EventsMonthOne
1 Jun | Sat |
New Exhibition Open
‘Relationships’ – Richard Avedon, large-scale retrospective, photography
1 Jun | Sat | 11.00 - 17.00
Event
Live artworks on the walls of iCOON to give ‘zit, bid, werk’ a fine setting.
1 Jun | Sat | 14.00–17.00
Event
Creatives with Unseen Disabilities #11, S/ash Gallery
1 Jun | Sat | 17.00
Opening
‘Dutch Vacation’ – a group exhibition featuring 20 furniture designers from Rotterdam, spanning multiple generations—from established designers to recent graduates.
2 Jun | Sun | 11.00 - 17.00
Event
Live artworks on the walls of iCOON to give ‘zit, bid, werk’ a fine setting.
4 Jun | Tue | 19.30
Opening
‘Current Traces #01 | Streets, Sounds, Shades’ – group exhibition with contemporary approaches to the city and to the landscape.
6 Jun | Thu | 18.00-23.00
Opening
Wahhaj Banimefleh (PS) Photo Exhibition Opening and Talk – S/ash Gallery. Wahaj Bani Moufleh is a Beita (Westbank) based human rights defender, photographer and photojournalist. Through his lens, audience get a glimpse of his lived experience of the Westbank and other parts of Palestine.
6 Jun | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
7 Jun | Fri | 17.00
Opening
ARCHIPELAGO the 16th edition of 004 collective´s exhibitions: Aline Keller Anastasia K, Caro van der Pluijm, Dagmar Baumann, Hanna Smoliienko, Heleen Schröder, Herman Lamers, Heyer Thurnheer, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Mels van Zutphen, Noëlle Cuppens, Sjoerd Westbroek & Robert van de Walle, Suzanne Weenink, Werner van der Zwan & wolf engelen
8 Jun | Sat | 16.00
Opening
H(a)L in galerie Lecq: LOST An Instalation by Netty van Osch
8 Jun | Sat |
Event
Nous klaer 10 Years Festival Celebration
8 Jun | Sat | 11.00 - 17.00
Opening
‘ZIT, BID, WERK’ – Dom Hans van der Laan, Marc Meeuwissen, Onno Adriaanse, Piet Hein Eek, Richard Hutten, Studio Pepijn. The exhibition features minimalist furniture designs by Dutch and European designers from 1930 to the present.
8 Jun | Sat | 16.00
Finissage
'(P)REVIEW I' – group exhibition
8 Jun | Sat | 15.00–17.00
Book Presentation
‘Wachtruimte in de Atlantische Oceaan’ organized by Uitgeverij Oevers
9 Jun | Sun | 15.00
Event
Brandstof: Air Tonalities, with Elise Ehry and Kitty Maria van Ekeren
9 Jun | Sun | 15.00–18.00
Opening
‘Wasteland - Tunnel Rats’ – Eliote, Ishem and Félix. Curated by Yves Landheer / yves.paintkillers
13 Jun | Thu | 19.00–20.00
Performance
UBIK Performance Night w/ Healing Fun and Performance. A cathartic night filled with emotions as we bond through performance art as a means of expression, purgation, release, and relief, with acts presented by Florian Borstlap, Nataly Wood, Sarah Prescimone, and Larysa Bauge.
13 Jun | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited. This Week: Wissel # 1184 Artbutchers presents Maarten Laupman.
14 Jun | Fri | 19.00-21.00
Event/Presentation
PrintRoom’s Picks from the NY Art Book Fair & Offprint London. PrintRoom was delighted to visit Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair this April, followed by their participation in Offprint London in May. At both fairs they had wonderful exchanges with other artist-publishers, saw performances and lectures and found many new gems to bring back to Rotterdam.
15 Jun | Sat | 16.00–19.00
Opening
‘Subtly Sculptural’ – group exhibitions by guest curators with Nelleke Beltjens (curator), Gerda Kruimer (curator), Zaida Oenema (curator), Mark Kramer, Marena Seeling, Andreas My, Katharina Hinsberg, Anne Katrin lemke, Hedwig Brouckaert, Markus Krug, Thomas Kemper, Patricia Westerholz.
