Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016

Ugo Rondinone in Boijmans Van Beuningen

A Home from Detroit

at Art Rotterdam

Ryan Mendoza demolishes and rebuilds

Momu & No Es, Highway (video still),2015

see page 7

ULAY in Nederlands
Fotomuseum
see page 5

see page 4

Anthony Nestel, first Artist-in-Residence at AVL-Mundo/Atelier Van Lieshout

TENT, Digital technology AVL Mundo open

to the public see page 5
in our daily life see page 6

Charlemagne Palestine, photo Agns Gania

Performance artists in
Witte de With see page 6

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Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016

Art Rotterdam makes

the city sparkle

Introduction film

Van Nellefabriek

A festival week concen

trated at three places
Free shuttle busses operate between the
Van Nelle Fabriek, AVL-Mundo, Museum
Quarter and Wilhelminapier.

Main Section international

galleries show the most recent
developments in visual art

Kunst onder de 1500,Reflections room

Entree
Pop-up restaurant
Art Rotterdam

Art
Rotterdam

Prospects &
Concepts

Reflections

Shotgun Architecture
shuttle
bus

Programme of lectures and debates

New Art Section young galleries

with solo presentations
by upcoming artists

C.o.C.A.
15 min walk

Van Nellefabriek

At the Art Rotterdam location various pop-up shows and artists

presentations take place.

All Together Now (NL), Billytown (NL), CPPERFIELD (UK), CINNNAMON (NL) Division of Labour (UK), FOLD
Gallery (UK), Rianne Groen (NL), House of Egorn (DE), Last Resort Gallery (DK) Leslie Gallery (DE), Harlan Levey
Projects (BE), Florence Loewy (FR), Mini Galerie (NL), narrative projects (UK), PAPER (UK), JOEY RAMONE (NL),
The Ravestijn Gallery (NL), SARIEV Contemporary (BG), Semjon Contemporary (DE), SpazioA (IT), stilll gallery
(BE), TJ Boulting (UK), Marine Veilleux (FR), The White House Gallery (BE)

shuttle bus

Rotterdam
Contemporary

Reflections is a programme
of lectures and debates at and
around Art Rotterdam. West The
Hague, Witte de With Centre
for Contemporary Art and the
magazine for contemporary art
Metropolis M each organize a day
in which they will grasp specific
current topics in contemporary art.

Thursday 11 February
Encounters: Art & Context
In an era in which thinking from traditional 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
the sequence public encounters with
each time- two international experts,
this cultural phenomenon is clarified
and discussed with the public.
By West Den Haag | free entry |
Reflections Room at Art Rotterdam

Friday 12 February
Artists ideals and the ideal curator
Can curators carry out their practice by
themselves? Where and how does the
voice of the public, the critic, the institution, or more over, the artist fit within
curatorial reflection? Defne Ayas (director Witte de With) and Jens Hoffmann
(author, curator and currently Deputy
director of the Jewish Museum in New
York) will lead a discussion about this
matter in which several curators and
artists participate.
12.00-16.00 hrs.:
By Witte De With, in association with
The Exhibitionist | 10,- / 5,Witte de Withstraat 50

Nederlands Fotomuseum

naar
Charlois

Object
ss Rotterdam

New this year is an introduction

film, compiled by art critic and
writer Hans den Hartog Jager. In
this film Den Hartog Jager among
others illustrates his personal
highlights of the fair and puts these
into an art-historical frame. The
film is shown in a separate space at
Intersections.

From February 4, 2016 all art

works that will be presented at Art
Rotterdam are also available online
at the art platform Artsy.net. Visit
artsy.net/art-rotterdam-2016 or
download the Artsy App for iPhone
and iPad. Artsy is this years exclusive
online partner of Art Rotterdam.

Introductiefilm
Detroit huis

Perfect start for a fair visit

Use the Artsy App

at Art Rotterdam

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Intersections

Patty Morgan
Radio

The Wilhelminapier area

a.o.: design fair OBJECT, Rotterdam Contemporary,

Nederlands Fotomuseum.

Saturday 13 February
New Art Section 2015, photo Ula Mirowska

Projections video art in an open and

interactive setting

Theatre
TEC art

Chabot
museum
Het Nieuwe
Instituut

MAMA

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Witte de With/
TENT
shuttle bus

Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen

Intersections non-profit spaces

& artists initiatives in the former
workshops of the Van Nellefabriek

RAM

The Museum Quarter

For opening hours and locations see the Art Rotterdam Week
summary at the backpage of this newspaper.

