, Jenny Konrad, Driessens van den Baar, Zowie Smeets, Jasper Niens, Aglaë Miguel, Kamiel Verschuren, Lieske van der Seijp and others.
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This exhibition presents three artists who, with a healthy dose of humor, explore the relationship between humans and their man-made environment. They deconstruct their subject matter to provide insight into the consequences of human actions on our culture, nature, and industry. For Olaf Mooij, the car is his source of inquiry. In his oeuvre, the car has been recreated into an entity of its own, complete with a life cycle, culture, and belief. Aletta Bos investigates nature as an intelligent being, creating her world with a hint of anthropomorphic imagery. Bianca Runge explores the relationship between humans, nature, and matter. She collects the excess of human luxury products and uses them to create aesthetic dioramas that oscillate between revulsion and beauty.
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Workshop: Interactive / Participatory Installation by Ainhoa Eslava, Regina Korkovelou and Pavlos Theodorou.
Since the opening of our Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly has become a vibrant place for workshops, lectures, and collective learning experiences. We organize workshops open to everyone, where creativity, connection, and personal expression are at the heart of the experience.
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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 Helen Levitt. City at Play.
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This workshop is designed to help garden and landscape architects take practical steps towards organising their own archives. It is part of the 2026 Landscape Triennial and will take place in Arnhem.
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Antoinet Deurloo, Toine Klaassen and Anton Vrede each work from distinct material and visual languages. Deurloo moves between painting, drawing, ceramics and installation, including her technique of “painting with porcelain.” Klaassen works with installation, performance and found materials, often transforming everyday objects through experimental and participatory processes. Vrede works across painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, developing a figurative language populated by recurring animal forms and references drawn from art history, popular culture and mythology.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel 1301:
Har Hensgens presents Wim Havens
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Through collage, textures, colours, and visual storytelling, we will explore personal and feminist urban futures in an open, creative space that encourages bold expression, meaningful discussion, and inspiration as we prepare for the autumn season ahead.
Materials are not silent witnesses. They carry stories and traces of origin and loss, and transmit knowledge. In An Eye Dreads the Sun, earth, plant-based pigments, textiles, sound and the human voice become carriers of memory. By bringing these material histories into view, the artists create space for other ways of perceiving.
The title, which is drawn from a poem by Etel Adnan, evokes an ambiguous image: the sun as a life-giving force as well as a witnessing eye for violence, strife, and displacement. Sometimes it illuminates the world; at other times, it mercilessly lays it bare. Participating artists: AYO, Taqwa Ali, Atousa Bandeh, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Jennifer Tee
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*SHOW 3 PRIVATE VIEW ONE* brings together historical and contemporary approaches to design within a single group presentation. The exhibition spans different generations and practices, placing furniture, objects and artistic works in dialogue and highlighting contrasting approaches to form, material, function and visual language. With works by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vittorio Introini, Jeroen Koolhaas, Jonas Lutz, Odd Matter, Carlos Revilla, and Hidde van Schie.
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DreamRiders is an art project for and with young people from across the Netherlands who have been affected by the Toeslagenschandaal (Childcare Benefits Scandal). Through a series of three art workshops, participants collaborate on an artwork that will be presented in The Hague in 2027.
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Hans van Bentem, sculptor, is well known for working in different media. He creates mostly monumental sculptures and installations in ceramics, porcelain, crystal, glass, wood and bronze.
The beauty of his work is his almost childlike notion of the surrounding world. His vision is always fresh, playful and full of wonder. His work is realistic yet also cartoonish, sometimes erotic and even fairy tale like. Van Bentem does not like to be pinned down. He uses all aspects of the kaleidoscopic cosmos—whether it is art history archetypes, pop culture icons or pure fantasy figures. These figments of his imagination never stop amazing the viewer.
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Jasper van den Ham (Lelystad, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist working primarily with painting and works on paper. His work moves between landscape, interior, and imagined space, drawing on memory, observation, and recollection.
Originally trained as a fine art photographer, Van den Ham began focusing on drawing and painting several years ago. His photographic background continues to inform his approach to framing, light, and composition, while his paintings have developed increasingly away from the logic of the camera.
Frequent relocations during childhood contributed to an enduring interest in place, displacement, and memory, themes that continue to inform his practice.