15 Jun | Sat | 16.00-19.30
Opening
'Instant Pleasure' – Hester Scheurwater / 'This is a fantasy' - Jake Kelly
15 Jun | Sat | 11.00 – 17.00
Event/Exhibition
Day and Night of Architecture: 'Red Yellow Orange Blues', a monumental video installation by Marieke van der Lippe and Radboud Mens. Locaton: basement of ‘The Modernist’ Kruisplein 19
15 Jun | Sat | 11.00-18.00
Spring Market
Spring Design Market. There will be over 30 designers from a variety of creative fields selling their works at affordable price points, with many pieces available for 60 euros or below. Our café Schot Coffee will be serving special affogato coffees, and our new exhibition Dutch Vacation will be open to view all weekend.
15 Jun | Sat | 15.00–20.00
Guided Tour
Soil Study Group Walk and Dinner. As part of the current exhibition prorgam: What We Build On | Kari Robertson, iovermorgen, Omid Kheirabadi. (Last exhibition at this location)
16 Jun | Sun | 14.00–18.00
Opening
‘Always Thinking Like A Scrim’ – Part 2, with Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus Laurie Kang and Tenant of Culture.
20 Jun | Thu | 19.00–20.00
Guided Tour
Thursday Night Detour with Laura Grimm. In her Thursday Night Detour, Detour Guide Laura Grimm will explore the architectural elements which are part of the museum building: from a glass tower to a brick cube or a metal arch. Discover more about these shapes and create your own building.
20 Jun | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited. This week: Wissel # 1185 Artbutchers presents Margot Rijven.
20 Jun | Thu |
Workshop
Make Your Own Zine – Riso workshop
21 Jun | Fri | 21.00–23.00
Event
UBIK Performance Night w/ PLETTIEPOES: Stacking cards & drinking coffee. PLETTIEPOES makes live performances in which they blend raw electronic (live) soundscapes with elements of physical acting and performance art. The experimental collective from Rotterdam is known for their urge to explore new grounds and create synergy between the different disciplines.
22 Jun | Sat | 19.00-21.00
Finissage
Transition Night: Fun Finissage with Performance by Sophie Süßmilch. Opening – ‘Engineer room’ by Atelier van Lieshout. Brutus will open its doors with a fun art cocktail: awkward hugging, magic mushrooms, soccer and more! We will celebrate the opening of The Engineer’s Bedroom by Atelier Van Lieshout and the last weekend of Medizinische Psychologische Untersuchung by Felix Burger. The evening will be packed with performances and music.
22 Jun | Sat | 16.00
Performance
Vrouwenproblemen: Spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking Performance produced by READING ROOM ROTTERDAM with ANDREA CELESTE LA FORGIA and GLORIYA AVGUST
22 Jun | Sat | 16.00–23.00
Event
Happening: A. S. M. R. [ANTI SOCIAL, MANNER REFUSAL] by the Hamburger Community – juicy workshop, indecent performance & rude karaoke night. 16.00-19.30 Juicy workshop by the Dumpster Master of Blaak. 20.00 - 21.00 Indecent performance: Sing With Your Mouthful. 21.00 - 23.00 Rude karaoke night.
23 Jun | Sun | 14.00
Talk
Artist Talk with OLGA MICIŃSKA and HARRIET ROSE MORLEY.