Art Rotterdam 2015, haze installation by Edwin van der Heide, DordtYart, photo citizenM

Art Rotterdam offers a dynamic yet intimate alternative to the big draw
art fairs on the international art circuit. With a focus on young artists and
up-and-coming talent. Art Rotterdam makes Top 5 Winter Fairs of the Huffington Post

Welcome to Art Rotterdam

Art Rotterdam has evolved into the
most important place to discover
young art. This seventeenth edition
again brings you the latest developments in visual art in a variety of exhibition concepts. Youll experience
the rich diversity in contemporary
art production from different points
of view; video art at Projections,
installations and performances
at Intersections, the latest generation of Dutch artists in Prospects &
Concepts and young galleries with
solo presentations at the New Art
Section. With the abundance of
young art and the well-balanced mix
of commercial and non-commercial presentations Art Rotterdam

distinguish itself from its foreign

competitors that much often have
developed into art fairs for millionaires. Art Rotterdam is an art fair for
connoisseurs and all art lovers alike
and attracts international attention
in the busy schedule of art fairs.
This year we would like to assist
you in finding your own personal
way to the art that inspires you
the most. We have made an effort
to provide extra information on
and around the fair so you have a
clear view of whats on show. For
instance, the Dutch art critic Hans
den Hartog Jager will illustrate
his personal highlights of the fair

in a film. This film is on show at

Intersections and is the ideal starting point for your visit to the fair.
Reflections is the name of a threeday debate-programme initiated
by West The Hague, Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art and
the magazine for contemporary art
Metropolis M.
To inform you digitally of whats
on show at Art Rotterdam we have
teamed up exclusively with the
digital art platform Artsy.net. A
week before the fair starts you can
browse through the website and
see what will be presented by the
galleries as well as background
information of various artists.

The vibrant city of Rotterdam once

again offers beautiful museum
exhibitions, site fairs, open studios
and pop-up shows. Free shuttle buses operate between the
Van Nellefabriek, AVL-Mundo,
the Museum district and the
Wilhelminapier so you can experience the best Rotterdam has to offer
culturally. In this newspaper and
at the website -artrotterdamweek.
com- you can read all about it.
It is with much pleasure that I
welcome you in Rotterdam!
Fons Hof
director Art Rotterdam

Patty Morgan
Radio

The Technological Future and Art

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 ambilarge debate on how technology inter- Art
tion that connects artists, galleries
Rotterdam
venes in art and in the art world.
and interested parties worldwide.
By Metropolis M | free entry |
Theyll research on how the art
Reflections Room at Art Rotterdam

world, that is accessible for everyone,

gratiscan still retain its elite character

For the most up-to-date informa- bus online. For those that do not have
vervoer
access to the
internet there is work
tion: www.artrotterdam.com
Wilhelmina
Museum
pier
on show. They
will discuss the issue
kwartier

with authorities and make a radio

broadcast about the online art world.

Kunsthal
Rotterdam

Numerous beautiful exhibitions right in the cultural heart of

Rotterdam.

Van Nelle
fabriek

Vierhavengebeid/
AVL-Mundo/Atelier
Van Lieshout

Wilhelminapier

Intersections 2015, performance by Marijn Ottenhof at Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, photo Ula Mirowska

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Intersections debuted with success in 2015. At the 2016 edition this section once again represents internaMuseum Quarter

tional project spaces and artists initiatives. Curated by Suzanne Wallinga, director A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam.

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Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016 

Van Nellefabriek

Viewing Day
in Charlois

Wilhelminapier
ULAY, specialist of the
POLAROIDS

Shotgun Architecture is a series of works by sound artist

Justin Bennett. He uses the firing of a gun to explore the acoustics of

(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
and bridges of the building. Justin Bennett is represented by Barbara
Seiler Gallery, Zurich.

Guided tours Van Nellefabriek

UNESCO world heritage
Platform Rotterdam 100 year
Modern! organizes, like last year,
informative guided tours through
the characteristic building complex
of the Van Nellefabriek, with
specialized guides of Urban Guides.
The building complex consists of
various properties and is one of the
highlights of industrial architecture
from the 2oth century.

Duration: 45 min.
Starting point guided tours:
Entrance 3, fourth floor.
Daily, several times, participation
only by reservation in advance:
www.rotterdam100jaarmodern.nl/
rondleidingen-art
Reservations can be made from
Tuesday 1 December 2015 till
Sunday 31 January 2016.

A home in Detroit for under 1.000 dollar. Demolished and shipped to Europe in containers. The reconstruction
in front of the main entrance of Art Rotterdam. After the fair; dismantled and shipped in containers to Belgium
to rebuild it at the Verbeke Foundation

A Home from Detroit at

Art Rotterdam project Ryan Mendoza
From American dream to American nightmare
Imagine: Detroit, once the largest
centre of automotive industry in the
world. Till the credit crunch that
is when car factories like General
Motors, Ford and Chrysler got into
financial trouble and had to close
down. People are dismissed and are

left with immense mortgage debts.

The crisis on the housing market is
the final blow. Residents left their
homes and entire neighborhoods
were abandoned. What once was
a prospering city with 1,8 million
inhabitants is now a ghost town of

less than 700.000 inhabitants with

chaos, decline and crime as a result.
Homes are sold at auction for 1.000
dollar to prevent vacancy in the area.
Houses dilapidate and are being
town down with bulldozers all the
time.

