What if we no longer view decay as failure, but as a fundamental starting point for design? If we view decay as part of a building’s life cycle, architecture can become a living platform that supports people and other life forms. In collaboration with BlueCity, this programme explores the possibility of designing for a single ecosystem, thereby initiating new ecological relationships.
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Art-Gang presents: Viscerally Gentle, an exhibition where about 15 artists join to show their art works. There will be textile art, installations, photography, paper art and more. All the different artists will be showcasing what interests them and the different ways they express that.
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This Week: Wissel 1287:
Anne Kolbe presents
Thijme Maassen
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This edition of the International Clinic, organised in collaboration with DutchCulture/TransArtists and led by Bojana Panevska, explores residency opportunities abroad through practical guidance and critical reflection. What happens during and after a residency, and how can creatives engage with these programmes in a regenerative and meaningful way?
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Building Narratives is a book that explores how stories can influence design. It provides insight into the processes, decisions and conversations that give rise to buildings. It was created by Kees Kaan, Manuela Triggianese, Yagiz Soylev and Alice Colombo, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft and KAAN Architecten.
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Viscerally Gentle Art-Gang expo day 3 + performance night
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Jonas Lutz creates objects of quiet strength, where bold simplicity is held in balance with elegance and restraint.
His work is marked by a subtle playfulness: a continuous search for new forms, gestures, and possibilities, always grounded in a profound understanding of material. Since first encountering his pieces years ago, I have been drawn to their rare equilibrium between expression and precision.
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Erica Baltimore, Pim van Halem and Marianne van Maaren each bring a distinct visual sensibility to the exhibition. Baltimore’s lens-based practice moves between photography, film and staged image-making, opening narrative spaces that feel both intimate and constructed. Van Halem’s work is rooted in drawing: although trained in monumental design, graphics and ceramics, his practice has long been guided by the directness of paper, line and handwriting. His drawings suggest a concentrated relationship between gesture, thought and the empty page. Marianne van Maaren works across ceramics, painting and sculpture. Together, their works create a sensitive dialogue between image, material, memory and emotional resilience.
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What would you like to pass on to your future descendants? What kind of answers or experiences would you like to receive from your own ancestors? Dentro Di Nos Tempo is a workshop by Janilda Bartolomeu as part of the Another Island project. It invites Cape Verdeans in Rotterdam to co-create a symbolic time capsule. Bartolomeu does not view time as linear or one-dimensional; it can be experienced culturally and collectively, for example through the memories of the Cape Verdean diaspora.
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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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Gallery curator Astrid de Pauw brings these artists together through her passion for drawings and works on paper. She particularly hopes to convey the intensity of the works, partly because the series is often shown in a limited selection. In contrast, now they can be experienced in their full scope.
Esther Schoonhoven draws the light in dark underlayers, where every scratch and brushstroke forms a new sentence in a grander story.
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Born in Liberia in 1970, Johnson Weree fled his war-torn homeland and has lived in Rotterdam since 1998. Without a fixed residence, he has continued to work with remarkable dedication, drawing every day in public places such as the library, the Pauluskerk, and McDonald’s. Over the past year, he created ten drawings especially for our gallery. These works will be presented together for the first time and offered for sale.
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(P)REVIEW III exists in the space between recollection and anticipation — a dialogue between what has been and what is yet to come. It reunites the artists who shaped the gallery's presence at Art Rotterdam, while opening its doors to new guest artists. In this celebration of both connection and discovery, we look forward to welcoming you.
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Choreographer Amparo González Sola invites you to slow down. In a time of constant acceleration, digitization, and doom scrolling—in which bodies threaten to disappear in streams of images and information—Gestures as Portals is an invitation to slow down and re-attune to the experiences of others.
Two performers share the space with the audience for five hours. Sitting or lying close by, a静止 choreography unfolds, growing from simple gestures. Movements are slowed down, repeated, held, reversed, and deepened. In this way, ‘portals’ to memories and to one another are created.