27 Jun | Thu | 19.00–20.00
Guided Tour
Thursday Night Detour with Shahaila Winklaar
27 Jun | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
27 Jun | Thu |
Opening
WORM & V2_– Opening – Piet Zwart Institute: Lens Based & XPub graduation shows
29 Jun | Sat | 17.30-22.00
Opening
11th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Exhibition Nature of Hope
30 Jun | Sun | 13.00-17.00
Symposium
Opening Symposium: Building Ecologies: Nature in the City
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2 Jul | Tue | 14.30
Guided Tour
Guided Tour of the HOUWELING TELECOMMUSEUM with PELUMI ADEJUMO and ARNOLD ABELS at the Houweling Telecommuseum Vlaggemanstraat 15, 3038 LA Rotterdam
4 Jul | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
5 Jul | Fri | 17.00
Opening
Nanna van Hees, Joep Brouwer Magre Steensma and Barbara Helmer
5 Jul | Fri | 18.00
Evnet
Natafelen – Dinner surrounded by artworks. RSVP: info@garagerotterdam.nl
6 Jul | Sat | 16.00
Opening
‘Vingerafdruk van het heelal’ – Eugène Brands (1913-2002)
6 Jul | Sat | 16.00
Opening
Niki Murphy
6 Jul | Sat | 14.00–16.00
Workshop
Workshop Stories of a Street with architects Leyla Hepsaydir and Rebekka Schächer about their ongoing research of the Nieuwe Binnenweg and their diverse residents.
6 Jul | Sat | 13.00-17.00
Workshop
Rijnhoutplein Festival: Bookbinding Workshop with Gersande Schellinx
6 Jul | Sat | 13.00-17.00
Workshop
Workshop Stories of a Street | Rijnhoutpleinfestival. or the project Stories of a Street they brought together the many stories of the Nieuwe Binnenweg in a collage of quotes, photos and a unique tapestry of the street. During the festival you can chat about your memories and hopes for the neighbourhood, while stitching the tapestry. No experience required!
7 Jul | Sun | 16.00
Opening
‘Interbellum’ – Gerrit Rietveld, Man Ray, Marianne Brandt, Piet Zwart, Marcel Breuer, Paul Schuitema, Éva Besnyó, Erich Dieckmann, Gert Arntz, El Lissitzky, Paul Citroen, Bruno Weill, W.H. Gispen, Sybold van Ravensteyn, László Moholy-Nagy, Georgy & Vladimir Stenberg, Vilmos Huszár
7 Jul | Sun | 14.30 - 17.00
Opening
Eva Krause – Arie van Geest – Martijn te Winkel. Opening words at 15.00 by HANS WALGENBACH
7 Jul | Sun | 11.00
Lecture
Lecture/presentation about the life and work of Dom Hans van der Laan by Valentijn Carbo. Valentijn Carbo is an architectural historian at Hendrick de Keyser monuments. They also make Dom Hans van der Laan's original furniture available for the exhibition.
11 Jul | Thu | 18.00-22.00
Opening
The More You Think, The More You Know, The More It Happens' curated by Agata Sznurkowska, in S/ash Gallery. WIth Nadine Ghandour, Agata Sznurkowska, Su Yang and Manon Malan.
11 Jul | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited. THis week: Wissel # 1188 : 23 year De Aanschouw, join us and celebrate! Julileum edition: 1280-page book with all the exhibition at De Aanschouw. For sale at Hensepeter and Betere bookshops or online.
12 Jul | Fri | 19.00–00.00
Opening
Wild Summer of Art 2024 – Brutus Space presents the 2nd edition of a Wild Summer of Art featuring work by 50 Rotterdam-based contemporary artists and a dynamic public program of events, screenings and performances.
12 Jul | Fri | 17.00
Opening
'What goes down, must come up' – with guest artists Myrrhe van Spronsen and Roos van Lierop in addition Roland van Eck, for whom photography feels like a liberation, Ronald Schriel, for whom art for acts as a source of confidence, Antoine Monoid de Froideville, where everything exists by the grace of its opposite and Edward Teeuw, whose style exists by the grace of experimentation.
13 Jul | Sat |
New Exhibition Open
Hal 3: 40 Years Summer Carnival. The exhibition 40 years Summer Carnival at Kunsthal Rotterdam marks the 40th anniversary of one of the largest and most exuberant celebrations in the Netherlands.