The Nederlands Fotomuseum and

the Rabo Art Collection together
present an exhibition in which the
enormous polaroids by Ulay play a
central role. Ulay is known for his
performances from the seventies
and his intense cooperation with
Marina Abramovic from 1976 till
1988. For his whole artistic career

he worked intensively with the

Polaroid camera and he is known
as the specialist in this area. In the
early seventies he started a very
personal investigation to his own
identity in relation to among others
social conventions and the areas of
tension between men and women

Various artists initiatives and artists

in the district Oud-Charlois together
open the doors of their studio to
the guests of Art Rotterdam, among
others Rib art space, Walgenbach
Art & Books, artist space Peach,
artists Katarina Zdjelar and Jasper
Niens. The last ten years Charlois has
developed into a lively quarter for
contemporary art and culture.
Saturday 13 February
20.00 21.30 hrs.
Starting point is Rib, for the streetplans and a welcome drink

Does snail slime

makes us younger?
Paul Geelen at A Tale of a Tub
Geelen, winner of the C.o.C.A.
Commission 2015, travelled for his
commission to Chili to collect materials and to research the origins
of the rejuvenating effect of snail
slime. He combined these activities
with a study to the oldest preserved
mummies in the world. The winner
of this incentive prize and scholarship for young artists that live in

the Netherlands, researches the

common grounds and possible
cross-pollination between science,
chemistry and visual arts, often in
the form of artificial and sculptural
installations.
A Tale of a Tub, Thursday night
from 18.00-20.00 hrs, free entry

Overview photo Prospects & Concepts 2015, photo Mark Niedermann

Fourth edition Prospects & Concepts

Mondriaan Fonds
shows talent
Just as last year the Mondriaan
Fund presents during Art
Rotterdam- young talent in the
exhibition Prospects & Concepts.
In the former distribution centre
of the Van Nellefabriek work from
visual artists that have received a
financial contribution in 2014 by
the Mondrian Fund to start their
career is on show. A total of 55
presentations; from painting to

installations, from photography

to performances; from unknown
talent to artists that already have
established themselves with much
talked-of projects.
Prospects & Concepts 2016 is
curated by Noor Mertens, conservator modern and contemporary
art at Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Projections 2015, photo Ula Mirowska

The fourth edition of Projections shows 12 large-scale video works

by international artists.

Ryan Mendoza and his team during the demolition

Geert Verbeke at a work by herman de vries at the Verbeke foundation

She, 1973-1974 Ulay

Ryan Mendoza

a piece of history of my home

ground, and myself with it, freeze
in time
Visual artist, born and raised in
New York, lives and works in both
Berlin and Naples. In 2013 he
returns after 20 years- to his home
ground. It is then he sees in Detroit
the reality of the day. For Mendoza
this project feels like a homecoming. With the destroyed Detroit
home he tells a story. Mendoza: As
an artist I am very happy that I have
the opportunity to freeze a piece
of my home ground, and myself
with it, in time. By saving one home
from demolition, to relocate it
and rebuild it at Art Rotterdam
(and eventually at the Verbeke
Foundation in Belgium) I am inviting people from all over Europe to
not only experience the memory
of one person but also the collective ambitions and unintentional
shortcomings of a whole nation.

Geert Verbeke

Doing what is not done by

someone else

Jeroen Dijkstra, from Livingstone

Gallery The Hague, has been working with the artist for a number
of years now. He knew about
Mendozas intentions with the
Detroit home and introduced him
to Geert Verbeke of the Verbeke
Foundation in Belgium.
Verbeke was always busy working
for his transport company. He had
scarcely been abroad and almost
never took the time for a vacation.
When he heard of the Mendoza
project, he immediately took the
airplane to Detroit to meet Mendoza.
He is overwhelmed by what he sees.
Entire streets are abandoned, just as
schools, hospitals and office buildings. One instantly realizes that we
live in such prosperity in Europe and
you find yourself asking: can what
happened in Detroit also happen
here? That is what makes the project
so very interesting. Used to doing
what is not done by someone else,
Verbeke only sees a challenge.

Crowdfunding campaign

The home has recently been demolished and is now being transported
to the Port of Antwerp. Verbeke

seizes the opportunity to first

show the home at Art Rotterdam
before it is being rebuild at the
Verbeke Foundation. A crowdfunding campaign took care of the
transport costs from Antwerp to
Rotterdam and the rebuilding and
dismantling costs. Visitors of Art
Rotterdam get the unique opportunity to experience Mendozas story
in the Detroit Home.