González Sola approaches gestures as carriers of experience. Bodies that take on forms in specific situations, but also as actions that are repeated, inherited, and passed on across generations and borders. The performance builds upon her earlier work While Taking Shape and was developed in 2025 at Marres in Maastricht, where it was performed daily for four weeks.
This performance is part of the exhibition Lend Me Your Ears.
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The exhibition brings together three artists whose practices explore gesture, form and imagination. In her paintings, Inez Smit creates subtle abstract compositions where structure and spontaneity coexist. Dagmar Baumann works from the physical act of making, transforming traces of movement into paintings and sculptural forms. Anton Vrede's poetic sculptural language inspired by animals, myths and archetypal figures. Together, their works reveal distinct yet complementary approaches to abstraction, materiality and expression.
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This Week: Wissel 1288: Anne Kolbe presents Jelle Veldhuis.
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Laurien Dumbar uses photography to question painting, illusion and the material space of the image.
Wim Havens brings together painting, print, video, performance and installation, combining geometric clarity with humour and social reflection.
Karin Rianne Westendorp works through drawing, charcoal and erasure, creating fragile spaces where light, depth and attention slowly emerge.
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New Exhibition in the Project space: Bea Emsbach, drawings.
Bea Emsbach’s work unfolds through drawing as a space of psychological, bodily and metaphysical inquiry. Often using red ink, watercolour and brush-drawn forms, she creates images that seem to move between anatomy, myth, dream and anthropology. Her fragile yet intense visual language gives form to inner states, where the human figure appears both exposed and transformed.
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A new edition of A Mic of One’s Own, a series of collaborations between Kunstinstituut Melly and The Writer’s Guide (to the Galaxy)!
Politics and poetics of anti-colonial resistance
Inspired by the exhibition Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in Melly, we’re going to place the focus on the theme of “Resistance”.
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This Must Be the Place invites you to look again at your surroundings - not as stable ground, but as an assemblage of past lives, memories and future desires. The exhibition takes you through the eyes of three practitioners approaching home not as a fixed site, but as a shifting condition shaped by time, memory and access. Animator and filmmaker Tess Martin, artist Nael Quraishi and architect Tov Frencken highlight multi-layered perceptions of the domestic - exploring its definitions beyond the boundaries of architecture.
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In the exhibition 'The World Goes On', the work of artists Nico Parlevliet and Ton Kraayeveld is brought together for the first time.
The exhibition can be understood as a “match” between the two artists: a contest between the two-dimensional works of one artist and the often sound-producing, three-dimensional objects of the other. Yet there is no winner; rather, it is a “match” in the sense of a connection, a click between them — and *The World Goes On*!
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Guided by the artist’s performative speech, the audience is invited to walk along as the performance shifts between the white cube, open air, and the street. Make It Fit – A Life Script is a multidisciplinary performance exploring how language shapes authority, identity, and social norms. Moving between singing, conversation, and staged speech, the work examines the internalised script of “making it fit.”
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EDUCATION & PARTICIPATION SPACE
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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Frank Taal Galerie is pleased to invite you to the opening of a co-curate a show with Galerie Van den Berge. Joyce, Tom, and Frank look forward to welcoming you to this special joint presentation.
Galerie van den Berge and Frank Taal Galerie share a strong common ground in their programs and their passion for contemporary art. Over the past two decades, Joyce, Tom, and Frank have regularly encountered each other at art fairs, first as colleagues, and increasingly as friends and admirers of each other’s gallery programs.
In this exhibition, they come together to highlight a shared curatorial sensibility, bringing their practices into dialogue through a careful balance and presentation of works by their artists.
Opening speech at 16.00 PM: Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg.
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The exhibtion will open in the presence of former Mayor of Rotterdam Ivo Opstelten.
Rotterdam pioneers of same-sex marriage celebrate silver jubilee with exhibition in Nieuw Charlois
Former mayor Ivo Opstelten will open the exhibition and, like current mayor Carola Schouten, plays a role in the new anniversary film.
Twenty-five years after becoming the first same-sex couple to marry in Rotterdam, the artist duo Gil & Moti will present a special anniversary exhibition in Nieuw Charlois from 13 June. With *Gil & Moti Wedding Project – Protect, 2001–2026*, they look back on a historic moment in the history of Dutch emancipation, while also exploring how love, equality and acceptance are viewed today.
