Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016
Ugo Rondinone in Boijmans Van Beuningen see page 7
A Home from Detroit ULAY in Nederlands at Art Rotterdam Fotomuseum see page 5 Ryan Mendoza demolishes and rebuilds see page 4
Momu & No Es, Highway (video still),2015 Anthony Nestel, first Artist-in-Residence at AVL-Mundo/Atelier Van Lieshout Charlemagne Palestine, photo Agnès Gania TENT, Digital technology AVL Mundo open Performance artists in in our daily life see page 6 to the public see page 5 Witte de With see page 6 Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Introduction film Art Rotterdam makes Perfect start for a fair visit Van Nellefabriek New this year is an introduction the city sparkle film, compiled by art critic and writer Hans den Hartog Jager. In this film Den Hartog Jager among A festival week concen others illustrates his personal Main Section international highlights of the fair and puts these trated at three places into an art-historical frame. The galleries show the most recent film is shown in a separate space at Free shuttle busses operate between the Intersections. Van Nelle Fabriek, AVL-Mundo, Museum developments in visual art Quarter and Wilhelminapier. xxxxxxxxxxx Use the Artsy App at Art Rotterdam From February 4, 2016 all art works that will be presented at Art Intersections Patty Morgan Rotterdam are also available online Radio at the art platform Artsy.net. Visit Introductiefilm artsy.net/art-rotterdam-2016 or Detroit huis download the Artsy App for iPhone and iPad. Artsy is this year’s exclusive Kunst onder de €1500,- online partner of Art Rotterdam. Entree Reflections room Art Rotterdam Pop-up restaurant P Shotgun Architecture Reflections Programme of lectures and debates shuttle bus Art Reflections is a programme Prospects & Rotterdam New Art Section young galleries of lectures and debates at and Concepts around Art Rotterdam. West The with solo presentations Hague, Witte de With Centre C.o.C.A. Art Rotterdam 2015, haze installation by Edwin van der Heide, DordtYart, photo citizenM 15 min walk for Contemporary Art and the by upcoming artists magazine for contemporary art Metropolis M each organize a day in which they will grasp specific ’Art Rotterdam offers a dynamic yet intimate alternative to the big draw All Together Now (NL), Billytown (NL), CØPPERFIELD (UK), CINNNAMON (NL) Division of Labour (UK), FOLD current topics in contemporary art. Van Nellefabriek Gallery (UK), Rianne Groen (NL), House of Egorn (DE), Last Resort Gallery (DK) Leslie Gallery (DE), Harlan Levey art fairs on the international art circuit. With a focus on young artists and At the Art Rotterdam location various pop-up shows and artists Projects (BE), Florence Loewy (FR), Mini Galerie (NL), narrative projects (UK), PAPER (UK), JOEY RAMONE (NL), Thursday 11 February The Ravestijn Gallery (NL), SARIEV Contemporary (BG), Semjon Contemporary (DE), SpazioA (IT), stilll gallery up-and-coming talent.’ Art Rotterdam makes Top 5 Winter Fairs of the Huffington Post presentations take place. Encounters: Art & Context (BE), TJ Boulting (UK), Marine Veilleux (FR), The White House Gallery (BE) In an era in which thinking from tradi- tional disciplines –like art, dance and architecture – functions less and less, the definition of art seems to be more of a methodology than an appearance. In Welcome to Art Rotterdam the sequence ‘public encounters’ with –each time- two international experts, this cultural phenomenon is clarified Art Rotterdam has evolved into the distinguish itself from its foreign in a film. This film is on show at The vibrant city of Rotterdam once and discussed with the public. most important place to discover competitors that much often have Intersections and is the ideal start- again offers beautiful museum By West Den Haag | free entry | young art. This seventeenth edition developed into art fairs for million- ing point for your visit to the fair. exhibitions, site fairs, open studios Reflections Room at Art Rotterdam again brings you the latest develop- aires. Art Rotterdam is an art fair for Reflections is the name of a three- and pop-up shows. Free shut- shuttle bus ments in visual art in a variety of exhi- connoisseurs and all art lovers alike day debate-programme initiated tle buses operate between the Rotterdam Friday 12 February bition concepts. You’ll experience and attracts international attention by West The Hague, Witte de With Van Nellefabriek, AVL-Mundo, Contemporary Nederlands Fotomuseum Artists’ ideals and the ideal curator the rich diversity in contemporary in the busy schedule of art fairs. Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum district and the Can curators carry out their practice by art production from different points the magazine for contemporary art Wilhelminapier so you can experi- themselves? Where and how does the of view; video art at Projections, This year we would like to assist Metropolis M. ence the best Rotterdam has to offer voice of the public, the critic, the insti- installations and performances you in finding your own personal To inform you digitally of what’s culturally. In this newspaper and tution, or more over, the artist fit within at Intersections, the latest genera- way to the art that inspires you on show at Art Rotterdam we have at the website -artrotterdamweek. curatorial reflection? Defne Ayas (direc- tion of Dutch artists in Prospects & the most. We have made an effort teamed up exclusively with the com- you can read all about it. tor Witte de With) and Jens Hoffmann Concepts and young galleries with to provide extra information on digital art platform Artsy.net. A (author, curator and currently Deputy naar director of the Jewish Museum in New solo presentations at the New Art and around the fair so you have a week before the fair starts you can It is with much pleasure that I Object Charlois York) will lead a discussion about this Section. With the abundance of clear view of what’s on show. For browse through the website and welcome you in Rotterdam! ss Rotterdam matter in which several curators and young art and the well-balanced mix instance, the Dutch art critic Hans see what will be presented by the artists participate. of commercial and non-commer- den Hartog Jager will illustrate galleries as well as background Fons Hof The Wilhelminapier area 12.00-16.00 hrs.: cial presentations Art Rotterdam his personal highlights of the fair information of various artists. director Art Rotterdam a.o.: design fair OBJECT, Rotterdam Contemporary, By Witte De With, in association with Nederlands Fotomuseum. The Exhibitionist | € 10,- /€ 5,- Witte de Withstraat 50 Patty Morgan Saturday 13 February The Technological Future and Art Radio New Art Section 2015, photo Ula Mirowska Metropolis M presents a magazine-like Patty Morgan launches the first and programme with short lectures and only social network for art. A Dutch statements, artist presentations and a initiative with international ambi- large debate on how technology inter- Art tion that connects artists, galleries Theatre venes in art and in the art world. Rotterdam By Metropolis M | free entry | and interested parties worldwide. Projections video art in an open and Reflections Room at Art Rotterdam They’ll research on how the art MAMA TEC art world, that is accessible for everyone, gratis Chabot interactive setting can still retain its elite character For the most up-to-date informa- bus online. For those that do not have museum vervoer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tion: www.artrotterdam.comWilhelmina access to theMuseum internet there is work Het Nieuwe pier on show. Theykwartier will discuss the issue Instituut Witte de With/ with authorities and make a radio TENT Museum Boijmans broadcast about the online art world. Van Beuningen shuttle bus Kunsthal Van Nelle Rotterdam Intersections non-profit spaces fabriek RAM & artists initiatives in the former Vierhavengebeid/ The Museum Quarter Wilhelminapier Numerous beautiful exhibitions right in the cultural heart of workshops of the Van Nellefabriek AVL-Mundo/Atelier Van Lieshout Rotterdam. Intersections 2015, performance by Marijn Ottenhof at Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, photo Ula Mirowska xxxxxxxxxxx Intersections debuted with success in 2015. At the 2016 edition this section once again represents interna- For opening hours and locations see the Art Rotterdam Week tional project spaces and artists’ initiatives. Curated by Suzanne Wallinga, director A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam. summary at the backpage of this newspaper. Museum Quarter Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Viewing Day Van Nellefabriek Wilhelminapier in Charlois Various artists’ initiatives and artists in the district Oud-Charlois together ULAY, specialist of the open the doors of their studio to the guests of Art Rotterdam, among POLAROIDS others Rib art space, Walgenbach Art & Books, artist space Peach, The Nederlands Fotomuseum and he worked intensively with the artists Katarina Zdjelar and Jasper the Rabo Art Collection together Polaroid camera and he is known Niens. The last ten years Charlois has present an exhibition in which the as the specialist in this area. In the developed into a lively quarter for enormous polaroids by Ulay play a early seventies he started a very contemporary art and culture. central role. Ulay is known for his personal investigation to his own performances from the seventies identity in relation to among others Saturday 13 February and his intense cooperation with social conventions and the areas of 20.00 – 21.30 hrs. ‘Shotgun Architecture’ is a series of works by sound artist Marina Abramovic – from 1976 till tension between men and women Starting point is Rib, for the street- Justin Bennett. He uses the firing of a gun to explore the acoustics of 1988. For his whole artistic career plans and a welcome drink (semi) public spaces. The piece starts as a series of recognisable gunshots and ends as “almost-music” determined by the dimensions, form and materials of the architecture. The version for the Van Nellefabriek will focus on the echoes and resonances created by the famous glass facade Guided tours Van Nellefabriek and bridges of the building. Justin Bennett is represented by Barbara UNESCO world heritage Seiler Gallery, Zurich.
