WORM UBIK / S/ASH Gallery
Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam
Mon - Thu 17.00 - 01.00
Fri - Sun 12.00 - 02.00
+ during events
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WORM is an independent and forward-thinking arts venue founded in 2000, with a unique, contrary, and inspiring presence in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the world. By giving space to transdisciplinary artists, WORM has a strong reputation as an experimental culture house for music, film, club, art, talk, community and performance programs.
7 Dec
16.00–19.00 Pirate Stitching Club, community for knitting and crocheting.
from 11 Dec
Window Expo Series w/ Cian Redmond
Souvenirs (photography /postcard exhibition)
Exhibition dedicated to moving out and moving in, with bikes, bus rentals, boxes, walks.
Location: Wunderbar
31 Dec
LESBIVAL x WORM NYE: Queer Futures with KLAUW, Queer Gym, Ampfeminine, GenderBendingCruiseParty, Queer
Rotterdam, RA-DI-O, and more!
15-17 Jan
'We Plant Strange Forests' - group exhibition in S/ash Gallery. Wit Napiórkowska, Liu Siyan, Yuan Yuan and Elli Lymperopoluu.h Mania
21 Jan
Off Screen x IFFR 2026:
One week before IFFR 2026 kicks off, festival director Vanja Kaludjercic and Art Directions curator Eva Langerak reveal their personal favorites exclusively for Off Screen.
Nan Wang, Cindy Jansen, and Leopold/Emmen will also present work that can be seen at IFFR, and there will be a short sneak preview.
24–25 Jan
25 Hour Radio Relay: multiple stages live-to-air music, performance marathon and non-stop broadcasting.
Are you still with us??
What is it? A live-to-air music and performance marathon, broadcasting non-stop for 25 hours from WORM UBIK. The Relay starts at 5pm on Saturday 24th January and goes NON-STOP til 6pm Sunday 25th at UBIK, Boomgaardsstraat 69, up the street from the #Wunderbar. Free entry, drop in anytime, bring your own pillow/camping mattress/sleeping bag…
30 Jan-8 Feb
IFFR Art Direction: Sound//Vision
30/01 - 21:30 - 水托邦 (Hydrotopia One) by Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man
2026, United Kingdom
水托邦 (Hydrotopia) juxtaposes paradoxical undressing in extreme cold with a film that emerges as ice melts, revealing hydrophones and a suspended body in ritual practice.
30/01 - 22:30 - DIsINCARNATE (I - III) by Cristina Nisticò
2025, Italy
In DIsINCARNATE, Cinzia Nisticò presses human skin and hair directly into 16mm film emulsion, asking whether a trace can become a different form of life.
31/01 - 21:30 - Forget the Director, This Is Emmy’s Cut! by Marion Desmaret
The film follows VJ Emmy, as he brings the art of dubbing to life, performing, remixing blockbusters and cult classics with unfiltered commentary that makes things meaningful for his local audiences.
31/01 - 22:30 - Pedra e Montanha by Tetsuya Marayuma
2025, Brazil
Multiple 35mm slide projectors cycle through images captured by a Brazilian mining company, while being manipulated live by a roving aperture machine made by the artist himself.
01/02 - 21:30 - It’s too cold for the spirits to live here by Tosca Schift
2026, Netherlands and Indonesia
For more information, please check IFFR's website.
01/02 - 22:30 - Echoes Between Seeing #3 by Nan Wang
2026, Netherlands
An ongoing audiovisual experiment which combines 16mm travel footage shot in Spain and China with AI image-to-image processes, creating landscapes where analogue film grain meets fluid, generated forms.
every Wed
17.00–20.00 – ART GANG
every Friday from 21.00
Kunstavond – check kunstavond.nl for latest
updates / 21.00 Radio WORM / Kunstavond
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