A refuge for art

In the end the Detroit home will

find a permanent place at the
Verbeke Foundation, since 2007
one of the largest private initiatives
for contemporary art in Europe.
12 hectares of scenic area and
20.000 square metre of exhibition
space, once the warehouses of the
transport company. Verbeke has
been living on the outskirts of the
nature reserve for about 35 years.
An atypical collector who chooses
to live together with his wife Carlabetween the art and nature, as
free and independent as possible,
because that is his objective. A
refuge for art; unfinished, unpolished, contradictory and always in
motion.

Anthony Nestel, The Ganda Massacre, 2015, photo Gert-Jan van Rooij
Speciaal voor het Art Rotterdam publiek maakt Nestel een nieuwe installatie.

Villa and sculpture garden

AVL-Mundo/ Atelier Van Lieshout
open to the public
Art
Rotterdam

AVL-Mundo has extended specBelgian artist Anthony Nestel.

tacularly with two new warehouses.
Nestel graduated from the Ateliers
In total AVL-Mundo now occupies
in Amsterdam with the work The
space of about 7.000 square metre. gratisGanda Massacre. Especially for the
bus Art Rotterdam public he creates a
In the future an open depot with
vervoer
work by Joep van
Lieshout
will
be
new installation.
Wilhelmina
MuseumHis work reflects
pier villa
realized. The accompanying
on societykwartier
and the growing individuis now also home to an artist-inalism. These topics are also recurresidence project. The first artist
ring subjects in the work of Van
that has been invited is young
Lieshout.

Van Nellefabriek

Vierhavengebeid/
AVL-Mundo/Atelier
Van Lieshout

Wilhelminapier

Museum Quarter

Jubilee edition

Design fair Object back at

cruise ship ss Rotterdam
OBJECT, the fair for contemporary
design welcomes visitors aboard
the ss Rotterdam. On show: more
than 60 designers in different
quarters of the impressive ship.
This edition the authentic indoor
pool is one of the exhibition spaces
as well. Visitors can for this occasion only, take a peek in the former
morgue. On top of that there are
several jazz performances in the
attractive La Fontaine hall, the
Captains Lounge and the Ocean
Bar.
A special shuttle boat, the Thalassa,
departs from the Wilhelminapier.
Daily at: 11.00, 13.00, 15.00 and
17.00 hrs. from the Waternet jetty
(behind the Nieuwe Luxor) straight
to the ss Rotterdam

Rotterdam
Contemporary
Art Fair
In the Cruise Terminal the

Art
fifth edition of the Rotterdam
Rotterdam

Wilhelmina
pier
OBJECT Rotterdam takes once again place at the
impressive ship ss Rotterdam

Contemporary Art Fair takes place,

with some 70 contemporary art
galleries and an extra festive side
gratisprogramme. There are performbus ances in Caf Bell at the ground
vervoer
floor of the
Cruise Terminal, drinks
Museum
with DJs,kwartier
Secret Art Cinema, guided
tours and NO WALLS expo; the exhibition with exclusively sculptures,
installation and video art.

Van Nellefabriek

Vierhavengebeid/
AVL-Mundo/Atelier
Van Lieshout

Wilhelminapier

Museum Quarter

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Festive evening opening in Museum

Boijmans Van Beuningen: Friday 12
February, from 20.30 hrs. Free entry

Museumkwartier

For the first time in the Netherlands

Full-size installation
by Ugo Rondinone

Production Still Culture Sport

Momu & No Es - Highway (video still) - 2015

Festive opening night in TENT

Thursday 11 February,
From 20.00 - 24.00 hrs. Free entry

Clicks, tracks, traces and likes

Digital technology in our everyday life
Today. Sleep: 7,4 hrs. Weight: 60,3
kg. Steps: 4971. Health status: 79%.
Stress level: 40%. Glasses of water:
3. Days lived: 10.870. Current mood:
mild.
Digital technology is integrating
more and more in our everyday life.
With apps and portable measuring
equipment we collect data about
our physical health or a certain state
of mind.
The starting point for the group
exhibition: Spending Quality Time
With My Quantified Self in TENT,
with work from a.o. Momu & No Es,
Jenna Sutela, Amy Suo Wu, Anna
Zett and Alexandra Navratil, is the
substantial interlocking of our
body with digital structures. It also
explores the yet unencrypted areas

in our economy of clicks, tracks,

traces and likes, on the search for
a horizon past the performance
index.

The Back Room

Paul Beckman
Curator Noor Mertens, Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen presents
a series of solo exhibitions
of an older generation of artists in
the context of the current programming at TENT. The presentation of
Furniture-sculptures from unsung
hero Paul Beckman (1946 2000)
is the starting point of this joint
research project.