Platform Rotterdam 100 year Duration: 45 min. Modern! organizes, like last year, Starting point guided tours: informative guided tours through Entrance 3, fourth floor. Does snail slime the characteristic building complex Daily, several times, participation of the Van Nellefabriek, with only by reservation in advance: A home in Detroit for under 1.000 dollar. Demolished and shipped to Europe in containers. The reconstruction specialized guides of Urban Guides. www.rotterdam100jaarmodern.nl/ in front of the main entrance of Art Rotterdam. After the fair; dismantled and shipped in containers to Belgium makes us younger? The building complex consists of rondleidingen-art to rebuild it at the Verbeke Foundation various properties and is one of the Reservations can be made from Paul Geelen at A Tale of a Tub highlights of industrial architecture Tuesday 1 December 2015 till from the 2oth century. Sunday 31 January 2016. Geelen, winner of the C.o.C.A. the Netherlands, researches the Commission 2015, travelled for his common grounds and possible A Home from Detroit at commission to Chili to collect mate- cross-pollination between science, rials and to research the origins chemistry and visual arts, often in of the rejuvenating effect of snail the form of artificial and sculptural Art Rotterdam project Ryan Mendoza slime. He combined these activities installations. with a study to the oldest preserved From American dream to American nightmare mummies in the world. The winner A Tale of a Tub, Thursday night of this incentive prize and scholar- from 18.00-20.00 hrs, free entry Imagine: Detroit, once the largest left with immense mortgage debts. less than 700.000 inhabitants with ship for young artists that live in centre of automotive industry in the The crisis on the housing market is chaos, decline and crime as a result. world. Till the credit crunch that the final blow. Residents left their Homes are sold at auction for 1.000 is when car factories like General homes and entire neighborhoods dollar to prevent vacancy in the area. Motors, Ford and Chrysler got into were abandoned. What once was Houses dilapidate and are being financial trouble and had to close a prospering city with 1,8 million town down with bulldozers all the down. People are dismissed and are inhabitants is now a ghost town of time.
Overview photo Prospects & Concepts 2015, photo Mark Niedermann Fourth edition Prospects & Concepts Mondriaan Fonds
shows talent Ryan Mendoza and his team during the demolition Geert Verbeke at a work by herman de vries at the Verbeke foundation Just as last year the Mondriaan installations, from photography S’he, 1973-1974 © Ulay Anthony Nestel, The Ganda Massacre, 2015, photo Gert-Jan van Rooij Fund presents – during Art to performances; from unknown Ryan Mendoza Jeroen Dijkstra, from Livingstone seizes the opportunity to first Speciaal voor het Art Rotterdam publiek maakt Nestel een nieuwe installatie. Rotterdam- young talent in the talent to artists that already have ‘a piece of history of my home Gallery The Hague, has been work- show the home at Art Rotterdam Jubilee edition exhibition Prospects & Concepts. established themselves with much ground, and myself with it, freeze ing with the artist for a number before it is being rebuild at the Design fair Object back at Rotterdam In the former distribution centre talked-of projects. in time’ of years now. He knew about Verbeke Foundation. A crowd- Villa and sculpture garden of the Van Nellefabriek work from Mendoza’s intentions with the funding campaign took care of the cruise ship ss Rotterdam Contemporary visual artists that have received a Prospects & Concepts 2016 is Visual artist, born and raised in Detroit home and introduced him transport costs from Antwerp to AVL-Mundo/ Atelier Van Lieshout Art Fair financial contribution in 2014 by curated by Noor Mertens, conser- New York, lives and works in both to Geert Verbeke of the Verbeke Rotterdam and the rebuilding and OBJECT, the fair for contemporary the Mondrian Fund to start their vator modern and contemporary Berlin and Naples. In 2013 he Foundation in Belgium. dismantling costs. Visitors of Art open to the public design welcomes visitors aboard In the Cruise Terminal the Art Art career is on show. A total of 55 art at Museum Boijmans Van returns – after 20 years- to his home Rotterdam get the unique opportu- Rotterdam the ss Rotterdam. On show: more Rotterdamfifth edition of the Rotterdam presentations; from painting to Beuningen in Rotterdam. ground. It is then he sees in Detroit Verbeke was always busy working nity to experience Mendoza’s story AVL-Mundo has extended spec- Belgian artist Anthony Nestel. than 60 designers in different Contemporary Art Fair takes place, the reality of the day. For Mendoza for his transport company. He had in the Detroit Home. tacularly with two new warehouses. Nestel graduated from the Ateliers quarters of the impressive ship. with some 70 contemporary art this project feels like a homecom- scarcely been abroad