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The meaning of transparency is, on its face, clear—it is, after all, a synonym for clarity. And yet, the term has been associated with a wealth of different concepts: The call for transparency in governance is presumed to empower those that are governed. But transparency turns adversarial when the state begins surveilling its citizens. Transparency can function as an element of modernist architecture, for example, when a glass facade enables light to travel fluidly between inside and outside. Or it operates as a trope of modernity itself, symbolising the ideals of openness and visibility, equality and freedom.
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*Your Silent Face* stems from a desire to move beyond photography and explore how an artwork takes shape materially and spatially. Camera and computer are only tools; the final form is an installation specially developed for Galerie Lecq, a project space in a former bridge keeper’s house. The opening will mainly take place outdoors, so please dress warmly. Parking is available nearby, and drinks will be provided. René Castelijn’s work reflects on being, non-being, wonder, alienation, and death.
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We Are Dreamers is a summer salon shaped by long days, warm light, and a sense of freedom. Following our winter salon When Flowers Sleep, this exhibition moves into a different rhythm, where time stretches and light lingers. Days unfold more slowly, colours deepen, and moments feel both fleeting and endless at once.
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Marion Scemama joins Field Recordings co-director Tim Leyendekker for a conversation about her work, which sits at the intersection of experimental cinema, photography and audiovisual anthropology. Together they turn to the origins of her practice and her long collaboration with artist David Wojnarowicz, which deeply shaped her work and is felt throughout this programme, as well as the practical reality of making radical cinema with limited means, from 1980s New York to the present.
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NADD Archive Day: Crafting the Archive
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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'Texture' – group exhibition
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Jeroen Arians, solo exhibition
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Piet Zwart Fine Art, Graduation Show
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Free Saturday Workshop #3 — Prize for Messing Up
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Niek Hendrix & Bert Frings
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'Park, bos, tuin en bloem' – with works of Marly Hendricks, Nora Tholhuijsen, Arthur Stam and Hendriekje van Houweninge.
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Sunday afternoon with Lisa Robertson and Kate Briggs
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SHELTER FOR DESIGN – Berry Dijkstra x iCOON
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Museumpark Friends' Day 2026
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Portfolio Sessions #3: Rotterdam Architecture Month
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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Celebrating & connecting art and artists in Rotterdam South. 27 Jun: Feijenoord open studios. 28 Jun: Charlois open studios + closing dinner at O'tje Festival 18.00
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With live performance by Amber Mertens (piano) and Sannah de Haas (violin)
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Laurien Dumbar – Wim Havens – Karin Rianne Westendorp
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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Natafelen RSVP info@garagerotterdam.nl
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Claire Gellings – Afscheid
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Another Island: On Collective Cabo Verdean Creation
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Inez Smit (paintings), Anton Vrede (sculptures), Dagmar Baumann (paintings/sculptures)
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The 5th Books Are Bridges Art Book Fest at SNV community gardens. Address: Roel Langerrakweg 33
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PZI Lens-Based Grad Show
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25th anniversary opening at Café Hensepeter
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Bima Engels – Sabine Raatschen – Ovidiu Spaniol
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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'Mijn Liefste Teun' – Tahné Kleijn, solo exhibition
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Current Traces #3: This Must be the Place
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Rijnhoutplein Festival: Feest Boek
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Wild Summer of Art 2026 – The Treasure Hunt Edition. Curated by Cokkie Snoei and Hajo Doorn
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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'Bootleg Boijmans' – A curated show with artists with side-jobs at Boijmans van Beuningen. Invited Woody van Amen to celebrate his lifetime oeuvre.
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Jeroen Arians, solo exhibition
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Anniversary Auction in C3
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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Bima Engels – Sabine Raatschen – Ovidiu Spaniol
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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'Mirrored, But Not The Same', group exhibition curated by Giuliana di Dato
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Leopold & Emmen
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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BAR OMI
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disciplines is exhibited. Changing ceremony at 21.00
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