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Ralf Brueck studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began his training under Bernd and Hilla Becher—the legendary photographers who shaped generations of visual artists and whose influence is still felt in the international art world today. He completed his studies as a master student under Thomas Ruff, one of the most influential photographers of his generation and a fixture in the collections of major museums worldwide. That academic training is visible and palpable in Brueck’s work—but he has given it his own unmistakable direction. Where the Bechers documented the industrial landscape with utmost objectivity, and Ruff explored the boundaries of the photographic image through digital manipulation, Brueck goes a step further: he calls photographic reality itself into question.
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Yesum Yoon(b.1995) is a South Korean artist creating objects of various scale and creature-like forms. Her works are often weaved together as visual storytelling of her imaginary landscape. As a cultural nomad, her stories give voice to and greet people living in the permanent flux of closures and openings.
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#10 – Jubileumshow with Gam Bodenhausen, Tahné Kleijn, Frans van Lent, Steven Antonio Manes, Jochem Rotteveel, Carmen Schabracq, Esmee Seebregts, Jessica Skowroneck, Lise Lou Sore, Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker. For exhibition #10, work by ten artists has been selected that is typical of Studio Seine; the work invites reflection. Paintings, drawings, video, and photography are on display—media in which the maker's signature is clearly recognizable and with which the viewer actively engages.
Studio Seine is the place for personal stories, where artists are invited to peel back and display their personal stories layer by layer: stories about conflict, personal and societal fault lines, echoes of history, healing, and connection.
Every person is a story. By telling, we know who that person is, where he or she comes from, and which dreams, wishes, obsessions, and fears shape the present and the future. The viewer can immerse themselves in the stories of others—and thus come closer to their own story.
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‘The Unfixed Line’ with Vivian Ammerlaan, François Hendrickx, Anne Kaere, Merel Klomp & Elmar Janse, Marlike Marks, Sanne Romeijn and Dineke Versluis
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Every object can become a symbol. And every symbol can reveal unexpected depths. Sebastian Haquin (London, 1991) explores the magic of everyday things.
His starting point is dreams and distorted memories. The scene that has been etched in his mind is physically replicated with chosen models, and then often immediately painted. The elements of his work - a naked man on all fours, a woman with sunglasses and a glass of wine, Peter Pan - may seem somewhat ambiguous at best. But combined in Haquin's work, they reveal a spectacle.
His work is figurative and expressionistic. He uses a rich color palette and a varied coarse and fine brushstroke. Haquin frequently employs wet-on-wet painting (alla prima), applying a new layer without letting the layers dry in between. By showing the different layers of paint, Haquin aims to create space in the painting. Just as a dream leaves certain parts vague, and others detailed or distorted. The layers of paint thus serve as the starting point of the narrative and provide an additional symbolic layer to the work.
Sebastian Haquin was born in London and raised in Australia. His father is French. He graduated from the RMIT Art Academy in Melbourne, BFA painting. He lives and works in Rotterdam.
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Between Wilfried de Jong's blow-ups, top saxophonist Maarten Hogenhuis stops by Galerie Weisbard for an evening of music and stories. Wilfried de Jong has likely taken thousands with his old, analog camera. Now, after four years of looking and shooting, Wilfried de Jong has created a truly magnificent selection of his photos for the special exhibition *Polaroidman* in Weisbard. With extreme precision, Wilfried displays his personal view of the world, showing how light falls on everyday objects, condensed into a small, square box: the polaroid.
Tickets: 10 EUR
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Between Wilfried de Jong's blow-ups, top saxophonist Maarten Hogenhuis stops by Galerie Weisbard for an evening of music and stories. Wilfried de Jong has likely taken thousands with his old, analog camera. Now, after four years of looking and shooting, Wilfried de Jong has created a truly magnificent selection of his photos for the special exhibition *Polaroidman* in Weisbard. With extreme precision, Wilfried displays his personal view of the world, showing how light falls on everyday objects, condensed into a small, square box: the polaroid.
Tickets: 10 EUR
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Join us to celebrate Open Monument Day 2026 with the opening of Spangen in Earlier Times, an exhibition featuring the personal photography archive of TINUS and BEP DE DOES.
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Join us for the Multiform Tournament! In celebration of the exhibition SIDELINED: A Space to Rethink Togetherness, which is currently on display at the Nieuwe Instituut, curator Amanda Pinatih and social designer Gabriel Fontana invite you to take part in this unique event exploring sports and inclusion. You will play in a dynamic team on an alternative version of the playing field wearing a transformable team kit. Discover what it means when ‘the other’ becomes your teammate – and vice versa.