De Grote Kunstshow at de
Rotterdamse Schouwburg
The stories behind the art works of
Rattan Chadha, founder CitizenM
The previous editions of The Big
Art Show in Amsterdam were very
successful. Fresh, attractive and
innovative according to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. This success is
the reason for an ambitious sequel
and an exclusive continuation of
The Big Art Show during the Art
Rotterdam Week. Take a seat in
the theatre and discover the stories

behind the art works from the KRC

Collection, the remarkable private
collection of Kul Rattan Chadha,
founder of fashion brand Mexx and
hotel chain CitizenM.
Saturday 13 February, 14.00, 16.00,
20.00 hrs. (Dutch spoken)
Reservations:
www.rotterdamseschouwburg.nl

MAMA
becomes an
animationstudio
Under the working title
Culturesport.tv: Episode
Resurrection Year MAMA brings a
transdisciplinary project in cooperation with American artist John
Michael Boling.
Culture Sport is a science fiction
anime series created by John
Michael Boling and currently in
production in Athens, USA. For the
project at MAMA the animation
studio of Culture Sport temporary
moves to MAMAs showroom.
In cooperation with Rotterdam
makers an episode in which
Rotterdam plays the lead role will
be made.

Kunstblock
night

free entry
Witte de With area
Friday 12 February
18.00 - 21.00 hrs

Fourty-five life-like and life-size

sculptures of clowns are the centrepiece of his first solo exhibition in
the Netherlands; Ugo Rondinone,
Vocabulary of Solitude. On the
floor of the 1.500 square metre
Bodon galleries of Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen
the visitor will move between the
life-size clown figures and notice
that each of the clowns is engaged
in an everyday activity.

The clown standing in the centre

of everything and in the middle of
nothing is, in this huge installation, the personification of unhappiness.
Rondinone represented
Switzerland at the Venice Biennale
in 2007. With his poetic installations and monumental drawings
the New York based artist balances
on the brink of euphoria and
depression.

Rotterdam honours the city!

Young, Rotterdam artists and designers
in Boijmans Van Beuningen
Michael Portnoy, 100 Beautiful Jokes, 2014. Performance still, Stedelijk Museum, Photo: Ernst van Deursen.
Work by Michael Portnoy is on show at Art Rotterdam at the booth of gallery Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam.

Performance artists
in Witte de With
Charlemagne Palestine

Michael Portnoy

Sound installations, visual works

and video art come together in this
solo exhibition of Charlemagne
Palestine, who has made a name
for himself in the seventies as a
pioneer in experimental music and
performance.

Live performances on
Thursday 11, Saturday 13
and Sunday 14 February,
Between 14.00-18.00 hrs

Free entry at Showroom

MAMA, TENT Rotterdam,
V2_ Institute for the Instable
Media, Witte de With Center
for Contemporary Art,
WORM Institute for Avantgarde Recreation.

At various locations in the museum

the Project Rotterdam showcases the power and the range of
Rotterdam artists and presents
work of more than 15 young

artists and designers like Koen

Taselaar, Melle Smets, Christien
Meindertsma and Weronika
Zielinksa.

Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude

Not just an art fair, but the most concentrated

week all year in the art calendar with top-class
exhibitions throughout town, making a visit
to Rotterdam more rewarding than ever.
Defne Ayas, Director Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

The internationally renowned

artist Portnoy presents a sequence
of performances that transform
recent tendencies in performance
and the role of the spectator. The
performances are carried out by a
number of dancers and actors.
On Thursday 11 February Witte de
With is open till 23.00 hrs and on
Friday 12 February till 21.00 hrs.
Free entry
Thought Forms, Santiago Borja

Charlemagne Palestine, photo Agns Gania

Jan Schoonhoven, R 71 - 20, 1971, wall paint, paper and

cardboard on panel, 106 x 106 cm, photo Tom Haartsen

The Netherlands second-biggest metropolis is a

veritable open-air gallery of modern, post-modern
and contemporary construction. Lonely Planet roept

Alexandra Sankova, director Moscow Design

Museum, with the Start -3 table-television, 1959
courtesy: Moscow Design Museum

Rotterdam uit tot n van de top-10 steden in de wereld voor reizigers in 2016

Sovjet Design
in Kunsthal

West Den Haag

presents

An evening
about Allen
Ginsberg

Art should be an encounter and, moreover, a source

of knowledge, inspiration and delight Rattan Chadha

A tribute to beat-poet Allen Ginsberg

(1926-1997) with poetry, jazz and
new music. The focus of attention
is the Mondriaan Quartet that will
perform Ginsberg-classics. Performer
Eddie Woods, one of Ginsbergs
friends, shall recite a poem. Gitarist/
composer Jacq Palinckx created new
Music on the borderline of jazz and
sound art. Ginsbergs most famous
work Howl gets a new interpretation,
with vocalist Han Buhrs as instigator.
Literator Joep Bremmers, the current
translator of Ginsberg, provides the
context for this one-time concert
during the Art Rotterdam Week.

This work on paper (192 x 300 cm) from Koen Taselaar was bought at Art Rotterdam 2015 by Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen at Francis Boeske Projects. The work is now on show at the museum.

