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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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17 May — 21 Sep
– Simnikiwe Buhlungu: hygrosummons (iter. 2)
– Ola Hassanain: The Watcher
– Paulo Nimer Pjota: A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I)
19 Jul — 30 Nov
35 Years of Minds and Matter: From the Archive of Kunstinstituut Melly
In 2025 Kunstinstituut Melly celebrates its 35 year anniversary, and in the past 10 years, the archive in its current form has come into existence. The archive was created in connection with the exhibition Were it as If of Bik Van de Pol. Their need for archival information on the institute’s relationship with Rotterdam highlighted the necessity of accessible archival resources. 35 Years of Minds and Matter is curated by Melly’s archivist marjolijn kok.⁠
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.
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