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Hans van Bentem, sculptor, is well known for working in different media. He creates mostly monumental sculptures and installations in ceramics, porcelain, crystal, glass, wood and bronze.
The beauty of his work is his almost childlike notion of the surrounding world. His vision is always fresh, playful and full of wonder. His work is realistic yet also cartoonish, sometimes erotic and even fairy tale like. Van Bentem does not like to be pinned down. He uses all aspects of the kaleidoscopic cosmos—whether it is art history archetypes, pop culture icons or pure fantasy figures. These figments of his imagination never stop amazing the viewer.
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For Kim van Norren (1980, the Netherlands), painting starts with the search for a text in which she can distinguish a personal experience. Form, color and text are her three main ingredients while the latter gains a potency which emerges from its confluence with the image. She finds her words in song lyrics, among others, granting them a whole new meaning once lifted from their context.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel #1302
Eye Love You Artspace presents: Tim Soekkha.
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The Amsterdam Poet's Theater, founded by writers Artun Alaska Arasli and Joachim Robbrecht, brings its raw, unpolished, and highly interactive productions across cultural venues, including collaborative performances hosted at the Rotterdam-based avant-garde house WORM.
Artun Alaska Arasli and Joachim Robbrecht write and rehearse new scripts over the course of a few weeks; what we experience collectively is actors grappling—through performance—with words they have only just learned, right in front of the audience. Minimal set design, no frills. At WORM, we love this direct and uncompromising approach to theatre, the strong core of writing, and the feeling of ‘the first time’.
For this occasion, the first performance will take place live in our radio studio; you will follow the show wearing headphones.
After a short break, the second performance begins in the black box.
Performed by an all-star cast taken out of their natural habitat:
Luca Bötzel, Marien Jongewaard, Abke Haring, and Danou Robbrecht-Nara.
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Every third Friday of the month, you're welcome at the Kunsthal for an exciting and inspiring programme infused with a generous dose of art. All exhibitions are open until 22:00 hrs and each edition is curated by a different Rotterdam-based partner. On Friday 18 September, Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam takes over the Kunsthal! The exhibition Benedikte Bjerre. When the wind blows serves as the source of inspiration for this vibrant evening.
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DreamRiders is an art project for and with young people from across the Netherlands who have been affected by the Toeslagenschandaal (Childcare Benefits Scandal). Through a series of three art workshops, participants collaborate on an artwork that will be presented in The Hague in 2027.
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During this weekend, more than 90 locations and 700 Rotterdam-based artists, makers and creatives open their doors to the public.
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Brutus Art Space presents DEATH & MONEY by Santiago Sierra, the largest solo exhibition of the artist's work ever presented in the Netherlands. Curated by A/POLITICAL, the exhibition brings together existing and newly commissioned works that expose the ongoing geopolitical entanglement of war and profit.
Santiago Sierra's work examines the mechanisms of labour, inequality, state power and economic exploitation. With DEATH & MONEY, he reveals how violence, representation and economic interests have become increasingly intertwined in a world where war, inequality and exclusion form part of broader political and economic structures. The exhibition serves as a warning. It unveils the hard truths of global politics while inviting visitors to reflect on their own position and vulnerabilities within the political, economic and social systems of which they are a part.
PROGRAMME:
- Opening remarks by curator A/POLITICAL (@apoliticalorg) and Brutus director Sanne ten Brink
- A thematic poetry reading by poet and writer Maureen Ghazal
- Exhibition access, with Santiago Sierra present.
RSVP required.
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Witness an intimate performance of AYO’s A Score for Atat’s Homestead activated by the composer Phantom Wizard during Brandstof at Garage Rotterdam. In her work, AYO explores how sound can make hidden histories and a lost homeland audible. During the performance, sculptures, field recordings and live improvisation come together, giving personal and collective memories form through sound. Especially for this performance, she presents a new sound for the Abu, a glass interpretation of a traditional Luo wind instrument. In this way, the installation becomes a living, shared memory.
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On Saturday 19 September we celebrate the launch of How to Spend an Hour in an Art Book Archive, by our Archivist in Residence, Sam Kim from Common Imprint (Berlin). The publication was composed over the past months in collaboration between Common Imprint and PrintRoom, with contributions by invited archivists-for-one-hour.