SuperLandEscapes

Thursday 11February:
20.00 22.00 hrs, tickets available
via: www.westdenhaag.nl
Arminius (opposite Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen)

Santiago
Borja in Huis
Stedelijk
Sonneveld
Museum
Schiedam

Contemporary and innovating

landscapes following the fifty year
anniversary of the experimental
range of ideas of SuperStudio
(1966- 1978).
An exhibition at the cutting edge
of visual art and design organized
by ramfoundation in cooperation
with Studio Makkink & Bey. A fierce
selection of talented alumni of
the Design Academy Eindhoven
and the Sandberg Institute,
Amsterdam.

ramfoundation
Special evening opening:
Saturday 13 February
18.00 21.00 hrs. Free entry

In cooperation with the Moscow

Design Museum Kunsthal
Rotterdam shows for the first time
in Europe a fascinating overview
of the history of Sovjet design.
Over 360 objects are thematically
arranged concerning the car,
youth, sports, space travel, housekeeping, fashion and music from
post war Russia up to the fall of
communism. From Misjhka and
the Kremlin government telephone
up to the popular Zenit-E camera.
Sunday 14 February,14.00 hrs
Walking Lecture through the exhibition with curators Alexandra
Sankova and Alyona Sokolnikova
from the Moscow Design Museum

At the roof of the Sonneveld House

artist Santiago Borja will install
an observatory, at the invitation of
Het Nieuwe Instituut. This space
is dedicated to Madame Blavatsky,
co-founder of the theosophical
society. The Mexican artist and
Art
architect aims to draw attentionRotterdam
to
A comprehensive overview with
the influence of theosophy to the
drawings and abstract white reliefs
development of modern construcfrom one of the most prominent
visual artists of the 20th century.
tion. The visitor of the 1930s villa
becomes aware that innovation notgratis
bus At the exhibition in the Stedelijk
only derives from serious science.
Museum Schiedam, the artistic
vervoer
Wilhelmina
growth ofMuseum
Jan Schoonhoven can be
pier
kwartier
Special evening opening:
seen in the
context of his era and in
Friday evening 12 February
relation to his international soulmates
19.00 23.00 hrs. Free entry

Reality according to
Jan Schoonhoven

Van Nellefabriek

Vierhavengebeid/
AVL-Mundo/Atelier
Van Lieshout

Wilhelminapier

Museum
Quarter
Superstudio, The Happy Island, early seventies

Art Rotterdam Week 10 - 14 February 2016

Art Rotterdam

TEC ART

TENT

Van Nellefabriek, Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam

opening hours are stated at the bottom of this page

Worm, Boomgaardsstraat 69/71, 3012 XA Rotterdam

www.tecart.nl
10-14 Feb daily: outdoor expo: 24/7, indoor expo: 11.0021.00 hrs. + special nights. Ticket expo: 3,-

Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam

Tue - Sun 11.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.tentrotterdam.nl
Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 50%
discount: TENT 2,50 instead of 5,- | combination
ticket TENT and Witte de With: 4,50 instead of 9,-

Prospects & Concepts

Mondriaan Funds shows talent
Van Nellefabriek, Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam,
Distribution Centre (DC), see page 4

During Art Rotterdam

Van Nellefabriek

Expo, music, events. Subject: Post-Singularity. Outside

and inside in the new exhibition spaces of Worm and
Pop-Up at Zuidplein.

Arminius

See page 3

OBJECT
ss Rotterdam - 3de Katendrechtsehoofd 25, Rotterdam
www.objectrotterdam.nl
Open: Fri 12 Feb 11.00-21.00 hrs., lectures and debates,
Sat 13 and Sun 14 Feb 11.00-19.00 hrs. Tickets: 7,50 euro
A special shuttle boat, the Thalassa, departs from the
Wilhelminapier. Daily at: 11.00, 13.00, 15.00 and 17.00
hrs. from the Waternet jetty (behind the Nieuwe Luxor)
straight to the ss Rotterdam. Return 5 euro. See page 5

Nederlands Fotomuseum
Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, Las Palmas Building
www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl
Tue-Fri 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sat & Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs.
Present your Art Rotterdam or OBJECT ticket and receive
a 50% discount.
You pay 4,50 instead
of 9,00 p.p.
ULAY, specialist of the
polaroids, till 1 May.
See page 5
American Neon Signs
by Day & Night of Toon
Michiels
Beeld: Toon Michiels
Quickscap NL#2:
the most recent developments in photography in our
country, till 8 May.

