Kunstinstituut Melly
Witte de Withstraat 50 3012 BR Rotterdam
Wed - Sun 11.00 - 18.00
Fri 11.00 - 21.00 (18.00 - 21.00 Free entry)
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11 Oct-6 Sep 2026
Riet Wijnen: Suitcase Economy
**11 Oct | Sat | 12.00–18.30: Exhibition Opening
The third edition of Tools for Conviviality continues our ongoing work to reimagine our ground-floor bookstore, café, and event space as an active, responsive environment for public life.
The new iteration titled Suitcase Economy is an experimental canteen developed by artist Riet Wijnen with collaborators: Linda van Deursen, Waysatta Fernández with Salvador Núñez from Mono Rojo, Jari Nuno / Fat Crayon Creative, Ima-Abasi Okon and Jan Wijnen. Considering time and place through various relationships, the canteen is shaped by an informal economy around food products. Used and shared during meals, workshops and study sessions, these food products are also ingredients for extending a methodology of transformation occurring during preservation and fermentation as a way to think about history, territory, networks, and relationships.
11 Oct-26 Mar 2026
donna Kukama: I Breathe, You Breathe
Across the second floor, we are proud to present donna Kukama: I Breathe, You Breathe, her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, bringing together two decades of her radical practice. The exhibition features a newly commissioned mural and performances. In her work, history is approached as a living, breathing body, navigated in all its complexity and reclaimed through multiple narratives.
13 Dec–29 Mar
Marilyn Nance: Spirit Faith Grace Rage
**13 Dec | Sat | 14.00-18.00: Exhibition Opening
Spirit Faith Grace Rage presents a selection of photographs, sounds, and printed matter that Marilyn Nance meticulously gathers to open up connections between the United States, the African continent, and African diasporas. From churches and concert halls to the streets, she links New York to cities across the world, amplifying the past century into the one we are living in.
Marilyn Nance is a photographer, digital innovator, and archivist. She channels the power of personal archives to counter the narratives emerging from state and colonial archives by keeping her archive safe, organizing it, and making it accessible.
Spirit Faith Grace Rage is Marilyn’s first solo exhibition in Europe.
until 19 Jul
Space for Education and Participation
(Every Saturday, visitors can join workshops for free)