We start with a short tour through the exhibition (Un)shared Titles: Book Book Festival in Seoul × PAGES Fukuoka Art Book Fair, installed in PrintRoom’s Living Archive space since early July and open to visitors until October.
The book launch will be followed by a conversation among fellow archivists and reading room hosts, in which they will address the motivation to start an archive – and the way they activate it:
Sam Kim: Common Imprint Reading Room, Berlin
Jhen Chen: Limestone Books, Maastricht
Matthew James-Wilson: Heavy Manners Library, Los Angeles
Nell Donkers: Archive de Appel, Amsterdam
Karin de Jong: Living Archive PrintRoom.
Location: (Schietbaanstraat 17)
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel #1302
Eye Love You Artspace presents: N–H.
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DreamRiders is an art project for and with young people from across the Netherlands who have been affected by the Toeslagenschandaal (Childcare Benefits Scandal). Through a series of three art workshops, participants collaborate on an artwork that will be presented in The Hague in 2027.
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Orla Kelly is a Rotterdam-based artist whose practice moves between research, speculative storytelling, and material exploration. Her research is both archival and field-based, collecting stories, images, and fragments that trace the layered realities of lived experience.
‘Industry & Identity – group exhibition. Participants: Livia Dencher, Cengiz Imamdi, Edmarla Schot, Marcel van de Velde and Marco Barbier & 18 artists from Detroit.
In this international collaboration, artists from Rotterdam and Detroit engage in a dialogue about the cities where they live and work. Through drawings and paintings, they explore how industry, labor, music, architecture, and people shape a city’s identity.
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‘The Unfixed Line’ with Vivian Ammerlaan, François Hendrickx, Anne Kaere, Merel Klomp & Elmar Janse, Marlike Marks, Sanne Romeijn and Dineke Versluis
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Since the opening of our Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly has become a vibrant place for workshops, lectures, and collective learning experiences. Every Saturday, we organize free workshops open to everyone, where creativity, connection, and personal expression are at the heart of the experience.
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The Design Fair is the premier outdoor market for trendsetters and connoisseurs alike, offering a varied selection of unique designs to suit all budgets. This year’s edition will focus on circular, regenerative and sustainable design, showcasing work by emerging as well as established designers and artisans.
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Sejoon Kim and Hyunjee Jung are Korean designers whose practices explore objects, materials and cultural references. Kim investigates the aesthetics and social meanings of “cuteness,” translating familiar objects into sculptural forms. Jung draws on traditional Korean textile crafts, exploring colour, form and texture across two and three dimensions. Both combine material experimentation with reflections on cultural traditions and contemporary design.
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Murals Inc. presents SEQUENTIE \ SEQUENCE by Erris Huigens \ Deconstructie, whose practice is characterized by site-specific interventions, geometric abstraction, and processes of deconstruction. Working between the studio and abandoned locations, he explores how existing systems, objects, and architectural structures can be dismantled and reconfigured. Through minimal interventions, he reveals hidden spatial relationships and invites viewers to experience space, form, and context in new ways.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel #1304: Simon Kentgens presents Felix Ermacora
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October: 1st 16:00-20:00
2nd 16:00-22:00
3rd and 4th 15:00-20:00
At Boomgaardsstraat 69 in S/ash Gallery.
Antoinet Deurloo, Toine Klaassen and Anton Vrede each work from distinct material and visual languages. Deurloo moves between painting, drawing, ceramics and installation, including her technique of “painting with porcelain.” Klaassen works with installation, performance and found materials, often transforming everyday objects through experimental and participatory processes. Vrede works across painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, developing a figurative language populated by recurring animal forms and references drawn from art history, popular culture and mythology.
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Join us for an evening of readings, music and conversation!
Anthony will read extracts from his novella 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲, published by Twofold Press; Melvin will present a selection of his compositions from the soundtrack of his film 𝗢𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆. In and around the reading and listening, Harriet Foyster will lead a discussion of the two works, both of which arise from the experience of caring for family members and partners suffering from chronic illnesses.
In 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 and 𝗢𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆, Melvin and Anthony share an attentiveness to simple actions – breathing, touching, and listening – which gain significance in the hyper-vigilant yet meditative subjectivity of the carer. Elements such as rhythm, silence, and interruption, emerging from practices of support and presence, are transposed to structural principles which shape their work. This event presents a moment for their works to stand in relation to each other, and for further harmonies to be heard.