Rotterdam Contemporary
Cruise Terminal, Wilhelmina 699, Rotterdam
www.rcartfair.com
Wed 10 Feb 15.00-22.00 hrs., Thu 11 & Fri 12 Feb 12.0021.00 hrs., Sat 13 Feb 12.00-21.00 & Sun 14 Feb 12.0019.00 hrs. See page 5

Kunsthal Rotterdam
Museumpark, Westzeedijk 341, Rotterdam
Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs, Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs.
Hand in your Art Rotterdam / OBJECT ticket at the register of the Kunsthal and receive a 25% discount.
(You pay 9,00 instead of 12,00). Max. 1 person/ticket.
Not valid in combination with other discounts/ offers.
Valid till Sunday 14 February 2016.
Red Wealth. Sovjet Design 1950-1980. see page 7
Sun 14 Feb 14.00 hrs: Walking Lecture Sovjet Design
with curators of the Moscow Design Museum. For information and reservations: www.kunsthal.nl

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Museumpark 3, 3015 CB Rotterdam (opposite Museum

Boijmans Van Beuningen)
Thu 11 Feb: 20.00 22.00 hrs
Tickets are available via: www.westdenhaag.nl Ticket
12,50, discount ticket: 7,50 euro (CJP, students &
Rotterdampas)
Tribute to beat-poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). See
page 6

Chabot Museum
Museumpark 11, Rotterdam
www.chabotmuseum.nl
Thu & Fri 11:00-16:30 hrs., Sat 11:00 -17:00 hrs., Sun
12:00-17:00 hrs. Present your Art Rotterdam ticket for
free entry
Henk Chabot (1894-1949): Human, animal, polder.
Landscapes, animal and illustration pieces.
Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen: Erasmus the Clown
Visual Research Studio.
Painter and sculptor Henk Chabot (1894-1949) lived and
worked near the river Rotte. This is where he painted his
surroundings; the polders, the animals and humans. In
the war years he also painted people in hiding, prisoners
and refugees.

Het Nieuwe Instituut

Museumpark 25, Rotterdam www.hetnieuweinstituut.nl
Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs.
Tickets: adults: 10,- senior citizen card / CJP / students:
6,50 Museumkaart, ICOM/ICAM, Rotterdampas and
children till 18: free entry
The Temporary
Fashion Museum.
Reacts to the fashion phenomenon in
all its appearance.
Special evening
opening Friday 12
Feb 19.00-23.00 hrs.
free entry

Villa Zebra Kindermuseum voor

hedendaagse kunst
Stieltjesstraat 21, 3071 JV Rotterdam www.villazebra.nl
Wed 10, Fri 12, Sat 13 & Sun 14 Feb: 12:00 17 hrs.
Tickets 7,00 (children and adults) /present your Art
Rotterdam ticket and receive a 2,- discount.

Festive opening of the exhibitions, free entry: Thu 11

Feb, 20.00-00.00 hrs. Fri 12 Feb open till 21.00 hrs.
during the Kunstblock night.
Group exhibition Spending Quality Time With My
Quantified Self. See page 7
Paul Beckman, The Back Room. See page 7

Exhibitions: ZELF! (3-6) with installations of a.o.

Jeannette Ephram, Alice Hoogstad and Birgit Verwer.
Welkom Thuis (7+) with art works from a.o. Feiko
Beckers, Peter de Boer, Anne van Eck, Chantal van
Heeswijk, Ondine de Kroon, Paul de Reus and Hans
Wilschut.

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

Garage Rotterdam

Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam

Tue -Sun 11.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.wdw.nl
Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 50%
discount: WdW 3,- instead of 5,- | combination ticket
Witte de With and TENT: 4,50 instead of 9,Special evening opening, free entry: Thu 11 Feb till 23.00
hrs | Fri 12 Feb till 21.00 hrs. during the Kunstblock Night

Wed 10 Feb till Sun 14 Feb: 12.30-17.30 hrs. | Fri 12 Feb,

18.30 hrs: special edition of Natafelen.
Entry: 2,00. Natafelen: 32,00 incl. entry to the exhibition, excl. wines (reservations are compulsory via: info@
garagerotterdam.nl)

Performances Michael Portnoy and solo exhibition

Charlemagne Palestine. See page 6
Rotterdam Cultural Histories#7 opens 11 Feb (joint
project TENT and Witte de With)

Visit the exhibition Hemelbestormers or come over for

dinner, between the art works, on Friday evening 12 Feb!
Curator Nathanja van Dijk will be present during this
(vegetarian) diner.

MAMA

Viewing Day in Charlois

Witte de Withstraat 29-31, Rotterdam

Wed -Sun 13.00 - 18.00 hrs. www.showroommama.nl
Special evening opening: Fri 12 Feb till 21.00 thrs. During
the Kunstblock Night.
Culturesport.tv: Episode Resurrection Year.See page 6
www.kunstblock.nl
Fri 12 Feb 18.00-21.00 hrs. Free entry. See page 6
Keileweg 18, Rotterdam www.
Opening hours exhibition space AVL-Mundo: Thu 11
Sun 14 Feb: 12.00 18.00 hrs. Free entry

Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam

Tue Sun 11.00 - 17.00 hrs www.boijmans.nl
Hand in your Art Rotterdam ticket at the register of
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and receive 2,50
discount. You pay 12,50 instead of 15,-. Max. 1
person per ticket. Not valid in combination with other
discounts/ offers. Valid till 29 May 2016.
Festive opening of the exhibitions: Friday 12 February,
20.30-23.00 hrs. Free entry.

ramfoundation

Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude. 13 feb - 29 May.