and almost In total AVL-Mundo now occupies in Amsterdam with the work ‘The This edition the authentic indoor galleries and an extra festive side ing. With the destroyed Detroit never took the time for a vacation. ‘A refuge’ for art space of about 7.000 square metre. gratisGanda Massacre’. Especially for the pool is one of the exhibition spaces gratisprogramme. There are perform- home he tells a story. Mendoza: “As When he heard of the Mendoza In the end the Detroit home will In the future an open depot with bus Art Rotterdam public he creates a as well. Visitors can for this occa- bus ances in Café Bell at the ground vervoer vervoer an artist I am very happy that I have project, he immediately took the find a permanent place at the work by Joep vanWilhelmina Lieshout will be new installation.Museum His work reflects sion only, take a peek in the former Wilhelmina floor of theMuseum Cruise Terminal, drinks the opportunity to freeze a piece airplane to Detroit to meet Mendoza. Verbeke Foundation, since 2007 realized. The accompanyingpier villa on societykwartier and the growing individu- morgue. On top of that there are pier with DJ’s,kwartier Secret Art Cinema, guided of my home ground, and myself He is overwhelmed by what he sees. one of the largest private initiatives is now also home to an artist-in- alism. These topics are also recur- several jazz performances in the tours and NO WALLS expo; the exhi- OBJECT Rotterdam takes once again place at the with it, in time. By saving one home Entire streets are abandoned, just as for contemporary art in Europe. residence project. The first artist ring subjects in the work of Van attractive La Fontaine hall, the impressive ship ss Rotterdam bition with exclusively sculptures, from demolition, to relocate it schools, hospitals and office build- 12 hectares of scenic area and that has been invited is young Lieshout. Captain’s Lounge and the Ocean installation and video art. and rebuild it at Art Rotterdam ings. One instantly realizes that we 20.000 square metre of exhibition Bar. (and eventually at the Verbeke live in such prosperity in Europe and space, once the warehouses of the Foundation in Belgium) I am invit- you find yourself asking: can what transport company. Verbeke has Van Nellefabriek A special shuttle boat, the Thalassa, Van Nellefabriek ing people from all over Europe to happened in Detroit also happen been living on the outskirts of the departs from the Wilhelminapier. not only experience the memory here? That is what makes the project nature reserve for about 35 years. Daily at: 11.00, 13.00, 15.00 and of one person but also the collec- so very interesting. Used to doing An atypical collector who chooses 17.00 hrs. from the Waternet jetty tive ambitions and unintentional what is not done by someone else, to live– together with his wife Carla- Vierhavengebeid/ (behind the Nieuwe Luxor) straight Vierhavengebeid/ shortcomings of a whole nation.” Verbeke only sees a challenge. between the art and nature, as Wilhelminapier AVL-Mundo/Atelier to the ss Rotterdam Wilhelminapier AVL-Mundo/Atelier free and independent as possible, Van Lieshout Van Lieshout Crowdfunding campaign because that is his objective. ‘A Projections 2015, photo Ula Mirowska Geert Verbeke The home has recently been demol- refuge’ for art; unfinished, unpol- The fourth edition of Projections shows 12 large-scale video works ‘Doing what is not done by ished and is now being transported ished, contradictory and always in by international artists. someone else’ to the Port of Antwerp. Verbeke motion. Museum Quarter Museum Quarter Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Festive evening opening in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Friday 12 Museumkwartier February, from 20.30 hrs. Free entry For the first time in the Netherlands Full-size installation by Ugo Rondinone Production Still Culture Sport Fourty-five life-like and life-size The clown standing in the centre MAMA sculptures of clowns are the centre- of everything and in the middle of piece of his first solo exhibition in nothing is, in this huge installa- becomes an the Netherlands; ‘Ugo Rondinone, tion, the personification of unhap- ‘Vocabulary of Solitude’. On the piness. animation- floor of the 1.500 square metre Rondinone represented Bodon galleries of Museum Switzerland at the Venice Biennale Momu & No Es - Highway (video still) - 2015 studio Boijmans Van Beuningen in 2007. With his poetic installa- the visitor will move between the tions and monumental drawings Festive opening night in TENT Under the working title life-size clown figures and notice the New York based artist balances Thursday 11 February, ‘Culturesport.tv: Episode that each of the clowns is engaged on the brink of euphoria and Resurrection Year’ MAMA brings a in an everyday activity. depression. From 20.00 - 24.00 hrs. Free entry transdisciplinary project in coop- eration with American artist John Clicks, tracks, traces and likes Michael Boling. Culture Sport is a science fiction Rotterdam honours the city! Digital technology in our everyday life anime series created by John Michael Boling and currently in Young, Rotterdam artists and designers Today. Sleep: 7,4 hrs. Weight: 60,3 in our economy of clicks, tracks, production in Athens, USA. For the in Boijmans Van Beuningen kg. Steps: 4971. Health status: 79%. traces and likes, on the search for project at MAMA the animation Stress level: 40%. Glasses of water: a horizon past the performance studio of Culture Sport temporary At various locations in the museum artists and designers like Koen Michael Portnoy, 100 Beautiful Jokes, 2014. Performance still, Stedelijk Museum, Photo: Ernst van Deursen. 