Anthony’s novella 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 and Melvin’s artist’s book 𝗢𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆, edited by Harriet, both printed in first editions of 200, will be available at the event.
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‘Slowed + Reverb’, group exhibition. Participating artists:
Gjorgji Despodov + NVDP,
RADVLAD,
Domenika Georgiou,
orczi96,
Maria Mombers.
What lies on the thin line between the unheimlich and the homey, the cute and the eerie, something familiar yet unsettling? As digital archives continue to expand, the past has never felt more present, preserved in an ever-growing collection of sounds, images, texts, and cultural artefacts. Endlessly recycled, resurfacing and remixed into new forms, these fragments carry the traces of an earlier online life full of possibility. Reappearing amid an endless stream of slop and brainrot, they leave us with a melancholic longing for the futures we once imagined - nothing really dies while the future seems dead.
ｓｌｏｗｅｄ + 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒷 brings together five artist(duo)s who find themselves in a cultural in-between: too young to remember a time fully disconnected from the internet, yet old enough to have experienced the more utopian possibilities of early online life. Drawing on samples, fragments, aesthetics, and memories of earlier eras, they explore our desire to find comfort in what came before, while confronting the unease of a present haunted by what might have been.
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Vivian Ammerlaan is a Dutch artist who works with digital and analogue photography. Her project Waanplekken is her personal search to depict the sublime.
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Finn Emmen (1999) is a visual artist working at the intersection of film and installation. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in 2025. She lives and works in Rotterdam.
Emmen finds performativity in interactions between anonymous characters she stages within intimate, isolated, sterile, and silent environments. These settings extend to include objects, windows, doors, and the outdoors, shaping images that probe the boundaries between fiction and plausibility. She incorporates these scenarios into her film installations, dismantling her characters' perspectives and reassembling them into spatial deconstructions of cinematic storytelling.
The installation *Host Bodies* unfolds in and around the house, situated on the threshold between the inner and outer worlds. The house and the characters seem to both carry and preserve something, while also keeping something out of sight. Can the invisible and the unknowable actually evoke desire? In this work, Emmen explores an elusive moment where friction arises between bodies and spaces, and where stillness begins to feel uneasy.
The characters remain nameless and undefined. What becomes visible is their presence: the body, the gaze, and the movement. The surrounding space becomes a site of tension. The silent spaces and the use of grey tones in the installation reinforce this sense of distance and anonymity.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel #1305
Pip Passchier presents Merijn Haenen
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Participants:
✦ Anna Andrejew presents an experimental performative reading from her recent self-published work "How to See Rivers in Cracks"
✦ Yang Yu present her ongoing artistic research project The Lost Box: When McNugget Sauce Became a Border, combining research materials, personal storytelling and invited the audience to partake in a memory experiment.
✦ Minh Thu Nguyen presents DELTA, a personal journey of discovering and rediscovering rice as an everyday ingredient. Through a reading from her memoir, questions for the audience and an edible interaction, she opens a conversation around rice and memory.
✦ Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang presents a screening of her film Narrow Gate, followed by a discussion exploring the multiple meanings of the poetry film.
✦ Romana Klementis presents an adapted version of her lecture performance, exploring the relationship between materiality and the medicalised body through transformation, touch and sensory experience.
Jan Bokma, Geertrui van de Craats and Judith Jansen work across sculpture, installation, drawing, film and land art. Bokma explores unconventional materials and conceptual approaches. Van de Craats examines identity and relationships between humans and animals, particularly horses, through detailed drawings and film. Jansen combines contrasting materials while exploring growth, decay and interventions within natural environments.
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Opening AFFR: (Un)Authorised. Alternative Records of the Built Environment. Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, the world's oldest and largest international festival dedicated to films about architecture, urban development, and the built environment.
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Keramiek! 2: Rotterdam-based Heksenvuur presents a beautiful collection of carefully crafted ceramics—artful, functional, and full of character.
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BAR OMI: The Key Keepers Rotterdam’s tiniest canvas, featuring more than 50 artists. Come join us for the closing evening of BAR OMI – and bid for your favourite miniature artworks!For this special evening, 68 emerging and established Rotterdam artists and architects have taken on Rotterdam’s smallest canvas, appropriating the standard keychains and turning them into something of their own.