See page 7
Project Rotterdam: part of Rotterdam honours the city!
Young artists and designers from Rotterdam. 13 Feb - 31
July. See page 7
Martin Assig Glckhaben, on show till 21 Feb
Diederik Klomberg, 13 Feb - 28 Aug

Schouwburgplein 25, 3012 CL Rotterdam

Saturday 13 Feb: 14.00, 16.00, 20.00 hrs.
reservations via: www.rotterdamseschouwburg.nl
Dutch spoken

Van Vollenhovenstraat 14, 3016 BH Rotterdam

www.ramfoundation.nl
Thu 11 - Sun 14 Feb: 13.00- 18.00 hrs
Special evening opening: Sat 13 Feb: 18.00-21.00 hrs.
Free entry
SuperLandEscapes. See page 7

De Grote Kunstshow

De grote Kunstshow. See page 6

Open Studios Borgerstraat

V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media

Keilestraat 9, 3029 BP Rotterdam

www.madein4havens.nl
Thu 11.00 - 19.00 hrs., Fri 11.00 - 21.00 hrs., Sat 11.00
19.00 hrs & Sun 11.00 19.00 hrs.
Admission 5,- (present your Art Rotterdam ticket and
pay only: 2,50)

Installation by Santiago Borja. See page 7

See page 5

Third edition Open Studios, work on show made by

Borgerstraat artists + guest artists + a selection of Willem
de Kooning Academy students.

AVL-Mundo/Atelier Van Lieshout

Made in 4Havens

Jongkindstraat 12, Rotterdam

Opening hours: Tue - Sat 10.00 - 17.00 hrs., Sun 11.00
- 17.00 hrs. www.huissonneveld.nl
Tickets: adults: 10,-, senior citizen card / CJP / students:
6,50
Museumkaart, ICOM/ICAM, Rotterdampas and children till 18: free entry

Rib, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490b, Rotterdam

Saturday 13 Feb: 20:00 21:30 hrs.

Borgerstraat 24, 3027 EB Rotterdam (a 5 min. walk from

Art Rotterdam), free entry.
Fri 12 Sun 14 Feb, 11.00-19.00 hrs. (Festive opening: Fri
12 Feb, 16.00 19.00 hrs.)

Art Night at the Witte de With area

See page 5

Huis Sonneveld

Goudsewagenstraat 27, Rotterdam

www.garagerotterdam.nl

Open Studio 3 Fair Design Labs, Assemblage, 3D

prototyping and fabric + exhibition 18 students Minor
Sustainability Willem De Kooning Academy.

A Tale of A Tub
Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam (former bathhouse
at the heart of the Justus van Effen complex). Free entry

Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam | www.v2.nl

Thu - Sun 11.00-18.00 hrs.
Entry 3,-, present your Art Rotterdam ticket and pay
only 2,Data In The 21st Century: researches the controversy
between the unpredictable realty in which we live and
the longing to replace it with unambiguous data.

Keilewerf
Keileweg 4 / Vierhavensstraat 56, Rotterdam
www.keilewerf.nl
thu 18.00 23.00 hrs., Fri: 13.00 23.00 hrs., Sat: 13.00
23.00 hrs., Sun: 13.00 18.00 hrs. Tickets: 2,50
A new creative breeding ground in the former docklands. Enter the workshops of Rotterdam creators. Meet
upcoming artists and young designers.

Thu 11 Feb from 18.00 - 20.00 hrs.: presentation/reception winner Stichting C.o.C.A.: Paul Geelen (incl. drinks
& bites): see page 5

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

Hoogstraat 112, Schiedam Tue - Sun 10.00 17.00 hrs.
www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl
Present your Art Rotterdam ticket and receive a 25%
discount at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. From 11
-14 Feb and not valid in combination with other deals.
Reality according to Jan Schoonhoven:
on show till 14 Feb. See page 7

Piet Zwart Institute: Master Fine Art

Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam
www.pzwart.wdka.nl/fine-art/
Open studios: Sat 13Feb 11.00 15.00 hrs., free entry
The Master Fine Art students of the Piet Zwart Institute
open the doors to their studio for the Art Rotterdam
public.

www.artrotterdamweek.com
Art Rotterdam
Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam

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citizenM Hotel, Gelderse Plein 50
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Thu 11 February 11.00 19.00 hrs

Fri 12 February 11.00 21.00 hrs
Sat 13 & Sun 14 February 11.00 19.00 hrs

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Ticket Online 13,50 ( 4,- discount)
Catalogue 7,50
Children up to the age of 12 free entrance

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There is plenty of parking space

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During Art Rotterdam

you can buy art on an
instalment plan.
The Mondriaan Fund
takes care of the interest.
100% art 0% interest

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