3. Days lived: 10.870. Current mood: index. moves to MAMA’s showroom. Work by Michael Portnoy is on show at Art Rotterdam at the booth of gallery Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam. the ‘Project Rotterdam’ show- Taselaar, Melle Smets, Christien mild. In cooperation with Rotterdam cases the power and the range of Meindertsma and Weronika Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude Digital technology is integrating makers an episode in which Rotterdam artists and presents Zielinksa. more and more in our everyday life. Rotterdam plays the lead role will Performance artists work of more than 15 young With apps and portable measuring The Back Room be made. Not just an art fair, but the most concentrated equipment we collect data about – Paul Beckman in Witte de With our physical health or a certain state week all year in the art calendar with top-class of mind. Curator Noor Mertens, Museum Charlemagne Palestine Michael Portnoy The starting point for the group Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Kunstblock exhibitions throughout town, making a visit exhibition: ‘Spending Quality Time a series of solo exhibitions Sound installations, visual works Live performances on With My Quantified Self’ in TENT, of an older generation of artists in night and video art come together in this Thursday 11, Saturday 13 to Rotterdam more rewarding than ever. with work from a.o. Momu & No Es, the context of the current program- solo exhibition of Charlemagne and Sunday 14 February, Defne Ayas, Director Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Jenna Sutela, Amy Suo Wu, Anna ming at TENT. The presentation of free entry Palestine, who has made a name Between 14.00-18.00 hrs Zett and Alexandra Navratil, is the Furniture-sculptures from ‘unsung Witte de With area for himself in the seventies as a The internationally renowned substantial interlocking of our hero’ Paul Beckman (1946 – 2000) pioneer in experimental music and artist Portnoy presents a sequence body with digital structures. It also is the starting point of this joint Friday 12 February performance. of performances that transform explores the yet unencrypted areas research project. recent tendencies in performance 18.00 - 21.00 hrs and the role of the spectator. The Free entry at Showroom performances are carried out by a MAMA, TENT Rotterdam, number of dancers and actors. ‘De Grote Kunstshow’ at de V2_ Institute for the Instable Media, Witte de With Center On Thursday 11 February Witte de Rotterdamse Schouwburg for Contemporary Art, With is open till 23.00 hrs and on WORM Institute for Avant- Friday 12 February till 21.00 hrs. The stories behind the art works of Free entry Rattan Chadha, founder CitizenM garde Recreation. Thought Forms, Santiago Borja Charlemagne Palestine, photo Agnès Gania The previous editions of The Big behind the art works from the KRC Santiago Jan Schoonhoven, R 71 - 20, 1971, wall paint, paper and Art Show in Amsterdam were very Collection, the remarkable private cardboard on panel, 106 x 106 cm, photo Tom Haartsen successful. ‘Fresh, attractive and collection of Kul Rattan Chadha, ‘The Netherlands’ second-biggest metropolis is a Borja in Huis innovative’ according to Dutch news- founder of fashion brand Mexx and paper de Volkskrant. This success is hotel chain CitizenM. veritable open-air gallery of modern, post-modern Sonneveld Stedelijk the reason for an ambitious sequel and an exclusive continuation of Saturday 13 February, 14.00, 16.00, Lonely Planet roept Alexandra Sankova, director Moscow Design At the roof of the Sonneveld House and contemporary construction.’ Museum, with the ‘Start -3’ table-television, 1959 Museum © courtesy: Moscow Design Museum The Big Art Show during the Art 20.00 hrs. (Dutch spoken) Rotterdam uit tot één van de top-10 steden in de wereld voor reizigers in 2016 artist Santiago Borja will install Rotterdam Week. Take a seat in Reservations: an observatory, at the invitation of Schiedam the theatre and discover the stories www.rotterdamseschouwburg.nl Het Nieuwe Instituut. This space Sovjet Design is dedicated to Madame Blavatsky, Reality according to West Den Haag co-founder of the theosophical Jan Schoonhoven presents in Kunsthal society. The Mexican artist and Art architect aims to draw attentionRotterdam to A comprehensive overview with An evening In cooperation with the Moscow the influence of theosophy to the drawings and abstract white reliefs Design Museum Kunsthal development of modern construc- from one of the most prominent This work on paper (192 x 300 cm) from Koen Taselaar was bought at Art Rotterdam 2015 by Museum Boijmans Van Rotterdam shows for the first time tion. The visitor of the 1930s villa visual artists of the 20th century. about Allen Beuningen at Francis Boeske Projects. The work is now on show at the museum. gratis in Europe a fascinating overview becomes aware that innovation not bus At the exhibition in the Stedelijk Ginsberg of the history of Sovjet design. only derives from ‘serious’ science.vervoer Museum Schiedam, the artistic Over 360 objects are thematically Wilhelmina growth ofMuseum Jan Schoonhoven can be A tribute to beat-poet Allen Ginsberg arranged concerning the car, Special evening opening:pier seen in thekwartier context of his era and in (1926-1997) with poetry, jazz and SuperLandEscapes youth, sports, space travel, house- Friday evening 12 February relation to his international soul- new music. The focus of attention keeping, fashion and music from 19.00 – 23.00 hrs. Free entry mates is the Mondriaan Quartet that will Contemporary and innovating ramfoundation post war Russia up to the fall of perform Ginsberg-classics. Performer landscapes following the fifty year Special evening opening: communism. From ‘Misjhka’ and Eddie Woods, one of Ginsberg’s anniversary of the experimental Saturday 13 February the Kremlin government telephone Van Nellefabriek friends, shall recite a poem. Gitarist/ range of ideas of SuperStudio 18.00 – 21.00 hrs. Free entry up to the popular Zenit-E camera. composer Jacq Palinckx created new (1966- 1978). Music on the borderline of jazz and An exhibition at the cutting edge Sunday 14 February,14.00 hrs sound art. Ginsberg’s most famous of visual art and design organized Walking Lecture through the exhi- work ‘Howl’ gets a new interpretation, by ramfoundation in cooperation bition with curators Alexandra Vierhavengebeid/ Wilhelminapier with vocalist Han Buhrs as instigator. with Studio Makkink & Bey. A fierce Sankova and Alyona Sokolnikova AVL-Mundo/Atelier Literator Joep Bremmers, the current selection of talented alumni of from the Moscow Design Museum Van Lieshout translator of Ginsberg, provides the Thursday 11February: the Design Academy Eindhoven context for this one-time concert 20.00 – 22.00 hrs, tickets available and the Sandberg Institute, ‘Art should be an encounter and, moreover, a source during the Art Rotterdam Week. via: www.westdenhaag.nl Amsterdam. Arminius (opposite Museum Museum of knowledge, inspiration and delight’ Rattan Chadha Boijmans Van Beuningen) Quarter Superstudio, The Happy Island, early seventies Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 Art Rotterdam TEC ART TENT Villa Zebra Kindermuseum voor Van Nellefabriek, Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam Worm, Boomgaardsstraat 69/71, 3012 XA Rotterdam Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam hedendaagse kunst opening hours are stated at the bottom of this page www.tecart.nl Tue - Sun 11.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.tentrotterdam.nl Stieltjesstraat 21, 3071 JV Rotterdam www.villazebra.nl 10-14 Feb daily: outdoor expo: 24/7, indoor expo: 11.00- Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 50% Wed 10, Fri 12, Sat 13 & Sun 14 Feb: 12:00 – 17 hrs. Prospects & Concepts 21.00 hrs. + special nights. Ticket expo: € 3,- discount: TENT € 2,50 instead of € 5,- | combination Tickets €7,00 (children and adults) /present your Art Mondriaan Funds shows talent ticket TENT and Witte de With: € 4,50 instead of € 9,- Expo, music, events. Subject: Post-Singularity. Outside Rotterdam ticket and receive a €2,- discount. Van Nellefabriek, Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam, and inside in the new exhibition spaces of Worm and Festive opening of the exhibitions, free entry: Thu 11 Distribution Centre (DC), see page 4 Exhibitions: ZELF! (3-6) with installations of a.o. Pop-Up at Zuidplein. Feb, 20.00-00.00 hrs. Fri 12 Feb open till 21.00 hrs. Jeannette Ephraïm, Alice Hoogstad and Birgit Verwer. during the Kunstblock night. During Art Rotterdam Arminius Welkom Thuis (7+) with art works from a.o. Feiko Group exhibition ‘Spending Quality Time With My Beckers, Peter de Boer, Anne van Eck, Chantal van Van Nellefabriek Museumpark 3, 3015 CB Rotterdam (opposite Museum Quantified Self’. See page 7 Heeswijk, Ondine de Kroon, Paul de Reus and Hans See page 3 Boijmans Van Beuningen) Paul Beckman, The Back Room. See page 7 Wilschut. Thu 11 Feb: 20.00 – 22.00 hrs OBJECT Tickets are available via: www.westdenhaag.nl Ticket Garage Rotterdam ss Rotterdam - 3de Katendrechtsehoofd 25, Rotterdam Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art € 12,50, discount ticket: € 7,50 euro (CJP, students & Goudsewagenstraat 27, Rotterdam www.objectrotterdam.nl Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam Rotterdampas) www.garagerotterdam.nl Open: Fri 12 Feb 11.00-21.00 hrs., lectures and debates, Tue -Sun 11.