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel #1306
Pip Paschier presents Floor Snels
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‘Morphogenesis – Wolfgang Ganter & Ria Wank duo exhibition
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In his second solo exhibition at ROOF-A, Gijs Assmann presents new sculptures, drawings and installations exploring closeness, imagination and the beauty of what is essential. His work enters into dialogue with contributions from fellow artists Chan Chiao Chun, Josquin van Elburg, Levi Overvest and Ulrike Rehm, offering different perspectives on connection, spirituality and sensory experience. Through a personal and layered visual language, Assmann explores the relationship between the everyday and the sacred, individual experience and collective meaning. *Are You Still With Me?* invites visitors to reflect on what connects us and what remains invisible yet fundamentally present.
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FamilieFest is a recurring, family-oriented children's festival held during school holidays at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, tailored for kids aged 4 to 12. It features creative and educational workshops exploring architecture, design, and the built environment.
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Glenn DeRoche is a leading architecture firm based in Accra, specializing in civic, cultural, and community-driven projects.
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Room with a View / Voorbij de Plek’ – Anna Ramsair, solo exhibition
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You will find us in the best places, a major survey exhibition of Moshekwa Langa,
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Signac. Symphony of Colours offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Paul Signac (1863-1935), master of Neo-Impressionism. Building on the work of Georges Seurat, Signac developed a painting technique at the end of the nineteenth century in which dots and short brushstrokes combine to form a rhythmic symphony of colour: Pointillism. Symphony of Colours brings together his oeuvre in a retrospective that is rarely seen in the Netherlands. The exhibition demonstrates how Signac’s innovative approach to colour and light influenced the work of his contemporaries.
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‘BFF (Best-Friends-Forever)’ – group exhibition with J&B (Jacob van der Zwan & Bert Frings), Saminte & Rolf (Saminte Ekeland & Rolf den Dunnen) // Tom Woestenborghs, solo exhibition
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Jeannette Ephraïm - Tamara Jungnickel - Inez Odijk
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‘Het Observatorium’, group exhibition
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Vivian Ammerlaan is a Dutch artist who works with digital and analogue photography. Her project Waanplekken is her personal search to depict the sublime.
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The show brings together a new body of work in which sculpture, sound, moving image and animation unfold as fragments of a tripping world after psycho-ecological collapse. An eco-action-horror story on speculative survival.
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Expositie 11 stories about architecture: Journey through unique histories of Rotterdam through 11 city stories over the past 11 years of OMI.
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Join us for an event devoted to regenerative design and its fresh approach to design practices. Curated by Akash Kumar in collaboration with the Nieuwe Instituut, the programme features three workshops and a keynote talk. Find out how replacing extractive practices with attention to the qualities of a place, locally sourced materials and reciprocal relationships can influence design innovation and contemporary life.
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Dinner among the artworks? Art lovers are invited to take a seat at the table surrounded by artworks. Together with the curator and several artists, guests will discuss the exhibition in an intimate setting. The four-course dinner will be prepared by chef Marnix Benschop. De Gouden Ton will provide the wine pairing.
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‘Pixels & Stitches Rotterdam’ – Berend Strik & Michiel van Nieuwkerk, duo exhibition
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Although Lotti van der Gaag never officially belonged to the Cobra group, her work shows strong thematic similarities with this movement. In the early 1950s, she became closely involved with artists from the Cobra circle, particularly in Paris. Despite the lack of formal membership, her oeuvre is considered an important and innovative contribution to the post-war avant-garde and Dutch sculpture after 1945.
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‘SHOW 4 ODD MATTER’, solo show
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The exhibition explores take-away culture and our growing demand for convenience, questioning the hidden costs behind speed: who does the work, what remains unseen, and who ultimately pays the price.
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Group exhibition with Vivian Ammerlaan, Marlike Marks and Dineke Versluis
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Reinoud Pijnen - Niels Smits van Burgst - Inge Aanstoot
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Maura Polano creates narrative, magical realist oil paintings that explore loneliness in our individualistic society. She start with self-built paper and cardboard sets, which become the subjects of her paintings. Their fragile materiality, intimate scale and uncanny character evoke feelings of isolation, underscoring her theme. Through shadows, scale, and delicate materials, she construct an introspective atmosphere that she translate onto canvas.
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Jeannette Ephraïm - Tamara Jungnickel - Inez Odijk
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Group exhibition with Erna Booman, Hendriekje van Houweninge, Margareth Stigter
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‘Reality TV Show’ –
with Lizzy Deacon, Lou Hubbard, Aodhan Maden, Margaret Raspé, Julia Scher, Bein van Vilsteren and others
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