13 Jul | Sat | 16.00–18.00
Performance
Performative Happening and Artist Talk with Omid Kheirabadi 14.00–20.00 – Exhibition Finissage & Performative Happening ‘Carnisse in Flux’
13 Jul | Sat | 16.00
Event
Samba is living a life of transformation, shifting fluidly between drumming, singing, producing, painting, writing, photographing and performance art, scaping contemporary impressionism stemming from her personal history. After years of touring as a drummer and bassplayer, working on duo projects, and composing for theatre, film and games, she is growing into a solo artist, with radical projects in the making.
13 Jul | Sat | 15.00-17.00
Opening
'AT THE FRINGE GARDENING THE BEAUTY OF THE UNWANTED' - Caroline Coolen & Luis Xertu. Curated by Glenn Kessler.
14 Jul | Sun | 13.00-14.00
Guided Tour
Sensory Tour: Deaf and hard of hearing
14 Jul | Sun | 12.00-17.00
Festival
The Books are Bridges Art Book Fest returns to the S.N.V. community gardens! (Roel Langerrakweg 33). The Art Book Fest is the place for those who love artists’ publications - from books to zines, from toolkits to experimental projects. In addition to tables with the latest releases, there will be book presentations, workshops, food and music. Everyone is welcome! Free entry.
18 Jul | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
19 Jul | Fri | 20.00–23.00
Performance
UBIK Performance Night w/ Jody Aikman
19 Jul | Fri | 17.00-22.00
Event
FRIDYA NIGHT LIVE: Celebrate 40 years of Summer Carnival at the Kunsthal during Friday Night LIVE x Rotterdam Unlimited Summer Carnival! On Friday, July 19, Rotterdam Unlimited Zomercarnavall will take over the Kunsthal. The exhibition 40 years of Summer Carnival will be the source of inspiration for a vibrant, summer evening!
20 Jul | Sat | 14.00
Guided Tour
Guided tour of the 6 designers of SIT PRAY WORK
20 Jul | Sat | 15.00-18.00
Finissage
'Instant Pleasure' - Hester Scheurwater | 'This is a fantasy' - Jake Kelly
21 Jul | Sun | 14.00
Guided Tour
Guided tour of the 6 designers of SIT PRAY WORK
22 Jul | Mon |
Event
Start of Summer Swap: Art Collective ‘Fire is Scary’ takeover
25 Jul | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
27 Jul | Sat | 20.00–23.00
Performance
UBIK Performance Night / Poncili Creación & NichNat
27 Jul | Sat | 14.00
Performance
A performance by the Eindhoven artist Frank van Ansem. He designs and makes books, unique or in small editions, entirely in style and in line with the exhibition. They are almost more works of art than books. Frank van Ansem gives this performance together with his son Woes Doornbos.
27 Jul | Sat | 13.00-17.00
Excursion/Workshop
Photo Excursion with Elvira Smit: create an original image of the everyday environment in Rotterdam-West.
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1 Aug | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
August | 2–4 |
Evnet
CRAFTS Salesfair, curated and organised by Esther Stasse. Entrance €9,50 incl. a drink.
2 Aug | Fri | 17.00
Opening
Herman Lamers, Noëlle Cuppens and Paul Segers
4 Aug | Sun | 15.00
Opening
‘Protest boxes’ – Gyz la Rivière, solo exhibition, accompanied by an essay written by Leonor Faber-Jonker (in English) on Protest Boxes.
8 Aug | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
15 Aug | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
17 Aug | Sat |
Event
an on site research by four artists/designers to soften the acoustics of iCOON.
22 Aug | Thu |
Opening/Preformance
‘Flax, baby! Flax! [Interludes]’ – performance presentation by Marie Ilse Bourlanges and Liza Prins with Bergur Anderson.
22 Aug | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
29 Aug | Thu | 21.00
Opening
Every Thursday evening at 21.00 a new artwork from various disiplines is exhibited.
31 Aug | Sat | 16.00
Opening
‘Vintage sale’ – Vincent Mentzel
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