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.wdw.nl Sat 13 and Sun 14 Feb 11.00-19.00 hrs. Tickets: 7,50 euro Tribute to beat-poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). See Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 50% Wed 10 Feb till Sun 14 Feb: 12.30-17.30 hrs. | Fri 12 Feb, A special shuttle boat, the Thalassa, departs from the page 6 discount: WdW €3,- instead of € 5,- | combination ticket 18.30 hrs: special edition of ‘Natafelen’. Witte de With and TENT: € 4,50 instead of € 9,- Wilhelminapier. Daily at: 11.00, 13.00, 15.00 and 17.00 Chabot Museum Entry: € 2,00. ‘Natafelen’: € 32,00 incl. entry to the exhibi- hrs. from the Waternet jetty (behind the Nieuwe Luxor) Special evening opening, free entry: Thu 11 Feb till 23.00 tion, excl. wines (reservations are compulsory via: info@ Museumpark 11, Rotterdam straight to the ss Rotterdam. Return 5 euro. See page 5 hrs | Fri 12 Feb till 21.00 hrs. during the Kunstblock Night garagerotterdam.nl) www.chabotmuseum.nl Nederlands Fotomuseum Thu & Fri 11:00-16:30 hrs., Sat 11:00 -17:00 hrs., Sun Performances Michael Portnoy and solo exhibition Visit the exhibition ’Hemelbestormers’ or come over for dinner, between the art works, on Friday evening 12 Feb! Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, Las Palmas Building 12:00-17:00 hrs. Present your Art Rotterdam ticket for Charlemagne Palestine. See page 6 Curator Nathanja van Dijk will be present during this www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl free entry Rotterdam Cultural Histories#7 opens 11 Feb (joint project TENT and Witte de With) (vegetarian) diner. Tue-Fri 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sat & Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs. Henk Chabot (1894-1949): Human, animal, polder. Present your Art Rotterdam or OBJECT ticket and receive Landscapes, animal and illustration pieces. MAMA Viewing Day in Charlois a 50% discount. Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen: Erasmus the Clown Witte de Withstraat 29-31, Rotterdam Rib, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490b, Rotterdam You pay € 4,50 instead – Visual Research Studio. Wed -Sun 13.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.showroommama.nl Saturday 13 Feb: 20:00 – 21:30 hrs. of € 9,00 p.p. Painter and sculptor Henk Chabot (1894-1949) lived and Special evening opening: Fri 12 Feb till 21.00 thrs. During worked near the river Rotte. This is where he painted his See page 5 ULAY, specialist of the the Kunstblock Night. polaroids, till 1 May. surroundings; the polders, the animals and humans. In Open Studios Borgerstraat See page 5 the war years he also painted people in hiding, prisoners Culturesport.tv: Episode Resurrection Year.See page 6 Borgerstraat 24, 3027 EB Rotterdam (a 5 min. walk from American Neon Signs and refugees. Art Rotterdam), free entry. by Day & Night of Toon Art Night at the Witte de With area Fri 12 –Sun 14 Feb, 11.00-19.00 hrs. (Festive opening: Fri Michiels Het Nieuwe Instituut www.kunstblock.nl 12 Feb, 16.00 – 19.00 hrs.) Quickscap NL#2: Beeld: Toon Michiels Museumpark 25, Rotterdam www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl Fri 12 Feb 18.00-21.00 hrs. Free entry. See page 6 the most recent developments in photography in our Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs. Third edition Open Studios, work on show made by country, till 8 May. Tickets: adults: € 10,- senior citizen card / CJP / students: AVL-Mundo/Atelier Van Lieshout Borgerstraat artists + guest artists + a selection of Willem € 6,50 Museumkaart, ICOM/ICAM, Rotterdampas and Keileweg 18, Rotterdam www. de Kooning Academy students. Rotterdam Contemporary children till 18: free entry Opening hours exhibition space AVL-Mundo: Thu 11 – Sun 14 Feb: 12.00 – 18.00 hrs. Free entry Cruise Terminal, Wilhelmina 699, Rotterdam The Temporary V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media www.rcartfair.com Fashion Museum. See page 5 Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam | www.v2.nl Wed 10 Feb 15.00-22.00 hrs., Thu 11 & Fri 12 Feb 12.00- Reacts to the fash- Thu - Sun 11.00-18.00 hrs. 21.00 hrs., Sat 13 Feb 12.00-21.00 & Sun 14 Feb 12.00- ion phenomenon in Made in 4Havens Entry € 3,-, present your Art Rotterdam ticket and pay 19.00 hrs. See page 5 all its appearance. Keilestraat 9, 3029 BP Rotterdam only € 2,- Kunsthal Rotterdam Special evening www.madein4havens.nl Data In The 21st Century: researches the controversy opening Friday 12 Thu 11.00 - 19.00 hrs., Fri 11.00 - 21.00 hrs., Sat 11.00 between the unpredictable realty in which we live and Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, Rotterdam Feb 19.00-23.00 hrs. – 19.00 hrs & Sun 11.00 – 19.00 hrs. the longing to replace it with unambiguous data. Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs, Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs. free entry Admission € 5,- (present your Art Rotterdam ticket and Hand in your Art Rotterdam / OBJECT ticket at the regis- pay only: € 2,50) Keilewerf ter of the Kunsthal and receive a 25% discount. Huis Sonneveld Keileweg 4 / Vierhavensstraat 56, Rotterdam (You pay € 9,00 instead of € 12,00). Max. 1 person/ticket. Open Studio 3 Fair Design Labs, Assemblage, 3D Jongkindstraat 12, Rotterdam www.keilewerf.nl Not valid in combination with other discounts/ offers. prototyping and fabric + exhibition 18 students Minor Opening hours: Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sun 11.00 thu 18.00 – 23.00 hrs., Fri: 13.00 – 23.00 hrs., Sat: 13.00 Valid till Sunday 14 February 2016. Sustainability Willem De Kooning Academy. - 17.00 hrs. www.huissonneveld.nl – 23.00 hrs., Sun: 13.00 – 18.00 hrs. Tickets: € 2,50 ‘Red Wealth. Sovjet Design 1950-1980’. see page 7 Tickets: adults: € 10,-, senior citizen card / CJP / students: A Tale of A Tub A new creative breeding ground in the former dock- Sun 14 Feb 14.00 hrs: Walking Lecture Sovjet Design € 6,50 Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam (former bathhouse lands. Enter the workshops of Rotterdam creators. Meet with curators of the Moscow Design Museum. For infor- Museumkaart, ICOM/ICAM, Rotterdampas and chil- at the heart of the Justus van Effen complex). Free entry upcoming artists and young designers. mation and reservations: www.kunsthal.nl dren till 18: free entry Thu 11 Feb from 18.00 - 20.00 hrs.: presentation/recep- Installation by Santiago Borja. See page 7 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen tion winner Stichting C.o.C.A.: Paul Geelen (incl. drinks Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam ramfoundation & bites): see page 5 Tue – Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs www.boijmans.nl Van Vollenhovenstraat 14, 3016 BH Rotterdam Stedelijk Museum Schiedam Hand in your Art Rotterdam ticket at the register of www.ramfoundation.nl Hoogstraat 112, Schiedam Tue - Sun 10.00 – 17.00 hrs. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and receive € 2,50 Thu 11 - Sun 14 Feb: 13.00- 18.00 hrs www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl discount. You pay € 12,50 instead of € 15,-. Max. 1 Special evening opening: Sat 13 Feb: 18.00-21.00 hrs. Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 25% person per ticket. Not valid in combination with other Free entry discounts/ offers. Valid till 29 May 2016. discount at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. From 11 Festive opening of the exhibitions: Friday 12 February, SuperLandEscapes. See page 7 -14 Feb and not valid in combination with other deals. 20.30-23.00 hrs. Free entry. ‘De Grote Kunstshow’ Reality according to Jan Schoonhoven: on show till 14 Feb. See page 7 ‘Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude’. 13 feb - 29 May. Schouwburgplein 25, 3012 CL Rotterdam See page 7 Saturday 13 Feb: 14.00, 16.00, 20.00 hrs. Piet Zwart Institute: Master Fine Art Project Rotterdam: part of Rotterdam honours the city! reservations via: www.rotterdamseschouwburg.nl Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam Young artists and designers from Rotterdam. 13 Feb - 31 Dutch spoken July. See page 7 www.pzwart.wdka.nl/fine-art/ Martin Assig – Glückhaben, on show till 21 Feb ‘De grote Kunstshow’. See page 6 Open studios: Sat 13Feb 11.00 – 15.00 hrs., free entry Diederik Klomberg, 13 Feb - 28 Aug The Master Fine Art students of the Piet Zwart Institute open the doors to their studio for the Art Rotterdam public. www.artrotterdamweek.com
main sponsor online partner Art Rotterdam Special offer Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam citizenM 75,- per night / 2 persons Opening hours Partners Thu 11 February 11.00 – 19.00 hrs (kingsize bed 2.10-2.15 m) Fri 12 February 11.00 – 21.00 hrs Including a basic breakfast Sat 13 & Sun 14 February 11.00 – 19.00 hrs Online registration: www.citizenm.com/ART2016 Entrance € 17,50 There are only a limited number of Ticket Online € 13,50 (€ 4,- discount) hotel rooms available for this special Catalogue €7,50 rate; please reserve well in advance! Children up to the age of 12 free entrance citizenM Hotel, Gelderse Plein 50 3011 WZ Rotterdam 2-day combi ticket € 20,- [email protected] (can only be bought online) Enjoy all presentations at and around the Van Nellefabriek. Combine your two-day visit with an overnight stay in citizenM Hotel for a special Art Rotterdam rate (see offer on this page).
Parking There is plenty of parking space ticket available at the Van Nelle Fabriek. Car park tickets are € 10,00 (incl. online: BTW) per day, for sale at the entrance of the Van Nelle Fabriek € 4,- free (cash and pin). discount shuttle For public transport and all other
information: During Art Rotterdam you can buy art on an bus instalment plan. The Mondriaan Fund takes care of the interest. 100% art – 0% interest www.artrotterdam.com Evenhuis Maarten design: graphic Nijsten Charlotte editor: